Bungalow Cafe — Restaurant in Sunderland

For around 3 months in the Summer of 2017 I used to come here for a breakfast daily. After moving away I haven't visited since then however, being in the area on 14/4/18 with company we decided to call in for a breakfast. I paid for our meals upfront which cost around £16. Upon leaving, the woman made some conversation with us and we just continued towards the door. Before we got there the woman asked us for payment to which at first I thought she was joking, but the three female staff members stood there none the less very serious about payment. I then pointed at one I paid and explained how I'd just give her £20 and she gave me £4 change etc. Th female company I was with, who was obviously feeling highly embarrassed, as was I, also pointed out the lady and explained the same, who just stood there blank and clueless before replying "I can't remember".... Well PET! Maybe it's your job to remember who pays you before taking money off them, NEVERMIND humiliating PAYING customers! The lady who clearly owns the place, the battleaxe, even had the nerve to ask me not to come back, after we'd already pretty much clarified we'd 100% paid (of course we had paid). Yet for all the embarrassment the staff created the owner still wanted to keep the moral highground. Rather than apologise for their mistake she actually asked us not to come back instead. Well don't worry pet I hadn't planned to but I'll make sure to pass the message to all of my friends and people I know. And I hope you...

First Sunday lunch at Bungalow Cafe this week and won’t be the last.

We haven’t been here before - look, it’s not the ritz but it doesn’t claim to be. Honest, decent grub at canny prices.

My partner has a nut allergy and informed the waiter, waitress came back from the kitchen to double and triple check with us re: potential contamination which is great, not all places we eat are this careful.

I went for the lamb which just fell to bits, just how I like it. Turnip and yorkshires were great and the gravy was just how I like it, nice and thick.

Only criticism would be the mash was a bit lumpy and the peas were dry as sticks, but that didn’t put me off polishing the lot off. Hit the spot, just what I needed.

My dinner was not quite as good as my mams (the pinnacle in my humble opinion) but it was pretty close to what I’d consider a ‘proper’ home cooked dinner!

Oh and what a view… doesn’t get much better than looking...

Went here with my mate Frank Usher the 82 year old guy who was my partner in crime who last year helped clear Roker Park pond of a weed infestation. During our time in the Bungalow Cafe being a man of few words I only paused for breath once telling Frank about how my late uncle Jack aka John William Price who played the trumpet in a jazz band called the Barbery Coasters had his breakfast every day in the Bungalow Cafe after he retired from being an accountant at David Brown's engineering facility in Pallion so if the Bungalow Cafe was good enough for him it should be good enough for whoever reads this inane rambling from a now 64 year old ex Redby schoolboy whose nicknamed at school was ...