CANAKIN - Coffee Shop / Patisserie — Restaurant in Reigate and Banstead

I needed to leave a review. I have been ordering birthday cakes from canakin for about a year now. Absolutely delicious each time.

Ordered a birthday cake for my mum’s birthday. She wanted a chocolate and pistachio cake (it’s her favourite from canakin). Now my mum isn’t a fan of sugar except when it comes to canakin Patissere and cakes. Their Patissere is gorgeous. I feel like I can watch Bake off: the professionals and know what they talking about with the Patissere thanks to Canakin. (Anyways I digress).

The cake was beautiful and absolutely delicious. My 19months old daughter saw the cake and went ‘oh wow’! Moist and light chocolate cake with a pistachio filling and Italian meringue buttercream. Not too sweet. Perfect sweetness (I don’t like cakes that are too sweet and all you taste is sugar and wonder if your teeth will be falling out or one will be having diabetes after eating). The cake was perfect and everyone loved it.

Michele who bakes the cakes is lovely and fantastic and easy to communicate with. She is great.

If you need a cake, please order from here and you will not be disappointed. Their dulce de leche is fantastic, so is their pistachio cake (that’s what got my family and I hooked), vanilla, lemon. (You can see where I’m going).

Photos attached. What I do wish is that canakin was around 15+ years ago when I was at the sixth form and didn’t have to worry about my waistline cause I would have lived there during my...

I popped in here today to have a quick coffee while I was shopping with my sister and I nipped to the toilet. Unfortunately there are no toilets for the public to use. Although I understand this is not against the law to have no toilets for patrons to use, if they’re under 10 seating areas. It would’ve been very helpful to have known this before we entered the restaurant. Of course we would’ve chosen to have proceeded to the next café. To me this seems very a deliberate reason why they do not have a notice giving you this information, you are then trapped into staying. Although the coffee was nice, we had one mouthful and then threw it away before we entered another restaurant so we could use the facilities and stay for coffee and cake. I would not return to this café again for the very reason they do not have toilet facilities and do not have the common courtesy to inform the patrons before entering, a simple notice on the door outside would give people the informed decision on whether to enter or not....

Popped into this coffee shop but was quite disappointed from the way they promote themselves to reality. The selection is VERY minimal and there was hardly anything left when we arrived, it was afternoon so understandably they probably sold out of a lot but there was barely anything at all left and we’d travelled a fair bit due to what we saw online. The coffee was below average and the prices quite steep. The macaroons were nice, but that’s about it.

REPLY: Lee - you must learn to accept your customers views, as they are our own. From your responses to your other customers below, you are unable to accept your shortcomings in any area, and I have to say, it makes you and your business look very unattractive. Definitely won’t...