Queen Elizabeth Country Park Cafe

Not sure what's gone wrong here. This cafe use to be great years ago with home made produce. Now its coffee from a machine and bought in cakes. Very disappointing. We had coffee and cake but wished we'd brought our own. My lemon drizzle cake tasted OK, but even a garden centre makes their own cakes. Daughters ice-cream had a very soft cone.

Had a wonderful time at the cafe today enjoying bacon sandwiches, hot chocolates, and coffee after a rainy walk. The service and food were excellent. The place was impeccably clean and well-run.

I ordered two coffees and a hot sausage roll, but the young girl gave me the sausage roll first before making the lattes. I requested for the sausage roll to be put back in the hot cabinet so it wouldn't be cold by the time I received the lattes, which ended up tasting like warm milk. While it's understandable to hire young, inexpensive staff, it would be helpful if they were properly trained in the basics of food service.

I was very disappointed with the food offered at the cafe. Particularly because the cafe itself and the staff were great. It’s a spacious, attractive location and bearing in mind there are mountain bikers, walkers, hikers and more the food on offer was poor. Available to eat: 1 Sausage rolls 2 Pasties assorted 3 Mountains of cakes 4 Icecream 5 Chocolate Sorry but that was it unhealthy and a VERY poor choice. Would definitely think twice before returning.

You can’t really ask much more of this cafe. I often stop here when riding off road in the park or South Downs. Really good cakes and snack food, sit in or out, safe with bikes and generally friendly. Only improvement would be a better coffee offering, but that’s minor. Great place highly recommend and right on the SDW.