Café Brera

Reasonably expensive but very efficiently staffed café/​restaurant; coffee is passable but not great (but still better than the Starbucks downstairs). Nice place to sit and people watch, and they usually have free sample cannoli on the go at the counter around breakfast.

They do decent pizza here, and decent hot chocolate, but I am not a huge fan of the coffee. The décor is smart and stylish and the staff are friendly when they get more than 2 seconds to talk to you. The place always has a queue and is quite frantic but it’s a nice place to meet friends for a relaxed coffee once you’ve got it from the counter :)
Yes, it’s an identical review of the other branch of Brera!

Upstairs inside Jubilee Place — hidden from the common eye, beckoning out to you with the dark grainy wood of its walls which stand out perfectly from the rest of the bright station décor — lies this marvelous temple to coffee.
I’m sure they have food, with the smattering of tables around the countertop area, but that doesn’t matter. What they do have is excellent espresso, drawn correctly (not too long and watery!), and very efficient (if curt) staff to serve it. If coffee is not your thing, go ahead and try their hot chocolate, which is a perfect treat on a cold and wet day. Just don’t dawdle or get in anyone’s way.

Curiously poor quality and bitter espresso. I have spent around a month trying to find decent quality beans used by a coffee shop in canary wharf. Usually Italian places get this input ingredient right. Sadly not the case here.

It’s the usual expensive but delicious stuff expected in Canary Wharf. If you try one thing walk away with a Mocha or a Marachino as they call it. It’s so rich you’ll be buzzing all day.

Café Brera is actually a really good little place and great value for money (for food). There are two I know of in Canary wharf and I believe there may be a couple of others elsewhere.
Their salads are great, really big portions, if you order meat there is plenty of it. Also their little breakfast brioches toasted are pretty darn good. I have not yet had a pizza but they look scrummy and the varieties are seriously tempting — they do take away too, which is handy to know in canary wharf.
They also do very good coffee, the staff are all very pleasant and best of all it is the first place I have found that isn’t a gym that has free wireless internet (starbucks costs a packet and the coffee, in my humble opinion, sucks (as the americans might say!).

Das Café Brera ist ganz nett, wenn man sich schnell zu einem Kaffee verabreden will und nicht zu Starbucks möchte. Hier sitzen viele Mitarbeiter der Firmen von Canary Wharf. Banker, Manager, Broker… Das Café Brera liegt im Einkaufszentrum, am Jubilee Place. Man sitzt im 1. Obergeschoss auf einer Empore und schaut auf die anderen Lokale. Pizza und Pasta sind lecker und nicht zu teuer. Sehr empfehlenswert ist die heiße Schokolade. Die schmeckt richtig nach Schokolade. Aber das beste ist: Es gibt einen kostenlosen Hotspot. Nur die Bedienung muss ein wenig zum Jagen getragen werden, ist aber nett.
Das Café ist barrierefrei. Es gibt mehrere barrierefreie Toiletten in der Nähe.