Coach House Cafe in Croydon

Been under new management for past year and turned into an unfriendly place. Bar staff spend more time outside the bar chit —chatting with themselves. When they eventually serve you its with an attitude. On the rare two occasions I have been in there, the landlady has had issues with customers or turfed out old gentleman types who were minding there own business but whose faces didn’t fit with the clientele their desperately going after. Avoid this place.

Fantastic selection of cakes and pastries, food on the menu delicious and the staff are polite and attentive. Well worth a visit if you in Crystal Palace.

Nice enough place. Serves coffee. And expensive biscuits and cakes.

I visit Pret a lot. Mainly because of their Club Pret coffee savings & WIFI. For me it can offer great value for coffee, by comparison with other coffee shops - when you drink the amount of coffee I do. I bought an almond croissant today. Actually I didn't buy it, it was gifted to me as a 'free reward'. I like to eat as clean as possibly, so I looked up the ingredients. I found some pages on the Pret website, all copyrighted 2025. On one page the ingredients were not listed, but the nutrition detail showed it contains trans fats. On another page trans fats were missing from the nutrition detail and the ingredients contained only butter. So which is it I wonder - are industrial fats still being used in pretty Pret products? They're banned in some US states like NY and many progressive European countries. Update: found the answer myself: Trans fats occur in meat and dairy products from ruminants. For example, butter contains about 3% trans fat by weight.[11] These naturally occurring trans fats include conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and vaccenic acid. They arise from the action of bacteria in the rumen. Polyunsaturated fats are toxic to the rumen-based bacteria, which detoxify the fats by changing some cis-double bonds to trans-double bonds. In contrast to industrially produced trans fats, this bacterial process produces only a few specific isomers. As industrial sources of trans fats are eliminated, increased attention focuses on ruminant derived trans fats. (Wikipedia)

Lovely staff and owner in here. The food is great value, fresh and tasty. The coffee is great too.