Natasha’s Cafe

I’ve visited quite a few times, recently I feel it has gone downhill. They’ve recently produced a new menu, with higher prices. The English breakfast has gone up by about £1, and the portions have gotten smaller!
For £6.95, you now get 1 sausage & 1 rasher of bacon (where they used to serve 2 of each), a smaller amount of baked beans, scrambled eggs (which taste very watered down, with almost no discernible flavour), fried mushrooms (fried in oil not butter, not great), a juice & a hot drink. The orange juice used to be freshly squeezed, now it tastes like much cheaper shop-​bought orange juice. The coffee is generally good.
I’ve eaten from their lunch menu before, it is reasonably priced (2 courses for £6.95. The food was average, without much seasoning/​herbs, it was what I might expect for the money. The gazpacho was good though. The English breakfast and/​or ‘brunch’ is now bad value for money though.
I won’t be going back, which is a shame as it used to be good.

This is an enjoyable but flawed café. I’ve visited 3x in the last 12 months and have greater appreciation than I probably should.
My first visit was on my own one lunch time. I was amazed by the amount of food I was provided for not much money. Although the cake I ate had a very strange texture.
The second time I visited was in the snow. It was chaos. Very, very busy. I went to order food and was rebuffed with the comment, if you want food, you can’t. It’s IMPOSSIBLE! before I could even place an order.
The third time I went for an English breakfast with my wife. Everything was great, except for the worst cup of coffee in my life! It was atrocious tasting. As if the coffee itself was mouldy.
That all said, Nataschas is a bit kitschy and thereffore quite fun. I like it and I’ll probably return.

Sunday morning, sun is out before the rain, time for some breakfast and the Sunday Times — I am down south at the girlfriends Wandsworth Common. Natashas is in a great position, over the road from the common, it is the only café type place in the immediate local, it should rock, but it dosn’t! From the moment we entered I new this was not going to be great. A basic and uninspiring menu, table cloths that were just not quite right — a very average latte. We went for a toasted tuna, cheese & onion sandwich, a true test of any descent café, and just average. So to sum up — just OK, not bad but not great.