Mayfield Farm Bakery Cafe

Gone down hill tables all dirty service was so slow ended up cancelling and leaving out date products on shelf’s pasta and potato salad Such shame as now won’t be goinh back

Staff lovely. Breakfasts really over priced. Sausages really hard, no hash browns, no sauces and bot really big enough to warrant nearly £14. Cakes etc all look lovely but scones are very heavy and bland unfortunately. The fresh cakes are nice and the staff are all really friendly and lovely.

Shocking. Bad signage on where to order food, sat at the table for ages until we realised we had to order elsewhere, despite two members of staff (only staff in this area) having their break at the same time and neither of them acknowledged us. Dirty tables covered in used plates plates etc. Tables wonky, drinks kept spilling. Grim and dirty experience. Staff when finally back on duty were washing up next to tables, taps running, banging of dishes whilst trying to eat. Another customer told he couldn't sit at a clean table, directed to a dirty one. The same unavailable table then suddenly became available for a staff members friend. Not a pleasant experience, will not be coming again. Truckers cafes have been a better experience.

The café is shockingly bad in fact doubly so, when you consider how good it was a few years ago. It used to be a real treat visit. After ordering food in the bakery, I went through to the café, which was poorly lit, poorly heated and felt completely unhygienic dirty crockery cutlery stacked up on most of the tables. All surfaces floors, tables, walls) appeared grimy. The washing up area is clearly visible was surrounded by dirty crockery. Two members of staff were sitting at separate tables having their own food, and their only interaction with me was to say: “You can’t sit there, it’s reserved for afternoon tea”, when I went to sit down at the one table laid out with clean plates cutlery it was 11:30am). They indicated to use the tables with dirty plates, making no offer to clear them away. It is staffed by young, inexperienced, and sadly, barely competent, individuals, who might just do a better job, if given some leadership guidance. It had the feeling of a secondary school, where the 14 year olds have been given the task of running the canteen for an afternoon, without having been given instructions. And the breakfast?: small, of poor quality ingredients and vastly overpriced £13 95 for cooked breakfast, which I think would be reasonable for decent quality). It goes without saying that my knife and fork were dirty and no salt pepper or sauces were available. This used to be one of my favourite brunch venues I won’t be coming back ever again

I believe this is under new ownership. I was really taken by the warmth and kindness of the staff although there weren’t many. However, this can’t make up for the filth. The tables in the restaurant were filthy, the cutlery was dirty and the bathroom didn’t look like it had been cleaned all year. It was disgusting. They couldn’t even be bothered to put the new roll of hand towels in the holder. The food wasn’t all that either. Cold toast which was both burnt and untoasted, cheap sausages and hard poached eggs. The bacon was tasty but cold. There is also no heating in the restaurant apart from some oil heaters that were switched off. We were going to buy something from the bakery but was put off by the uncleanliness everywhere else. This has the potential to be a great tearoom but not with the lack of leadership of the current owners. Tiptree tearooms here we come.