Tamra

Very good avocado, chorizo and egg on sourdough! Its their specialty and with a bloody mary… YUM

I was surprised that dogs inside… and they were baking each other. The place is good for dog lover.

I love this place, but do watch your wallet as it is easy to spend a fortune here.
I love the food, the staff is great, the drinks are… ok. They’re ok. but you can have a great breakfast here and then walk away with a £35 bill.
Its good but its not THAT good.

In a sea of competiton, Tamra has two things going for it as far as I can see: an outside garden, and a dog-​friendly attitude. (And possibly a house dog, I’m not sure if it was resident there or just loitered a long time). I like dogs.
Other than that, the food is good but not amazing. Competent poached eggs (runny) and hollandaise woth some nice smoked salmon, though the asparagus was over-​cooked. The menu is very extensive so there’s plenty of choice but nothing particularly exciting — which makes choosing very difficult and I get the impression whatever I ordered it would just be… nice.
I guess it’s almost four stars but service was terribly slow — it took us half an hour to get a pair of lunches — and not terribly friendly. There are better places along this stretch of road for brunch — unless you have a dog.

The food here is really very good.
The service is wonderful.
And the value exceptional.
The best bacon rolls in town by far.

I have had breakfast and brunch here a few times, when I have been in the area. There is a wide range of options to choose from for breakfast, and all the ones I had were very good indeed. However, it is pricey (£9 for a full English breakfast), which is not to be expected from a low-​key local café in Clapham.
I have also had the champagne breakfast (orange juice with champagne served in a champagne glass). Although it sounds glam, for £3.30 I would just order orange juice alone.
What really lets this place down is the service and the lack of atmosphere. The place is completely quiet, even when all the tables are taken. Nobody talks and it does not make you feel too comfortable.
The service is quite dreadful. It is distant, rude and unfriendly, the opposite of what a place like this would need.
Because of these reasons (and because it is pricey), I am looking for another place to have my breakfasts when I am in the area.

Terrible service! Despite the menu boasting exceptional service we were totally ignored. We had to ask for a menu and then go to the counter to order our coffee. We were then told we could not only order coffee we had to order food too. There were no signs anywhere stating this. We refused and asked again if we could order coffee only. The man behind the counter was very rude and said he will give us coffee but he will never do it again and we’d have to be quick! After such a rude response my friend and I decided not to waste our money in a café where we were made to feel so unwelcome.

Pancakes, fruit and granola and eggs benedict are all fantastic. Great quality ingredients and service with a smile

My aunt and uncle brought my fiancé and I here last weekend and it was really lovely. We sat outside and enjoyed the nice summer evening weather. I had the lamb– it was delicious. We had a couple of bottles of white and rose — both very nice. I had a warm chocolate brownie topped with ice cream — how can you go wrong with that?! And finished off with a nice strong cup of black coffee.
The service was great, the food was delicious and the atmosphere was relaxed. I would highly recommend Tamra, especially considering how manic a lot of the other Northcote restaurants tend to be!

Popped in here for lunch earlier today, and I can’t say that the food was all that special. It’s the kind of place that you could just about pick something on the menu, but nothing screams out… oooo delish… at you. Just meh, I guess I could eat that.
I had the roast chicken with vegetable and rice, and it was just bleurgh and bland. It would have been better if the chicken had some sort of tasty sauce on it. Or if it was a chicken tagine. Now that would have been delish. My friend Kate had the squid salad, which looked pretty nice. Generous serving of squid but for the price that we paid, we could have gotten a lot more elsewhere.
The orange juice was £3.00, and in a tumbler. Now I acknowledge that it was freshly squeezed and not concentrate, but it’s cheaper in Borough market and I get a lot more there. The service was okay, it wasn’t bad but then it wasn’t excellent. It’s such a shame that it’s not The Boiled Egg and Soldiers anymore. Change isn’t always a good thing… especially in this case.