Salt Café Reviews Summary
Category: Cafe Fareham
Staff and Service
Pros:
- "Staff are friendly, food is excellent."
- "Staff very pleasant."
- "The staff are always friendly and smiling, would recommend coming here."
- "Excellent Friendly service."
- "The service was excellent as was the food."
- "The staff were polite and friendly."
- "Staff were very polite and helpful and food was tasty."
Cons:
- "Altogether we were very disappointed with the slow service."
- "Did not expect to wait 52 minutes from ordering to food finally arriving."
- "Very long wait for food..bacon was hard and egg was snotty."
- "We waited a hour and fifteen minutes for our food, twenty minutes for drinks."
- "On the last two visits the service has been well below the standard I would expect."
- "Service a little slow but got a free round of drinks...."
- "Fantastic location by the water. Food was (very) slow when we visited, think 1+ hr for a basic lunch order."
Food Quality
Pros:
- "The food is very good and the prices are really reasonable."
- "Eggs were perfectly poached, soft but not too runny."
- "Breakfast and drinks are really good especially the coffee frappé."
- "Both dishes were very tasty."
- "Really nice piping hot coffee and tasty bacon and pancakes with maple syrup!"
- "One of the best breakfasts I have had for a long time great food."
- "The food we had was great."
Cons:
- "However the worse capuchin I have ever had and this is the 2nd time."
- "Burnt fatty bacon, not sourdough bread as described."
- "Disappointed with the food."
- "The crispy bacon was more like cremated that crispy."
- "The Sauasage roll arrived stone cold."
- "The bacon was burnt, the fried eggs were raw in the middle."
- "Food wasn't quick but was very tasty."
Location and Ambience
Pros:
- "Fab location... Parking a bit tricky for 6 motorbikes and would have been even worse in a car."
- "Unusual but charming."
- "Open views of the sea, Portsmouth and Isle of Wight."
- "Ambience is homely and the seating includes a large group table, casual dining, a bar area and soft sofa relaxers."
- "Wonderful vistas and lovely decor."
- "Located at Wicor Marina with lovely waterside views."
- "An out of the way location right on the water front. Fab views of Dockyard, Spinnaker Tower and Gosport."
Cons:
- "I was a little bit frustrated that we were seated outside on a windy overcast day, despite having a toddler and a newborn baby with us."
- "Its a popular place so you aren't always guaranteed a parking space. You might have to park down the road and walk up, but it's worth it."
- "Very small Menu."
- "It was pretty expensive for quite basic food."
- "The entire roof leaks and the wait staff won't move you inside until you ask."
- "The acoustics inside are so bad we could not hear ourselves speak."
- "So noisy inside the café."
Value
Pros:
- "Also the tea was a full pot so got value for money."
- "Lovely moist crab on sourdough toasted bread."
- "Not cheap but very good quality food that represents good value."
- "The food is always really great with fresh, high quality ingredients."
- "Fresh food well presented."
- "The food are very delicious and healthy."
- "Good selection of good food including vegan and veggie. Coffee also good."
Cons:
- "They do however add a big tip to the end of your bill which I'm sure people would freely give if let up to them."
- "I found it a little expensive, but the quality of the food was excellent."
- "We paid nearly £20 for 1 full English and toast with jam."
- "For coffee and cake over £25 for four of us."
- "Very expensive (£4) for half a scone."
- "A little pricey."
- "12.5% service charge!!"
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