Stables Café — Restaurant in Waddesdon

Popped in today for a family lunch. First of all there are two places that do food in the courtyard. One for hot sit down meals and one for takeaway. Sadly the selection of sandwiches in the takeaway was very poor, they only had five left at just after 1pm.

In the end we went to the hot sit down cafe. We had a very varied selection including (and not limited to) sausage and mash, rarebit, poached eggs and croquettes, scone and jam and millionaire shortbread.

I have to say the service was amazing, the food was absolutely delicious and piping hot!

The staff had lots of new starters but nothing lacking that we noticed, they were all smiling and had great attitudes. The hot chocolate was absolutely amazing (that came from a picky 21 year old) so must have been good.

We will deffo come back!...

Very disappointing food. Some "clever" catering guru has designed a menu of confusion. Only burgers are available in the sit down table service area but the beef one had the texture of being cooked the previous day (and was lukewarm at best), the chicken one just tasted of chilli/paprika and the vegan one just tasted of cumin. As we passed the 'takeaway' on the way out we saw a tray of pasties and wondered if we should have gone there but the menu told us they were cauliflower bhaji pasties. We do have adventurous tastes in general but this just doesn't work. With the food offers as they are, we cannot recommend this place despite the very pleasant ambience and the helpful staff (so sorry for them to have to serve this!) Can't even say it was value for...

Have visited Waddesdon many times over the years and we've always accepted the Stables, like most NT cafes are a bit pricey. Today we felt particularly ripped off at the Stables - finding my £3.30 scone + jam came with no cream, I asked for some cream only to find after that an additional £3.21 was added apparently because this was now considered a cream tea. So with the scone, my wife's tiny chocolate brownie and the 2 teas (which arrived after we'd finished the cakes) the bill was £15.51 !! The place is run by very polite but green school kids who don't really understand customer service. Unfortunately we will be avoiding...