Cafe Cafe

Not really a café. but a great and a delightful wine bar set in such gorgeous old fashioned high street on Harrow on the Hill. I was there on Friday evening and the place was buzzing. It seems to get very busy over the weekend. Though I didn’t have food in the restaurant, menu seems to have bit of everything from English to Thai. Bar had pages and pages full of cocktail, sadly I like my red wine and there was no choice at all apart from house wine, and that tasted foul for what it cost. Good little bar.

Café Café is really more of a wine bar than anything it else. They offer a great wine list in here not to mention a lovely selection of cocktails and spirits. Clearly they are catering for the Harrow-​on-​the-​Hill wino’s because the prices are a lot more expensive than you would find anywhere near the tube station. Having said this it is this very location that makes Café Café such a nice place to drink. Weaving between the old houses and bendy streets Harrow-​on-​the-​Hill feels like and old fashioned town and Café Café fits in perfectly.
The menu is a bit eclectic and I’m not really sure what they are trying to achieve. British staples, American snacks, Italian pizza’s and Thai curries all sit side by side. Some of these dishes are better than others but generally I get the feeling that everything is home made and good quality. Portions are pretty substantial so they make it worthwhile spending that bit more.
Café Café biggest problem is that it unfortunately attracts the parents of the boarding school nearby. This rich set are often quite rude and generally a bit ignorant to the way a bar like this works. I was shocked to watch a lady actually click for service (I’ve only ever seen that done in Home Alone).
Nonetheless, if you happen to be on the hill I would recommend you pop in here for a couple before heading next door to Incanto for a lovely Italian meal. Harrow-​on-​the-​Hill might be a bit too posh for its own good but it does boast some very nice places.

Café Café on Harrow on the Hill is a bar, restaurant and café. The front over looks Harrow on the Hill’s pretty and old-​fashioned high street and has outdoor seating allowing you to sip your coffee and people watch continental style.
The food in the restaurant is varied from quintessentially English food such as roast lamb, to more exotic dishes such as Thai curry. The café at the front serves bar snacks and sandwiches and I would highly recommend the steak sandwich with chips which is a somewhat cheaper alternative to a meal in the fairly expensive restaurant, if not just as good. As one of the few bars at the top of the hill Café Café can get very busy on a Friday or Saturday evening so head down early if you want to get a seat. The café also gets busy at weekends when rich parents from the home counties come down to take their children from the nearby boarding school out to lunch.