East Beach Cafe Reviews Summary

Category: Restaurant Littlehampton

Address: The Promenade, Littlehampton, BN17 5GB, United Kingdom

Phone: +441903731903

Rating: 4.1
based on 154 reviews.

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "Amazing food!! We had the Halloumi burger, Ham and Cheese Toasty and some chips. Very reasonable price, taste and presentation were excellent."
  • "Food was great."
  • "Genuinely one of the best meals I have ever eaten."
  • "Delicious food, and well priced too. Everything was perfectly cooked."
  • "Stunning food. We were a table of 8 and all food came out quickly and in good time and fresh."
  • "Great food - the seafood linguine & beer battered fish & chips are excellent."
  • "Outstanding food! I had the burger. Best ever."

Cons:

  • "Food was boring, microwaved and overpriced."
  • "We both ordered what was described as Langoustine Risotto but turned out to be rice pudding with a few prawns. Very disappointing food."
  • "The food not quite as good as our previous visit and it is expensive £37 for two burger and chips!"
  • "Fish and chips were very good, but burger was overpowered by Oregano.. grandson and son thought it was really bad."
  • "The food was overpriced for what it was."
  • "The fish and chips I had today were extremely poor...the chips were tasteless...the fish was basically a frozen packet fish, not fresh and very small."
  • "Food was quite bad and expensive."

Service

Pros:

  • "Staff always happy and friendly."
  • "The woman looking after us was helpful and knowledgeable and kind."
  • "Very friendly and welcoming staff in a lovely environment by the sea."
  • "Staff were friendly and attentive."
  • "The staff were extremely friendly and super efficient."
  • "Staff were smiley."
  • "The staff couldn't have been better & the cafe has a lovely atmosphere."

Cons:

  • "Unfortunately we're waiting 10/15 minutes at the start to be asked for our drinks orders."
  • "Really slow to process the take away orders, they only had one member of staff on the counter trying to do everything."
  • "Disjointed service."
  • "Very slow service from the Kitchen with 2 burgers taking over 1/2 an hour."
  • "Pleasant but slow service."
  • "Service was slow, considering it wasn't really busy."
  • "Long wait to be served."

Location & Ambience

Pros:

  • "It's an Unusual looking place but a great location."
  • "Various specialised nights going on during the week. Worth checking out."
  • "The outside looks amazing."
  • "One of the most beautiful cafe/dinners overlooking the sea so it really doesn't matter what the weather is doing."
  • "Lovely location looking out over the beach and seeing the boats sailing was gorgeous."
  • "It's a great location with free evening parking outside."
  • "Peaceful setting and great to be able to look out to the sea."

Cons:

  • "Interior tired and uncared for (boxes and mess)."
  • "The building is enticing from the rear, but ugly from the sea battered front."
  • "The internal decor appears as a bit of an afterthought."
  • "The inside is looking slightly run down now."
  • "The inside looks like it's a pop-up Santa's grotto."
  • "Looks like a road side café, but serves food like champions."
  • "Looks a bit 'low rent' from the beach side & the interior is very plain, but the rear of the building is an architectural wonder."

Value for Money

Pros:

  • "Good food at reasonable prices."
  • "Great food, good ambience and value for money."
  • "Prices very reasonable."
  • "Modern cafe along the Littlehampton seafront. Popular, and in great location, and at present with not much competition. Had breakfast and coffee. Pleasant and reasonably priced."
  • "Brilliant place to eat good quality fish and chips and scampy by the sea side. Chips are delicious. Deffo recommend... Very reasonably priced as well."
  • "Prices were very reasonable and the staff warm and welcoming."
  • "Friendly and good value food with daily specials."

Cons:

  • "They also have a service charge, WHICH they do not tell you!"
  • "Overpriced average food."
  • "Very very expensive."
  • "Completely over priced."
  • "Yet £7 for a box of chips and two cans of coke seemed a little extortionate."
  • "Very disappointing and expensive. 4 scallops in puree of butternut squash in small scallop shell cost £19.00!!"
  • "Overpriced and small portions."

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