Truly outrageous and horrible experience. For any one that visits Sunny Hill Park Cafe - please DO NOT go with your babies. Mums and babies are NOT welcome. We were spoken to so rudely by the owner - he clearly believes his cafe is not for mums/ dads and their babies. Despite us being sat in the corner out of the way of other guests, buggies tucked away out of any pathways and literally just having a coffee and shakshuka together, the manager came over to moan about how mums come for coffee dates and how ridiculous that is and how much mess they make and how loud babies can be. He said they should be in creches?! Our babies were being babies! Babbling! Waving! Eating! Please, I implore you mums and dads, avoid this place. I would never normally write a negative review as I always try and see the positive, but the owner really impacted our experience.

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Having received the response below I'd like to add that I was the mother who 'considerate and co-operative'. I was the mother who sat in the corner and spoke to the manager calmly and was confused about what his issues were. He explained it was noise and mothers who leave mess. I can assure you it was our babies and not the mums making the noise. Babies do make noise! Unfortunately that is something which can not be helped! The owner himself agreed explaining he had older children who once made children noises! It was two older gentlemen who moved and that's perfectly acceptable. Yet we hadn't done a single thing wrong and the owner came over and was unacceptably rude. He stood and complained at me about mothers and babies in general and even imitated mothers apologising for the mess babies leave behind on the floor. This behaviour does not sound like your restaurant is truly inclusive of its 'family style' motto.

I'd like to add I picked up any crumbs from the bread off the floor and put the plates together for collection. I agree, your waiter staff were very kind providing a spoon for my little one and helpful accommodating our buggies and the spaces. Just to add, we did not have any heated baby food, so that is incorrect.The shakshuka was lovely, which is why it such a shame I won't be visiting to enjoy it anymore, along with the many many mothers and families who I've spoken to today about my experience with your owner. The nature of your owner's attitude was so incongruent to the experience we'd had up until him coming over. Finally, to insult us about noise in other restaurants in your response on here shows the kind of rudeness we experienced.

What would have been the ideal way to deal with this situation would have been to come over as soon as you'd received any noise complaints and we would have endeavoured to ensure our babies were as quiet as possible. Instead, your owner dealt with it in entirely the wrong way. What a shame.