Address: South Dr, Ferring, Worthing BN12 5QU, United Kingdom
Phone: +441903503033
Rating: 4.5
based on 322 reviews.
Food Quality
Pros:
"Fantastic food at a reasonable price. Fast service despite being mega busy."
"The fish and chips has probably one if the best battered fish that I have eaten!"
"Lovely fish and chips. Crisp batter and skin on chips."
"The food was fantastic."
"Food here is very delish from what I have tried."
"The food is very good!!"
"They have the best fish and chips I think I have ever had."
Cons:
"£10.00 for 2 cups of very poor quality hot (lukewarm) chocolate and 2 dry buns is too much."
"Food was okay, chips were like Fries sadly and not chip shop chips which is what I was hoping for."
"Sausage in the breakfast was not good. Bacon also tasted cheap and chips were not cooked enough."
"The bread was dry and the bacon way past the point of 'crispy'."
"Lousy, over-priced, dry vegan burger and chips replacing the baked potato without an explanation."
"Sorry but disappointed with the cooked breakfast which did not have much taste, bacon was tough and the sausage no flavour."
"Tried the fish and chips last year and was it disappointing."
Service
Pros:
"Good service generally and served quickly."
"The service was super fast and friendly."
"Service was very quick and the quality of the food was great."
"Friendly efficient service."
"If the queue is big, don't panic as the team are flippin efficient and rattle through taking orders!"
"Really fast service. Food great. Staff friendly. Location brilliant."
"Very friendly and helpful staff."
Cons:
"Had a disappointing experience. We booked a table knowing it was dog-friendly and was really looking forward to it."
"Service from staff was awful as if we were an annoyance to her."
"The runner outside clearing tables wasn't very welcoming either, on his phone a lot of the time."
"The waitress laughed, the manageress gave us a refund but was not apologetic."
"Always loved the Blue bird cafe. BUT TODAY was disappointed by the inexperienced young staff and the lack of guidance they were getting."
"Poor customer service and is not dog friendly like it displays."
"Waited nearly 40mins for 2 cod & chips and 1 portion chips, when we asked what the wait was for, all we got was 'it's coming'."
Location & Atmosphere
Pros:
"Great sea side cafe. The location is brilliant backing straight onto the beach."
"Loved the location, it’s dog friendly and was a great atmosphere!"
"Beautiful setting by the beach."
"The views and seaside location make it so special, but the staff do the rest."
"Absolutely gorgeous cafe, in just the perfect spot…"
"This a lovely cafe situated right on the beach."
"Great beachfront café, filled with windswept locals and dogwalkers."
Cons:
"I am not particularly fond of dogs and to have so many dogs in a restaurant, and at one point they were barking in unison it was difficult to hold a conversation."
"At one point there were 8 dogs in the restaurant!"
"Also driven to distraction by yapping dogs."
"Mostly good. Tasty varied breakfasts, excellent beachside location, but too many noisy uncontrolled dogs."
"Neither one acknowledged us with a ‘Hello’ or ‘Good Morning’ or even ‘Nice weather today’...not even eye contact or a smile."
"Toilets are disgusting and look about 100 years old outside the building. Avoid them if you can and bring anti bac."
"No disabled toilets."
Value
Pros:
"Self serve and reasonably priced."
"Well priced and good quality fry up, likely the best in Worthing area."
"prices are reasonable too."
"Food was lovely and reasonably priced."
"Friendly staff and reasonable prices."
"All good value & they have a card machine so don't have to worry if you've no cash."
"A wide variety of good food, and considering it's the only food outlet at Ferring beach (that I could see), it's great they clearly care enough to offer a high quality of food and service."
Cons:
"£10.00 for 2 cups of very poor quality hot (lukewarm) chocolate and 2 dry buns is too much."
"Extremely disappointed today at the 'hatch food' due to the restaurant closed for Christmas. Limited menu of burgers and full breakfasts which I can understand but the price was exhaustionate!"
"Am I paying for the view or the product?"
"The Passion fruit ice cream was a rip off considering the young lady behind the counter served only half of a spoon and charged £3,50 ish !!!!!"
"Beware!!!!! Went to this cafe been many times before this time was on a Monday you have to book they had empty tables so thought get a take away fish and chips!!! 2 fish and chips £29.99."
"Overpriced and won't bother returning."
"Used to love this spot in Ferring but seems to me they've done too much all too soon. Paying London prices in Ferring for fish and chips is a tad cheeky especially when the food is coming out of a freezer and is soggy with minimal chips."
Parking & Accessibility
Pros:
"The huge availability of parking adds attraction and the staff were only too happy to help."
"Also possible to drive to it. There's a car park at the rear although not large."
"Has nice clean toilets, car park is large but full of pot holes so take care when driving in."
"Very popular place. Easy parking."
"This place is as cute as it looks in the pictures and is ideally located right on the beach with plenty of parking nearby."
"Fab location. Outside bench seating right next to beach."
"A Lovely place to call in to have a meal or just a hot drink, the only problem is the entrance to the car park, a sort of alley, used for both in and out."
Cons:
"Car park squishy (especially when you're trying to park a huge truck)"
"The car park tho, needs attention, lots of potholes of a size you could lose a small dog in or at least up to their necks, and some tyre wrecking edges to most of them."
"It was so hard to push my Auntie in the car park because of all the pot holes and gravel."
"Limited disabled access. Slopes to promenade but single step into café."
"Entrance to car park down the smallest of single track roads, on a corner between two buildings."
"The car park is a little bit of a bun fight (in a nice way!), so if you can, bring a motorbike... 🤣🌞🏍"
"Sorry Bluebird cafe....everytime we visit there is never a table and we cannot eat there...it's so disappointing!"