Apollo Cafe — Restaurant in Epping Forest

I have been going to this cafe on the occasional Sunday morning for years and have never been let down. Waltham Abbey still has a village mentality. The saying goes "Waltham Abbey people are born there, grow up there, marry there and die there" This community effect is easily observed in the cafe. People across the generations going there clearly know each other but still welcome newcomers so you immediately feel part of the crowd. It is currently run by a Turkish family and they have maintained the high standards of previous owners. The food is freshly cooked using good quality ingredients served in big portions for the price. The menu has a wide range of meal types including vegetarian and vegan

Today I went there with my daughter and two grandchildren to put it to the test and it passed with flying colours. They kids ate until they were full and enjoyed everything on their plates. A very rare event.

To support my community comment as we were finishing 10 teenagers from the local football team arrived in their kit and the staff moved the tables so that they could sit on one long table together. The others in the cafe not only didnt complain but openly approved of their footie representatives being afforded respect by the cafe staff.

They now do online ordering which means you can pay by card. A really positive step which cancels out my one historic gripe of having to get cash out before going there.

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I've been going to this cafe for years, and I tried all sorts of food on the menu. It's ok. BUT, on my last visit, I had some English breakfast that I did not enjoy. In retrospect, I should not have eaten that, me and the wife were both sick afterwards. Sausages were so salty, bacon extremely salty and burned, egg and bacon was OK. I could feel my blood pressure going through the roof as I was eating, we had just come back from the airport so we didn't mind it too much then, but suffered later. I hope it was a one-off as I enjoyed other food on the menu in this cafe. Also, the lighting could use brightening a bit. It was early morning, but I couldn't see what I was eating, and the whole atmosphere was a...

No toilet kid-u-not No🚽🚽🚽 Most cafes do omelette chips n salad. Apollo no chips. All cafes do set breakfasts with tea/coffee n toast, no tea/coffee with Apollo. Sausage dark brown n dry, hash browns too dark. One of my pieces of toast was the knob of the bread - all for the price of £6.00 + my cappuccino £2.30 = £8.30 for my breakfast then I had to find a toilet.... how wonderful!!!! There's never been a loo but the cafe and the FOOD was much much better under...