Absolutely beautiful location, great for a walk. Lovely and friendly staff, always served with a smile.
John Murphy
Great, as always.
Terri Coles
Interesting builidings. I can recommend the home made chicken soup. Delicious. Very helpful staff.
Declan Keane
Best coffee shop in Hertfordshire!Super cool working space if you need to get away from working from home.
Ana Vitoria Silva Santana
perfect place for you go in the afternoon and do your quality time, work or find greats
Martin Hunt
Nice little place, handy for a coffee and cake during a bike ride, seating inside for cooler or rainy days but my preferred option it one of the benches scattered outside. Nice place to bring children as it has a massive central green and playing fields out the back with a nice woodland walk and a virtually traffic free perimeter round around the green for youngsters on bikes or scooters.
Martin Pollard
Nice quiet place for a coffee, good coffee too
Nick Carter
Nice place, good music, kind staff.. I wish there was a larger menu for food - even some breakfast options after the gym would be great like Avocado on toast in summer or porridge in winter..
Craig Botterill
The atmosphere in here is great BIG open rooms in a vintage building with subtle modern decor, beautifully made coffee with a good customer service and a quick but pleasant chat while my latte and cake were prepared for me to devour I had chosen the apple and cinnamon loaf cake and a ice big slice of chocolate brownie neither disappointed and were topped off with a beautiful latte.
Jason & Dawn Kedzuch
Lovely space. Nice little selection of nibbly snacks. Welcoming staff.
We used to like this café because of lovely location and easy-going service. No longer! Our particular gripe was being chucked out of the seating area one hour before the café closed with a abrupt two minutes notice, along with some other customers. Our annoyance was compounded by a failure to take either cash or debit card when ordering an additional item that was below £1 . Talk about unhelpful service! Another problem the café needs to get on top of is that most of the available tables were occupied “long-term” by sixth formers using the free electricity and free Wi-Fi but buying very little. More generally the service was unfriendly . The fact that the café is part of a Christian Centre makes all this worse.
Beth Sjögren
Wonderful coffee. And very polite and joyful staff. Would highly recommend.
Alexandra Karina Rodriguez
Everything about this place is beautiful, not only the location but also the buildings and the work that it's carried out at YWAM Harpenden. The Oval Café is no exception, it's a very cosy environment, the service it's excellent and everything that is sold at this place has a distinctive seal... Love. I couldn't recommend this place enough ❤️
Joshua
Excellent coffee, welcoming atmosphere. Best place for a caffeinated beverage or cake in the area.
Tine G
I hear the staff is voluntary. They are young, smiling, offering great service and professional.I enjoyed sitting outside in the summer, reading a book on a sunny day, and sipping my caramel latte away.I visited again recently, and the atmosphere inside the place is just as cosy. And the coffee with a heart design from a kind lady was a nice artistic surprise to receive. :)
Absolutely beautiful location, great for a walk. Lovely and friendly staff, always served with a smile.
Great, as always.
Interesting builidings. I can recommend the home made chicken soup. Delicious. Very helpful staff.
Best coffee shop in Hertfordshire!Super cool working space if you need to get away from working from home.
perfect place for you go in the afternoon and do your quality time, work or find greats
Nice little place, handy for a coffee and cake during a bike ride, seating inside for cooler or rainy days but my preferred option it one of the benches scattered outside. Nice place to bring children as it has a massive central green and playing fields out the back with a nice woodland walk and a virtually traffic free perimeter round around the green for youngsters on bikes or scooters.
Nice quiet place for a coffee, good coffee too
Nice place, good music, kind staff.. I wish there was a larger menu for food - even some breakfast options after the gym would be great like Avocado on toast in summer or porridge in winter..
The atmosphere in here is great BIG open rooms in a vintage building with subtle modern decor, beautifully made coffee with a good customer service and a quick but pleasant chat while my latte and cake were prepared for me to devour I had chosen the apple and cinnamon loaf cake and a ice big slice of chocolate brownie neither disappointed and were topped off with a beautiful latte.
Lovely space. Nice little selection of nibbly snacks. Welcoming staff.
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We used to like this café because of lovely location and easy-going service. No longer! Our particular gripe was being chucked out of the seating area one hour before the café closed with a abrupt two minutes notice, along with some other customers. Our annoyance was compounded by a failure to take either cash or debit card when ordering an additional item that was below £1 . Talk about unhelpful service! Another problem the café needs to get on top of is that most of the available tables were occupied “long-term” by sixth formers using the free electricity and free Wi-Fi but buying very little. More generally the service was unfriendly . The fact that the café is part of a Christian Centre makes all this worse.
Wonderful coffee. And very polite and joyful staff. Would highly recommend.
Everything about this place is beautiful, not only the location but also the buildings and the work that it's carried out at YWAM Harpenden. The Oval Café is no exception, it's a very cosy environment, the service it's excellent and everything that is sold at this place has a distinctive seal... Love. I couldn't recommend this place enough ❤️
Excellent coffee, welcoming atmosphere. Best place for a caffeinated beverage or cake in the area.
I hear the staff is voluntary. They are young, smiling, offering great service and professional.I enjoyed sitting outside in the summer, reading a book on a sunny day, and sipping my caramel latte away.I visited again recently, and the atmosphere inside the place is just as cosy. And the coffee with a heart design from a kind lady was a nice artistic surprise to receive. :)