I just wanted to let you guys know how amazing you all are! Your food is to die for and the coffee is perfect �
Thank you for being so accommodating to us when we had a large group of people.
I would definitely recommend anyone in London to go out of there way to get to this place!
Love this place great ambience awesome service and love the food ! Never disappoint. I'm from melbourne and brunch culture is everything, this place makes me feel at home ! They get it right
Delicious brunch - something a bit different to the usual stuff on offer. Friendly and helpful staff too 👌🏼
Great brunch, not pretentious at all (a great thing!) and totally delicious. One of the best in London, for sure. It's worth to try the courgette toast.
Absolutely gorgeous coffee if you're happy to navigate the icy service.
Really cosy cafe with a very good ambience. The food items are freshly made and served at reasonable prices and optimal service . The staff is highly professional and friendly as well.
Lantana Charlotte, firzrovia, London me h. Yaha Bahut hi bdhya restaurant h. Yaha Khaana Kha kar Bahut hi Maja aaya.... Yaha ek Bahut hi bdhya jgah h... Apne pariwaar k saath aa sakte h
I heard lots of greats things about this place .so one day me and my friend decided to go there I decided to go there and try brunch we really love this place... We ordered corn fritters stak with Bacon nd coffee . Ambience is good and staff service is very cool
It's another best place to eat and enjoy in London we ordered too many things everything is awesome and one of the best memory in my mind
At least try once
Everything is good I loving it
It's one of the best place to eat in london. We ordered Corn fritters stacked w/ a streaky bacon,fresh spinach and slow roast tomatoes served w/ smashed avo, Grilled Halloumi. Everything was great.
What a wonderful hidden gem in a fantastic location. Menu is excellent and not your ordinary greasy cafe breakfast. This was colourful fresh and delicious. The smashed avocado with salmon was amazing. The corn fritters amazing. The coffee was just as amazing. A great breakfast spot in Fitzrovia.
Pleasant variety of interesting brunch and lunch options. I was impressed how they managed to make super-healthy menu items look so enticing! Of course I couldn't resist the decadent duck salad- with all the good bits to make it a tasty feast. Enjoyed the Australian prints decorating the toilet corridors. Will have to return for brunch!
Laid back vibes. Aussie-style fry-ups. The scrummiest banana bread I’ve had in a while and the best flat white by a long mile too…. Is it safe to say that I’ve found myself a new weekend haunt at Lantana Cafe? Not that the cheerful hideaway in Fitzrovia is new to you or to me, as Lantana was actually one of the first cafes to bring over the relaxed Antipodean coffee culture to London!
my review is probably biased because we were a large group and therefore harder to sit in such a small space, the experience was downgraded by that factor.
Furthermore,the food was just good, not great (we ordered a Full Lantana). I was actually hungry for more and given this the priciest item on the menu it was just satisfactory.
The service was a bit slow and not really enthusiastic.
Unfortunately there aren’t many other photos from the place. Lantana Café (13 Charlotte Place, London, W1T 1SN) is a nice australian coffee shop that offer food after a certain time. Supposedly winner of many awards for excellence at one point (the coffee was good but i had a can of Coke), it does have an excellent burger. For only 9.5£ (coke was 1.8£), it came with tomato relish (didn’t have the beetroot one, which I was glad about) and rocket salad. Yumm!
Loved this place! It really was like being back in Aus in a trendy cafe! Friendly staff and great atmosphere! However the price was a bit steep for the portion of food... But that could just be a London thing!
Both in and out store offers Australian style coffee, with the out side you can have lunch box with 2 salads and a main with only less than 8 pounds while the in one has really nice brunch and burger.
Lantana is a small, cozy, very casual cafe/restaurant tucked away in a pedestrianised alley behind Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia.
It doesn't take reservations which is both a good and bad thing. It means you will always have to queue for a table but it also means you can be spontaneous with your brunch choice.
The menu is small but varied and full of great options for that late weekend "breakfast" craving. The French toast (pictured) is delicious as are the savoury options like the various avocado/toast/egg combos. The one pictured is with beetroot cured salmon while another excellent one is the courgette bread dish.
I’m eating around the world without leaving London and this week I had Australian food at Lantana. Well sort of. I mean I really had to scratch my head as what constitutes Australian food. Kangaroo steak on the Barbie? I asked an Australian friend and he reckoned that what the Ozzies are good at is making coffee. So he recommended Lantana.
Down a quaint, pedestrianised alley in Fitzrovia lies one of my new, favourite brunch spots. Australians do breakfasts better than most, and the length of the queues at most branches of Granger and Co. testify to this. Yes a full English can be the world’s greatest thing when you’ve got a splitting hangover, but a more virtuous start to the day does no harm from time to time.
One of the clearest signs of the Antipodean takeover of London’s coffee culture has to be the proliferation of the flat white, a drink which has gone from relative obscurity to immense popularity in under a decade. One of the best I’ve had is at Lantana, a cheerful and homely Aussie hideaway in Fitzrovia, serving a bespoke blend co-developed with the coffee roaster, Alchemy. A New Zealander, Lantana’s Head of Coffee, Celeste Wong really knows her beans, and with her direction the coffee is bodied yet balanced, with depth and acidity.
I have been heading to Latana since 2012. Their breakfasts and brunches are lovely. They know how to brew coffee and are just fab. Would recommend their egg and avocado sandwich & their flat whites! 👍🏼
What a find! This was the first place we went to on our trip to London. Such good coffee - just like Wellington, NZ! I had the muesli for breakfast which was anything but boring. It was bursting with fresh fruit and plenty of yoghurt. The staff were friendly and efficient. A place to go again!
This is a great café for breakfast/ brunch. I got the banana bread with mascarpone and it was delicious. Another major plus point is the laid back atmosphere which I sometimes find to be lacking in London coffee shops.
Sometimes I need a little taste of home. When I do, I head to one of my favourite Australian cafes for brunch. Lantana was one of the early players in the Australian coffee and brunch invasion, and its name stands testament to this (for those who don’t know, lantana is “a hardy invasive weed that thrives in unlikely environments”). Despite being around for a while now, it’s still going strong and most definitely still draws the crowds – with no reservations, expect to wait a while for a table at weekend brunch.
New Fav Brunch place!. Would go as far as saying this little café is the best brunch and up there with one of the best coffee places in London- even up to my high Australian Standards which English people seem to not understand! The food here is fresh, the staff as accommodating and attentive without being overbearing and their iced mochas are up there with some of the best I've had. They also cater for allergies i.e. gluten free bread and one cake thingy. I recommend breaky/ brunch as it will remind you of home.
If you can deal with the fact this place is busy and might take you a few mins to get your order then you will love this little cafe.
Great food, and coffee here is the Bomb!
Great food and coffee!. Yes, it does have a melbourne-like feel about it, even the coffee is melbourne quality! but seriously, a service charge at a 'cafe' where you have to serve your own water? what is the point?!
Still would come back for the baked eggs, Español-style :)
Fantastic place. Pricey for brekkie, but worth it if you've a crushing hangover and want to feed yourself some tlc. Lunch is good too. Delightful locale.
Home away from home.... Absolutely superb little place. Worth a visit most definitely.
Great vibe, staff, oh, and coffee.. ;)
My favorite place for coffee in London. Lantana is my favorite place for coffee in London. The lattes and flat whites are superb, as is the bacon sandwich with egg. I wanted to eat there every morning during my stay in London and nearly did! When in London -- go there!
This little cafe gets very busy on weekends but the food is probably worth it. I love their French toast with blueberry compote, honey ricotta and toasted almonds as well as the toasted banana bread with spiced mascarpone and fresh passion fruit – both recommended!
Located not on the busy Charlotte Street but on the adjacent and quieter Charlotte Avenue it’s easy to miss if you didn’t know about it. And with seats for only 25 diners it’s very compact inside too. But fate was on our side and it wasn’t too long before we got a table to ourselves.
The Greedy Diva recommended Lantana when we met up shortly after I had visited her hometown of Melbourne. I told her how impressed I was with the breakfasts, brunches and cafe culture in Australia and how frustrating it is to come back to London and not h
lantana is located off charlotte street in a little alley that is home to an italian delicatessen, a health food shop called peppercorns and a place that was advertising walk-in back rubs. a dark wood table and hollowed modern cubes of wood shaped into st
I have had many great take away coffees from Lantana (love that name) but had never "eaten in"
Late 1998 when I moved to Orlando, Florida I encountered a Starbucks for the first time. I was blown away. Sweden has a big coffee house culture, but this was something different. Beautiful furniture, amazing art on the walls, great music playing not too
Through some weird set of events we ended up eating Brunch at Lantana a couple of times in as many weeks. I'd been meaning to eat there forever but other things got in the way. Mainly the Breakfast Club and Caravan . But finally we did it and again. Lantana is small, and I mean small. After queuing for 30 minutes we were asked if we didn't mind sharing a table (to eat now) or wait even longer for a table for just us to become available. I don't mind sharing but as the room is pretty small and everyone is closely packed together, my ribs took a beating from the guy next to me, as he seemed only to be able to use a knife and fork with his elbows stretched out. The food at Lantana is really good and a far cry from the normal English fry up. All hail to the down under brunch set I say. My favourite is the slow cooked Boston beans with some pork belly topped off with a poached egg. I mean how can this combo not entice even the strictest vegan in
Behind Lantana Cafe is the story of a woman from Melbourne on a serious mission: to show the London public that breakfast can offer more than "the full English" or eggs florentine, washed down with a mug of workman's tea.
The best breakfast so far this year as experienced by me was not on our fair shores but in London at the very fabulous Lantana Cafe [13 Charlotte Place, Fitzrovia]. It may have been the jetlag, or the shock of having a phenomenally good coffee in London,
Question: are the meals at Lantana on steroids? Because I honestly sweareth upon the grave of my favourite childhood toy Mampi (while other girls played with Barbies, I had me a white fuzzy gorilla called Mampi) that the meals. They are enormo. After our
If I had to choose, I think breakfast is probably my favourite meal of the day. There isn't much that can beat a bacon and egg sarnie on buttered white bread, especially to beat away those post "oops I had one too many" blues . Or even a bowl of cereal do
At last for Saturday brunch I ventured to Lantana . This has been most ardently anticipated and I was extremely excited to be able to go following several failed attempts. My boyfriend, having lived in Australia whilst studying, assures me that the standa
Ever since tasty treats! visited Lantana , it's been on my restaurant wishlist. I'm always on the lookout for nice places to have lunch on the rare occasions when I can take a break, and Lantana seemed to fit the bill, as it's located in Fitzrovia and ser
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Bloomin' Brilliant Breakfast Brunch
It's almost the weekend. This means that the weekly breakfast/brunch/eat all the food season is upon us again.
I have one word for you. Lantana.
And now I have a few more. Eggselent, eggtastic, eggervescent, eggsuberant, eggsential and in the less made up but no less accurate words of my breakfast companion: guuuuud!
To satisfy our caffeine habit it was flat whites all round. You can practically smell it through the screen right?! No. That's insane and hasn't been invented yet. It should be. Can somebody please hurry up and make our pictures smell yummy!
We then eagerly ploughed through the following:
Sourdough toast with crushed avocado, poached egg and all the bacon.
More sourdough toast with scrambled eggs, rocket and all the bacon.
French toast with honey, pecans, sugar and all the bacon.
Generous portion sizes, creamy eggs, friendly service and a brightly lit space make for the perfect spot to tumble into after a big night, a little night, a late night, ok, pretty much any night! I'm pretty sure I'll be tumbling right back in no time!
Australian run Lantana have spots in Fitzrovia and Shoreditch and while their brunch is pretty special, they are about to relaunch their 'shindig' dinner service with 50% off food next Tuesday-Thursday (get booking peoples), after which their new dinner menu will be available at full price to all. If brunch is anything to go by, dinner should be pretty special!
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Thank you, antipodeans, for coming to London and taking brunch culture to the next level.
I love Melbourne-style café Lantana in Fitzrovia. It's a side street café with a sit-down area and a take-away shop next door. The cool, unpretentious dining space can only sit about 25-30 at a push (although they do have a chef's table downstairs) so punters are usually seen all queued out, watching diners sat outdoors wolfing down a brekky cocktail of toasts, eggs and fritters of sorts. At 10am there was already a queue snaking its way in. 40 minutes and several stories later we were taken to our table shared (closely) with two other diners (but the atmosphere was so relaxed that it didn't feel invasive at all).
Brunch is never complete for me without cheese and toast so I got the grilled haloumi. It's usually served with a poached egg but as I do not eat eggs, I went without. It was still satisfying and filling enough. Gorgeous, thick cuts of the cheese on perfectly toasted sourdough served with a well balanced home made herb pesto equals a very happy belly. Everything on the plate smelled, looked and tasted fresh. I don't usually like tomatoes but the ones I had were refreshing and sweet and it balanced out the saltiness of the cheese.
As we were in an Aussie-run cafe, we just had to have the corn fritters. Lantana gives you two on a bed of rocket, topped with a generous serving of bacon rashers, creme fraiche and homemade chili jam (soooo good) and a roasted tomato on the side. A and I got a (big) fritter each. It was a good corn fritter indeed - filled with fresh corn and not dough, really crisp outside without the greasy aftertaste of things bathed in oil. And whoever supplies Lantana's hearty bacon, yuuum! Everything on this plate worked well together. Amazing.
The Spanish-style baked eggs with chorizo sausage, mushrooms and fresh basil came with toasted pita and a pot of creme fraiche. It was the queen mum of all egg-based brunches.
Easily one of the best and most resounding brunch places in town. We had quite a lot to eat and were absolutely full afterwards but we didn't have that uncomfortable feel of gluttony. Service was good, despite the hectic environment but the café really shines by its food and coffee (Monmouth!). I'd definitely go back again. And again. And again. I wish we didn't have to wait so long, but then again (and excuse the cliché) all great things are worth waiting for ;)
After hearing the words of raving Aussie friends I decided to pop by the cafe on my way to a morning meeting. Super friendly staff are quick to take my order and promptly start making my latte. Delicious coffee made to perfection is in my hands in minutes with a friendly smile from the barista. My order or Vegemite toast is confused and I end up with a Vegemite toastie. A better mistake has never been made! A decent portion of Vegemite coupled with perfectly melted cheese was everything a start to the morning should be. I will be back!!
Best breakfast in town. Very busy but so worth the wait!
Lantana is a gem of a cafe that nails the brunch-time tradition on the head. It is an Aussie-run joint that has managed to transport its relaxed, Melbourne vibe to the heart of Fitzrovia. Breakfast is undoubtedly the highlight, serving hearty and interesting combinations - try the coconut French toast or the corn fritters with avocado chilli lime salsa. And for the truly homesick, fear not, vegemite toast is top of the menu! This place bustles on the weekend, so I would recommend grabbing one of their delicious coffees from Lantana Out (their take away shop just next door) while you wait for a table.
I was told several times that it was one of the best brunch in London, which I confirm! If the interior has nothing special, however the food is divine, the chefs manage to transform traditional dishes in real delights. Obviously, the absence of reservation and the small size of the restaurant require queuing, but we were lucky enough to wait only 15 min.
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Tucked away in Charlotte Place this is a very nice find. Lantana is delicately split between food out and in, which is a nice touch. I've only taken away but it does have a very smooth macchiato, again like a few other independants uses square mile beans. The lunch offerings are probably the healthiest in town, with normally 2 different salads, and not just lettuce and tomato, with grilled chicken or a slice of salmon it's a fantastic lunch option.
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As a part Aussie, this place has to be one of my most favourite breakfast spots in London.For one simple reason - they are the only people in town that do corn fritters as good as my mama! It's soul food that fills and nourishes and the coffee is great too. Highly recommend if you're feeling a bit hungover. An excellent spot to read the paper or read but as the other review mentions they don't have much space. In the summer the tables outside are perfect.
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Came here for brunch with a friend on Saturday. Glad that we had booked a table beforehand because it was quite packed at 12noon. I have previously been to their other branch in Shoreditch so am quite a regular customer and am aware that different branches have different menus. My friend is vegan and she suggested we come here again because she had a great food experience last time.
I went with the lemon and raspberry french toast and a flat white and my friend ordered the avocado poke bowl and a fresh orange juice. My french toast was alright because it was quite dry with every limited amount of raspberry jam sauce around the plate and the lemon crème fraiche in the middle which wasn't sufficient to make the toast bread softer and easier to eat. The sauce was good but definitely would have appreciated a lot more of it especially with the hazelnut crumbles that absorbed a lot of the jam. Flat white was average. My friend enjoy her poke bowl and said that there could have been more rice to go with all the toppings she had. I enjoyed the food I had last two times in the Shoreditch branch so was quite disappointed with the experience this time.
Service wise, staff were all very friendly, smiley and attentive. Vibe wise it was cost and chill. But the table was very small to fit in two plates, two cups and a bottle of tap water. They really need to do something about it because the space is tight and people were so loud so it was really hard to talk freely when we were there. Not sure if I would come back soon in the near future as it's also quite a pricey brunch place compared to other cafés around East London.
Amazing food and lovely staff. Both our breakfasts were fantastic, and the decaf cappuccino was the best we've ever had.
OMG.... Book in advance if you can. We had an amazing breakfast here, I went for the pork belly benedict which was great but my partner lucked out BIG time with the BBQ Beef brisket hash.
Ridiculously good.
Coffee was amazing too and very friendly and quick service.
Both helped perk us up after a later night than we should really have had at our age....
Highly recommend!
Had a nice time at Lantana Cafe, but not sure it’ll be my go-to spot.
The food was good - every dish tasted fresh and the portions were generous enough; the coffee was also good. The fair is standard Australian brunch, i.e., corn fritters or a hip take on the full English.
Service was somewhat lacking - our table wasn’t ready when we arrived for our booking and we had to wait. The staff was not particularly enthusiastic, but at least didn’t hover. And we were given our check without asking for it well in advance closing time.
In short, while the food was good and the place nicely designed, it lacks the hospitality I’d want to give it the full five stars. It is, however, a reliable brunch spot where we were able to get a table not too long in advance, and in London - that counts for something.
Came here on a busy Sunday afternoon. We decided to sit outside as we had no idea what to do. We were eventually served and had a nice coffee.
The coffee is OK, pretty standard cafe coffee but nothing out of this world to be honest.
The food, although we did not get looked absolutely incredible and the table next to us enjoyed theirs very much.
Overall, nice but nothing crazy. Maybe just come for the food.
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Highly recommend. Food was 10/10. I had the Turkish eggs with roasted vegetables and a side of chorizo. My friend got the beef brisket hash. We both really enjoyed the food. The coffee was excellent. We booked for 3pm so it was pretty chilled and not packed. We sat outside as it was a lovely day. Service was perfect.
We absolutely loved this place. The coffee was delicious we decided to eat there too. First time
I’ve eaten Nasi Goreng outside Bali and it did not disappoint. Staff were really lovely too. No doubt will be making a return at some point.
Very delicious food
Smashed avocado toast 🥑 👌👌😋
Thanks to Sam for her positive energy
Amazing food and nice place. Highly recommend for breakfast and brunch, Corn Fritters & Halloumi, big veg and smashed avocado all were good. The fried halloumi was ok. The big veg is only on the weekends menu.
A gorgeous cafe. We couldn’t get a table as it was booked out but I just wanted to leave a positive review as the waiter who spoke to us was so kind and went out of his way to recommend an alternate place for us to eat in the area. It’s quite rare you experience such good service and we will certainly be back to visit the cafe in the future. I’ve heard the food is excellent so it’s no surprise it is so popular!
Wonderful cafe to have brunch. It gets really busy on the weekend and is quite small. Staff are really helpful and friendly and explain any part of the menu as necessary.
I went with a group of friends and we were seated at the back, the food was so delicious, the ingredients they use taste fresh and the menu is quite creative.
Just had a great breakfast. This is my second time and they have won my loyalty. The waiter mustafa is polite and is doing a fantastic job. It’s definitely one of my favourite breakfast place.
really good, fresh brunch options however their coffee is a bit hit and miss. it’s lovely to sit outside when the weather is decent. service is at times slow but understandable when busy.
Good for weekend brunch with close friends! The oat matcha latte and elderflower cake were pretty good though portions were quite small. The mains were mostly fushion with lots of veggies that actually taste quite good. I’d recommend the Indonesian fried rice with kimchi and shredded chicken; cozy environment downstairs with a large table that could comfortably sit 7 or 8 - save for after COVID!
Our favorite place for breakfast. All dishes we had were very good. The standard English breakfast options were also excellent!
Great place to go for brunch. Would recommend booking in advance on the website to get a table. Lots of cute outdoor seating on a pedestrian only street. Lots of good menu options with half the options being vegetarian. Food is well seasoned- overall a nice spot!
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