Vagabond N7 in Islington

Localino alternativo nei pressi di Highbury Fields, con area esterna. Servono colazioni, panini e dolcetti, tutti parecchio sostanziosi. Si noti che non servono alcoolici. Cibo prevalentemente biologico. Servizio piuttosto lento.

I haven't been here since before the first lockdown so I am very pleased to report that their coffee is still excellent. I had a very nice black coffee over ice. The only negative is that my favourite communal table in the window has gone!

Inusualmente, fuimos a almorzar y probamos el vegetariano Tree Hugger, que es una gruesa rebanada de pan ahogada en frijoles picantes horneados, papas salteadas, champiñones fritos, pimientos fritos con 2 huevos escalfados. Se está llenando fayre y la porción es enorme. Buen valor también. Café genial como siempre.

Sunday brunch...Funky interior and very chilled! Fantastic slant on a cooked breakfast. Fab! The coffee was some of the best tasted...And i am a coffee snob! Highly reccomended.

Siempre estoy buscando un buen café y descubrí este lugar ya que estaba en el vecindario. Estaba lleno de gente. el domingo brunch pero solo tomé café y fue genial! V personal amable y me dijeron que asan los suyos. Sin duda volveremos!

Seleccioné este lugar para nuestro café de la mañana y creo que posiblemente sea nuestra primera visita a uno de los puntos de venta de Vagabond.Los blancos planos eran excelentes (incluso tomamos algunos granos de café con nosotros) y nos sentimos tentados a desayunar por el especial diario de kedgeree vegetariano. Esto también demostró ser excelente, lleno de sabor y servido en porciones muy generosas.¡Una excelente forma de comenzar el día!

I went off piste today and rather than the usual flat white I had a plain black coffee which really lets one taste how great quality the coffee is here - full of richness and liquorish flavour.

Delicious coffee, great selection of cakes and a few solid choices for savoury dishes. Definitely good for a morning or afternoon coffee and work on the laptop

Poor service, waited over 20mins for basically beans on toast A very pretentious cafe, the menu stated Tree Hugger, basically beans on toast for £9. Terrible.

El Vagabond es perfecto para un buen brunch de los domingos. Pedimos la hamburguesa de quinua y los huevos escalfados con salmón. Las porciones son bastante grandes, así que obtienes mucho por tu dinero. También sirven café increíble, compramos un paquete para el hogar. Tienen una selección de café tostado, que se asan y muelen si quieres. El lugar es un poco inconformista, con las paredes desnudas y los camareros peculiares, pero el ambiente era agradable y relajado.

El ambiente es muy amigable, es un gran lugar para reunirse con amigos o familiares para una comida, o sentarse y trabajar por una tarde. El café es encantador, y puedes comprar frijoles de alta calidad para llevar a casa también. La comida es deliciosa, y hay muchas buenas opciones. Recientemente he tenido un buen brunch con mi madre aquí, y estaba encantada de lo mucho que disfrutaba el jardín.

You can't miss Vagabond, a five-minute walk up Holloway Road from Highbury & Islington tube. Although the fascia sign is discreet, there's a delivery bike tethered to the front.It's quite an experience for the uninitiated. For a start, the achingly trendy decor looks like a bomb has hit it; pock-marked, scrawled-on walls like something out of a war zone.The table tops are largely cannibalised from wooden cable-winding bobbins, the mix of seating is all about the looks, not the comfort, and the floor is old and intriguing.You don't come here to relax, you come here to be seen and to enjoy superlative coffee.I tried a scrambled egg and bacon breakfast - superb flavoursome bacon, quite unlike the cheap tosh that is served in most greasy spoons. A small heap of salad adds greenery.But only one piece of toast, and those awkward, mean little butter sachets that you get at motorway services. The bread is top-class; really good stuff.But, come on. Perhaps one and a half slices? Maybe a little pot of butter?You order at the bar, then take your seat where you place your little numbered metal order stand. Pay up front, then sit.The counter is, presumably, ironic. It looks as if it was knocked together by a 12-year-old in his first woodwork class.And that's the charm of this place. Good food, a place to be seen, 'different' furniture, insouciant staff...A bizarre diagram of the human tongue and its taste areas is painted on the bullet-holed wall, there's a garden out back, merchandise is on sale.It's a cosmopolitan place too; you hear all accents in this Islington melting pot.A tinny little bell rings to signify that a new order is ready to be taken from the kitchen at the back to the customer - the kind of bell you might hear at a Victorian seance.It's an entertaining experience.

Great little cafe - lovely coffeehouse atmosphere with lots of tables and shared spaces and a garden dining area for lovely summer days. Coffee is done well here, shown by the lines out the door for takeaway coffees. On this particular occasion I sat in for breakfast and coffee with a few friends. We ordered the soft cheese omelette, classic fry up and DIY breakfast (eggs, avo, toast etc) - all very tasty and well presented. The refried beans are well seasoned and exceeded my expectations. Will be back!

The coffee on here is still the best around. Their flat white is strong but smooth with no bitterness or sourness. Unfortunately they have been discovered so the wait was long today.

El diseño lleva 10 estrellas. Lugar acogedor con diseño increíble. No hay palabras para decir. Ver las fotos. Las cosas muyyyyyyyyy agradable! El café era muy buena, pero no excelente. Yo tenía un café exprés y verter en! El espresso no tan bonita, pero el verter en era muy bueno! 5 estrellas y visita de nuevo seguro esos días. Espero que se me haga demasiado café amazzing! ! :) Saludos! !

El Vagabond es excelente. Ingredientes de alta calidad bien cocinada y una generosa porción. Los frijoles refritos sabor casi al curry y con las patatas fritas eran perfectos. Mi esposa y yerno también tenía unas comidas. El café era de buena calidad y bien presentada.

A typical coffee shop with a rustic theme. The coffee was reasonable and the size was fair. Prices were reasonable considering how close to central London this was. The coffee was delivered to the table. The atmosphere was pleasant.

I would give the food and coffee 5 stars if the place was better organised.

I have been trying a few other coffee places recently and there are plenty of good ones locally but for quality and flavours Vagabond is still top. The flat white was really nicely made, not too hot or milky and the espresso used revealed a lovely complex mix of tastes.

Favorite coffee place. Always consistently great. Friendly service. There is a front room, back room and court yard so bigger than you would expect. Pastries, sandwiches and a brunch/lunch menu. They sell fresh coffee too. Can't fault them. Open slightly earlier than other coffee places in the area which is handy if you can't hold out until 10am on a Sunday!

I rode past this place so many times and the other day eventually visited. Glad I did because it's an absolute gem! The atmosphere is great for friends or to work from. The coffee is awesome and roasted out the back of the cafe

Needed to find a breakfast/brunch venue near Arsenal Stadium and lucked out here. Great coffee, table service, small but decent choice of food. The venue is really cute, lots of little areas rather than one large space. Nice people here and swift service, even when...

I probably can't tell my Guatamalan from my Gold Blend, but I know I good coffee when I drink one, and this is as good as any I've had in London. The simple lunch menu is excellent as well, and it scores well for ambience....

I live across the street and there's been a huge boom of coffee shops around. I've tried them all and...

Fuimos a este café porque estaba cerca de pasar unas vacaciones en habitaciones Escape Yo tenía un café con hielo con un trozo de llovizna de limón y mi marido tenía un tipo de desayuno de bap con té helado. Mi pastel era muy ácido,...

Çalışmak ve toplantı yapmak için en uygun kafelerden biri Vagabond. Filtre kahve ve cold brew içtim. Özellikle v60 ile demlenen filtre kahve harikaydı.

Called in to kill some time while waiting to meet family. It's okay. Pleasant staff, very smiley lady behind the counter. The decor is somewhat of a WW2 post bombing "chic" but the prices are more of a nouveau riche kind. What we had was very good and quickly served but just couldn't quite justify the price.

Went as a group of 4 friends on the hunt for some good coffee and breakfast. The coffee was excellent, and the breakfast was Delicious. 3 of us had the vagabond breakfast which was spot on, especially the beans. My sister particularly enjoyed her vegetarian cooked breakfast too, with roasted vegetables. The food was excellent. Only let down being the front of house staff, the bloke was so relaxed and chilled that it actually became borderline rude...getting a second coffee was hard work.

This is a small, uncomfortable café, serving bland food and an overpriced, rather bad, coffee (as do, to be honest, the rest of the industrial chic cafés in Holloway Rd, to the point one can barely tell them apart, and often wonders whether they are not actually owned by the same person). If the self-proclaimed Franconian sausage had some flavour, that'd be the defining feature of this café; as it is however, that honour probably falls on the rudeness of its staff, that will do all they can to keep chatting amongst themselves while you wait in front of them like an idiot, hoping to order and pay.

Tasty food, lovely coffee, friendly service. Happy! Went for lunch and had a delicious goats cheese and walnut salad

I used Islington Central Library once a week to study and would take lunch at Vagabond, because the have simply the best BLT sandwich I have ever tasted with fresh ingredients: rocket, tomato, lovely bacon and a bn drizzled wth olive oil (amazing). If I was lucky, I would manage to grab the last almond croissant as well - not sure where they were baked, but simply incredible. And the coffee was fantastic as you would expect from a place that roasts its own beans. I only give 4/5 because quality control is a bit sketchy - they burned the BLT bun once, the toilet is not fantastic and the service could be a little better organised.... but I do miss those almond croissants....!!

Stopped by in the hope of restorative coffee, which eventually arrived, but only after I had opportunity to examine the surroundings more closely, sat on some uncomfortable bodged furniture in an eclectic back 'garden'. Might pass for trendy in Islington but rest of UK see as tatty. Coffee ok

If you want to experience one of the best flat white coffees in London then come here. The beans are great and each coffee is carefully made. If you have one here you can judge others against it especially from the likes of Costa and Starbucks.

Either you want to work on your laptop using their WiFi whilst trying their hot food or you want to have a morning/afternoon coffee with a nice pastry, this is the place to go. Very modest from the outside but nice staff inside and comfortable seats. I heard that there's a garden area at the back which I'm looking forward to trying when the warm days are back!

I again had a first rate coffee here - I have never had anything less whether a flat white or a brew coffee which is my personal favourite but takes time. When I read the recent reviews of some patrons who feel that it is ok to insult this place and suggest that the coffee is poor quality or to recommend that clients go to a coffee chain instead (reviewer from a well known coffee haven in deepest Wales) I feel I need to add some balance. The coffee is some of the best, the staff are eclectic and interesting to talk to, the food is great if a bit limited for choice and the loos are quite ok.

On business trip with my daughter for job interview, called in mid morning for coffee and cake break , oops mistake , should have known by state of shop held together with box's they found somewhere, plaster falling off walls , coffee served in a tumbler, cake made out of plastic dressed as free trade malarkey, and daughters lemon drink made with cruelty free lemons ???? , Oh well some one has to save the planet , avoid at all costs , big coffee chain down road head there pronto .

The coffee here is always absolutely first rate and it is still the best place in Islington for coffee although there are at least 3 other places that are very good. The food here is very nice but the menu is rather restricted unfortunately.

One of the best english breakfast you can have in London! This place is just amazing. Great selection of breakfast/brunch with No 1 their Vagabond breakfast. Beans that are properly prepared by themselves (not the usual canned ones from groceries), spicy sausages, crispy bacon, fresh oven-cooked potatoes and tasty black pudding. The vegeterian alternative is full of freshly choped/cooked veggies. The space is a bit tiny and the seats are becoming sometimes unconfortable, but the environment is so cosy. Flat whites as they should be with coffee beans that distinguish from the ones used from other coffee shops. Totally recommended!

Very poor breakfast and the most awful coffee. Please read on for a full run-down.I organised a breakfast here on Saturday for a couple of friends. The place was not busy when we first arrived, so we ordered a couple of Latte's while we waited for the others to turn up. The coffee was served in a small glass tumbler. But the coffee taste was off whilst being not hot enough...not a great start. But was still looking forward to my Vagabond Breakfast.I ordered the 3 breakfasts, 2 coffee's, a special coffee brew (which was £1 more expensive and took a while to prepare) and couple of slices of cake for afterwards. £42 which I thought was reasonable.First off the special coffee brew was disgusting. It came on some special board and a little jug. It tasted like half a teaspoon of some cheap instant coffee mixed with too much water. The three Vagabond breakfasts came and mine was missing the sausage. While I was waiting for the waitress to come back my friend got stuck in and cut open his sausage. It exploded with oil when he cut in. At least 2 tablespoons off clearish oil seeped onto his plate. Could this morning get any worse?The mine came back with its sausage and it looks good!My sausage was fine but the whole breakfast was ruined but serving it with some fancy Mexican beans. It kept on repeating on all of us some hours later.The bacon was streaky and undercooked. The egg were a bit snotty but I don't mind that. The beans killed everything.And then the final straw!I went to the toilet. Jesus Christ its one of the most disgusting toilets I have been to in a while. I would feel sorry for anyone having to sit on that seat. I lifted it for a piss and underside was black. If look closly it hadn't been property cleaned for a least 6 months. Every time any waitress came out with food or drinks, they hadn't a clue as to what table it should be on so most of the time headed back to the kitchen. The guys on till are not very welcoming and informative. Bit frigging clueless actually. So my advice, NEVER EVER go near this place. Poor everything, sorry guys but you have lost my custom and i hope by writing this you have lost a load more. I could swear a lot about this place, but it is a ----hole.Goodbye and good riddance!Oh and by the way, forgot to mention the CAKES were RANCID as well.

Nice but nothing special. Walked in and staff were friendly. Not table service - You order at the counter. Limited brunch menu. I had scrambled eggs, bacon and avocado. Scrambled eggs were good, bacon too, avocado was unfortunately overpowered with too much lemon or lime - menu didn't mention the side of avocado would be adulterated. We sat in the back room. Awesome large tables for groups but I'm not sure what the rest of the back of the space is meant to be used for. Bathroom was clean apart from the cobwebs. Coffee was good (maybe more a place for takeaway coffee)

I was lured in by the detail given to the daily filter coffee and, upon entering, was confronted with a list of the coffees and their origin, farm name, processing method and variety; good stuff. The filter coffee I had was delicious and full of flavour. The prices are reasonable (£2.20 for a filter, £3.50 for an aero, £2 to £3 for an Italian, espresso-style coffee) and the food looks good for the price, although I can't vouch for the taste. They also sell several interesting items such as "Eat Grub" cricket bars!

Als je hier binnen loopt is het woord Hipster direct waar je aan denkt. De koffie is goed en achterin de zaak kun je met je laptop zitten om te werken. De binnen kant van de koffie zaak is niet afgewerkt en het lijkt meer of je in een steegje zit dan een restaurant of koffie bar. Dit natuurlijk om de echte hipster sfeer neer te zetten.De koffie is goed en panini's zijn ook te pruimen, alleen liggen de prijzen lichtelijk hoger dan andere zaken in de buurt.

This is a little gem of a place as long as you get past the service. There is a main area as you enter but also a back room and an outdoor area in back as well. It is a little hipster but not too much. They offer a variety of drinks and food and everything I have had has always been great. Be warned you can seem to lose time in this place as it does have a chilled atmosphere and the staff won't really bother you. However be warned when you interact it will seem like its an inconvenience to them that you are there!

It's a cosy place to go for a really nice coffee, though the service in N7 ruins it for me every time I visit. I keep coming back for the excellent coffee and food is nice too, but there seem to be annoyed with customers and forgetting little things - thus being annoyed even more when being asked for it again. Each time I'm there the place is half empty, so it's not a question of being swamped with full house. Coffee KEEPS it UP.

Not so sure why (some of) the guys working here are always angry at their lives, but the coffee and the place is really good and a nice addition to the neighborhood and Im always dropping by when I can.The place closes ridiculously early though, and I once tried to order a pour over around 5 mins before they close and they refused, offering something else instead. Fair enough they had to close, but I think in that scenario customer comes first.But enough with the bad stuff. This place does seriously decent brews and I have come to think of their espresso as one of the best in this area. There is always a nice vibe inside with an eclectic mix of tunes playing in the background. The garden in the back is chill, and there is a bench on the outside as well. I like it.

The top end of Holloway road has been gradually gentrifying for years now and Vagabond typifies this - great contrast to some tired old Italian restaurants that are its close neighbors. It sells good quality brunch food and also tea/coffee/cakes. Wooden tables and chairs - bit hipster but only one sad person on a laptop when i was in there and some other people were ACTUALLY TALKING in a cafe! I didn't like the wooden tables as although they weren't dirty the unfinished surface makes them look dirty. Service was not speedy but the place has a great calm atmosphere - my food was good and interesting my tea was tepid. Staff seem a little dreamy and drifty. Got the impression that the owners are genuinely interested in food - based on the menu and the drinks on offer. Cakes were the usual fare - lemon drizzle cake and home made brownie - dullsville! One to return to, as its so handy for the tube and highbury fields.

Popped in to kill some time and had a delicious flat white. Decent service, nice atmosphere. Definitely worth another visit.

I'm guessing because I said I was eating in they give you an automatic 'open sandwich' - no problem there.But an open sandwich here is very misunderstood- got one slice of bread with filling on top.. bruschetta style; but just the one.If I wanted my other half I either would have to order another £6.50 or maybe specify take out?Tasted amazing- but left feeling hungry.J

It's pretty hard to fu@k up scrambled eggs and toast but vagabond were successful in their quest. Cold eggs, stale / cold toast and the bacon was dry across both of our meals. Coffee was decent but overall very poor.Try somewhere else

I have not been here for a while. My favourite coffee is a small flat white but it is really hard to get a great one. In most coffee shops you end up with a decent milky white coffee that is too weak and does not have a rich lasting foam. Here it is always great.

Good people, good intentions but very green.4 drinks I ordered turned out that they only pour into a beaker....all the rest including finding a lid is done by the customer.....There is pretendence that something special is being served, but truth its some sort of a hot drink being offered as a self-service.One of the staff did offer to hold the door for me as i was leaving with 4 cups in hand and struggling to steady.

Visited Vagabond for a large gathering 30 plus people fitted very well into the back room without bothering people in the main restaurant. We had an excellent fusion Thai meal, that was quite unusual whole sea bass and whole chicken but very well prepared and worked very well for a large group. Service was very good too. This is a great place on the Holloway road. The atmosphere is good helped by its quirky furnishing and it looked to be a good place to eat all day and they seemed very proud of their coffee. It did appear that they are quite new to catering for large groups so it is probably a good idea to book but Vagabond is a positive change from other restaurants on the Holloway Road

Whilst living in Finsbury park going to vagabond was my daily treat for a lovely coffee, however I got soon annoyed with the staff's behaviour. The girls are v rude, I recall one time I waited 5-10 mins at the counter and no one even asked me if I'm ok or just letting me know they will be with me soon, so I had to turn around and leave. Not very welcoming.

I regard the coffee here as amongst the best in London and have been a regular here since it opened. What I have found though is these guys are so passionate about what they do and they are keen to educate ordinary coffee drinkers such as myself. Just a little change in the way I dealt with my ground coffee based on a chat with Paul has allowed me to make a huge step forward in my home brew - although I have a way to go to get to the standard here!!

What drew me into the place was the promise of an excellent expresso, made from good beans and a shiny Marzocco machine (while the latter has nothing exceptional in London). The promise was kept, although by its strength and texture the expresso rather belongs to the Australian than to the Italian family. What made me a regular customer (I go there at least once a week) is the atmosphere of the place. The place is never really packed but never empty and there is a lot to like: the meticulously chosen furniture, the wonderful tiny garden, the excellent music choice, and they distribute the fantastic free Loud and Quiet magazine. The quality of the food is remarkable: the pies, the scrambled eggs and the banana bread are delicious (the only criticism I would express would be that portions tended to be less generous over the last year, especially for the egg meals). While there is quite some turnover, the staff is usually nice, welcoming and competent as regards coffee.

I came in here for lunch with my wife today and it was heaving so I could not have my favourite 'brew' coffee as it takes too long to prepare so had to settle for a flat white which was very good as usual. To make a change we had their home-made soup which was vegetable and served with rye bread and was really excellent. We followed this with a large portion of excellent veggie quiche and a very well executed and dressed salad (special of the day). At £4.50 for the soup and £6 for the quiche we though this very decent value.I notice the last reviewer was not happy with his coffee - although he does not say why although Italian coffee lovers I know tend to go for very very short espressos as opposed to filter so that may be the reason? I am sure these guys would be disappointed if any customer went away unhappy so if I had a bad experience I would tell them and I am sure they would make you something else for me.

The black americano coffee in this place is shockIng. I've been a few times more recently for a team meeting so it's definitely not a one off. I like my coffee and can appreciate a good cup having two Italian parents. Has no one else seriously complained about it?

Visiting our son in Islington he took us to Vagabond for morning coffee. Had a flat white, my wife a cappuccino. They were absolutely excellent. Went back the next day for more coffee and had their toast which was really really good and only £1.50 for 2 rounds. The marmalade is an expensive brand, so another indicator of their desire for quality.Would have had lunch but our timing didn't work out. Next time in London we will ensure we have lunch there.Nice bit of banter with the staff, overall a great find. I thoroughly recommend going there.

The service here was awful, we were scoffed at and told we couldn't have soy milk in a filter coffee. The flat white was bitter. We had to sit in the back where it was freezing cold. The banana bread was dry and didn't come toasted or with butter. The whole experience was terrible.

I have been coming here on a fairly regular basis for more than a year. These guys are serious about their coffee which is excellent and few cafes can compare. Their flat whites are particularly good. I have eaten here many times. Their sandwiches are high quality and reasonably priced. Their hot food is also very high quality - I especially like the scrambled eggs and have also tried salads which are lovely but not huge so you may need a cake as well - which are also rather good. There is loads of room at the rear and a garden which is nice in the warmer weather. Inside the decor is trendy as opposed to comfortable and the clientele are varied and interesting. THe area around the cafe is more interesting and edgy than further South along Upper Street.

When trip advisor asks if this is one of the best meals you've had in a restaurant, I said yes. But I have to qualify that and say that this was the best scrambled eggs I've had anywhere except at home. Vagabond is a pared down cafe near highbury and Islington station. Yumm xakes, carefully made coffee and tea, wholesome non fancy cakes. Simple menu, of breakfast brunch stuff, thoughtfully prepared.

Funky little cafe with friendly staff, good coffee and some delicious pastry options. I had the chocolate brownie and sat in the cute little garden out the back.I would come here again.