Crusoe's Tynemouth - Coffee Shop Reviews Summary

Service

Pros:

• "Full table service, efficient and friendly staff."
• "Staff are polite and approachable."
• "Really good organisation on the seating service."
• "Table service with friendly, helpful staff."
• "Service was quick and friendly."
• "Staff very friendly."
• "Friendly and helpful staff."

Cons:

• "Terrible service, ordered hot food, which they completely forgot about."
• "Waited 45 minutes for drinks."
• "Service was fine, except the guy who brought us our tea just thrust the tray onto the table without warning, spilled some milk, muttered something, then left just as quick."
• "The waiting staff came across as bothered and irritated."
• "No staff were around serving, however, they were all chatting and messing around behind the bar."
• "Service was slow, wrong order brought."
• "Took a really long time for our food to arrive."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Lovely food and staff, just gets a little cramped when everyone is waiting for their drinks and takeaway orders."
• "The fish and chips are absolutely fantastic & the street food menu looks worth a bash too."
• "Really top nosh at a decent price."
• "The food is good, and the sweet and cold things make any summer day better."
• "Fish and chips were very good."
• "The food came out very quickly, hot off the grill. I had the monkfish and my partner had the jerk chicken. We could not believe how tasty the food was."
• "Tasty and fresh fish, and friendly service."

Cons:

• "It's nothing special and over priced for what you get."
• "The quilty was not what I would expect for the price. hard black pudding cheap tasteless sausages."
• "Poor quality ingredients seeming to have been selected with profit in mind rather than the customers experience."
• "Good chicken, lots of tasty chips then spoiled by tasteless tinned sweetcorn and hideous coleslaw."
• "The kids meals were good and quite big but the adults fish and chips still had skin on and was full of bones."
• "Food arrived super cold and had to ask three times for the rest of our drinks order."
• "Absolutely vile we got loaded fries for £7 which were freezing."

Atmosphere & Location

Pros:

• "Crusoe's, which is a great little cafe set on the beach with fantastic views over the sea."
• "Amazing views across the beach, grab a window table if you can."
• "It's a fantastic location, an eclectic facility, and seems to be busy most of the time, a good thing I think."
• "The vibe on the inside and outside were lovely."
• "Gorgeous cafe/bar situated right on the beach with floor to ceiling glass creating a framed vista of the impressive longsands shoreline."
• "This is a lovely cafe situated right on the beach where you have spectacular views of the sea and piers."
• "Sited on the beach the views from the windows are wonderful."

Cons:

• "Quite a noisy place, right off the beach so plenty sand everywhere is to be expected."
• "If you're seated inside near the door, it can be quite draughty."
• "Only 1 door for entrance and exit maybe a sign with exit outside instead of rope and pole in bucket to stop people going to tables before they had given their details would work better."
• "It can get really busy, especially with families which can be really off-putting."
• "It very much felt like a conveyor belt of people being served with no real thought, it was very busy."
• "Uncleared tables make the place look very untidy."
• "On a busy day it would be unbearable, on a wet windy day a necessary evil to warm up."

Value

Pros:

• "It was priced fairly. The portions were decent."
• "The prices are quite reasonable too."
• "Tea and cake was a good price."
• "The burger was great and with a good price."
• "We come from London so everything always seems cheaper up north but would say given the quality and location this is very, very good value for money."
• "We had the 'small' fish and chips which was excellent value for money as we only wanted a light lunch."
• "Good selection available at reasonable prices which was served quickly despite the place being busy."

Cons:

• "The quilty was not what I would expect for the price."
• "I could get two coffees in London for the price of one here."
• "What a rip off!!!!"
• "It's a little on the expensive side, but not excessively."
• "It can also be quite expensive."
• "Breakfast is way too expensive for the portion sizes."
• "Paid nearly 22 quid for 2 breakfasts and 2 orange juice."