The Beach Club — Restaurant in Arun

As I walked through the door on this dark, wet, and windy October day. I was met with a blast of warm, firstly baked air. A smile from the young lady behind the counter busying herself with a customer, a pleasantness beaming from her eyes. In my lackluster damp state, she could see I needed a place to sit, immediately offering me ‘to grab a seat’ with the add service of ‘I’ll be over in just a minute.’ Her pleasant tone reassuring, instantly knowing the customer needs. I smiled and duly nodded at her request. Slowly walking around the counter to be given the choice of an array of window seating; each one giving, albeit dark views of the sea at this time of seven in the morning. Having got myself comfortable, within minutes the pleasant smile of the young lady greeted me again, armed with a menu…

With coffee ordered, it wasn’t long before my bright red cup of great tasting coffee appeared at my table. Again, this young lady showing an air of grace and fantastic sense of good customer service with her can do attitude. Her warm glow asked, ‘is there was anything else you need’. Eager to have my stay enjoyable. Armed with my order. The big beach breakfast was set in motion in the kitchen… With breakfast now seen heading my way some 10-15 minutes later, I prepared myself. A new waitress had delivered my breakfast, again, this young lady was confident and pleasant in her professionalism. Placing the plate in front of me. Smiling like she wanted to be there, happy to be of service. My experience so far, standing out from the crowd of many a choice of café with these of young lady setting the standard of what should be…

My breakfast was presented very well, looking like it had been cooked with love. The taste of each ingredient, dancing its flavours around on my taste buds, good quality food, cooked well, a winning combination. After finishing breakfast, then having a brief chat with one of the owners, I sat and enjoy the delicate tunes of the music playing in the background.

All in all a great relaxing experience, and one I would highly recommend to anyone wanting an early morning treat. A welcoming place, with great staff, great food, great views, and an intriguing...

Fairly disappointed to start. We attempted to try the beach cafe before, yet we we’re disappointed to find out they were full on the first visit, looking very busy we made sure to try to visit again to see what the popularity was about. This is where the review really starts, now on our first proper visit, we came for breakfast. We parked close by on the on road parking, where you must pay per car, £2 1 hour minimum, seemingly plenty of time for breakfast and a brisk walk… we arrived and were seated quickly, a nice fact considering our last visit. Once seated we browsed the menu and figured out what we wanted to order, many minutes passed before we were seen again and our orders taken. Having ordered our food, our drinks came quickly, now just to wait for our breakfast. Now it should be noted that it was a nice sunny day, on a weekend with plenty of punters around yet the cafe was no where near full indoors and out. After 40 minutes had passed we decided to query about our food, the response was that it was on its way, fair enough. After a further 15 minutes our food arrived, a basic sausage sandwich, and 2 English breakfasts, with just sausage, bacon, egg and toast. The sausages were rather tasteless feeling like ‘greasy spoon’ ingredients, a cremated egg with the yolk already broken-pre arrival… The breakfast was just not up to scratch considering our waiting time and our overall impressions given the reputation and our own expectations of a simple breakfast. Given our waiting time and the hospitality the staff showed I would be unlikely to return again and would give the place a 3 out of 5 given the...

Not the best of starts I'm sorry to say, having been in hospitality for over 40 years and working for myself in the industry for the last 31 years, I was extremely disappointed with my very brief visit this morning. My business partner is coming down from Yorkshire next week, a good 230 miles, living 800m on the top of the Penines with 60 miles of land east and west of him a sea view is a rare sight, and it would have to be an extremely high tide without him having to travel!!...I called in here to see if I could book an early breakfast table for us both next Thursday which would have been a welcome treat for him, after looking at their website I was aware of the 10+ policy but thought I'd call in and see if they could make an exception 😀.....er no was the answer after I excitedly explained the situation, not only a cold no but a very cold blunt 'discussion' from the lady on the till, no smile, barely any eye contact, I did try to ask again if it was possible and she said "it won't be busy next week as it's not half term" I said "well if it's not going to be busy then it wont hurt to reserve a table", "I can't do that" was the answer. I have to say I walked out a bit deflated and I hadn't even eaten anything yet! The reviews here are pretty good so we'll give them a go next Thursday morning for breakfast, window...