Cafe Z Bar. — Restaurant in London

On the late Monday morning of the 30th of September I met two friends here for coffee. One local to Stoke Newington and one visiting. While we were having our coffee a local artist by the name of Alex Saunderson came over to try and sell us some postcards which I thought was very invasive. As a professional artist myself I know how difficult a career this is so I treated him with kindness and had a look at his postcards. I liked them so I bought three for £20 cash giving him an extra £5. As we were leavin I noticed my sunglasses by Oliver Peoples were missing so I went back inside to check the table. They were gone. I asked the barista to no avail. Alex was at another table peddling his wares. I asked him did he take my sunglasses, he pulled them out of his pocket and handed them back. When he covered them with his wares he had lifted them, naturally I was disgusted at this after I had just given him £20 for three postcards. The three gormless barristas on duty saw and heard everything yet did nothing. I had just been robbed of €400 sunglasses and was lucky to get them back. Visibly shaken I went out for a cigarette. My friend who is local left his details with them if they wanted to get in touch about this incident but they have not. Not one of the barristas asked was I ok or if I wanted to make a police report. I tried to get in contact with the owner but to no avail. I hope this establishment is as embarrassed as it should be reading this. If the owner is reading this check your cameras from 11-12 on that morning. I'm wearing a tan jacket. Table in the larger room just inside the gap between the two rooms. One a positive note the macchiato was good but it shouldn't cost me €400...

The place was nice the girl running the shift was friendly and drinks tasted great. Was excited to go in because it seemed very inviting. Although one of the waitresses on the floor was just completely rude to my table, I was actually shocked. For being a waitress who knows how service is supposed to be in a fun and cute environment like this I was just a bit confused honestly because the type of service we got did not meet our expectations of this cafe. I split my drink and was not offered another one ,even though the other girl at the bar offered to make a new one the waitress simply said we didn’t need another one even though the one we had was empty and didn’t even help us clean up. Just threw towels at as. Didn’t recieve a smile the entire time. I know people read these reviews and I want you to know there is a problem with the service. I have noticed it at other tables as well.i just think that it pushes people from coming back here, she may have had a bad day we have all been there but I don’t know if I would...

it’s a bit of a weird one. the coffee is really good. really good. and reasonably priced. I’ve never eaten here so can’t vouch for that. there’s a nice place to sit outside. chain smoke and people watch. but the staff… they’re slightly strange. sometimes it’s the lovely girl who laughs. other times it’s like interacting with people who’ve never spoken to a person before. they’re the kind of typical gen-z that suffer social anxiety, so won’t even say - are you using this? as they whip the sugar off your table. they try and do table service but you have to wait ten years to order and pay, and then they get mardy like it’s your fault. order at the bar. pay when you order and sit and wait - that’s the hack. think the staff could do with some additional training, including how to talk to customers. I’m not asking for American style service but a simple ‘hello’ or ‘thanks’ rather than grunts would be appreciated. I’ll still come back though - good, reasonably priced coffee is hard to find in...