Greensmiths in Lambeth

This places continues to be absolutely excellent and underrated. It’s a brilliant cafe (and priced well for the quality), an outstanding specialist grocer and with an excellent butcher in the basement. Staff are friendly, food is great and there is a surprisingly spacious indoor area to eat.

Absolutely shocking this morning. After I paid I told the cashier that I had an account with them. She was apologetic but her manager stepped in to say it was too late after payment. I said then the person at check out should routinely ask customers if they have an account to which the manager replied that it was entirely the customers’ responsibility to mention they have an account. Frankly if this is their customer service I won’t be going back. The products they sell are expensive and for that price I expect outstanding customer service - such a disappointment.

Amazing variety of artisan food and drinks from all over the world. Pastries and coffee are reasonably priced. Seating both indoors and outdoors can f you Gandy to sit for coffee or lunch. Cakes are very good and lived their cheesecake. 👍 It’s a place I can lost myself for a few hours if you love food and cooking. They have their own butcher and vegetables. It’s a hidden gem. 🧡

great sandwiches, great coffee. tiny but excellent market.

Nice shop with vegan options for coffee. One has outdoor options to sit and enjoy what is happening in the state. The coffee is a bit watery but tastes great if you ask me.

Great store with excellent options.

I had lunch at a coffee shop recently, and everything was perfect! The mortadella sandwich on focaccia was really delicious, with soft, well-seasoned focaccia. The thinly sliced mortadella added a gourmet touch that completed the sandwich perfectly. The sausage roll was excellent, with a crispy pastry and a flavorful sausage inside—it was a real treat. To top it off, I had a flat white, and it was spot on, perfectly balanced and creamy, just what you expect from a great coffee. I highly recommend this place!

Great coffee while waiting for a friend.

Fantastic deli with top-quality products and a great selection! The staff are friendly and knowledgeable, making shopping here a pleasure. Highly recommend for anyone looking for fresh, delicious food!

Rude people at the coffee shop, what can I say! This echoes reviews below which have similar comments. I’ve been here thrice and thought it’s because of one particular server, but actually it’s all of them. It feels like we should be grateful that they’re there giving us coffee.

Attitude and rudeness must be part of the job description here. Blonde British lady in her 40s doesn’t say hi or smile notwithstanding a radiant smile on my part. I ask to order, only to get cut off by a mannerless ‘what you want??’. I ask for a latte with oat milk — I’m intolerant. She makes it with what is clearly regular milk, then tries to argue with me that I never said what kind of milk, cutting me off twice in the ensuing convo. She also refused to make an oat milk latte without making me pay for the whole thing again. How is this acceptable? Change/train your staff. I wouldn’t come back even if your coffee was any good.

Nice find in Lower Marsh, friendly staff and good little shop with cidre breton as well. Cups a little small for iced latte but pleasantly surprised they have pea protein milk.

A lovely place with very kind staff. I stayed at a nearby hotel with my husband, and when we told the staff here we were victims of a burglary, they offered us coffee and carrot cake free of charge. The coffee was good, and the carrot cake was delicious! We also tried some of their breakfast food and it was fresh and tasty! Highly recommend!

Beautiful deli with really great selection of produce, preserves and wine. Cafe attached has a nice indoor space and serves good coffee, matcha and treats. Provide alternative milks (oat & pea protein) and have some gluten free snack options. There is also a secret underground butcher which was a great surprise.

Overpriced gentrified cafe on an otherwise low-key street. And if you happen to go downstairs to use the loo you are overwhelmed by the stench of death-- large chunks of meat being carved up.

Co-worker recommended the sausage rolls. They had 2, and one was spinach. My bad. The one with actual sausage was a little posh, but a welcome bite. What did rub me rhw wrong way was either a manager or owner harping on the 2 women up front about some missing item he couldn't find. They both said they hadn't touched in nor sold it, and he wouldn't let it go. He left the front of the shop sputtering unintellligibles.

This establishment is a real gem and certainly worth visiting. I am retired now and visit different London attractions every week with a friend. Today, whilst looking for some place to have lunch, we discovered Greensmiths and it proved to be an excellent choice. First of all, the staff were really friendly and welcoming. We were served by a lady called Maddy, who could not have been more pleasant and helpful if she had tried. From what I could see, all members of staff seem to have the same considerate attitude towards their customers. Everyone was really lovely. I had one of their chicken and focaccia sandwiches, wich was more than substantial. In fact, it consisted of two very large and well filled rolls. The bread was extremely fresh and the sandwich, delicious. You can see from the picture all that was left, the wrapping! The sandwich was so tasty that I had it eaten before it occurred to me to take a picture - but I did photograph the sandwiches on the way out so you can see the original product! There is a substantial seating area upstairs where we enjoyed our lunch. They had provided bottles of water and glasses for people to help themselves. In addition to an excellent cafe, it is a very good grocery store which butcher section etc. It was my first visit today, but certainly will not be my last. I can recommend this venue without hesitation. Thanks Maddy and staff!!

Great staff, great bakery and matcha latte 🍵

Came and enjoyed a tasty sausage roll here.

Greensmiths is a delightful grocery store and café located in Waterloo. It's an excellent spot to enjoy some pastries and hot beverages. During my visit, I ordered an oat milk matcha latte that was quite enjoyable. The latte had lovely umami and sweet notes, and it was reasonably priced. Furthermore, the staff were incredibly friendly and helpful, making my experience even more pleasant.

Great little coffee shop and grocer. I come here strictly for the coffee, banana and date flapjack and the sugar free chocolate caramel cup. All of them are great. Always friendly service and fair prices EDIT: I’m a +1 vote to go back to the bakery that provides the sugar free slices!!

Greensmiths is a Lower Marsh institution. An incredible selection of food (fresh and other deli items), great coffee and a beautiful space to work in. Really good selection of wines - some natural and some nice. 10/10. Wish they'd open up one of these on Fleet Street.

The staff are so friendly and helpful, the food is great and the tote bags fit literally everything in. Highly recommend a visit

I had the most amazing sausage roll - really recommend

Delicious coffee, friendly staff and beautiful produce! Must visit if in the area :)

Amazing food quality! Cizy place for a coffe or a meet.

Once a month I visit and normally spend around £40/50 on meat and wine. Today a male member of staff persistently obstructed me while I was making my choices. No excuse me, or sorry ... no nothing. Needless to say, I won't be back any time soon!

Cute little gourmet grocer for picnic staples and coffees and pastries. If your in Lambeth this is your spot

It has become our go-to coffee shop when south of the river - lovely service from Moin

Best coffee in the area, great service. Fantastic selection of very desirable food including out of this world meat selection. My go to for sourdough bread.

Salt beef bagels are the best! And so is the coffee. Really snug cafe at the back if it’s wet or on a winters day for brunch or lunch and to meet for a chat. Pasties are outstanding. A generous selections of wine to choose from when you’re homeward bound. The staff are very helpful and know their onions. Literally.

Really like the upgrade to this shop - great coffee & sandwiches plus excellent stuff to buy

Incredible fresh sandwiches & treats and fun layout to wander around- there’s even a proper butchers downstairs. My favourite place on lower marsh, especially since its makeover outside.

Delicious focaccias and iced coffees for lunch! Always go here when in the area to get a bite or do some shopping. Super nice staff too. Favourite spot in Waterloo!

Het personeel is super vriendelijk en vrolijk en de sfeer is geweldig! Ik vond alleen de peanut butter cup helemaal niet smaakvol. Ik proefde geen pindakaas en het was vooral heel zout. Het andere eten heb ik niet geproefd dus daar kan ik niks over zeggen. Ik zou wel een keer terugkomen om iets anders uit te proberen, dan wellicht 4 sterren!

Nett, mit sehr schöner Sitzmöglichkeit innen

One of my fave local coffee shops. The nicest - and best priced coffee - on Lower Marsh. I had an almond croissant which was the size of my head! The salmon and cream cheese bagel was delicious too. It's lovely to sit out and watch people wander by on Lower Marsh. The staff are lovely too. Definitely recommend.

Lady serving coffees (Italian?) very rude and served a drink in a tiny takeaway cup charging £3.80. When I asked for the medium size cup, she refused saying teas only… not coming back needless to say

Fantastic ranges of french British cheeses, beautiful red wines and fabulous coffee would definitely recommend a visit they are a Lovely team of staff too service with a smile thank you

Great cup of tea in a decent sized pot! Enjoyed the Danish Pastry and Sausage roll too.

Amazing deli and grocery with fab wines, cheese and produce. Also the best quality meats you're likely to get anywhere in town. This is definitely the food shop to go to!

Excellent coffee and delicious donuts filled with custard or jam.

Great produce. Amazing butchers (Turner & George) and friendly service

Great, quiet place to work. Laptop friendly!

Amazing produce and lovely coffee. Will def be back

Meat was great - staff was even better!

Great coffee and cool vibe, would recommend

Cool spot, wonderful people working there

Wonderful varied offering and butchers in the basement has the best meat in London

Very good produce and very kind staff with lots of insights! They do a very good job there. The range they offer is amazing

Great produce with lovely cafe at the back

Comida y trato espectacular, si pasáis por Londres merece la pena pasar por aquí, aconsejo los buenisimos bocadillos!

I would like to thank you for the great service. I will definitely come back again soon!

This place is very good. Fabulous smoked salmon bagel at £5, delicious coffee. Then you buy supper: a great selection of cheeses, marvellous crackers, good wines, vegetables AND a brilliant butcher's (who also had a bone for the dog)…the bread and cakes mouth-watering….

Amazing latte bundled up with a really fun experience.

Popped in for a bottle of rose and coffee. It was lovely to sit outside in the sunshine and people watch. Great range of deli goods to enjoy. Toilets available on the lower ground floor. Great range of chilled wine and beer, will definitely return. Friendly service.

This place is very cozy, you feel like at home or by your friends. All is minimal chic and very easy. The espresso is a real espresso (I'm italian 100%). Here you can find great fresh vegetables and a lot of idea for your breakfast (also gluten free and vegan)!

Visited twice before traveling, coffee was nasty the first time, over heated, tastes super acid and wrong milk. 2nd time my hot chocolate tastes like water with powder , they mix the hot chocolate with water instead of milk . Disgusting and overpriced for what they served . Worst way to start my morning .

We stopped for a cuppa and something to eat. Store is great, seating are is light and spacious, Food was tasty, tea was good and service was great. Cant complain!

It’s a hole in the wall. We were impressed by their quality local and European food & grocery.

Great place for a coffee, lunch, some organic groceries. Really great baked goods, reasonably priced and outside seating.

The food is amazing 👏! The Colombian girl who works there is lovely. 100% recommendable. The only thing was that it was too cold in there to stay long for a coffee and eat. But the rest was amazing 👏

Under new management. The staff are very keen to show off their customer service training! 😅 They've changed their baker and the new bread is even better than the previous one. Prices are a bit steep - but you could say that about most places these days.

Petite épicerie locale très bien achalandée et qui propose plusieurs préparations maisons. (Quiches , begel, soupe, ...) Possibilité de s installer dans la salle à l étage. Sympa pour une collation le midi. Épicerie citée dans le routard

Waitress blowing in the coffee. Shop really messy and dirty. Handyman drilling the ceiling with food uncovered under it.

We stopped off here for a cheese and spring onion toastie and a coffee - both were excellent. They have some yummy cakes and a few other snacks. You can also buy freshly baked bread and a few other food products to take home. It's my favourite cafe on the street.

Nice local shop, please re introduce butchery and the freshly cut charcuterie counter

My word. The kimcheese toastie is a glorious symphony of crunch, heat, sour and stretchy stretchy cheese. A delight on the tastebuds and a pleasant tingle left on the lips.

Ótima localização em Waterloo, lugar com mesas do lado de fora, atendimento cordial, variedade de produtos e preços, ótimo café, o que dizer da padaria ! O croissant estava muito bom, você pode fazer um belo café da manhã acompanhado de frutas aqui!

A pleasant place for a coffee and a sweet treat. The prices are quite friendly and there are spaces outside by the pedestrian street.

If you find yourself walking along lower marsh and considering a coffee or pastries then make time for this spot because the staff and the shop will delight you, Finish up your drink then take a walk inside and .well keep walking down and in and down and in because when it comes to a tiny slice of surprise it doesn't get much richer .

Great location for this wonderful little grocery store and cafe. The coffee is excellent, and the little mugs are quite unique but really work. The focaccia sandwiches are great value, a quite substantial lunch. The range of interesting produce, chorizo, smoked fish, croissants. Very highly recommended.

Lovely local shop. The fresh baked goods all look lovely, and the pastel de nata are delicious! The produce also looks absolutely great.

I liked the pastries. They don't have Coffee after 6PM 2hixh is a little odd to me, but the pastries were awesome and the young lady at the register was very courteous and affable

Very friendly staff. Nice little pistachio bun

Okay, but certainly not great. Lovely shop on the inside and very friendly staff - the thing that let them down is the quality and prices. I went for the spinach and feta roll which by its self is £3.50 (i feel like £2.50 would be more acceptable, as the it was nice but nothing special, just a lot of spinach and barely any feta so no flavour really) . I figured this might be included in some sort of lunch deal with salad but apparently not - its £5 extra for salad! The greek salad also didn't look very exciting at all for that money? Just a lot of cucumber and tomatoes, no feta and barely any olives to be seen - not worth the money. In most places you can get a drink, main and snack for a £5 lunch deal, or even £3.50 in some places, so overall pretty disappointing,. Advice to management - reevaluate your prices and consider the quality you are offering, Offer more appealing prices and deals and your customers will come running - trust me!

Nice products but has become more expensive

Nice cafe & deli, especially on a sunny day.

Brilliant place to have coffee, relax or do some work at the tables located on the antresola. You can also buy some great groceries.

Great quality food and large selection of stuff but staff and establishment as a whole is pretty pretentious. To be expected, I suppose

Use to be my go-to place, but now I am just an occasional user. The meat counter went some time ago and downstairs looks very sad. It looks and feels like it won't be there for much longer. Great concept, but has lost its sparkle over the last few years.

The shop had a good selection of produce but I came to pick up a To Good To Go Bag. It was not a great selection of items to Pick Up .

One of my favourite places to get lunch on lower marsh! The quiches are really good, and the vegan "SOS roll" is great - it's like a vegan sausage roll, it's really big and only costs £1.80. There is a shop downstairs and a café upstairs, so definitely explore it! Edit (Feb 2022) - the SOS roll isn't around anymore, but the quiches and focaccia sandwiches are great. The tiramisu remains beautiful.

Have been coming here for years as I work around the corner. It seems as if the management has recently changed or something because it just isn’t the same place anymore. The quality isn’t as good, there is less selection, and the prices of many items have increased so much over night. For example, I use to order the quiche and salad combo which was £5.50 takeaway and is now £8 and doesn’t taste as good.

Been a regular at Greensmiths for years and the quality of the produce is always very high - fresh veg, fresh bread, cheeses, store cupboard stock. Love the fruit selection too. Increasingly, am noticing that they're better value too, which given they've always been at the upper end of pricing, is saying something. For example, Gail's will sell you a box of eggs for £4 (!) and the same ones are sold for £2.60 in GS; Saturday morning pastries don't cost a tenner, as they do at Gail's. Prices at the new veg place up the road by the Co-op are extortionate, and a cupcake from Balance will set you back £4.50 each. Feels like GS is the last proper shop who realise what it will take to keep a loyal customer base during high inflation: quality with good value.

The Tiramissu is outrageously beautiful.

Really friendly staff so helpful and helped me charge my phone !

Amazing food, loveliest customer service, and most honest prices!!! 11 out of ten would recommend!!!

Fantastic selection and good prices. I'm always surprised by the specialty items I find in the small space. The wine and beer selection is terrific. Produce is great.

The best corner shop in the area - really good quality food and really friendly staff

Best place for organic and natural products . A variety of products to choose from. Great staff. Good warm food as well. I buy all my veggies and other stuff from there .

Great little store. There I can get things I can't get anywhere else. Stuff is always super friendly.

Excellent quality, good range of products! Keep it up Greensmiths!

This shop is perfect: the selection of products is large and of high quality. Prices of vegetables and fruits are very reasonable, why go to the supermarket when you can get excellent in season items at the same price from greensmiths? The staff is very kind and helpful. They also have a nice selection of beers which i am looking forward to choose from.

Best . Shop . Ever . AMAZING fruit AMAZING Meat AMAZING bread and AMAZING specialities. You will find everything you need here And they are super ECO!

I popped into green smiths deli at 12:10 with my son today for a coffee whilst my daughter attended a ballet lesson nearby. I ordered a coffee for myself and a Diet Coke for my son, after 10 minutes I was approached by a member of staff who told me I had to leave the premises when the White family on a nearby table were served their brunch. I checked with my son that this is what was said by the waitress as no other table was approached in the same manner. I am Japanese and have lived locally for 15 years. Naturally I was shocked to be singled out and asked to leave as I had paid extra to drink my coffee inside and the Greensmiths deli was only half full at this time. WAS IT BECAUSE I WAS THE ONLY ASIAN IN THE GREENSMITHS AT THE TIME? I can only think so because none of the white guests were approached and asked to leave. Embraced by this situation that was happening in front of my son, I walked downstairs and asked to speak to the manager. The manager was the same service staff member who had asked only my son and I to leave!! I asked the manager for an explanation and they accepted they were wrong and I had been Racially profiled, I was offered a free coffee. I was still in a state of shock that this had happened and refused and left with my son. GREENSMITHS REALLY? This behaviour was totally unacceptable and racist. You embarrassed my son (who has grown up in the area) and I pray he is not traumatised from this incident.

Favourite place to buy food in the area. Fruit, veg, bakery, small butchery section, cheese, snacks, good coffee, wine and beer, baking supplies, spices, frozen food, homemade lunches etc.

What a great shop! Superb selection of produce including seasonal vegetables including a range of winter squash. Great selection of quality wine, dried fruit and cheeses.

Amazing place, one of the best in London

Very good value coffee (and good coffee too!) in pedestrianised area. But unfortunately today marred by pneumatic drill noise from roadworks across the road.