Giraffe - Hampstead in Camden

It's really worthwhile to order a selection of lighter dishes, or starters, and share them. It makes for a really good dining experience at the Giraffe. Have also tried the breakfast, and that was really very good.

Family of four with a drink each for lunch came close to £60. Quite expensive given two small kids and only one course each. Good was reasonable, but nothing special.

my mango salad was still ok but king's prawns were very small and tasteless my husband's burger was really bad..frozen tasteless too fat meat..

Nothing fancy, nothing complicated, but good food at decent prices and OK-ish service - time after time they do deliver

Las ofertas de almuerzo son razonables y que la hamburguesa, que era muy agradable. Por desgracia, cuando traté de hablar con el gerente sobre algunos problemas de alergia fue muy desagradable y me cepillado. Esto estropeara la comida, aunque la comida era buena y nuestro camarero fue educado.

Been in Giraffe hundred of Times Best food ever , very clean and staff very helpful, They very friendly Never saw such staff... True friendly and helpfull ..... Go back there All the Times Highly recomended

A Giraffe j'ai parfois très bien mangé, alors que d'autres fois ce fut juste passable. Néanmoins, l 'accueil est vraiment chaleureux, les serveuses sont très sympathiques. Un peu plus de régularité dans la cuisson et assaisonnement des plats et cet endroit serait parfait.

Mmm ... get breakfast/brunch there whenever I'm in the area. Friendly staff, great breakfast and the best orange juice in NW London

G1 en Hampstead es mi lugar favorito para tomar el almuerzo en Londres. La comida y las bebidas, especialmente los lattes, son excelentes. El personal es muy amable y el ambiente es muy agradable, por lo que mis visitas agradable. Recomiendo el "jirafas "porridge" !¡ No faltaba o croque" con un café con leche caramelo. Con el delicioso sabor y precio asequible, no te arrepentirás esta decisión. Poner esto en la parte superior de la lista para el brunch en Londres!

Non avevo dubbi, ci eravamo informati ed abbiamo cenato veramente bene, adattissimo per chi ha bambini; ottimo cibo e ben cucinato, buonissima l'atmosfera ed anche l'accoglienza?

G1 is a perfect breakfast spot. Almost every time I have gone I have ordered the rude healthy oats. You totally feel healthier eating! It has a great atmosphere, and awesome friendly staff who really take time to make sure you are comfortable and everything is great. Favorite!!

So this is G1. Its a training restaurant for all the Giraffe restaurants.Food is so so so fresh and zesty. Very great textures and combos - avocado in my burger? yes please.Service was great. You can tell they're doing things by the book and not freestyling as if they had a lot of experience but the book is written for a reason - its the right way to do it!They give discounted prices due to training staff. You'll struggle to find prices like this for similar places in London, certainly not Hampstead.the place is quite small though. Feels a little cramped. That's my only negative.

Okay so this was the first Giraffe in the UK but has been reopened as G1 with a different menu and set prices. We booked a table online. Reminded via email that we had done so and arrived to a table waiting for us. Restaurant smaller than I was expecting. Service was good and the food was very good. Slightly spicy for my liking but not for the rest of us. The Thai Green Curry was very good and the duck stir fry looked good. Kids had burgers - must try and develop their taste buds!! Drinks reasonable and the smooothies were great. As usual we ordered too much and could have got away with a main course and a desert. Very busy when we arrived and thinned out by the time we left on a Sunday evening.

We had a dinner for two with dessert. Food was great and original as well, plus is super cheap, litterally half the price you would pay anywhere else. Staff is also friendly

Hampstead is posh and lovely and has some great place's to eat, I would say most of them are well over priced but not Giraffe. We had lunch and i have to tell you it was just so good. I took the burger fries my friend to the omelette with salad with both had a soft drink each and it was under £20.00 and yes we were in Hampstead. The staff and the service is very good but what's even better the food and the price, so get in there today your going to love it.

This is one of our favorite local breakfast/brunch places around the area. We went once and got hooked. Short and relatively simple menu but good quality. Good non alcoholic drinks as well!The atmosphere is really nice and chill. Plenty of newspapers, magazines to read while shipping your coffee. The staff attentive and nice.

Visited GI whilst in Hampstead collecting my daughters Uni stuff. We had a look into Hampstead and walked past GI which I now know is Giraffe. Super cheap at around £7 a main course. I had the chicken club burger. My daughter the eggs benedict which were on the specials board and my wife had a steak burger thing which was on the outside menu but not the one we were given but they said no problem they could make it anyway. Food was really good. The service was really good, really nice staff, the atmosphere relaxed and chilled. The bill for our party of three with drinks was only £30! Bargain. Next time I visit Hampstead this is where I'll eat. I highly recommend a visit. Oh and get the hippy hippy shake, it's tasty!

My third visit solo to this cafe. Warm smiling staff, quick service and a vegetarian 'laksa' - a Malaysian dish, is extra ordinary from the ordinary, is a must try. Not authentic but good to try for a change. A noodle broth with coconut cream as it's curry and loads of veg in there. I'll be back to this cute cafe that lies along branded stores on this street.

After a long walk on the Heath we were hungry and thought Giraffe in Hampstead would be ideal for a late lunch/early dinner. Having been to many branches and enjoyed the food it l seemed a good idea. We had to sit outside as we had our dog with us but we are used to that . The waitress took our order telling her that we were hungry and could the food be made and brought to us as soon as possible The drinks came in a few minutes then the wait for the food (only two hamburgers) began. After 20 minutes I went to the desk and asked when the meal would be ready . It looked like they could not find the details as they had to ask me who took my order.The clowns at the desk said it would be a few minutes. After five minutes I told the waitress I would only wait 2 more minutes as my partner is diabetic and she couldn't wait any longer. As you can guess it never turned up so I went inside and told them we were leaving if the food was not ready at that moment. One clown at the desk said it would still be some time.Apparently they had lost the ticket which they had not mentioned first time I complained so they could cover it up and keep us waiting.Cant really talk about the food as we never got it but I have my reservations about it.Really poor staff that need to sweep the streets as they have no other talents. Tesco should be proid how they have turned a really good place to eat into a no go zone. Avoid at all costs

This restaurant is known as G1, and we took a table outside on the street in the warm February sunshine to do a bit of people watching. It was not until we studied the menu that we discovered that this was a Giraffe restaurant, on the site of the very first branch. It is a training site and apparently they try out new dishes here. We had loaded sandwiches which appear on the normal Giraffe menu at a couple of pounds more - result! Quite small inside, but cosy, with newspapers to read. The staff we encountered seemed to want to be there. It's London, so we checked for a service charge before tipping. Yep, 12.5% - no biggy.

We did plan to eat here for the convenience relating to its location - until we received our first bill.By the way food and service was fine not an issue as was the quality that was good.The issue -- they threw a 12.5% service charge on the bill- we only noticed once we had left the venue so we feel ripped off. The 12.5% on the bill was actually less than what we where going to leave. On principle we not going back and have marked the place down.

lovely food, lovely atmosphere and great staff. An overall good experience.Close to underground station

Excellent choice of food, well presented and great service. Staff could have not been more helpful, I ordered a sweet but they had run out of an ingredient so compromised with a made up of their own....delicious!!

I used to visit the Belsize Park (NW3) branch often with my family. My 4 year old daughter always loved it. It was one of the few places besides Pizza Express and Las Iguanas that she would eat without any fuss.Sadly... since the restaurant has been taken over by Tesco, the bean counters have moved in and are gradually reducing the quality of food, cleanliness and customer service.It's a pity, it used to be a nice restaurant chain when it was in private hands, but that's what happens when a big corporation takes over a small chain.

Nothing bad to say. Very friendly, helpful staff. Tasty food. Plenty to eat. Reasonable/cheap prices. Warm on a cold day and newspapers thrown in.

Shared a lovely 2 course dinner with a friend and all the food wad hot, fresh very nicely presented and served with a smile £49 for 2 plus house wine 2 glasses was very happy with that, Will eat here again soon.

We had the dip and vegetable starter, the onion rings, the pork katsu and the duck stir fry. Everything was very good. Standout was probably the duck stir fry which has to be tasted to be believed. Cocktails were cheap and great too!

Sometimes their menu items miss the mark or seem a bit stingy on the portion size, but I had the felafel burger which had some wonderful flavors. Great chips too. The rest of our meal: pasta and fruit drinks were passable and a little over priced, but their friendly staff made our visit very enjoyable.

Very busy restaurant on sat evening. Food was fantastic, service was ok,but they were very busy, we were dining with children, Would visit again,but at a quieter time.

This place looked promising. The food looked ok and prices weren't bad but the customer service was awful. We were left standing at the door whilst the waiting staff chatted. For ages! Then sent outside in the cold whilst a table was cleared. When it was cleared we weren't called back in. We just went in ourselves. Sat there for 15 mins watching waiting staff ignore us and chatting before leaving. Meanwhile we were paying 20p for every 5 mins parking outside. Feel like billing giraffe for £1.20!

The area is one of the more posh areas of London. Nice houses, nice cars, people of the upper class and tourists like us. The restaurant is a concept of Tesco's, a supermarket chain, meant to be child-friendly quite popular in the UK. You'll find these restaurant all over London.Decoration/Atmosphere is rather crowded, loud, with simple cosy decoration.Service was efficient, quick and nice. Keen to know that everything is to your convenience.Foodwise, don't expect anything extra-ordinary, the dishes are somewhat enhanced but rather traditional.In terms of prices, I think it might be a bit expensive, £40 for a family is MAYBE a LITTLE expensive for what we ate, i probably pass my way the next time but again, this can be a last minute solution.

The only buzz in this cafe was from the flies. We were treated by friends otherwise I would have suggested another venue before we had even been seated as the place looked dingy and dirty. Staff were pleasant but chaotic and untrained, unable even to wring out a cloth properly (the fetid, grey, sodden thing flicked across our smeared, lump festooned table only made matters worse) or to deliver 'a round' of anything - meals and drinks appeared singly, at random intervals throughout our 'lunch'. Presentation was risible, but this is not dangerous. Hygiene standards seemed very low, which could be. The glass my juice arrived in was revoltingly sticky, my falafel burger had a sauce which I could not eat as it tasted rancid, and my friend's pudding, which she sent back, had stale nuts on it. Our booth, at the back, was dark, sticky and cramped and subjected to a blast icy air every few minutes because 'the rest of the room was boiling' (though the flies did seem to enjoy this). The state of the ladies toilets left me gagging and I can only hope the staff had other facilities.

If you like 'assembled' food, wrong items repeatedly delivered, a forty-five minute wait, and no interest even in the assembly of the (many) pre-prepared items from the kitchen - then this is the place for you. We went there for a child's birthday lunch and it was not a good experience. So many other better places and we agree with another reviewer - there is a serious chef/cook/kitchen problem.

Grabbed some lunch during a hunger inducing house hunting session. Nice food and good service, would go again if I fancied giraffe!

Staff are friendly but for us could not make up for the sad fact that the food is not great which is the chef/cook and kitchen's problem.

If you know Giraffe then you know what to expect. the difference is the service. tonights service was great. it wasnt the busiest ever but we were well catered for throughout and even the children we not too much for the manager on duty.New menu these days but still catering for an everything and everyone audience, which still works for Giraffe.So in brief. still tastes great and great staff tonight (10th Dec)

Awsome food, huge portions, friendly staff and great value for money. I love this place and I come back here every time I visit London. Last time I had a vegetarian egg burrito with coffee and side dish for just 5 pounds. They have kids menu as well.

I have never been to a Giraffe before and would go again. Seating is on shared long tables sitting on benches which is fine for a fairly quick lunch but not for a relaxing evening. Great choice of food and a reasonable lunch special which one of my sisters opted for. I had a really good Mid Eastern veggie salad. Huge portion on a flat bread with a nice selection of veg and chopped peanuts. The description on the menu was "may contain nuts". My view is that it should state "contains nuts". We all had good meals. My only grouse was that my 2 sisters finished their meals before I did and the waitress took their plates away whilst I was still eating which made me feel a bit uncomfortable.

Great for a light lunch in Hampstead. Definitely recommend the coffee, and the staff are very friendly.

Visited this "cafe" version of Giraffe on Sunday. Nice to see lots of families with small children, enjoying an early dinner. Our waitress Alecja was very charming but not intrusive. 2 course dinner menu for £9.95 excellent value.

Good food; breakfast and dinner. Reasonable prices. Good service.

I went to the Belsize Park branch for lunch yesterday. The terrace is wonderful - shaded by trees, and was nicely busy. The waitress came over promptly to take our order. I tried to order a medium rare hamburger but this wasnt possible -I guess Giraffe buy their burgers in from an outside supplier , which is why the wouldnt cook it medium rare, so instead I had Heuvos Rancheros, which was addequate. Just. Much Too much cheese for my liking - in fact it resmebled a thin crust pizza with 2 fried eggs on top! my guest had a salad, which came with too much dressing. When we asked for some bread as the there simply wasnt enough food, it took 10 minutes to bring some toasted focaccia, our comment of " it's a little late now, we've almost finnished" was met with a blank stare and " enjoy your meal" It's cheap, but it feels it...

Einfach ein tolles Restaurant, mit modernem Essen auf höchstem Niveau. Ich hatte einen frisch gepressten Drink aus verschiedenen Obstsorten, superlecker. Dazu einen frischen Salatteller mit Schafskäse, verschiedenen Salatsorten und Pommes Frites. Besonders zu empfehlen: die Süßkartoffelpommesfrites! Nebenbei hat man einen schönen Blick auf den angrenzenden Flohmarkt.

Food yummy and good deals for lunch. service sometimes a little slow after initial order but very good

It is OK but i thought it would be better, that is why i put 2 out of 5. Service is fine, but this is extremelly noisy and food is just average. Price is correct.

franchement pas prise de tete tres bien servie tres aimable et je vous assure qu a londres ce n est pas le cas de tous les bars clubs coktails marck et les autres barmans sont tres doues ils ont trouves leurs vocations.stephanie s in french.mon ami et moi aimeraient entres en contacta avec mark qui nous a vraiment bien conseilles meme en fin de soiree le thirts ...a recomencer

good option esp for those that want a good brekkie to set up up. I liked the veggie option bit still pricey enough. nice polish waiter :)

My grown up daughter took me here for a light lunch on Sunday when the cafe was really busy. We were greeted by a very pleasant waitress who let us take our time choosing and we had a selection of delicious appetisers. Cafe was noisy but very friendly. Would highly recommend, especially for young families.Well done everyone!

Good value and service coupled with a tasty menu make this cafe perfect for a quick lunch.

Visited here with my husband and teenage daughter on a sunday evening. The menu had plenty of choices which appealed to our variety of tastes. The service was excellent - quick and friendly. We had Mojito chicken with rice, a Giraffe burger with fries and a chicken schnitzel kiev, and desserts and coffee. We are still talking about the flavours and the experience. As it was a nice evening we sat outside and 'people watched'. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the atmosphere and the food. We would definately eat here again, the only drawback is that its 200 miles away!! Our nearest restaurant is over 60 miles away but if Giraffe opened a restaurant in Swansea or Cardiff we would make it a weekly must!!!

I ate there last week with a friend; never been before. The staff were friendly and welcoming and knowledgeable about the menu. The food was delicious, the atmosphere relaxing, and the service efficient. I shall definitely go there again when next in London.Oh, and very child-friendly.

this is a place to go mid-week after work. The food is really good try the burgers! The restaurant is quite small and if busy can be quite loud with kids etc..the staff here are really good and helpful..they also remember your face if your a regular guest which is always nice. this is a real local hub..

gute Küche vom Frühstück bis zum Abend. Besonders gute Salate mit speziellen Saucen (Senf mit Honig), Burgergerichte etc. Angenehmer Innenraum und Bedienung und Sitzgelegenheit aussen gegen die Strasse hin, jedoch auf breitem Trottoir. Gut zugänglich mit Bus (168, C11) praktisch vor der Haustür und Belsize park tube station direkt benachbart. Die Belsize area ist weniger touristisch als das weiter oben gelegene Hampstead. Viele Einheimische gehen hier essen, insbesonder auch das Personal vom benachbarten Royal Free Hospital. Ein kleiner benachbarter Blumenladen und die Reihe von Cafes und Restaurants mit Sitzgelegenheiten machen das Sitzen draussen gemütlich. Teils gibt es auch deals, die man vom Internet runterladen kann und dann als Bon mitbringen muss (two for one).

Love this place! The staff are fab, and the coffee the best I've tasted for ages. We had breakfast there each day- it was fresh and delicious. Downside is it's small, but they somehow manage to tuck you in without too much crush.

its got a good wide selection of food if you like mexican and burgers but it is VERY noisy not just the music but also there are lots of small kids.

Anything exotic and you will find it in the Giraffe. From tasting curries, Indian and Thai style, to Mexican Enchiladas, Carribean delicacies, or simply an ordinary burger which is far form ordinary in the Giraffe to go with some creative drinks.The only thing is there is not a lot of room unfortunately, so tables tend to be full any time you fancy some food there. Reservation would be recommended.As it is on the High Street, it is full for lunch mostly. 3 Tables outside.Nice little booths in the back.

A londra cenare con bambini al seguito non è semplice in molti non sono accettati e nella maggiorparte sono "tollerati" quindi non ben visti. A meno che non si voglia cenare in un ristorante superturistico o in un fast-food/pizzeria le alternative sono davvero scarse. Giraffe è una catena di locali dove i bambini sono ben accetti e soprattutto è possibile trovare qualcosa da mangiare diverso da hamburgher pizza e patatine fritte. Discreta la cucina comunque anche per gli adulti.

Myself and my daughter went to this resturant after a long day shopping in London. The resturant wasnt very busy at 9 o'clock on a Saturday night and we had the pick of the tables. My daughter had the Steak and I had a Duck Dish. The Steak was ok but my Duck dish was very spicy and I also felt that there could have been more duck in the dish.Also, while we were in the resturant there was another table of girls there and I felt that the guy who was servicing us was more interested in chatting them up then serving. We had a total of 3 people come to our table and take the different orders from us, the icing on the cake was when my daughter had ordered dessert the lady incharge came down and asked did we want to see the dessert menus!!Very expensive for 2 mains, 2 glasses of wine and one dessert approx 56 pounds.

Went straight in here rather then opting for Italien. I had sea bass which was really tasty and my partner - a burger. Washed down witha South African cider and some house wine was most execellent!

Open from Breakfast to Dinner, through Brunch and Lunch, and with a restaurant in any key place in London, Giraffe is definitely my fav.Most (if not all) ingredients are organic, there is meat, as well as veg choices. Try the Veg Burger and the Fries with cheese on top!If you check their website you can also download their menu...love it.

We had not eaten breakfast in our overpriced hotel restaurant and were in the Waterloo area near the London Eye. Wandering along the South Bank near the concert halls and theatres we found the Giraffe restaurant which served a huge and delicious pancake breakfast with a very kid friendly atmosphere and good service. We liked it so much we came back for dinner one night and sat outside . Teriyaki grilled salmon with rice was delicious as were other dishes. A good family restaurant but plenty of adults and young couples eat here as well. Great to sit outside cafe style by the Thames and watch the boats and river scene. Prices very reasonable for London. This is a great area to dine. After dinner you can walk down to the London Eye and towards the more touristy areas further down the pier. Huge bookshop and theatres right next to restaurant. We did not need reservations. I thought food was better than suggested by certain guidebooks.

My favourite of the Giraffe restaurants, always busy, but still the service is smiley and quick. Awesome and healthy food with great smoothies!

The High score is due to there fantastic Burgers they do.

good food, love that they have a big selection of barefoot books I can read to my daughter. Service is great too. good value