Pear Tree Cafe — Restaurant in London

This place should be 5 stars by default based on the location alone, and complete lack of competition.

However, Pear Tree Café goes to such admirable lengths to disappoint that I feel it is my moral duty to recognise them.

The place is called a café, but you won’t get a coffee there past some vague, arbitrary, unspecified time in the afternoon; it’s like a game of roulette – some days you’ll get lucky, on other “the coffee machine is closed” and that’s that.

Some of the staff have a bit of a superstar attitude problem; they basically deign us, lowly customers, with their fabulous, overtly unbothered presence.

And then there’s the coffee… whether you order a cappuccino, a latte, or a flat white you will end up with unspecified, warm-ish, milky… sludge. Once again, the place is...

Atmosphere was nice with the jazz music , very good band

Some dog poo left unpicked up , not nice when eating , could do with a sweep outside also.

Food and drink expensive , very small amount of chicken goujons for the money !

Nachos should actually be described as chips and dips, tortilla chips with sour cream , some guacamole , and chutney , no cheese or salsa or jalapeño ,so just some crisps with some dips tbh expensive for what you get and quite disappointing .

Not sure if she was the manager but having literally just spent £50 for chips, nachos and chicken and some drinks and waiting to collect the drinks , she quite abruptly asked us to move to side and wait . I think if she asked who’s next we would have got...

This is a lovely cafe on Clapham Common. But just recently as the sun has come out they insist on playing unbelievably loud music from a speaker in the doorway to deafen people outside. It's not the music, it's the volume. While I was there three customers went in to ask for the volume to be turned down, which it was temporarily, but then by the following track it was increased again. I even saw one young woman who couldn't hear what her partner was saying, go in and turn it down herself. I noticed people were very reluctant to sit at the tables near the speaker. I was with a friend, but we couldn't hear each other so had to leave. What a shame. My feeling is that the loud music is for the staff not...