Le Peche Mignon, Highbury, London

I’m a big fan of this place. It’s not cheap but that doesn’t make me reject it. It actually offers good value for money. Everything is home made with (very) good ingredients. The staff are knowledgeable and really care about the food. Potato salad with capers and mackerel, amazing home made soups, vegetarian susage rolls with fresh pastry, fantastic home made pastries that melt in the mouth, salad nicoise baguettes. I’m happy to pay £2 more than you’d pay at Greggs and stay for an hour or so, read the Guardian and enjoy the ambience.

Pretentious and overpriced. The food is tasty and of a high quality but that doesn’t hide the fact that the place itself is painfully middle class and suited best to ‘yummy mummy’ types chatting about their latest yoga classes. The coffee is good but because the place is extremely tiny you always seem to get stuck on a table with total strangers, bumping arms and elbows with them. Overall, yes the food and coffee are delicious but the conceited atmosphere, the lack of space and the awful disco music constantly being played doesn’t make me want to come back.

Gem of a cafe and deli in what I like (as a resident) to call 'up and coming' Lower Holloway. I'm addicted to their coffess, and my partner and I go here to drink lattes and read the paper most weekends.

There's an excellent selection of cheeses for such a small shop, and products are rotated and updated regularly. Wine selection is also very good. It's Not Cheap, but it's not Pret a Manger either. It's become a bit of a victim of it popularity when it gets busy at weekends - with seating at a premium. But the new expanded garden outside has helped enormously.