Stray Cafe — Restaurant in England

Plastered across the windows are “VEGAN” and “Vegan Breakfast” so we went for a long early morning dog walk for breakfast. There’s nothing vegan here.

Not seeing a vegan breakfast on the menu board but seeing it on the window I asked for 2 vegan breakfasts. They said they don’t do a vegan breakfast. I said you do and pointed to it in the window. They believe the vegetarian breakfast can be made vegan by removing the eggs! Removing times isn’t vegan. Adding vegan options is. To add insult to injury, any additional option replacing the eggs would cost more! Confirmed by handwritten signs saying so. But there wasn’t anything vegan to add anyway. But it’s still not vegan because everything is cooked on a griddle and in a deep fat frier which is used for meat and dairy products.

Ordered toast and a tea cake. Even the toast or tea cake isn’t vegan because they only have real butter and no vegan spread. So unless see you want beans on dry toast there’s nothing for a vegan to eat.

Tea with oat milk? Asked for a pot of tea for 2. They only do a pot of tea for 1 so I ordered 2 pots of teas with oat milk. Everyone else was getting a pot, a cup and tiny milk jug So I thought we’d get the same - Nope! Ours arrived and to our disbelief we had a pot of tea which was only just above half filled, a pot of water only just over half filled and a tiny pot of oat milk to share. Did I mention it costs more for oat milk! I had to take it back to explain I bought 2 pots of tea and wanted them filled. They obliged with more water and a 2nd tea bag. We would have asked for another tiny jug of oat milk but the tea was terrible and we couldn’t finish it. Wish I’d know that before asking for another bag and water! Not sure what tea they use but it wasn’t good and by the look of other people, they weren’t keen either.

Would I return? Never. Not even for a cuppa.

Would I recommend? No. They are falsely advertising vegan food without the products or ability to cook it without meat or dairy...

I came with my partner today, we ordered a sausage bun, bacon bun, corned beef pie and a piece of quiche, totalling around £16. The sausage was barely warm and very undercooked, in fact I nearly vomitted eating the two bites I had. My partner was served his pie and quiche on a plate and they had been microwaved for at least 5 minutes, they were soggy, had fallen apart and were 3000 degrees! He wasn’t asked his preference on them being served warm or cold so expected them to come as they were. We also wanted to take our food out so he asked for them to be in a container suitable to take out. The burning slop was placed into a polystyrene container and given back to him. He explained he wanted them served as they were and not microwaved for 10 minutes and the rude woman behind the counter told him he was a pain in the arse!!!! Absolutely disgusting customer service, what a rude, arrogant, ill mannered, horrible person with no people skills she is! She clearly doesn’t know how to work in a cafe and how to engage with customers. It’s a shame, we used to love it there when nice people who could cook worked there. We will not be returning! The least they should have done was offer a refund for the inconvenience of the whole visit but instead she narcissistically turned the blame onto my partner, called him an unacceptable name, couldn’t take any responsibility for the awful service and we got not one...

We drove 8 minutes from Saltburn to try Stray Cafe. First thoughts are it wouldn't look out of place on one of those long stretches of roads US/Australia has. We had breakfast here and I was gutted because I didn't feel well and had no taste but when I saw a breakfast burger with sausage and bacon i had to try it. It looked great but unfortunately I couldn't taste it, oddly I forced it down though haha. Definitely looking forward to going back when I'm better to try it again. Pros of Stray Cafe, great food, friendly, patient staff and a pretty cool location as after our breakfast we walked straight down to the beach, probably a 3 minute walk at most. Oh and finally a decent slab of butter, not a tiny sachet. Cons, hard to pick one but the only niggle i have like most have said in other reviews is the rubbish, I wouldn't blame the staff for this though, there are bins close by so just help out, we put anything that would blow away in the bins and a staff member did apologise too which she didn't have to, but thanks. Looking forward to...