Bedford
Pavilion

Pavilion

Park Avenue, MK40 2NE, Bedford, United Kingdom

Tea • Coffee • Cheese • Noodles


"Although the queues outside have always tested the most calmest of people at the best of times, and their prices for tea/coffee in a paper cup haven 't decreased either. I haven 't been inside the cafe since before Covid hit and I can 't say I will go there again. We arrived last Saturday and there was quite a queue for the window outside, this was because the Morris Dancers were performing. We decided to go inside, we ordered our tea and a teacake each. After 40 minutes I asked where the tea was and was told it was on its way! The young girl behind the counter then started thumbing through all the order receipts to find our order. I reminded her that we had also asked for a toasted teacake each. Another 10 minutes and the tea arrived, except I had been given normal tea and not the green tea that I had ordered. The teacake took a little longer. This cafe now seems to be run by very young teenagers. It was a freezing cold day and the reason we went inside is because I couldn 't see any of the heaters switched on outside. It didn 't make much difference as there was no heating on inside either. When I questioned why there was no heating on it was because the window to the outside kiosk was open and the heat would be lost! Perhaps close the door to the outside kiosk so the heat isn 't lost! The Morris Dancer event had been well published so why the owners didn 't put on extra staff to cope, I 'll never know. We asked about the soup, an impressive large soup menu, all priced at £5.95, I asked about the ingredients in the soup to be told that all the soup came in cans! Really, £5.95 for a bowl of soup from a can! The prices at this cafe are way above average but they are providing an extremely below average service and need to put experienced catering/waiting staff to provide the level of service that people expect or lower the prices so that people don 't expect too much."