Waitrose Cafe - Menu

Just enjoyed an excellent latte at Waitrose cafe, Walton-le-Dale! One of the best I’ve ever had at this cafe! Excellent blend of coffee steamed milk which retained its frothiness to the very last drop! Thank you Jayne!

As per the title, we had a lovely lunch at Waitrose Café today. However, my post is mainly about the level of service we received. The café was very busy, so we didn't mind waiting for our order. We were served by a young lady named Sheila. When she delivered our order, she was apologetic and gave us complimentary drinks. We were very impressed with Sheila's service and would like to thank her and the store!

We live locally and have shopped at Waitrose many times but never been to the cafe. Today we decided to have coffee and cake. Unfortunately the cakes on offer were not to our liking but they had a very good deal on a cream tea for £4. This included a regular tea or coffee of your choice with a fruit or plain scone, clotted cream and jam. As coffees are priced at over £3, the offer was a great price and tasted good too!

I thought that Booths cafe's were slow until I came with my sister today to the Waitrose cafe, We waited ages in a relatively short queue. There only seemed to be one person behind the counter serving and making the drinks. I ordered a tea and a chicken pesto toastie and ordered my sister a soup with bread and butter. The food did come out fairly fast, but there was no butter for the bread so we had to get that and the toastie looked rather boring on the plate there was no garnish or anything with it. Food was fine but those extra little touches were just missing. Service needs to speed up a lot to encourage us to go back.

Oh Waitrose, thy shelves with bounty glow, A feast for senses, with riches untold, From finest meats to freshest of snow, Thy aisles are treasure trove, all unfold. In thee I find my shopping pleasure, With quality goods at fair prices and more, In every aisle, from food to leisure, Thou hast what I need, that I adore. And thy staff, so helpful, kind and bright, Adding to the ambiance so right, Their warmth and service, shining so bright. So here's to thee, Waitrose, my delight, For thee I'll always choose, day or night. In thee, I find a shopping delight, Thou art the store that never shall I slight. But you could improve on the bacon front

Thought Waitrose would be more of a high end supermarket quality of food in the cafe. On my visit today that wasn 't the case. I ordered a packed lunch for my little girl and a breakfast for myself. Because most of the hot food on the Menu was unavailable. My little girl had eaten her sandwich, crisps, fruit and biscuit by the time my breakfast came out 35 minutes later!. By then she was ready to leave and my coffee was finished. It came out with Burnt eggs, cold mushroom and only the fat off bacon. Toast came with sachets of butter that was already fully melted and had poured out all over me when I picked it up.! Only thing that was decent and hot was the beans. Very disappointed and won 't...

Why, oh why, can they nit manage to serve hot food? I had the Eggs Benedict, the flavour of which was lovely but .... the poached eggs were hard, the sauce was barely lukewarm and the muffin had obviously bern toasted and left standing. The little vine tomatoes were delicious!! My dearly beloved ordered a breakfast, we should have asked for the egg to be poached rather than fried, but we weren't asked for our preference (and with my experience of the eggs benedict, perhaps not! . When I mentioned my food wasn't hot enough, he commented that his was cold too, and his coffee! What does it take it be served freshly prepared food that is at least a few degrees above barely lukewarm? With so many...

After enjoying shopping at the supermarket, we decided to have lunch at the cafe. Despite it being Saturday lunchtime and 1:50pm, which we thought would be after the main rush, there was plenty of available seating. We were told that our food would take ten minutes to be ready, which was acceptable to us. However, we ended up waiting 25 minutes for our jacket potato and fish finger wrap with gherkin and tartar sauce, which we felt was too long. Our tea arrived earlier, but we had finished it by the time our food was served. The jacket potato was decent, but the fish finger wrap was dry and only had a small sliver of gherkin in each half. The tartar sauce was almost nonexistent in one half an...

We both decided to order the vegetarian breakfast to take the moral high ground. The staff at the till, whom I will refer to as cous cous and tarquin for the purpose of this review, were friendly and accommodating to our dietary concerns. We requested to remove the avocado and replace it with beans, only to be told that we could only have extra bread instead. This was quite disappointing, similar to Burnley football club's decision to sack their long-time manager Shaun Dyche. After paying and receiving our tea, we found dirty dishes on the only available tables in the seating area, which was off-putting. We estimated a 15-20 minute wait time for our food, considering the customer to staff r...