Proper coffee, warm bakes and long lunches on an east London corner. Come in for one flat white and stay the afternoon.
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crema
[ Our café ]
A flat white for the commute, soup for the long lunch, a pastry for no reason at all,
Crema is a small café on a busy east London corner. We pour espresso from a rotating guest roaster, bake everything on site before sunrise and keep the music low enough to hear yourself think, or loud enough on Fridays.
Visit usGuest roasts, dialled in and ground to order.
Care about extraction ratios? Ask us anything. Don't care? You'll still taste that it's better, every single cup.
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The menu
Espresso, milk and everything between
The drink
Hot
Iced
Try it with
Espresso, always a double
£2.80
£3.10
Tonic
Flat white, velvet milk
£3.60
£3.90
Oat milk
Cappuccino, big foam
£3.60
£3.90
Cocoa dust
Cocoa cortado, our signature
£4.20
£4.50
Extra shot
Honey oat latte
£4.60
£4.90
Cinnamon
Filter of the week
£3.40
£3.80
Ask the bar
Hot chocolate, 70% dark
£3.90
£4.20
Marshmallow
Chai, brewed from scratch
£3.80
£4.10
Espresso
The Crema shop
Take some home
The
Four counters, one kitchen. Tap a tab to see what we're pouring and baking today.
Espresso drinks on our Yard Blend, plus a guest roast on filter every week.
Iced lattes, cold brew and shaken espresso, made to order and never watered down.
Laminated, glazed and baked downstairs from 4am, so come early.
Cakes, tarts and the cheesecake people write reviews about. Sliced to order.
Flat white
Cortado
Cocoa cortado
Cappuccino
Batch brew
+6
Iced latte
Cold brew
Shaken espresso
Iced chai
Espresso tonic
Iced cocoa
+3
Croissant
Pain suis
Knot
Banana bread
Focaccia
+5
Tart
Cheesecake
Brownie
Tiramisu
Cookie
+4
Our room
Inside the café: stripes, tiles and good light
Forty seats, one long banquette, a window bar for laptops and a corner that's always taken.
From farm to cup, in four careful steps we are a little obsessive about
Source
We buy from farms and importers we know by name, and only take lots that make the whole team go quiet at the cupping table.
Process
Washed, natural or honey: how a cherry is processed shapes its sweetness, so we pick each lot for how it tastes in milk.
Roast
Our guest roasters profile each coffee for espresso, aiming for something sweet, bright and clean on the finish.
Serve
Then it's over to the bar: weighed, timed and tasted before the doors open, so the first cup is as good as the last.
Your order, exactly the way you like it
Oat, extra hot, half sweet, double shot. Say it, and we'll make it.
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From our feed, lately
[ 4.9 on Google ]
Reviews
Came in for one coffee and left with a cardamom knot, a new favourite seat and a plan to come back tomorrow. The cocoa cortado is dangerously good.
Hana O.
Regular since opening day
Good wifi, better flat whites and staff who remember your order by the third visit. It's the only café where I actually get work done.
Marcus T.
Works from the window bar
We book the big table every other weekend. The cheesecake is the reason, the service is the reason we stay for a third round.
Priti K.
Saturday brunch crowd
My heart looked like a potato for the whole class and nobody minded. Two hours, three coffees, a lot of laughing. Booking again for my sister.
Joe W.
Latte art class, Sat 10am
The pastry box made it through two buses and a toddler intact. Croissants were still flaky at the other end, which I'm told is some sort of miracle.
Ana R.
Picks up a pastry box every Friday
Brown sugar cold brew with the salted cream float. I've tried to make it at home three times and failed three times.
Leo F.
Cold brew devotee
The crew
Coffee people,
Half the team pulls shots, the other half films them. We're baristas, bakers and part-time photographers who think a café should look as good as it tastes.
Nell
Latte art lead
Tomás
Bakes at 4am
Ines
Knows your order
Kofi
Front of house
Maya
Films the pour
Ruben
Picks the playlistNell
Latte art leadTomás
Bakes at 4amInes
Knows your orderKofi
Front of houseMaya
Films the pourRuben
Picks the playlistCommunity board
Where we post what's happening: events at the café, recipes worth stealing and notes from behind the bar.