For coffee lovers Waterloo station has a wonderful variety of cafés. Let’s begin with a very cozy café just beside the Waterloo station at 132 Lower Marsh called ScooterCaffe. Aside from offering the best coffee in London, this is a fully licensed café offering live music every Tuesday and Wednesday night. The menu here features such items as thick hot chocolate, delicious cakes and both Colombian and Costa Rican coffee. You can also get Suffolk ale, French cider or beer from Mexico and Italy.

Another place to get a fine cup of coffee right at the Waterloo station concourse is a coffee shop called Costa. Costa is an Italian style coffee shop with a chain of stores all over London. What makes their coffee unique is that they slow roast the beans which gives the coffee a much fuller and richer taste. At Costa you can also purchase a variety of different snacks, cakes and other pastries.

Lastly, if you’re visiting from North America and Starbucks is the only type of coffee that you’re used to you don’t need to forfeit the Starbucks experience when you’re at Waterloo station. Starbucks offers all types of coffees and hot drinks as well as pastries, snacks, and cold drinks. If you are traveling with your laptop and would like to spend some time checking your e-mail and surfing the net then Starbucks is a good place to drink familiar coffee and to connect to the Internet via the wireless Internet that they provide to their customers.