Chatwins - Blacon — Restaurant in England

Ordered 2 bacon rolls, 1 with tomato sauce. 1 tea, 1 coffee, expensive at £16! The bacon was under a heated lamp, there was 3 slices of COLD bacon on each roll. A very nice lady brought the order to our table. The rolls were nicely cut in half. One roll had tomato sauce where it had been halved. This was taken as the 1 WITH sauce. NO, they had cut the 1 with sauce and then, with the sauce covered knife, cut the one without sauce. I detest sauce. This was a bad error by the staff, which could have caused an allergic reaction. Very poor food hygiene standard. Back 11/11/24 for a third visit, much worse than the first. First, they refused my Scottish currency, I would have left had my elderly father not been there. Luckily, he had English currency. The female assistant used tongs to lift the bacon from the hot plate, dropped it, then proceeded to pick it up with her ungloved hand 😱 I then requested a return of my money back, she asked why, told her. She made me a fresh roll wearing gloves. The gloves were not the issue the fingers on my bacon was. The mug for my tea was chipped, not badly the whole way round the circumference. This was returned, and a replacement mug was provided. £24.50 for 2 hot rolls, I sausage roll, 2 coffees, and 1 tea. Rip-off comes to mind. Hygiene standards need...

After many visits to buy and run, I finally found time for a sit down at my local Chatwins. It's a mixed bag.

The staff are super friendly although they are about as organised as flatulance in a colander, even though it was very quiet on my visit.

The tables are clean and tidy, and the wait for breakfast was not too long. The coffee, however, took even longer.

Now, you may well be asking why the 5 stars given the niggles so far...

Is it the cold hard beans that bump up the rating? Unlikely.

Maybe it was the greasy egg with the overcooked yolk? Definitely not.

It must be the lack of lustre bacon, then! Nope.

What makes this a 5-star breakfast is two things, the sausages. They are amazing, in a barm or on a plate they will not disappoint your taste buds. Most importantly, it is the toast, hot crispy doorstep triangles of incredible bread with such an amazing crust, and if that was not enough, it is literally dripping in melted butter.

Now, please pass me some statins 🤣

Hopefully, I will find the time to eat in again, but not too often. Gotta think of my waistline and my wallet. At £12.95 for breakfast with a coffee, it is about 30% higher in cost than the average breakfast...

Called at 2pm on a Saturday and it looked like the staff were trying to close up earlier than they should. Too busy talking amongst themselves to acknowledge that I was standing there waiting to be served. I had to ask if they were still serving and if they could make me a bacon, sausage and egg bap. I was told that they had run out of bacon, eggs and sausages. I don't think I'll be going back again anytime soon! Bye bye Chatwins there's plenty of other food establishments that'll be pleased with...