Hitchin Cafe — Restaurant in North Hertfordshire

A difficult day really. I argued with my wife about the ridiculous prices in the first café we stopped at in Hitchin, so we left and wandered up Hermitage Rd to the Hitchin Café expecting reasonable prices from a bog standard, out of centre eatery. Unfortunately I had to eat humble pie (with my wife - not the café) It was even more expensive than a well known chain in the centre of town, and, I'm convinced, of much lower quality! Sorry Mrs B, my bad..... To be fair, the staff were lovely and the place was spotlessy clean. But the food, oh the food (and the prices) were...... urghhhh. Mrs B paid fortunes (in my opinion) for a set breakfast that consisted of a couple of rashers, two black pudding, and an egg - £11+....... toast and coffee were extra. In protest at the prices (at least Dick Turpin wore a mask) I ordered nothing but scrambled egg on toast at £6.70. The black pudding was overcooked and the scrambled eggs were more dry and bland than a really dry and bland thing. And it was twenty three bloody quid in total!!! Certainly won't be going back there when there are more eateries than ants to choose...

So my boyfriend and I came to Hitchin Cafe on a Sunday morning, we arrived at around 11.20am and by 12.10pm we’d left without being fed… we decided to wait a while hoping our food would come, but when we started to see that people who came in AFTER us (3 tables) were getting their food before we had ours, we decided to leave. Our tea and coffee took about 25 minutes to come and 10 minutes before we left we were given burnt toast that was supposed to come into my partners food. I have been here before and have been told by others who have been here some bad experiences but due to me not having that service I didn’t really think much of it. Clearly this is something that happens often and is obviously something to be worked on. Very disappointed, and as you can appreciate after waiting 50 minutes, very hungry… unfortunately because of the time we left, we wasn’t able to go and wait elsewhere because it’s a very busy time and didn’t want to be...

Ordered online from these guys was met to a ridiculously small portion considering price, chips were undercooked mushy and freezing cold, the sausage was crusty dry and hard and resembled no sausage I had seen. My partner had an omelette. He eats anything and everything but could not even eat half the omelette before he started to feel sick. Today one day after eating your food and that being the only thing we both consumed were both extremely unwell today. Wouldn’t advise not worth the money or potential risk on your health. Very sad as I was looking forward to this meal and instead was disappointed and still hungry with two basically full...