The Village Cafe — Restaurant in North West Leicestershire

Wouldn't go here. Totally unwilling to help out non locals or other local businesses.

Was passing through and as had never been in the area before I was blindly looking for a breakfast with zero knowledge of where to go. Came across this cafe and popped in hoping to obtain a hot sandwich. It soon became apparent this wasn't an option aften being told abruptly that they stopped serving breakfasts (breakfast times advertised on the windows or door would be nice) . However the worst part was when we politely explained we wasn't local and did they know where we could find said sandwich locally (to what I guess is the owner). He processed to throw his hands out sideways and declare he had no knowledge or ability to help us out and of course another independent local buisness.

Turns out he must have known there was a second cafe some 3 or 4 doors away on the opersite side of the High Street. So thankfully Cafe 66 managed to serve me instead.

I won't ever try this place again if he is unwilling to push buisness to other cafes once he has stopped serving perticular menu items, especially when I believe it was clear I was not interested in anything else he was now serving.

Hopefully he will read this and make appropriate changes to his attitude so others don't have the same experience.

Edit (follow up to owners reply).

Thank you for confirming all points I made in my review. I am baffled to see you continue your unpleasant nature though. You are correct as stated I wanted a breakfast sandwich and no I didn't want coffee or any of the what I would class as pub food offerings you was now selling. However I fail to remember you even attempting to sell me other options and yes you didn't even suggest I try over the road which was rather unfriendly to other local businesses as I stated in my initial review.

You can report my review all you like, but by thinking you are guaranteed to hide my experience due to receiving a 1 star review is no guarantee and in fact you have confirmed I did attend you cafe and thus it is far from a fake or hateful smear. Furthermore all you are doing is showing your unwilling to hear fair opinions. I have gathered from other reviews you have only just taken over this buisness in recent months and thus all I can hope is this is a mistake due to a sharp learning curve...

I haven’t sampled a wide range of food here so will limit to what I know without making sweeping generalisations - I’m nice like that.

The cafe has the opportunity to be ‘different’ and offer top notch food, be a destination, an alternative ... somewhere worth diverting off route if hungry.

How can you mess up a bacon and sausage sandwich?

Visit this place and find out! What you get is two thin cold, undercooked, fatty rashers of bacon and one sausage ... for £3

Contrast this with any of the many roadside cafes that are within 5 mins drive. There you get decent bacon, trimmed of fat, cooked to your liking, plenty of it m, it’s hot and there are two sausages for £3.

I know it’s only a bacon sandwich but they are...

This place used to be Bunnies and was a regular stop for us for breakfast. Sadly it won't be any more. The new owners have put the prices up, cut the portions down and the quality has definitely gone as well. Full English has gone up to £5.75 And now only has one sausage and one egg. It was greasy and the toast was very burnt and for some reason done in a panini press rather than a toaster. The hash brown was awful, really really greasy and tasted odd, like it was cooked in really old grease or something. Sorry new owners but you really need to improve and get the...