Come here if you want to be repeated asked if you want to order anything - not for good service but because to stay, you need to constantly be ordering. You'll get a dumbfounded 'just water?' when you politely decline. What's wrong with needing a glass of water? Or be prepared for them to ignore your request because it's not good enough and you'll have to ask again because you're desperately parched (which happened a previous time with the same server.. which now makes sense). What's memorable is the 'look' (internal scowl) and lingering 'ok..' with shifty eyes when I don't rack up my order. Sorry, but not everyone can or wants to spend so much. And people come for different reasons.

I have come a handful of times and while there's one nice server (apologies to you - I appreciate your warm smile and indiscriminate kindness on the other occasions like letting me sit at a comfier bigger table when another server - maybe a co-owner or something had the same attitude another day and was quite directive in restricting where I sat even though it was empty at the time.. should bigger groups come, fair enough but you could be nicer about it or swap tables should that occur) and OK food - the food seems overpriced and the approach of the rest of the them absolutely ruins the experience.. treated like just another number. I made the mistake of working from here one day (not even a whole day but more than a couple hours granted) and although I ordered a drink and later, food - I was approached as I was packing up and no other customers in earshot and told that even though it wasn't busy, it wasn't acceptable for me to stay so long and no other customers do that. I'm very conscientious and had actually made a point of keeping an eye on traffic going into the café with a view to vacate if others were waiting - but there was always a few tables available even at the busiest time, which is why it's even more offensive to basically tell me I'm wasting space and preventing other customers from coming. If anything, a busy café is like free advertising.. people WANT to come to a place that's popular and that allows them a comfortable space to have meetings, work or socialise without feeling rushed or risk being treated coldly should you overstay your welcome.

Although I love supporting local businesses, customer service like this stinks and is why small businesses lose customers to the likes of Costa and Starbucks. I regret tipping - Café Vigo didn't deserve it, after all. Their only saving grace is the nice female server who probably would be more in place and valued elsewhere. I won't be returning nor recommending..