Sip Café — Restaurant in Wales

A really nice cafe that is in the middle of Colwyn Bay. It's not all doilies like so many touristy places around and neither is it old fashioned china with quirky old great grandparents style crockery. It's funky, modern without being edgy or pretentious. We both had traditional breakfasts with perfectly cooked poached eggs. The sautéed mushrooms were beautiful. I had an Americano and it really was a beautiful cup of coffee. I enjoy strong coffee but I don't like a heavy roast - this coffee from Heartland Coffee company was sublime and it was only an Americano. We also dabbled in some cakes to take away for mid-afternoon nibbles. A cherry scone and a rum and raisin chocolate brownie. Both really tasty. A fresh light scone and the brownie had nice chocolate crackling with a lovely moist, gooey boozy centre.

A genuine pleasure to find...

We popped into Sip Café in Colwyn Bay after hearing good things, and to be fair, the food and coffee were excellent. Fresh, well presented and really enjoyable.

That said, the experience felt a bit flat because of how we were received. It might have just been an off day, but we didn’t feel particularly welcome with our two kids. Our youngest cried briefly as we came in (as toddlers sometimes do), and the only interaction we had from staff was a rather abrupt visit to remove the salt and pepper pots with the comment, “these are not kid friendly.”

It set the tone unfortunately, which was a shame given how good the food was. I’d happily go back for the quality of what’s on the plate, but I’d hope for a warmer welcome next time, maybe we should have checked if...

Stopped in for a chocolate milkshake this morning. 1st person serving me didn’t seem to know how to make it, 2nd person stepped in to help and immediately stuck his ungloved hand into the mixer to take out a scoop of ice cream, on reprimand by 1st server he put it back (BTW he had just been dealing with sales at toll and had not washed his hands. I decided not to make a fuss about the incident as I was with my dog and the place was busy. When I got my chocolate milkshake it was pretty tasteless, definitely lacking in chocolate colour or taste. In the bottom of my cup was a small block of unmasked, unblended chocolate! Very...