The Beach House Cafe — Restaurant in England

Beautifully bright and colourful little café on the seafront, let down by somewhat grumpy staff. We’ve been coming to Lyme for years but never tried here before as they always seem to close really early. Went in at 2:30 on a hot sunny day and didn’t realise until checking online later that they close at 3pm. Although when we walked past on the way back to our car around 5 ish one of the men was still there so maybe they do stay open later when it’s a nice day. Either way we felt really unwelcome like they were irritated by our presence, bear in mind we were literally the only 2 customers they had. We were told they could only do a couple of sandwiches or small things like tea cakes. Which was fine we only wanted a quick bite. Crab baguette expensive of course but not surprising and you do get quite a lot for that, although it is simply mixed crab meat in a baguette, but you do get a small side salad you can add. Tea cakes were large also. Hot chocolate pretty standard. You can help yourself to water inside. All in all pretty standard café food and drink and unbothered cold staff but beautifully decorated and in great position on the beach with lots of seating outside. I wouldn’t rule out returning as I am interested to try their shakshukas or...

Very rarely make a point to leave a bad review but this has been an awful dining experience. The smell of urine I wish I smelt before paying for the breakfast as I wouldn’t have stayed. The tables were sticky and dirty, I asked for them to be cleaned and a young lad flicked a few crumbs off with a dry tea cloth. Leaving me to have to clean it myself with water and a napkin. I was hoping the breakfast would save the experience, but during ordering I told the lady what I wanted to which she said ‘yup yup yup’ but I could see she was more concerned about a note left in the till, meaning I had to repeat my full order as nothing was taken down. Not a problem but just the whole experience was poor. Breakfast arrived and the sausage was cold through so was inedible. The mushrooms were superb... But the rest of the breakfast was not a £15 breakfast. To top it off the iced coffee was warm with only a couple of ice cubes, meaning the milk must not have been refrigerated to make the whole iced coffee luke warm - this defeats the whole point of an iced coffee. Wish I tried literally anywhere else along the sea front. The service alone made this experience disappointing, but the quality and level of the food makes it somewhere that I would recommend avoiding...

Where to start. Staff very unwelcoming and rude. Had to pay before receiving food and drinks to which one of the items never showed up and upon asking for this to be refunded we were rudely told "would you not have left us that as a tip?" Definitely not! Tables were dirty and service was slow. Food arrived at different times and without cutlery - when we asked if we could get some we were told to go inside to get. Went inside but there was only 1 fork and knife so asked for more and they just filled the tray up instead of bringing to our table. Waiter didnt know which was the cows milk latte and soya latte - luckily it was a preference and not an intolerance. Felt like staff didn’t want to be there. Great location but unfortunately staff really let...