Clean Heart Coffee & Organics

Food is excellent, like the name of the cafe, clean and high quality. Had the avocado and eggs on sourdough - usually with poached but asked them to do fried sunny side up and was sublime, edible flowers a very nice touch.
Also had the vegan blueberry cake which was moist and fresh. Coffee is excellent too.
Great place to study, work, or hang out and has a well sorted store of organic food.

Clean Hearts is a coffee shop, a restaurant and also a grocery store. It disappoints in all of these aspects.

1. Coffee Shop

The coffee is okay. Not exciting in anyway. Their menu for coffee is extremely limited. This is probably because most of the drinks menu is taken up by things like tumeric lattes, smoothies and vegan milkshakes. I'd be okay with this if the other options were exciting but they are really not. Who goes to a coffee shop to buy turmeric or beetroot latte...? Why charge almost 5 quid for coffee made in an Aeropress when it's something even uni students use to make coffee? It's not anything special. Can't they copy other "hipster" coffee shops and do things like yerba mate, more interesting vegan milkshakes, interesting homemade coffee syrups or even CBD drinks? Honestly I just go here when I am desperate for caffeine and am in the area.

The pastries are also really over priced and are not interesting or appealing. Why are all the vegan things so priced up? Even the plant milks are a whopping flat 50 pence added onto the price. If it's about Clean Hearts, why jack up the price on things you are supposed to be promoting? We'll get to this later.

2. Restaurant

I have only eaten one thing but have studied the menu and have come to the conclusion that whoever designed the menu did not put any thought into whether the items would actually taste good. They try to offer some classic sandwiches but then, as if they have no confidence in themselves, add in some random ingredients like spinach, mushroom or sweetcorn....The rest of the menu is also just as plain and unimaginative but jacked up to a high price and usually adds one mildly fancy sounding ingredient which makes you think you are getting something actually nice when you are really being scammed. The salad choices are also tragic with some really baffling choices.

The one item I got had charcoal bread (picture attached). I didn't realise this until I received it. They are really trying to push this charcoal bread as if the benefits of charcoal haven't already been disproven. Your toilet will be suffering the consequences of your charcoal consumption for the next few days. It's a net disadvantage, especially if you are on medication - this is a serious danger to people's health so why don't they have a warning on their menu or from the employees about this?

3. Grocery store

You will notice that as soon as you walk inside you are immediately surrounded by a labyrinth of shelves containing extremely overpriced and needlessly organic household items. They sell bread by the counter which has probably sat there for ages (including, depressingly, charcoal bread). The prices on the drinks in the refrigerator are so high that you will probably choke on your beetroot latte after one glance. I truly wonder who is actually buying things from here. Is any of the management actually vegan? It seems they went on a wholesalers website and chose everything that sounded vaguely hipster. They just have so much stock that I'm sure they are desperate to get rid of it (hint: cut the price by 50%).

4. In summary:

Clean Hearts Cafe doesn't feel like a space for "clean hearts". It doesn't feel like a place that genuinely believes in the things it is selling. It seems to be more of a cash grab due to its convenient location with some weird products crowding up half of the cafe for you to stare at while you wait for your coffee. Their food isn't particularly healthy or tasty or cheap. Their drinks aren't as exciting as other coffee shops. Their grocery store is just sad. Just go to Whole Foods or Planet Organic which would actually be significantly cheaper.

I will say that the employees themselves have done nothing wrong and they have always been friendly to me. Or at least indifferent. It doesn't seem like a very fun place for them to work. This saves it from 1 star, which is very generous.

I like supporting independent coffee shops but I don't like what they're doing. I don't feel good when I give Clean Hearts my money, so I'll be heading elsewhere from now on.

Great good and power sockets available. You can recharge your laptop and phone, both power sockets and USB are available. There is music but not loud, it’s easy enough to focus on work. There is also a shop area to take away products. Free Wi-Fi too.

Got a breakfast for two (take away) for nearly £20. This place is expensive but I was mostly disappointed by the “fresh orange juice” sold for £4 (!!) : juice was not freshly made as it came from a pitcher and did not taste like pure orange juice, after a few minutes it just decanted into a solid-liquid phase.
The waitress was quite unfriendly, nearly rude to me.
You can find much better coffee place and cheaper in this area, place to avoid.

Do not go there if you do not want to get poisoned!

I bought a salad with today due date. There were salmon, vegetables and quinoa.
Firstly, all vegetables were rotten, and some had MOLD.
Secondly, the fish also had MOLD. After that food, I could go to the hospital.

Everything would be good, if staff gave me a refund, said sorry and gave me any discount or something. Nope, they told me that they would not be able to provide a refund and the only that they can do for me – sell something else for this price.
Only after my disputes and requests call to the manager, they do this.

Moreover, I checked other salads. Some of them were also overdue!!! They just change stickers to new ones with the new date.

Superb range of quality produce available at this upbeat and modern eatery

Showcasing a decent variety of breakfast, brunch and beyond care and attention is detailed at each stage

The hot drinks menu does not disappoint either and staff are friendly and welcoming

Interior decor has been well thought out, providing the perfect place to hang out and grab a bite to eat or a hot drink

Was a good flow of people during both of my visits which is testament to the food and drink offerings

Try it, you won’t be disappointed!

Lovely cafe. Very delicious coffee and amazing food! They have a large variety of options. Also the staff gives off very nice and friendly vibes :) In addition, they accept student discount (-10% on order) , one of my fav cafes in East London, 5/5!

Wow! Not often you visit a coffee shop and wish you could relocate to frequent it everyday. Great coffee and friendly staff but for me the addictive quality was the insanely delicious cross between a pain au chocolat and an almond croissant so a pain au almonde I guess. OMG I need one every day!