Costa Coffee — Restaurant in England

Costa is normally a safe bet for coffee, but this time I didn't have any, so I cannot comment on this specific shop.

I had pastries, though, and in recent years I almost always found that Costa is not the best place to get them. This time made no exception: pastries were OK but they weren't fresh or crisp... taste was fine and I was in a rush to get some sugary food while on a long bike ride, but given the option I would not get them here again.

Service was so and so... Covid measures were in place, which was a welcome sight, but service was a little slow and the two waiters seemed a little disorganised. Although not particularly friendly, they were polite and doing what probably was their best to serve customers as quickly as possible. Even though I was hoping to spend less time in the queue, I wouldn't really complain about service overall.

Facilities and toilets...

I understand from numerous sources that this business disconnected it's competitor neighbour Ninos water supply to disrupt their trading;

from another SM account; Just wanted to rant. On Saturday morning, July 1st, Costa, inexcusably decided to turn off Nino's Deli water supply. The hierarchy felt they were taking away business from them, which is total nonsense! Yesterday, I spoke to the owner of Nino's, along with several other very frustrated patrons, & he said they are likely to be closed until at least Friday July 7th! What a DISGRACE, Costa should be ashamed & embarrassed after what they did. My family & I are boycotting Costa, & suggest aa many people do the same! Thank...

UPDATE: Six months later I went in again assuming the wifi had been fixed. Nope. Still not wifi LOL. I asked them to reset the router and they couldn't be bothered. Hopeless. It'll be a YEAR before I got back in there again if at all. Stay away.

Well if you are one of the many people like me who take their laptops to coffee shops to work, and depend on the wifi, forget it. The wifi at Costa Pangbourne never works and despite being repeatedly asked, they do nothing to fix it. What's worse, the mobile (4G) connection in the centre of Pangbourne is zero so you are unlikely even to be able to use your phone to connect to the Net. Instead, just sit there and enjoy your...