The Almonry Kitchen — Restaurant in East Cambridgeshire

The Almonry is the official café and restaurant attached to Ely Cathedral, and is located within the cathedral's grounds (behind the building). It's small, picturesque café that you can relax at after a visit to this magnificent church. Seating out- and inside is limited, so during peak times you'll probably have to queue for a while to get in. It seems easier to find a table outside, if you're willing to deal with the wasps in the garden, of which there are many. There's a board that warns you of that at the entrance to the café. I found this to be no issue at all, but if you're allergic, avoid the garden. The food menu is mainly confined to various cold and warm sandwiches, which aren't exactly cheap, but good. I had the "Pulled Pork Brioche Burger", which was nice, and it came with a side salad and a dollop of sour apple jam, which greatly added to the flavour of the burger (It's served separately). Yo can also pick from a variety of desserts. Generally good and very friendly service. If you're a beer lover, you're out of luck though: Only a bottle of the dreaded Sharpe's Doom Bar is...

An overpriced and under-standard meal. We were tired after a lovely service at the cathedral and decided to relax and have lunch at the Almonry Restaurant which looked cool and inviting on a hot summers day. The staff took their time getting to us in the queue and enquired whether we were eating out or in. Then we had to wait until a table was cleared outside; all the while watching a single, inconsiderate young woman in blue with her feet up on a chair, talking on her mobile phone long after her friends had dined and left! it is no wonder that the young girls serving looked hassled and tired! Though we are used to ££ restaurants in London, when the food did arrive we were surprised by the very ordinary, tiny wedge of quiche served with a few boiled potatoes and coleslaw, that my husband had ordered - which resulted in my sharing my prawn mayonnaise salad with him. It wasn't just the size of the portion, but the service and quality of food in such lovely surroundings that was...

On a very pleasant day, we sat in the beautiful garden overlooking the cathedral. We were seated quickly and our order was taken efficiently. The service was very good, apart from the staff manager who insisted on barking his orders at the waitresses across the whole garden and often confused them but, that aside, the waiting staff were efficient and polite. The food, unfortunately, was a disappointment. I had quiche which had seemingly only a pastry base and was heavy, damp and floppy as though it had been microwaved. It was all cheese and 2 small mushrooms with a small slice of tomato in the top. For £13 it was a very small portion and quite disappointing. The hand-full of chips was fine and the salad ok. My husband had the sausage roll which was even more disappointing. A small, generic, floppy thing, running with grease which I assume had also been microwaved. Sorry, we won’t be returning for food, despite...