Bumble's Cafe — Restaurant in Chichester

Avoid!! Owner VERY Rude, not a way to run a business. Stopped by to have a bite to eat. Sat down and put my coat on the back of the chair next to me. A café worker reached behind me to get some cakes; Suddenly I was told by a café worker that I had knocked down a candle (it could have been her!) When I looked, I could see wax all over the back of my jacket. Little tea lights had been dotted about all over the place, to (I was told) make it look Christmassy. The owner told me that it was my fault as I was clumsy, she didn’t take any responsibility for the fact that she was carrying out dangerous practices in her business. You can see from the photos how close the candles were to the chairs that customers were to sit on. This time it was my coat, next time it could be a child hair that catches fire! Was a Risk Assessment carried out before lighting the candles? I very much doubt it. When the owner saw me taking the photos she became very aggressive and told me to talk to her if I had a problem, I had tried to talk with her, but she over talked me on every occasion and proceeded to tell me that she had spoken to her solicitor and “Good luck with whatever you are going to do with those photos, you are on camera” (I hope the recording is being kept as we may well need it) When I tried to talk to her, she told us “You can leave now” Her manner throughout was RUDE AND AGGRESSIVE! Really, is this any way to talk to a customer, she clearly was not going to make an apology or take an ounce of blame for her dangerous working practices. As you can see from previous reviews this is not the first time or I doubt the last time she will be rude to customers. I have only given it one star because I have to or cant post. -10 stars is my...

Nice little cafe, quick service, good prices, charming decor upstairs, breakfast is tasty good.

UPDATE October 2024

Noticed prices have increased again. Breakfast was originally £7.95 about a year ago, now it's £9.95.

*Coffee, i.e capuccino, latte etc is now £3.25 for a regular.

The latte in my opinion is now over priced for the regular sized cup, and the breakfast at £9.95 is competing with other cafe's in town that offer possibly a better quality/value/portion size breakfast for that money,

It's good to support local businesses so i will still happily recommend this cafe,

-----Regarding this response from Bumble Cafe-----

Response from the owner 53 minutes ago

Thank you for your kind review, But the prices you have used are incorrect, As you must be aware all prices have gone up and we thought very deeply before rising our prices as all other business have done the same at this difficult time Hopefully things improve!

Look forward to seeing you again.

I'd like to set this price discrepancy straight as mentioned by the Bumble Cafe, they are quite rightly correct, the regular capuccino and latte is £3.20 not £3.25.

Total payed was £13.15, breakfast was £9.95 and regular...

Popped in today on bh just to grab a take away coffee while my lunch was being made @ Apla Souvlaki (see my other review) Ordered a black coffee while waiting by the till a waitress wanted to come past with plates of food so I moved out of the way and was told "you can stand there" I was out of her way but not standing over anyone sitting. Anyway had to stand basically over to ladies eating there lunch which felt abit difficult, no apologie from the waitress. Then when it came to pay for my coffee I was told they only did large for takeaway i didnt ask for large (no sign for this) Paid £3:50 for the black coffee high price even for chichester. I thanked the server and left. I wouldn't call the waitress rude however the "tone" was wrong and I would go else if someone suggested to go there. Had a nice looking selection of cakes and the coffee was a...