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Cambridge Cafe

Cambridge Cafe

5 Cambridge Road, HG1 1AA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

Cafés • Coffee • Brunch • Healthy


"We were visiting Harrogate for my fiancée 's birthday but unfortunately Haks (our favourite Chinese was closed for the week. I saw that the Cambridge Café had good feedback so we took a stroll up there. We got there at 6pm. There was a man and a woman inside who were obviously the owners and their kids were sat at a table eating. The door however had closed written on it and that they were only taking Just Eat orders. We walked back to our apartment, also passing another Chinese takeaway called Rice . I thought about ordering from the latter, but decided to get back and get a meal delivered from Cambridge Café. Firstly I thought the layout of the dishes being within subsections on the menu was cumbersome and silly. We ordered prawn crackers, prawn toast (they don 't do seaweed?! , spring rolls, noodles, egg fried rice, chicken curry and sweet and sour chicken. The prawn crackers are supposedly quality Vietnamese ones that, in reality taste like all the others we have had! I absolutely loved the prawn toast but my fiancée wasn 't a fan. They were chunky and flavoursome. Veggie spring rolls were bland and tasteless, noodles and rice were OK. The sweet and sour chicken was very nice. I found the chicken curry a bit weak, it tasted dumbed down. Overall it was a fairly average meal with the prawn toast for me being a surprise highlight. On reflection however we would not eat from there again as better alternatives are available."

China Blue Chinese

China Blue Chinese

96 Renfield St, G2 3AL, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Asian • Asiatic • Chinese • Seafood


"(Update 2024-05: Beware dishes labelled with a green (V may not actually be vegetarian when served, especially when you have a table of meat and non meat eaters. Manager gave the excuse of “do any of you not eat meat” and “you should have let us know when you ordered”, though eventually apologised and gave us half price off that one dish. Was here for dinner with relatives on a Sunday evening. Not the most fancy atmosphere, but appeared cleanish. Food wise, so far this is one of the best in the city centre and I can't believe I've gone past it so many times without giving the place a thought, the entrance is so unassuming. The restaurant is on the 2nd floor, you do need to climb a flight of stairs to reach the place. Would recommend the Tofu with Chinese Leaf Glass Noodles (146 , which they apparently use their own egg tofu. The sauce for the Mixed Vegetables with Malaysian Curry (224 was out-of-this-world, but I wasn't much of a fan with the vegetables used (my relatives liked them though . We did find the side portion of stir fried noodles far too salty, though this was the only downfall for the food. They did get one of our orders wrong (despite naming it and pointing it at the menu when ordering and later claimed not to be in a position to correct it. Whatever arrived looked nice and a lot cheaper so we just let it go. Service was friendly, helpful, but a little clumsy."