Doddington Coffee Shop

Asked if they could seat 30 of us on Saturday for brunch the staff and food was amazing as usual. Thank you for a wonderful morning

Had a wonderful trip to Doddington Coffee Shop, food was fantastic, great choice and price. The staff were all lovely to deal with, fast and efficent service.

Had tea and scones, jam and clotted cream. The scones were the usual lovely quality, however the clotted cream had been stored somewhere warm and separated into a liquid cream.

Nice and warm in the café this afternoon, the staff were very obliging and welcoming. It was a cold day so i chose a seasonal latte and was offered soya or oat milk as I avoid saturated fat where I chose. I particularly noticed the staff diligently wiping tables which is a pet 'thing ' of mine!

I am a loyal customer of Doddington but I must say that recently I have been disappointed. The young staff on a Saturday need guidance. They are confused and do not provide the same level of service as is offered on a weekday. The young waitress spilt my coffee and said she would go get some ‘toilet roll’ to mop it up. The coffee was quite cold and my son didn’t really enjoy his breakfast as it wasn’t cooked very well. You have to go find the staff rather than them being attentive to you.

We ate there a couple of weeks ago. Two coffees, carrot cake and scrambled eggs on toast. Coffee was cheap. The carrot cake was to die for and instead of scrambled egg on toast I got a fruit tea! Went back today. We wanted two hot chocolates, one with cream. What did we get? Two lukewarm hot chocolates, mine had the cream! But marshmallows too! A very average hot chocolate at that. We’d waited that long for our drinks, sat in a drafty old tent that we just couldn’t be bothered to complain. Needless to say we won’t bother again.

The new revamped bike cafe is open but it seems without the previous level of customer service. Previous staff have been courteous however on enquiring about a table yesterday I was met with we are full. No sorry or would you like to wait. In fact when I asked when a table would be free I was told everyone had just sat down and I should try the other cafe! Really? This person was meant to be welcoming but she had obviously had enough that day and no training. It is bad enough that Doddington seems to be the last place in England where there is no diversity now we can add rude to the list of reasons not to visit.

Disappointing. We arrived at around 9.30 a.m. after a very early appointment at hospital and my husband ordered a full English Breakfast and I had the Vegetarian version. Nothing was hot even the plates were cold. The bacon my husband was given had either been under heat lamps or had been cooked for a while as it was tough, the beans were cold, the mushroom wasn 't properly cooked, toast only appeared toasted on one side no side plate offered for the toast by the way. The vegetarian version was OK but I 'd sincerely stop doing the veggie sausage, it was dire. My sauté potatoes were 'old ' they 'd been cooked for a long time or recooked. If there is a next time I 'll opt for a pastry. The tea...

We return here each time in the hope that things improve. Unfortunately nothing does!! The bike cafe has been ‘temporarily’ housed under a fixed marquee , which joins on to an open, large room for about 18m now. Fully equipped and to all intents and purposes, permanent. The food is good, but the service is deplorable. The system seems to be that only designated people take the order, or should I say designated person. I’ve never seen more than one. The waiting staff who can’t take orders, consists mostly of young people hanging around chatting. No one has any sense of urgency or duty. I was watching behind the counter after our order had been taken. About 5/6 people were behind the counter,...