Coffee Tree

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Histon Road has never been overly blessed with coffee shops. At one stage the best option was the machine in Kwikfit. A few years ago the Nasreen Dar started doing coffee, but with the best will in the world, it’s still a shop that sells coffee, rather than a proper coffee shop. So when an independent coffee shop opened in June this year it was probably long overdue for an increasingly middle-class residential part of Cambridge. Commuting past it fairly regularly, it first it looked like a coffee and cake place. Then it started advertising bacon rolls. Then a beguiling “bacon, sausage, beans, and egg”, and then finally, recently, they came out and proud with “Full English” on the board. Time to investigate…

English Breakfast at Coffee Tree

Seefud

It’s a fresh clean place inside with ample, if not generous, seating and a few tables on the pavement. There was some very good, and homemade looking cakes on the counter and the usual array of coffees. I didn’t explore the menu much more than that as we knew what we were after. Black coffee and Full English. The “small” i.e. normal sized coffee for £2 was pretty tasty and good value. The service was pretty good, and friendly. The breakfast was solid but unremarkable. It all seemed pretty freshly cooked and there was plenty of toast. The sausage was non-economy, slightly herby, style which was fine, but not a stand-out feature. The bacon could have done with being slightly crispier maybe, and the egg slightly less cooked. But there was the right amount of beans (and not too much juice) and the tomatoes were done fairly well. I think the presence of some nicely cooked mushrooms and maybe upgrading the bread for the toast could have me coming back here regularly. But I will be back for the coffee and probably a go at the homemade cake.

• Food     3
• Value    4
• Service  4.5
• Ambience 3.5
• Coffee   4 

Troby
"Bog standard". The breakfast was nice, and the ingredients were ok. The thing i liked about this place most is the "homemade" feeling, like it it had been made with love.
I would have liked mushrooms though, and my sausage was just on the tepid side of warm. I was jealous of the breakfast that got served next to us, steam rising and piping hot, with tomatoes slightly blackened. I recon it'll get better here though, and I wish them success. Overall the experience was good enough that I'd like to go back again. I think they need some greenery in the cafe, but mebe that would spoil the 'clean lines'.

• Food     3 
• Value    4
• Service  4.5
• Ambience 3.5
• Coffee   3.5