Pimlico Fresh Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "The quality and freshness of the ingredients was incredible."
• "Fantastic savory French toast and lemon cake."
• "The food is fresh, delicious and has a home made touch to it."
• "The food was fresh and tasted good."
• "Everything was cooked fantastically, it was simple but great."
• "The food was so good, Full of flavour!"
• "The food was delicious, brought out in a timely manner, decent portion sizes and friendly staff."

Cons:

• "The high prices do not translate to a delicious meal."
• "The breakfast was average, not great on ingredients or flavor."
• "The Spanish scramblers, now renamed Spanish eggs (scrambled eggs with red onions, chorizo and feta) are made with pre-mixed ingredients, not exactly fresh."
• "Unbelievable how I was served 2 small crusted ends of toast which were hard."
• "The scrambled eggs could have been used to build a wall."
• "Brownies are not good at all, it's all thick fudge, not fluffy or even good tasting."
• "The salmon cheese bagel was really tasty but didn't sit with our stomachs too well afterwards."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff are very friendly."
• "Great prices, superb service, and phenomenal food."
• "The staff was very friendly and handled our special request professionally as our daughter has food allergies."
• "Enjoy the friendliest customer service."
• "Lovely friendly place - small and busy, but excellent customer service."
• "Service was quick and friendly."
• "Wonderfully friendly and extremely attentive staff and the service is quick."

Cons:

• "Disorganised. Mis-managed. A real shame."
• "Unfortunately, despite being the second customer in the store, they forgot about my food which meant I arrived at 7am and didn't get my food till 7:50."
• "We were practically forced out by passive aggressive staff."
• "The service was ok, they were extremely stressed."
• "Service lacking, rude waitress threw down our coffee on the complete wrong side where we're sitting."
• "Staff are not trained to cope efficiently or effectively with the number of people waiting."
• "The feeling of being hurried out of our seats was pretty overwhelming."

Ambiance & Location

Pros:

• "Really nice local cafe with an amazing spread of food at a reasonable price for London."
• "There is a great ambiance but gets extremely busy during breakfast and lunch hours."
• "Nice cosy place with an option to eat out as well."
• "A lovely place for brunch."
• "It's a trendy buzzing little place close to Victoria Station."
• "The place has a nice vibe."
• "Lovely cafe in the Pimlico/ Victoria area."

Cons:

• "Today we came for breakfast, we live very closely, tables are always short but he was lucky and got the only table for 6 at the bottom of the room, as we waited for our order a waitress asked if we could move down next to the counter and boxes of oranges, I said no but that I was more than happy for the 4 people (family with 2 children) to share with us, anyway 'one of the owners' came in very aggressive moving chairs around, cleaning tables and putting all the staff under stress and I also felt stressed out."
• "It is communal table eating, you will share a table with another group."
• "While it's a bit of a survival of the fittest scenario to get a table here (first come, first serve, hover over people who might be finishing so that you can snag their seat)."
• "You have to stand up to order and there are no toilets or hand washing sinks."
• "Dirty restaurant, clients need to seat themselves, huge queue blocking the door, every table was broken and wobbly, and NO TOILET in the restaurant, how is that even possible?"
• "The seating area is very small, only like 7 tables maybe, most are 2 seaters."
• "Pretty limited seating in total though."

Value

Pros:

• "The prices are also very reasonable."
• "Try the cappuccinos here! We've tried at various coffee shops all over the world and this is one of the best we've had."
• "Great coffee!"
• "Quite cheap for the portion sizes also which was a delightful surprise!"
• "The portion sizes and quality of the food are WONDERFUL."
• "Great espresso and fresh juices."
• "The food is really good. We had the French toast. Very good."

Cons:

• "Prices are a bit expensive for the type of meals provided."
• "We got charged a pound extra for each item just for sitting outside."
• "Juices are good but expensive."
• "It's expensive for what you get."
• "Good food but such a wasteful place - not one person we saw there finished their HUGE portion."
• "My reason for 4 stars is simply because there are no toilets on the premises."
• "The coffee was revolting - it tasted like they had saved the used grounds from last month."