Café Dolce Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Great breakfast and wonderful food."
• "All of the cakes and sandwiches were delicious and the salad was a nice added touch."
• "Good coffee, milkshake, and burgers!"
• "The food presentation and taste were exquisite."
• "I ordered the Halloumi Smash with eggs and it was excellent."
• "Absolutely amazing food and drinks."
• "French toast and poached pears and eggs royale. Both perfectly cooked."
• "The fish and chips were tasty and I would order it again."

Cons:

• "The strawberry smoothie is mostly syrup, not worth the 4£ price tag."
• "The 3.95£ Dark Chocolate Brownie is sugar. That is all."
• "My friends ordered the all day breakfast and it was cold as well as just being a very average breakfast."
• "The full breakfast was a small portion served in a decorative bowl and tray."
• "The fish was overcooked and very dry, chips we're frozen and also very dry."
• "Breakfast was okay until I found a lump of plastic under my eggs."
• "Two cheese and tuna toasties arrived lukewarm and cheese not melted."
• "Our lamb sausages where reheated and mostly breadcrumbs."

Service and Staff

Pros:

• "Your staff Fikri is fantastic who doing excellent job in dealing with customer."
• "The staff are great, who offer excellent customer service!"
• "Lovely atmosphere, lovely waiting staff."
• "The kind attention of Alin, he was a star."
• "Very lovely meal and nice conversation with Elijah, one of the employees."
• "Our waiter kept checking up on us and made sure everything was good."
• "Joe for the level of service provided. He was so pleasant and helped to organise gluten free option for me."
• "Staff very attentive and friendly. Coffees nice."

Cons:

• "Unfortunately we asked for tea three times and each time they said it was coming but it never arrived."
• "The service was also exceptionally slow as we waited 50 minutes to eat!"
• "We waited 5 minutes for the toast and then a further 20 minutes before a server came to apologise."
• "We were offered free cake which was a nice gesture but not what we wanted."
• "After waiting at least 20 mins, we enquired why hadn't the food arrived."
• "One member of staff always using his phone at the counter."
• "We had a 45 minute wait for our food."
• "One of the worst experiences I have had in a cafe ever."

Ambiance and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "If you're looking for a coffee shop, I guess the ambiance is fitting."
• "I thought the ambience in the cafe was great for a cosy bite to eat."
• "Nice atmosphere, lovely waiting staff."
• "Nice decor and atmosphere."
• "Interior could do with a little refresh."
• "The atmosphere is great!"
• "The children's menu is disappointing though - an independent place like this could break the mould."
• "Edgy, fresh decor greeted us upstairs and made me feel warm inside."

Cons:

• "Atmosphere ruins it with music blaring, loud doorbell noises going off every few minutes."
• "The place has had a massive fall from grace, it used to be fantastic."
• "My granddaughters potato was raw."
• "Long wait for food. Ordered toastie & sandwich. Toastie was a sandwich ie. Not toasted."
• "Looked nice from outside but.... Long wait for food."
• "Food wasn't bad but wasn't great, they seem to have a high emphasis on 'Homemade' yet everything seems like it's out of packets."
• "At first sight it looks like a cosy and friendly place...the menu looks nice...what a delusion...eggs not fried and partly raw."
• "Very expensive for what you get very overpriced coffee and pastries definitely been defrosted."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Great cafe, came more than once with friends. Great value for money too."
• "Excellent value for money - excellent tasting coffee for lesser price than Costa, Starbucks, and Café Nero."
• "Really nice cafe with very pleasant staff. Good, relaxing atmosphere and we had a really pleasant lunch."
• "Really good vibe, really good food, and a good range! A little expensive (for a student budget 😂), but you get good portion sizes."
• "Absolutely amazing food and drinks. Great to finally go somewhere where the soup of the day is actually different every day!"
• "Great food, great service, great surroundings."

Cons:

• "It's just overpriced."
• "Definitely style over substance and the prices were pretty steep."
• "For a cafe with such high prices it was most disappointing."
• "Kinda expensive, very small pots of tea which wasn't hot."
• "It was seriously overpriced for what we got."
• "The food was overpriced in general despite the random additional costs."
• "Very expensive for what you get very overpriced coffee and pastries definitely been defrosted."
• "We had avocado & poached eggs which was overpriced and served on a small piece of crusty toast."