Blue Mountain
About
Cafes
Price Range : Under $10 (££)
Location
Adress: 18 North Cross Road, London, SE22 9EU
Phone: +44 20 8299 6953
Work Hours
Business info
- groupGood for GroupsYes
- local_barAlcoholBeer & Wine Only
- transit_enterexitOutdoor SeatingYes
- tvHas TVYes
Reviews
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Poopy P.
If you Like cute boys in pyjamas serving you scrumptious goodies, well this might be the place for you.
Its eclectic and mis-mash decor is pleasing to the eyes, and the uber casual amosphere is fantasmically inviting for that Sunday afternoon hangover, Their food and a good cup of joe is just what the docter ordered. They also host poetry nights and have Live music sometimes....bonus.
Just watch out for those scary dulwich moms and their prams! -
Rich M.
East Dulwich, home to smug middle-class media breeders and their delightful progeny, has all but erased the working classes, the unwashed and the ugly from its midst through a social programming drive Machaevellian in the extreme.
First we got a couple of delis and a couple of the local spit and sawdust boozers metaphorically cut their hair and had a wash. Then the little odd independent boutiques started to open... a newer sort of person started queuing outside the exceptional but resolutely local butcher William Rose, an ernest sort of person, a fleece wrapped, rugby shirt, sensible shoe wearing broadsheet reader who "really wanted to stay West, but when we started thinking about the kids it was either move here, or move out of London".
And they demanded places to eat, and places to shop, and places to drink, with other similar spirits and their Bugaboo prams filled with flaxen haired organic, free range children. And then in one dreadful year, they opened The White Company, Oliver Bonas and Foxtons. The Richmondification of East Dulwich was almost complete.
This isn't a teary eyed pean to a stalwart of the retail community deemed unsuitable for little Jemimahs and Jacobs, closed and turned into a high-class cheese shop, this is just to prepare you for the people who occupy the Blue Mountain Cafe on Northcross Road, ground zero of the yummy mummy.
It's twee. By which I mean reclaimed oak furniture and country cottage chic, and mismatching, and quirky, some of those things deliberately. They have set spaces for the prams and pushchairs - woe betide anyone trying to get a table here from 10.30 on a weekday. It defines the term mother's meeting. The food is well sourced and relatively well prepared, certainly freshly prepared. Their Full Monty breakfasts certainly are a thing of beauty, sourced and prepared by someone who really cares about what they're putting out. The sausages and bacon, from the aformentioned William Rose, are solid meaty protein torpedos. There's a decent pile of buttery mushrooms and a frankly enormous heap of beans. Perfectly poached eggs top thick slabs of brown toast. A substantial load, more suited for a trucker's cafe than a genteel suburb. -
Cordelle P.
It a small cozy cafe but serve the best and fresh food..
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Qype User (warrio…)
In a word - YUM.
This is by far my favourite local cafe for a leisurely weekend brunch or lunch with friends. I love the vibe of the place, from the brightly painted front with glittering mosiac tiling to the walls inside covered with interesting art, the bustling bar area with smiley staff and a vat of freshly squeezed orange juice sloshing around temptingly, the fridge packed with freshly baked goods and the little back yard with its interesting wall ornaments.
The food is wonderful, and you pay only slightly more here than you would in much less nice place. Full breakfasts, for instance, come in at £7-£8, with excellent vegetarian options and the best cup of joe in the area - proper Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee which you can also buy in bags to take home.
The Sunday waiting staff can be a bit dizzy at times, whether it's because the place gets so packed or some other reason I don't know but I've found a little resistance to questions about ingredients recently (there are plenty of vegan options but these aren't obvious on the menu), and on my last visit my waitress made up the bill incorrectly to the tune of an extra £9thankfully we spotted the error and she apologised profusely before correcting it.
I've never visited Blue Mountain in the evening but after reading the reviews below I'm very tempted! -
Precious W.
This joint is not in Peckham Rye, it's in the heart of East Dulwich. Anyway...... yummy food, some of the best coffee in London (although I have given up coffee), relaxed vibe. Sometimes service can be a bit *too* relaxed.