Brother Marcus

London has plenty of great eateries, so it was a difficult decision to end up in the excellent Brother Marcus. It doesn't look like much from the street, but once you are inside, this place just looks and feels like somewhere you want to spend a lot of time. I visited for brunch with a friend and we were ready to eat!

Not ones to skimp on the food, my friend and I ordered a few things off the... more

I'm not entirely sure how cafe owners in London expect their costumers (at least those like me) to have a coffee but I find it a bit insulting to be allowed to choose between a plain croissant and a pain au chocolat: coffee goes with good pastry and this place definitely failed in delivering this!

On the positive side though, the place has a good price to quality ratio and the pleasant... more

Brunch was disappointing. My French toast brioche consisted of half a slice of bread, tiniest meal I was ever served at a restaurant. My cocktail, a fig vanilla Prosecco, had no flavour of fig nor vanilla. more

Vibe: good vibes, artistic backyard but a little noisy from the national rail

Service: usual

Food: okay more

I want to give this place five stars but the mediocre service just brings it down a couple notches.

My friends had to wait sometime for their drinks and my husband even got one on the house because there was a mixup in orders. The avocado smoothie I had was nice but the price was a bit much (£3.50) for a small glass.

I ordered the Step Sister (courgette fritters) which comes as a cool stack... more