Lumen Cafe - Camden

Delicious, simple, fresh home-cooked food in a bright calm oasis near Euston. Friendly service and a unique atmosphere in a transformed church space with its amazing iconic 'shaft of light ' feature and an art gallery too. Great place for a relaxing informal lunch.

This is an engaging space full of character. The menu catered for all tastes be they carnivore or vegan. I had creamed mushrooms on granary toast which was generous and delicious and my partner had the vegetarian breakfast which was imaginative and plentiful. The staff were friendly without being intrusive. Looking at the beautiful stained glass window and ‘cone of spirituality’ added to the experience. It is an LGBT friendly space. We love it.

A lovely visit for breakfast before work this morning. Nice, airy, light cafe on a quiet street. Good menu options, catering for all. The full english is recommended, and well priced. Nice coffee. Staff were friendly and helpful. Opens at 8, and we were there at that time, on a Friday, but sadly no other visitors at all between then and when we departed around 9.

We used Lumen URC for a corporate event and couldn't have been more impressed. The staff were all friendly and incredibly helpful. The venue itself is fantastic and the catering was perfect. Their flexibility to meet our requirements was really appreciated and we can't wait for our next event with them in a few months.

Black Olive Cooks at Lumen Cafe: A place to eat and type, drink coffee, and eat cake and salad and hot food, chat a bit, and charge my phone, and think a while of life and love and last night's telly, a place to stare into the future, reinvent the past, and doodle tiny swirls and spiky stars and upward/downward spirals whilst all the while thinking about the report I came to finish, beneath modernist, bronze sculputures in the settling, calming peace of the Lumen, as I worry about little things, big things, distracted by delicious smells and the whooosh of the Instanta, the growl of the coffee mill, and art, and I reflect a little, and let the monkeys sleep for a brief, precious moment, and feel contentment, or regret, maybe or perhaps not, and watch other people do pretty much the same. I will surely return very soon.