Cafe Aroma — Restaurant in New Forest

Ordered a continental breakfast while out with my friends. Everyone's food starts coming out individually while I'm still waiting. Cooking an English breakfast has a lot of moving parts so i was expected it to take a little longer, but after another 10 minutes of waiting after the point my friends have all already got their food I ask if my food is still on the way to a waiter, who tells me yes, it is.

A minute later the waiter comes back and asks what it was I ordered(!). Weird thing to ask after telling someone they knew it was on the way! I tell them again and they say it's coming and leave.

I then hear them walk around to the kitchen and ring the order in for the first time. By this point it's been about half an hour, my freinds have almost finished their food. Not wanting to sit their eating long after my freinds have finished I find the waiter and tell her to cancel it.

All in all, an hour experience to get 1 cup of tea that frankly wasn't that great! Not to rag on literally everything, but paying 2 pounds for a cup of tea that arrived a tiny bit better than luke-warm isn't great. It came with far too much milk, and someone had clearly not even bothered to stir in the milk after pouring.

Paying and checking out wasn't a great experience either. the guy taking the payment was notably annoyed that we wanted to actually split the order and pay for what we got (especially after the food jnot arriving). At first he tried to insists on just dividing the bill by the number of people and letting us handle working out who actually paid what. But by that point I had given up and had left it to my friends to handle it

Think I'll give the...

I’m going to try to be balanced here, because it wasn’t all bad, yet, it wasn’t all good either.

The good points include the place was very clean, the staff were polite, friendly and apologetic when issues arose,

it’s fairly good aesthetically and fairly well laid out..

The not so good points: £9.95 for a very basic breakfast - also ordered a coffee at the same time as our breakfast, but the coffee didn’t come out until we had almost finished our food , and the food itself took long enough itself but they were busy.

Two toilets looked clean, but on closer inspection, one of them was blocked with paper and shit, and the flush didn’t work at all .

Paying was an unpleasant experience with the guy on the counter, having to rummage through tickets to find ours…

In summary, we wanted a breakfast, and this place we found to be serving them after 12 noon, which was good, but I wouldn’t rush back...

We found this cafe on our first morning of a 3 day visit to the area, we noticed it was full, we now know why. Staff were very pleasant and the menu really varied and vety reasonable - it catered for all tastes. We chose the early breakfast which included toast and a hot drink, maxi breakfast (it's huge!), and the smoked salmon breakfast - all were freshly cooked and delicious. Even the coffee included with the breakfast was the real thing and not instant and they served freshly squeezed fruit juices! The food was so good that we returned for the next two days too. We would definitely return when next in...