Rainbow Cafe — Restaurant in Tendring

After two visits. Everything is very clean and the cafe is in nice surroundings. The staff were nice. We had various breakfasts and paninis on our first visit which were all mostly good apart from the mushrooms which were obviously from a can as were the tomatoes. The sausage was only JUST cooked and really pale. The eggs were quite undercooked and slimy on top. All of which you can see in the photo.

I know things are mostly cooked to order which is great but the wait was still unfortunately too long, especially having small children aswell who were very hungry and we were only the 4th table in. About 40 minutes for the food and we had finished all our drinks long before then.

Second visit it was busy but we were seated and our drinks orders were taken and brought out. It was only then we were told there would be a long wait for food. So again, about 40 minutes for the food to be ready. We let the children watch most of a movie on a phone in this time as we felt guilty and were not given the heads up initially.

The food was okay. The mac and cheese was pretty good, as we're the chips. But the jacket potato was rather dry and the curry was definitely a jar sauce and microwave or boil in the bag rice with packaged naan bread.

It was okay but we won't return again. I think they might benefit from downsizing the menu to be more efficient and put out a higher quality meal and let people know before they order anything that they have long waiting...

A little dissapointed Lovely place, great staff, but very small, table reservation available, was accommodated even though tables were booked, ok choice for specials and menu looks inclusive, had breakfast Unfortunately the breakfast did not include tea or coffee in price and portions were small for the price, did not like the "breakfast potatoes" they were not evenly cut or cooked, very oily too, would have been better with chips or nothing at all, bacon was budget bacon with little flavour, tinned tomatoes were nice and so was egg, toast was dry with packet butter, no brown sauce bottle, just sachets, extras were also unnecessarily expensive, overall I've had much better and more for nearly half the price, try elsewhere if...

Lovely Cafe!!! Food was scrumptious and freshly prepared, my eggs Benedict were cooked to perfection with golden runny yolks, soft muffins and decadent Hollandaise all over it. My partner's burger and homemade wedges were both delicious and generous in size. Service was perfect; attentive and extremely polite, the ladies who run it made us feel at home. I really appreciated the decor and how clean everything was. It had a lovely family run vibe to it with lots of regular customers greeted by the staff at the door,it was a pleasure to eat there. Plenty of seating both indoors and in the garden alike. I can't praise it enough. I really recommend it, plus it's a short walk to the beach for those who want to take a stroll...