River Palace Cafe — Restaurant in Epping Forest

Just went there and got the ‘chicken supreme baguette’ listed as £5 on the wall with a drink £1.50 so £6.50.

I paid by card I asked for a receipt they charged me £9.05.

When I contested this he said oh its because theres an extra charge for a baguette I pointed to there signage it and showed him it said £5 he then said oh its because I wanted salad in the baguette also which is an extra charge of 80p.

He then gave me the change back out of the till.

Everywhere else salad is normally free in sandwiches.

This was obviously just another made up charge.

The chicken supreme was meant to have bacon, chicken, sausage and ham.

When I got back to work to eat it there was no ham or bacon or sausage in it.

And about 5 small chunks of chicken.

Utter rubbish and utter rip off will not go there again.

They also messed up my colleagues order 1 Star

There was absolutely nothing supreme about it, I thought it would be a decent loaded sandwich by the guys description, if I hadn’t of got the added salad (of which I was charged extra for it literally would have been just a baguette with a small amount of mayonnaise and a few tiny cubes of the cheapest chicken you have seen.

If you want to go to a real cafe go to Anatolia or Tulip they are decent food and they don’t try and rip you off !

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