Granary Cafe — Restaurant in Dunfermline

Unfortunately this review is from our 4th visit to the Granary (the other 3 quite similar but not as bad) We like the view and location hence we came back again. We ordered 2 coffees, a sandwich toasted plus a cheese/tomato gluten free toastie. The coffees arrived after 10 minutes (with hindsight we should have asked for them with the food) so we had to drink them before they were too cold. In a further 25 minutes as frustration was setting in my sandwich arrived which was really nice (but cold??) so what took 35 minutes in total? A few minutes later my wife’s toastie arrived with “ham” in it. Not sure how? Then another few minutes to rectify by which time it was cold. We had to order extra coffee to coincide with the food. We arrived at 11.45am so being busy (in my opinion) doesn’t excuse all this. At the counter and adjacent tables we could overhear other people complaining too. Bad experience I’m afraid. Never again despite the location. Rant...

I've reviewed his place a few times, and it changed based on the experience.

Today, the experience was godawful, absolutely awful. The food and drink are good, but the service can be, and was today, terrible. The staff treat customers like crap, maybe because it's somewhere that always gets custom, so they don't need to bother being polite, or kind, or courteous in any way. Really bad, honestly, not sure I'll bother again.

Also, mad expensive for where it is. There's no 'view'that people are going on about, it's basically the Abbey, there's are 1000 churches in the country, and this ain't the best one by any means.

Needs a ton of work, probably a complete staff...

Had a lovely quiet lunch with my son here today on our visit to the library. Service was made with great haste, coffee nice and strong complete with a great selection of organic sodas. And even a dairy free chocolate cake for my dairy intolerant son!

Food is 4 starred as fussy 9 year old found the scrambled eggs a bit oily for his tastes. Auld dah - however most impressed.

We enjoyed our time here will definitely be back. Perfect stop off after picking up a new book for the wee man, whilst I relaxed and wrote a poem encompassing a rare one on one day with my bairn in this hectic...