Twenty Nineteen Coffee — Restaurant in Scotland

A slither not a slice Twenty Nineteen

I was recommended the cafe by friends who are local to the area, so was keen to try. I ordered coffee and a 'slice' of chocolate cake. As I waited for my order, I noticed the food other people were served, and could see lovely baguettes etc being delivered to their tables, and whilst I didn't have one myself they looked delicious and I'd say reasonable value for money at around £9.00 +. With hindsight I wished I'd had a baguette rather than the cake served as it was very disappointing. In fact I'd say it was a slither not a slice and was a little tough around the edges. Based on 8" 2 tier sandwich cake, you'd normally get 15-20 portions, if they serve everyone the size of slice (about 1/3 of a normal standard piece of cake) I received for £4.25 they will almost certainly exceed 30 slithers and have done very nicely!

The service was friendly, though not overly speedy by comparison to the number of people eating etc, though I wasn't in a hurry so it didn't really matter, if you are in hurry or simply impatient it may well do. The cafe, allows for dogs outside, but not in the cafe, though unless you had checked before on the website etc there is no info on the doors informing you either way, given the post Covid everyone's got a dog era it's always good to know these things esp when it comes to outside table service and ordering.

Would I go back... possibly, but...

My friend and I visited Twenty Nineteen in Lossiemouth on Sunday 17 August 2025.

It was Our second visit…… we came back a second time as we thoroughly enjoyed our lunch the first time.

Unfortunately today was completely different. Firstly we waited 30 minutes for our lunch to arrive which was reasonably acceptable as it was busy. We ordered two coffees and only one arrived without sugar, I had to go inside to enquire for the second coffee, the cutlery was dirty.

Lunch finally arrived but the salad was knocked off the plate, it was replenished. We asked for water but none came.

After lunch two more coffees were ordered but no milk came. Once again I went inside and the waitress said she would bring some out to us….. none came so I went inside and asked again…… it was sitting on the counter. Three waitresses were huddled over the till and one other was cleaning tables.

My friend was ignored and left standing when she went in to the counter.

Not a very pleasant experience at all today. Not sure if we want to come back a third time. We are tolerant people but a lot of this could have been avoided…. even...

Was really disappointed. Under its old name Aroma it was fab and we went often.

However on this occasion my mum and I had been for breakfast, it wasn't busy and it was around 10.30 when we went so not exactly the start of the shift.

We waited close to an hour for scrambled eggs on toast and a simple breakfast (no special requests), by the time it had arrived we were almost out of tea and coffee and others around us who had come in later had been served and were eating (somewhat similar things to what we had ordered). If someone would have spoken to us to explain a delay this may have appeased the situation.

Having said that there have never been complaints about the food, its always up to scratch and amazing and the cakes are always beautiful but felt very let down at that time that we don't have plans to return anytime soon...