Cartgate Lodge Cafe — Restaurant in England

Cartgate has been our cafe pilgrimage and resting and eating place for a very long time. Cool trees to sit under and eat your picnic or purchase one of the many wonderful dishes on offer from the cafe. I would highly recommend Cartage picnic area and cafe. Very clean lavatory facilities with baby changing area within the disabled toilet area or in the outside Lavatories . Seperate male and female Lavatories are inside and outside of the cafe. Good cooked food and a good selection of cakes and sandwiches to takeaway. Eat in or outside. The tables have umbrellas for the protection from sunshine. Everyone working at Cartgate are very friendly and kind. There are little colouring activity packs to buy for a £2.00 donation. There is enough space for wheelchairs and access inside and outside is good. The decor inside is very interesting. Items made from mechanical paraphernalia of good quality and cleverly constructed. The interior is light and airy with comfortable seats and non wobbly tables with a variety of free sauces. Teas and coffees and soft drinks to. Soya milk or cows milk to add at your discretion. The vegan/vegetarian and English breakfasts is lovely and are available in small, medium or large . Specials are offered to. All food prepared on site by a brilliant chef. Well worth a visit. Parking facilities are very good. Whether in car, camper van or motorcycle. Thumbs up for Cartgate. Do hope that the visitor centre opposite to the cafe will reopen one day. Thank you to all at Cartgate for...

Used Cartgate Service for the first time after a recommendation from another driver. I am a long distance truck driver. Arrived at 7.20 on Wednesday evening, hoping to get a meal in the cafe, which I had been told are lovely, but no such luck as it was closed and all locked despite the website advertising closing time as 8pm. The staff who were still on site did open the door and I got a coffee but a meal was what I really wanted. The following day I asked about shower facilities, Paid my £3 and wandered off in search of the showers, gave up and asked Tracy who works in the car park keeping it tidy. She showed me the way. I would never have found it as its a scramble through some long grass to a very unassuming, unmarked door. The floor on the changing area was filthy, there was an old nappy jammed behind the sink, which may have explained the smell, some old clothes , hair bobbles , and a cup. The shower cubicle itself was a bit mouldy but I have seen worse. I did get to use the cafe for breakfast and got a very nice sausage and bacon bap. Overall not the worst services I have been too. Parking was free, staff were friendly, Tracy in the car park deserves a pay rise, she is very helpful and friendly. The girl with the blue hair serving in the cafe was also friendly...

Such a Shame ! I have been coming to this cafe for over 30 years going back and forth to West Country, seen this cafe go from a 24hr stop with great honest food at a realistic price, over the years it has reduced it’s opening hour ( which I do understand due to cost ) but the food had gone down a little and prices have now risen which I think is now over priced, there are now more pre packed sandwiches and cakes which are pricey, I went in last week and asked for scrambled egg on brown toast to which I was told that they cannot do scrambled egg on Saturdays as they are to busy and only fried eggs were on offer, I went with the fried eggs and another plate of baked beans on toast, food arrived quickly on white toast, beans not really hot and fried eggs hard, two cups of tea and £15:00 later. Not great value. I think that in future if I want poor food with no real option I will go to the fast food chains that are increasingly available on the A303…please do not advertise that you can cater for individuals when you might be able to do that when it is not busy or is convenient for...