caneat — Restaurant in Birmingham

Such a terrible experience for my first time! This part of Birmingham is usually pretty 'indie' however the cafe itself had very basic interior and the garden was overgrown (I think purposely) but looked a bit of a wreck. The garden felt completely disconnected to the cafe and the poor waitresses had to keep walking up and down the steps and all the way back to the kitchen; they looked exhausted! I was served a rather expensive (At £6) small banana bread and peanut butter breakfast with a long hair straight through the middle of it. They replaced the food and as a good will gesture they served us a doughnut (which if I am honest did not taste good and was extremely dry!). The banana bread breakfast tasted GREAT though! Shortly after we had two coffees served to us, a capochino and a latte of which we had no sugar or sweetener provided. We requested these on the assumption we'd have a spoon to stir the coffee, we had to use a fork. Also assuming the coffee would be hot; this was not the case, they were stone cold. The waitress replaced the coffees but the second round of coffees were still cold, we were too embarrassed to tell the staff! We were very shocked (especially because of Covid) to witness staff handle baguettes in the cafe with their bare hands and a guy using the BBQ outside to turn meat over also using his bare hands. Why not use gloves or a spatular? Lucky to recieve one star as we recieved a shockingly bad service however the food did taste good and at least 1 staff member had a smile...

Absolute gem of a venue. I had some time to pass before meeting with a friend. I stopped in for a coffee, but I had a lot of time so I also treated myself to brunch.

I ordered the house beans, and added black pudding, and sausage. In hindsight the dish was perfect and didn't need the sausage or blackpudding. Both went well, but the meal was enough without them, though I might order more toast instead next time to mop up all those delicious bean juices, the jalapeño adds a nice mild spice to the beans.

I didn't take photos but someone else saw my food come out and asked the waitress if he could have what I ordered, but vegetarian. Something very easy to do given that the meat was added on at my request.

I just went with a long black to drink and the coffee was delightful. It had a light fresh flavour, that left a deeper, but subtle, lingering sensation.

The staff were friendly, polite and gave amazing service, this was from both front and back of house. The chef was always calling "service please" rather than just "service"

My only complaint is that I wasn't given a choice to add a gratuity at the end of the meal. I don't carry cash on me, so I wasn't able to leave a well deserved tip. If you want to tip when you settle your bill make sure you have cash, or tell them you'd like to leave a tip on card before they...

Ordered a full English and a black coffee, £17 is pretty steep for a breakfast no matter where it is so when it’s on a crowded cafe with children’s chairs it’s even worse. The black coffee took 20 minutes waiting before I asked where it is and was met with “I haven’t got the order here” by the same person who literally took my money. Another ten minutes goes by and I get my black coffee, big task.

35 minutes have gone by at this point so I chase my breakfast and eventually get it, the cafe isn’t very busy at this point and only looks it because of the poor layout of tables and children’s chairs/tables.

The brekky itself wasn’t bad, but you’re trying too hard to make it fancy, 2 tiny slithers of bacon, 1 egg, 2 sausages, a tiny cup of beans and 2 pieces of sourdough that have been fried to a crisp, what did I just pay £17 for????

Was dissappointed by this place before but thought I’d give it another...