Corner Club Taunton — Restaurant in England

The Corner Club in Taunton isn't something new, but it was my first visit. So many people have told me how good the place is, so I was looking forward to seeing how good lunch would be. We walked in at about 2 pm on Sunday to see most of the tables were occupied and a lovely buzz to the place. A table was pointed to by one of the girls behind the counter, and we sat down. The menu is uncomplicated but full of good solid favourites. I had the sour dough toast with mushrooms with tarragon and a mustard creamy sauce. I also asked for some extra toast and a hash brown. My guest had the sour dough toast with avocado, bacon, and poached egg. You order at the till, and a friendly waitress took my order and money with a nuce chatter and smile. Our drinks arrived quickly and food not long after. The poached egg was perfect and runny, and the whole dish was good, my guest told me. My mushrooms were good as well. A nice warm flavour from the mustard and tarragon, very well balanced. I just with when you say toast on a menu, toast the bread, not just warm it. This was the case on both my mushroom dish and my side of toast, and if you are making good food, why are you serving margarine instead of butter on the side? (It's just the same as having a non branded cheap ketchup that you get in pubs!) I know it's being picky, but it makes a massive difference. I also expected a homemade hash brown and not what tasted like a once a frozen hash brown. Again, the main dish was so good, the hash brown let's things down. I didn't have a cake from the counter, but they definitely looked really good. Maybe next time, I will plump for a cake. Overall a good lunch, just a couple of niggles. One thing to think about. When we walked away our clothes really smelt of cooking fat, like how your clothes smelt when you went to your granny's house. I know this is more structural, but...

Been twice now and both times the food was delicious and the service was quick and super friendly! It can get really busy though especially on Saturdays.

The family that opened Corner Club, also own Skewer House and Nobregas so you get the usual variety of tasty sweet treats like natas, cronuts, donuts, churros, cheesecake, cookie pies as well as the new Instagram-able brunch stacks, pancakes, sourdough and bagels. The flavoured lattes are really nice too. Prices are probably slightly cheaper than places like Boston Tea Party and I prefer to support an independent place, rather than a chain anyway.

I've had the madeira chicken bagel and super stack with halloumi (their halloumi is to die for) and my boyfriend usually has the Say Cheese (grilled cheese with chutney) but adds two poached eggs.

Definitely coming back to try pancakes next and bringing anyone who comes to visit...

Underwhelming experience at brunch today I'm afraid. The staff are lovely, friendly, can't fault them at all. But the food was meh, overpriced and not really what we were hoping for from the reviews. My friends eggs on sourdough toast - she was served the end piece of bread and so found it too tough to eat. I had the chicken waffles which was supposed to be 'fried chicken' but they were Southern fried chicken tenders the kind that you can buy in Tesco - soggy and not crispy or freshly fried. They were on Liege sugar waffles which were way too sweet for chicken waffles, but I should have asked to be fair. It was £10 for that dish - I've definitely paid less for better. It's a really pretty cafe and the cakes and donuts look to die for but I'm afraid we weren't blown away by the...