The Espresso Kart & Coffee Bar - Kilmarnock, Ayrshire — Restaurant in Scotland

Great coffee & cakes but no customer toilet facilities! Although the café has literally pushed the legal requirement to the limit of not having to provide customer toilets for premises with 10 seats or less, it is a modern expectation that in a café where food is served that a toilet is available, especially given the surrounding commercial nature of this area, spending a couple of hours wandering around car lots and showrooms then to spot a nice place to have a sit down and a cuppa to then find there is nowhere to visit a toilet was a shame. There was a staff toilet, which is legally required, but it did take the sheen off what could have been a perfect venue. Having a toilet on the premises already could make it possible to enable customer access, having done a similar thing in two cafés I operated within leased buildings it was only a small task in the scheme of things to upgrade the toilet for customer use, the benefits were huge in the long run as customers would spend longer eating and drinking! The staff were lovely, the premises were clean but for anyone disabled looking for a cuppa and a cake, or if you're having a pit stop with kids, just don't need the loo! For this reason alone it's a three star rating for now. This could be easily sorted for very little money, something I feel the operators should...

Found this place from the Independent Coffee Guide book I received for Christmas. Glad this was the first place we chose to try!

Cool decor inside and a really friendly welcome from the staff. The coffee was great and the place had a great selection of cakes, cookies and pastries. The white chocolate cake I had was...

My friend found this on our way to a work presentation...wow. Well done to my friend for finding it, lovely staff, amazing array of options and outdoor seating to take advantage of the sun. Set us both up for the rest of the working day. It is bookmarked for any time I'm working...