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Working from a café
is a dream or a disaster.

The difference comes down to four numbers no review app gives you. Measured by people who were actually there with a laptop.

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An open laptop with its charger plugged in and a small coffee, on a wooden table by the window.Survives a video call?Is there a socket nearby?How much is a coffee?Noisy at five?
What you wonder before heading out
DrunchMeasured two days ago
Wifi
rock solid
Plug sockets
6 / 14
Small coffee
£3.20
Noise
quiet
Drunch6 of 14 sockets· quiet
Kaffeine3 of 10 sockets· a bit buzzy
Lavelle5 of 12 sockets· quiet
The Barn4 of 9 sockets· a bit buzzy
Special Guests7 of 16 sockets· quiet
Fred5 of 18 sockets· a bit buzzy
Drunch6 of 14 sockets· quiet
Kaffeine3 of 10 sockets· a bit buzzy
Lavelle5 of 12 sockets· quiet
The Barn4 of 9 sockets· a bit buzzy
Special Guests7 of 16 sockets· quiet
Fred5 of 18 sockets· a bit buzzy

Four things no star rating tells you

A café can have five stars and still be impossible to work in. Every Wonk review asks for numbers, not adjectives, and that’s what goes on the spec sheet.

Wifi
4/5
Survives a video call

Not just ‘has wifi’: whether you’ll get through a whole meeting at that table or drop out two minutes in.

Plug sockets
4/5
6 of 14 tables

Whether there’s one for everyone, only a handful, or bagging one by the window is a lottery.

Coffee
3/5
£3.20 for a small

How good the thing you’ll be nursing for the next three hours actually is.

Noise
5/5
Busy 5–7pm

Silent till noon and heaving at five is a different café. So we show you the hours.

Same neighbourhood

Both have four and a half stars

In one, you settle in for the whole afternoon. In the other, twenty minutes in you’re hunting for a plug socket on ten per cent battery. That’s exactly what Wonk shows you before you leave the house.

Good for work
Spec sheetNo. 014

Drunch

71 Great Titchfield St · Fitzrovia, London

Wifi4/5
rock solid
Plug sockets4/5
6 / 14
Small coffee3/5
£3.20
Noise5/5
quiet
The daycalm except 1–2pm

Measured by 6 people this week. Most recently, two days ago.

Coffee only
Spec sheetNo. 021

Marigold & Steam

Fitzrovia, London W1

Wifi2/5
drops out
Plug sockets1/5
1 / 20
Small coffee4/5
£3.60
Noise2/5
loud
The daypacked 10am–8pm

Four and a half stars on the review apps. One plug socket for twenty tables.

How it works

Three steps and you know where to go

  1. 01
    Open the map

    The cafés around you, with their opening hours and the hours they actually let you work.

  2. 02
    Compare the specs

    Wifi, plug sockets, coffee and noise, measured by people who were there with a laptop.

  3. 03
    Rest easy

    Book a table if the café takes bookings, and redeem your coupon with the QR code at the counter.

Tuesday · Fitzrovia

By five, that quiet little café is rammed

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Check the busy hours before you head out and, if the café takes bookings, book against what’s actually free: never more bookings than tables.

Table bookedThu 5pm · 2 people

The menu, before you sit down

Most places expect you to order something to keep the table. Wonk shows you what the cheapest thing costs and which discounts you can redeem with the QR code at the counter.

A croissant and a latte seen from above, on a wooden table.
Small coffee3.20
Croissant3.40
Ham and cheese toastie6.90

Prices in pounds · 50% off drinks with this week’s coupon

For cafés

Empty afternoon tables are money sitting idle

Between three and six your café is half asleep, and round the corner people are looking for somewhere to plug in a laptop. Wonk sends them your way and lets you run the show.

  • Your listing on the map, with opening hours, menu and photos you upload yourself.
  • Bookings based on real availability, and cancellations that free the table up again.
  • QR-code coupons to fill the quiet hours.
  • The money lands in your bank account. No manual transfers.
List my café
A table with two empty chairs, the afternoon sun stretching their shadows across the floor.2 of 14 tables taken
Your caféWeek 33
Bookings12
Coupons redeemed31
Rating4.5
Paid to you£248

Paid out on Monday · Wonk commission £24

Free does the job

The map and the spec sheets are free, and always will be. Everything else you pay for the way you pay for coffee: monthly, and you can cancel whenever you like.

Wonk

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Filter by minimum wifi, noise and plug sockets; book before everyone else does.

£5.99a month
Coffee Club

Your daily coffee at the café of your choice, with a table kept for you at peak times.

£20a month

Of every Coffee Club payment, £18 goes to the café and £2 to Wonk. The café gets paid into its own bank account: we never touch that money, just our commission.

No table-hunting tomorrow. You already know where to go.

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