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Music & Beans Camden

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😐 Wonder why they have guitars on the wall? This is a cool café with lots of vegan/gluten free/normal people treats and their salads look delicious. This is essentially a music and food venue. If you visit the Harringay branch, you can even book a music lesson! The guitars on the wall are actually f... People often mention music, nice, pancakes, vegan, lovely, staff, special, brunch,


Address

82 Camden High St, London NW1 0LT, United Kingdom

Contact

+44 20 7693 5493

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

4.40 (296 reviews)

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Working Hours

Permanently closed.

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: music (9) nice (9) pancakes (8) vegan (6) lovely (6) staff (6) special (6) brunch (6)
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  • 3/5 Namrata Bagree (. 5 years ago on Google • 131 reviews
    Wonder why they have guitars on the wall? This is a cool café with lots of vegan/gluten free/normal people treats and their salads look delicious. This is essentially a music and food venue. If you visit the Harringay branch, you can even book a music lesson! The guitars on the wall are actually for sale to the customers. Fancy one? On Saturdays evenings, the 'audience' is lightened with a bit of jazz music, such as the trombone (or so the waiter says). Would have to come back on a Saturday to check! 💡 namobytes 💡 Unlike most other cafes and bars, this venue has its own 'Music & Beans' doormat!
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Leigh 4 years ago on Google • 330 reviews
    We had a really lovely breakfast of coffee and croissants here. The pastries were deliciously buttery and the coffee had a great flavour. And best of all, the staff were really lovely; friendly and welcoming right away. The food being served looked really delicious, so I’ll definitely be back next time I’m in Camden.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Richard C. 4 years ago on Google • 668 reviews
    After a rocky start the staff here were lovely. We spoke to the baker about her cakes, she was lovely and the cakes were all delicious. Great vegan cakes. Thoroughly recommend the pistachio cake, this has such an awesome nutty flavour and other cakes were beautifully spiced. Good strong coffee too and a decent shakshuka. Be warned, the brownie is delicious, but decadent beyond belief 😍

  • 3/5 Díana B. 4 years ago on Google • 82 reviews
    5 stars to our waiter who was really nice and accommodating. The waitress we had initially however was all over the place and unhelpful. I felt this place has some sort of identity crisis, when you enter it just looks like your run of the mill cafe, nothing special. Then you walk to the back and it has guitars on the walls and is trying to be some sort of cool retro music diner place, but it’s slightly missed the point. Like another guy pointed out, there was no music playing when we went, maybe that was the time and day we went though? We tried the calamari for starters - nice presentation but the calamari were really doughy and oily. I had the lemon chicken as a main, it was well prepared & had nice flavours. For dessert we tried the carrot cake from the display, which was a bit stale and dry, and the pancakes which were cold and clearly not freshly made at all. Smoothies were lovely.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Mouroulla A. 5 years ago on Google • 51 reviews
    The food is very tasty and the place is nice. The staff is kind too. A suitable place also for vegetarian and vegan people as it has choices a couple or more vegan choices both for breakfast and for dessert.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 3/5 Stephen C. 4 years ago on Google • 440 reviews
    I came here at 11:25am on a overcast Saturday in January. I was optimistic given the 4.5 review on the GOOG. I’m sadden to report that I was disappointed by my experience here. I order the Music Breakfast which arrived with some sad sausages and the food was a bit cold. My colleague Laura was upset that the water had a high Calcium Carbonate content. Tarnya said ‘Bare average’. It’s not all bad though, they did serve alcohol and were able to feed Joe’s beer craving. Also the staff were friendly and my mocha was good. Nathalie (the token vegetarian) had the organised scrambled egg and thoroughly enjoyed it.

  • 3/5 Aster P. 5 years ago on Google • 115 reviews
    Really lovely coffee and food, however, the poached eggs were hard/overdone (criminal!) and the sour dough was tough so only 3 stars. Presentation of food was fabulous. Sitting in the front of the cafe was nice as it was a sunny day. Cook good eggs for breakfast and you'll get five stars!

  • 5/5 Charis 3 years ago on Google • 107 reviews
    Best value bottomless brunch in London! Friendly staff, and when they were super busy and couldn’t get our pancakes dessert to us on time they gave us Prosecco top ups past the ninety minutes which was very kind. Possibly not brilliant if you want to be properly socially distanced - we were sitting back to back with another group of 3.

  • 4/5 Allan P. 4 years ago on Google • 28 reviews
    Very well located - just few minutes walking from Morning Crescent station or Camden station. The atmosphere is nice, very bright place and cozy/comfortable seating. They also have one or two tables outside - probably great for the summer. The staff was ok, nothing special, but friendly. I had chocolate croissant and a vegetarian main + pancakes. Start and main was delicious, but the dessert was tasteless (pancakes with ice cream). Overall, it was a nice brunch/experience.

  • 4/5 Christopher D. 4 years ago on Google
    In Camden on the Main Street. Went for a “bottomless brunch” promotion. Was actually pretty good. Unlimited pastries and pancakes, and a choice of main. The mains were creative and tasty, and well lots of vegetarian/vegan options. Pastries were big and flaky; pancakes nothing special. Service was a little amateur but overall polite and friendly. There wasn’t any live music or special music selection at the time (not sure where the name of the restaurant comes from lol). Overall a fun Sunday brunch in a cozy atmosphere, nice mains, and great promotion.

  • 4/5 Ben X. 4 years ago on Google • 19 reviews
    In Camden on the Main Street. Went for a “bottomless brunch” promotion. Was actually pretty good. Unlimited pastries and pancakes, and a choice of main. The mains were creative and tasty, and well lots of vegetarian/vegan options. Pastries were big and flaky; pancakes nothing special. Service was a little amateur but overall polite and friendly. There wasn’t any live music or special music selection at the time (not sure where the name of the restaurant comes from lol). Overall a fun Sunday brunch in a cozy atmosphere, nice mains, and great promotion.


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Amenities


  • Pets
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Cash-only
    • ✓️ Debit cards
    • ✓️ Credit cards
    • ✓️ NFC mobile payments
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Organic dishes
    • ✓️ Prepared foods
    • ✓️ Vegetarian options
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible entrance
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible restroom
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
    • ✓️ Breakfast
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Takeout
    • ✗ Delivery
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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