Best cafes in Putney

Best cafes in Putney, ranked

1. #1Charles Street Kitchen for coffee and an all-day breakfast

   $$🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Parry Park, 2 min walk

   Charles Street Kitchen is the cafe to choose for coffee, which is by Gabriel Coffee and comes as a well made cappuccino. Order one with the Oreo crush milkshake if children are at the table. Vegetarian dishes sit beside the breakfast, brunch and lunch menu, and kids have their own menu. It opens at 6am every day and closes at 4pm on weekdays and 3pm on weekends. Dogs sit at the outside tables, and the nearest park, Parry Park, is two minutes from the door.

2. #2Patio for pizza and pasta at lunch

   $$🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Parry Park, 2 min walk

   Patio is the Charles Street cafe built around pizza and linguine pasta, and the linguine is the dish that diners name most. Breakfast and brunch sit alongside the pizza, with a kids menu for younger eaters. It opens at 6am on weekdays and Saturdays and stays open until 9pm on Fri and Sat, later than the other picks here. Outside seating takes dogs, and Parry Park is about two minutes on foot.

3. #3Dolcini Cafe for an early breakfast with a house-blend espresso

   $$🐕 Dogs outsideOutdoor seating🌳 Parry Park, 3 min walk

   Dolcini Cafe sells its own house-blend espresso, so the coffee is worth ordering alongside breakfast. Dishes run from classic breakfasts to a steak breakfast and haloumi, and the daily specials add a smash burger and chimichurri poached eggs. It opens at 5:30am on weekdays and Saturdays, the earliest start on Charles Street, and closes at 2:30pm. The tables sit outside on the street, so a dog can come along, and Parry Park is a three-minute walk.

Compare best cafes in Putney

The table below sets the Charles Street cafes side by side on hours, price and what each one offers.

How we picked best cafes in Putney

The overall order weighs each cafe score by how many visits sit behind it, so a small pile of praise counts for less. Next, each cafe was read against this page: what is served, weekend hours, outside tables, and the food as its own page describes it. The order follows which cafe does the most things well across the whole day, with the coffee and food weighed equally.