Owens Foodstore in Haringey

Looked delicious (and previously had take away which was very good) but not made to feel welcome at all. The customer was certainly not put first and I felt extremely uncomfortable so I just paid for food I couldn’t eat and left.

Had a bite here to eat and a coffee with a friend, so good that I returned the following week. Absolutely delicious, reasonably priced and friendly staff.

I popped in a month or so ago, for a quick lunch on the hoof. I went for the quiche and salad, that came with homemade coleslaw that was delicious. All very fresh and the service was affable, low key and polite (greatly enjoyed the Prince soundtrack playing in the background and reminiscing about the artist, with the very enthusiastic Prince fan who was also my waiter). The shop surrounding the diners is quirky, if possibly a bit behind my financial budget and the fresh bread they sold looked great. Will be back!

Muy relajado y una gran sensación de comunidad. Café encantador Es muy agradable tener una parada local de café y almuerzo.

Esta es una encantadora tienda local y cafetería. La tienda de delicatessen y la panadería son fabulosas. Lo más destacado para mí es su pan de espelta, fresco todos los días. Es un placer particular para mí, ya que normalmente no puedo digerir el trigo, pero esta es una excepción. No puedo comerlos personalmente, ¡pero entiendo que sus bollos de canela también son excepcionales!

Great place to hire for a family celebration. Delicious food and friendly staff. We had "standing up" bowl food and a delicious selection of desserts.

Saturday late lunch, 4 of us, this was our second visit and again we were again very pleased - service was attentive if a little slow, but the food was fresh, with some original combinations of flavours. Burger, Mac Cheese, Panninis, good choice of beers.

Habiendo conocido a un amigo para el desayuno, pedí tostadas de masa agria con la mañana. A las 2 . 50 tres piezas pequeñas apenas eran aceptables, pero llegar quemadas ciertamente no. Los devolví cortésmente pidiendo un reemplazo y el 'chef' me miró y dijo: '¿Crees que eso fue quemado? Eso no está quemado. ¡Estaban ennegrecidos! Encontré el deseo de discutir conmigo realmente inapropiado. La mala actitud del personal nunca mantendrá la lealtad de los clientes. Luego, habiendo pedido un americano, llegó un café negro en una taza de cortado y me dijeron "Eso es un negro largo". Pedí una taza más grande (tamaño estándar de capuccino) y vertí el café en eso. Puede alcanzar un poco más de una pulgada de altura dentro de la taza. 2. 60 por una pulgada de café negro. ¿Seriamente?Estoy sorprendido por el número de comentarios de 5 estrellas para este café. Como local, le he dado el beneficio de la duda tantas veces, y cada vez me ha decepcionado. Esta fue mi última visita. No más posibilidades.

Great for everything. A coffee breakfast and lunch with a lovely selection of quality foods from the deli. So fortunate to have them on my doorstep.

Been to Owens cafe on a few occasions for coffee and lunch. Whilst it isn’t amazing, it has always been consistently good and I’ve always enjoyed the food, and the service is reasonably good, although find the staff could be friendlier.

Owens is a nice deli/food store with a cafe attached. I have bought bread there in the past and was pleased to discover the cafe has vegan cake and non dairy milk so went there with friends for tea and cake. It’s not cheap so I was pretty shocked to see how thin the slice of cake was - see photo - as were my friends. I raised this with the waiter (the one with glasses) who seemed uninterested and when I asked him to mention this issue to the manager he replied rather rudely: ‘I’m not speaking to anyone’. I replied that I would then do so and asked to speak to the manager who came over and explained that the cakes arrived with the slices marked or something like that. Well just ask them to make the slices a reasonable size instead of the ridiculously tiny portions! The manager was polite and brought out a tiny slice to compensate. That was fine...but really Owens. You can do better than this. I hope the first waiter is given customer training or asked to work in the storeroom away from customers in future.

Deux ans après, nous voilà à nouveau dans ce petit café qui à l'air d'un café de campagne...Cette fois, j'ai pris une soupe délicieuse que je n'oublierai pas facilement...Le pain est aussi très bon, frais chaque jour, et en plus il se conserve parfaitement longtemps...Toujours très bon, bravo!

Vivo bastante localmente a este lugar y me encantaría frecuentar ya que es la falta de buenos lugares de café a poca distancia. Tristemente, como soy un amante del café fuerte y caliente, he tenido problemas cada vez que he pedido uno para obtener algo que sentí que valía la pena el alto precio. Los capuchinos raramente tienen espuma y son, en cambio, lácteos lácteos. El café, independientemente de cómo se manifieste, nunca es lo suficientemente fuerte y lo suficientemente caliente. Un crítico describió pragmáticamente las ofrendas de café del café como tibia y me entristece decir que tengo que estar de acuerdo. Lo que sería útil es que si los "baristas" que hacen el café son bebedores de café, tengo la sensación de que no lo son. Un buen café, debido a la etiqueta de precio inflada que sufre en estos días, necesita dar valor. Una sola inyección en una taza de leche caliente (pero raramente caliente) no es, para una persona interesada en el café en lugar del entorno social, considerada de buena relación calidad-precio. La comida es buena, demasiado cara, como muchos de los artículos a la venta, ya que es un café, no un restaurante y la calidad es variable.

Owens is a great place to meet and eat, by far the best and most tasty cafe in the area, and I include Muswell Hill. Staff and always smiling and happy, and the service is impeccable. Can’t recommend this place enough

Teníamos un latté y un capuchino y esperaba algún tipo de café de calidad. En su lugar, lo que nos sirvieron eran dos tazas de leche tibia, menos cualquier pizca de café. Una decepción y una pérdida de dinero. Vete a otro sitio si quieres un buen café.

I recommend the scotch egg or pork pie. Best in the area, good drinks, amazing breakfasts, lovely bacon and poached eggs. If nearby give it a visit

¡Esta es nuestra cafetería local y tiene un capuchino de soya al que mi esposa no irá en ningún otro lugar!

The service was outstanding, the family feel of the place was second to none! Ordered the deli board, quiche and burger! Wasn't disappointed one bit! Would definitely go back again

Serving a lovely weekend breakfast, unfortunately the full English breakfast is only served at the weekend which is a real shame ( they have a limited kitchen space)

Aunque yo vivo localmente, esta es sólo la segunda vez que he estado en el primer Owens era para un café. El menú para el almuerzo era genial, con un montón de cosas que me gustan. Fui por el quiche del día que era servido con ensalada y col. Era casera y deliciosa. Mi amigo tenía la sopa del día, también delicioso. Ambos queríamos una Coca-Cola Light, pero que no sirven, todo es orgánico, así que tuvimos que ir por una copa de vino. Bien, ¿por qué no! Estoy sorprendido por los comentarios de algunas críticas sobre el personal antipático. Me pareció que era tanto agradable y servicial.

Each time I come the food I have is fantastic.The breakfast is great with top quality ingredients and the quiche and salad melts in your mouth Staff are 😊 Highly recommend

Mi hermana y yo estuvimos de rastreo de la historia de la familia en una escapada de fin de semana en el norte de Londres. Sabíamos que nuestro abuelo dirigía un café en 88 Alexandra Park Road durante muchos años (y madre nuestra y su familia vivieron arriba). También nos dimos cuenta de que Nuestro bisabuelo (y tío) una panadería justo a lo largo del desfile en 106 Alexandra Park Road. Así llegamos al desfile para tomar fotos de su tienda (una panadería hasta hace poco, por las apariencias) y Alexandra tiendas que solía ser Café pegrum. Como era de 3:00 entonces, decidimos ver si podíamos comer algo y decidí que Owen's Café, junto a la el cabía PRALINHUSET Drottninggatan 112, guante. Sin embargo, el café es obviamente muy popular y la camarera nos informó de que estaban fuera de pan! Cuando le expliqué nuestra herencia panadería, se rió de la situación, y nos las arreglamos para encontrar un par de panecillos ciabatta para hacernos bacon sandwiches. Ella fue muy amable y se ofreció a hacerme una café con cafeína, diciendo que si yo no era feliz con ella sin sustituirlo con un té Earl Grey. Nos sentamos en la ventana, y considera que las conexiones con hilera de tiendas, mirando fotos de familia tomadas fuera número 88, y en los registros oficiales muestran direcciones de negocios de nuestra familia, y disfrutamos de nuestro café y sándwiches. Es un café con amables camareras y volveremos cuando regrese a esta parte de Londres.

He estado almorzando en Owen's Cafe una vez a la semana en los últimos meses, cuando viajo a Muswell Hill para el trabajo. Lentamente a través del menú, tratando algo diferente cada vez, y siempre es bueno. Las raciones son enormes, así que una buena relación calidad-precio.

So nice to have a lovely deli like Owens near our house, the bread is delicious. The service for the café is so slow though and not very friendly, I don't go anymore to sit down and eat.

Me encanta venir aquí a trabajar y la comida siempre ha sido deliciosa y el personal siempre muy encantador y siempre ocupado gran ambiente.

We had the salami and cheese board with olives, bread and fig chutney. Tasty and good portions. Good value for money. Pleasant experience.

Lovely local cafe, love the coffee and panini. Good breakfasts and soups.I wish the woman who runs it would smile and welcome you. Instead you're met with a hard stare when you walk in...kind of ruins the experience. Just a suggestion.

Visited here for breakfast while staying in the area. Love the cafe decor, the menu and the adjoining food store. My husband thought the poached eggs and bacon on sourdough were the best he'd had. And I loved the yogurt museili and fruit. Good coffee too. I'm guessing they have a lot of regular customers and we would definitely visit again next time we are in Muswell Hill.

Went back to Owens on Sunday after some time in the hope of them having changed the staff, a welcome and a smile go a long way sadly only one of the staff seemed capable of a welcome. Full breakfast was ordered but I was not happy with the sausages and bacon they seemed almost raw the sausage being very pink inside and the bacon looked as if it had only seen a pan or grill very briefly, these meat items even tasted uncooked. I consider these criticisms could easily be put right. I also had to ask again for the music to be turned down as I like to be able to have a conversation without having to shout.

The first thing to point out for those of you that haven't been to Owens Cafe is that Owens food store is connected to it and indeed there is open access between the two. Most of the things on the Menu are listed as organic, good so far, but if you go during the week you cannot get certain things on the Menu. Sausages for one, even though they are sold as a raw product in store you cannot get cooked sausages as part of your breakfast. Bacon Yes, Sausages No. They also don't offer gluten free bread. Again, its sold in-house but not available for breakfast. I can't really fathom this out. I went during half term week and saw and heard at least two other people ask for sausages only to be rebuffed. I wish the lack of availability of breakfast items was my only complaint. Sadly not. The items that were available were cooked, and I use the term cooked loosely, with no skill or understanding whatsoever. My wife and I both had poached eggs. If you expect soft runny yolks then you'll be disappointed. Solid throughout. Like a 5 minute hardboiled egg. The term 'toast' would suggest that maybe the bread that accompanies your overdone eggs has at some point in the not too distant past been tucked into a toaster of some description and been exposed to heat. Not a chance. Limp and more like slightly warmed bread. No colour on it at all. The coffee, when it arrived was tepid and weak. A couple of youngsters running the place who appeared completely disinterested and working at the same slow pace regardless of the amount of demand that they had.This place sells itself as a boutique Cafe all wholesome and Organic. I think you'd be better off trying the greasy spoon a few doors away. Less pretentious, cheaper, better food and service.

I went to Owen’s for lunch with part of the family a few days before Christmas. It was actually my second visit, so now it’s high time to write a review. The cute organic food store and deli is now coupled with a café-restaurant, also organic, where we once had a delicious breakfast. This time it was for lunch and we were just as satisfied.The salads were unbeatable - fresh and inventive -, but the quiche was also very tasty. I would have liked to try the soup of the day, which sounded delicious, but eventually I was tempted by a chocolate and cardamom cake, which was finished very quickly! The bakewell and apple tarts also disappeared before I had a chance to try them! The cloudy apple juice was delightful, as were the elderflower drink, the mochas, coffees, etc.All authentic home-made food - in fact, the chef is visible at the back of the shop and can be congratulated in person, when he doesn’t come over to greet the customers, as we saw that he did!The menu is always different, so you will find variations that we didn’t see.Well done, Owen’s. We can’t wait to go back.

Un café accompagné d'un petit recoin où on vend de la nourriture (entre autre toute sorte de délices) . Il y a des jolies tables simples et on peut manger aussi un petit repas ; tout est biologique et très bon . On ne compte pas combien de soupes ,de salades et de plats ainsi que de pâtisseries il y a dans la liste : tout est frais et d'excellente qualité. Le chef a beaucoup de fantaisie et prépare des plats sains et originaux. Mais attention ! Il n'est pas là le lundi et le mardi , donc choisissez un autre jour pour y aller, c'est toujours ouvert. Bravo , si on mangeait tous les jours comme ça....on reviendra sûrement avec grand plaisir

If only every neighbourhood had a high quality deli and cafe like this. We live the other side of Muswell Hill, and have only just discovered Owens, but will definitely pop in regularly now we have. The food, atmosphere and service was wonderful. All staff were very friendly, polite and helpful. No wonder it's so popular.

Love Owen's! Great to see this family business thriving. Relaxed, friendly atmosphere, good food and local. Couldn't ask for more...

Top quality organic butcher and deli - hard to resist some of the delights on offer. Great and helpful culinary advice on request from the chef/owner. This is a business that genuinely cares about the provenance of its food. The cafe too offers a friendly, cosy and welcoming place to enjoy some lovely home-cooked food and the best pastel de nata ever. Enjoy!

Expected this place to be a lovely cafe full of homemade food....I was wrong. The two young girls working there were l rude. Hot chocolate is vile, Danish is clearly from a packet, coffee good though. Won't be visiting again, much better places nearby.

Ordered vegetarian breakfast. Was really plain and boring. Plain tomatoes and other accompaniments to a very bland rosti. Underwhelming first visit.Returned to give breakfast another go, however this time, my friend and I walked in and waited. And waited. We were not attended to, so swiftly walked out and went a few doors down to the Hilly Kitchen Cafe-Bistro - which was outstanding! Ditch Owen's, go to the Hilly Kitchen!

I have been to Owen's many, many times. The decor is really pleasant, the coffee is great and the service ok (but not always the friendliest!).The food is fairly good - the Paninis are tasty, the quiche usually very nice but the salads are often bland and the burger is very disappointing - I was itching to give some constructive feedback back after making the mistake of ordering said burger but was loathe to offend! This is a great cafe with lots of potential...I do think the staff need to be a little more welcoming and the food could be much better. I strongly recommend the chef take a trip to Banner's to find out how a burger and chips should taste!

Five of us went for afternoon tea at Owens; a friend is due her first baby in a week and we wanted to take her out for a treat. I had seen that previous reviewers had organised afternoon tea through Simon the owner. So I dropped him an email and sorted, really easy - they actually have a afternoon tea menu, although I didn't see it on the website. Excellent price and staff really lovely. We had masses of sandwiches, lovely scones, and about four different types of cake. We actually couldn't eat all of it and the staff were nice enough to give us boxes to take home. We were all really impressed and will be returning soon!!

We stayed in the neighborhood for a couple of weeks and (unfortunately) waited until the end to try Owens. It was crazy busy and we had to share a teeny tiny table because many singles were camped out at the 4-tops with their computers. That aside, the service was quick and the food was very good (had veggie full fry). We didn't check out the shop next door but the café is quite charming and the array of teapots and handmade cozies were a perfect touch.

Six of us descended upon Owens for Sunday brunch. Tables and chairs were quickly rearranged to accommodate us as the place was buzzing. We all chose from the tempting blackboard. And sat back enjoying the delicious coffees. Chef even advised us how long our order would take. When it arrived it didn't disappoint - feast for the eyes and eager awaiting stomachs. Delicious. Counting the days to our return.

Very good breakfast and good food generally. Simple interesting food. Organic. Great home made soups.

We are so lucky to have this local café and deli at our doorstep! A haven of delicious homemade lunch dishes and yummy cakes to enjoy in beautiful surroundings with friendly service! What more could you ask for! I forgot to mention the deli's cheese counter....Owen's stocks my favourite stilton and cheddar and other temptations hard to resist! Whether for business, a family treat, or a get together with friends, it's always a pleasure and delight!

This small cafe is becoming a local favourite. It serves up full meals and tasty snacks. The food is clearly home made and of excellent quality. The staff are pleasant and attentive. On our visit, my wife and daughter had a beautiful creamy quiche and I went for the burger, served up with potato wedges. Of course, these are a bit dearer than the chain restaurants but the flavour is immeasurably better.Coffee is one of their specialities and delicious. I understand the proprietor is Portuguese so it's no surprise that you can indulge yourself in one of their custard tarts. The fruit filled ones are particularly delicious. Well worth a visit.

A great choice of foods on offer, good service. Friendly. Excellent range of cakes including gluten free. Very enjoyable.

Have been a patron at their deli for a couple of years now, so glad to see it expand into the space next door as a cafe. Light and airy interior, decor basic but pleasant wooden tables, pastel colours. A few clients have clearly decamped there as their second offices, the light from their laptops shining onto their faces. Coffee very good, pastries and cakes too. Had a light salad there for lunch once; fresh but not too exciting.

What a leaving send off for a good friend! We asked Simon at Owens cafe to rustle up a little afternoon tea that would accommodate different diets from normal to Gluten free and dairy free and he really came up with the goods! The sandwiches were full of exciting flavours and the gluten free rice cake toppings were a delight. But the cakes were outstanding ! You could certainly not tell the difference between the gluten free and other cakes in both appearance or taste. They were both light, full of flavour and delicious and rivalled any top London afternoon tea.The atmosphere in Owens was relaxing with pleasant background music and attentive staff who couldn't do enough for us keeping the teas and coffees flowing freely. The tea was served in sweet little tea pots covered in home made tea cosies and poured into some pretty cups and saucers. We will certainly be recommending Owens cafe to friends and hope this fabulous local family run cafe in Muswell Hill North London continues to thrive and grow.

Well presented, friendly, family friendly - the home made pork pie was superb, my son and daughter-in-law's paninis really delicious, and granddaughter's ham roll just right. Coffees organic, fare trade etc but really delicious. Prices incredibly reasonable. Well done.

Popped in here the other day to get a drink and to pass a bit of time before meeting someone. The tea was lovely and came in a lovely little hand knitted cosy. The panini I ordered arrived quickly and tasted lovely; obviously made with fresh ingredients! Popped into the attached store after and found some lovely organic pasta and liquorice. A great place to grab a drink or a quick snack with lovely staff and a nice atmosphere.

This cafe opened on 15 December 2013 and was immediately quite busy - probably because the organic food shop next door was already well known to local people.The food is excellent, the coffee well above average and - surprisingly - the prices are very reasonable for this area. £2 for a latte and £4.95 for a Panini to eat in (they also do takeaway). They do a healthy breakfast, a soup of the day and a range of salads, rolls, ciabattas and paninis and a daily special for lunch. Also nice cakes (maybe not quite so healthy) and organic wines and beers.You can normally park outside, and the 102 and 299 buses stop outside or it is a short walk from Bounds Green tube. There are other art, craft and music shops in this small parade people may find interesting.