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This is a little gem of a cafe! Excellent home-cooked food, large portions and the friendliest staff around. Highly recommended.

Date of visit: March 2024
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Reviewed 2 weeks ago via mobile

Zero points for every aspect. Vile food, rude grubby owners . Decor which, in its day was really nice and clean..is now ready for the bonfire. along with the business. Go to poppins instead . very nice there .

Date of visit: March 2024
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Reviewed 12 November 2023

Really poor customer service, made me wait for 10 mins while the check out lady was chatting to another customer. Brought a bowl of chips which I thought was £2.75 on the menu but charged £3.50 instead!?! Should update Ur price menu. Very over priced....Obviously times are hard at the moment with prices going up I brought my own drink from another shop thinking I have already brought a bowl of chips I will have my drink with it. The lady was rude and told me I wasn't allowed to drink a can of energy drink in the cafe? Made me feel like I was in primary school. Place feels stale. The radio is really annoying, should have some better taste of music for the background or place it somewhere where's it's not banging into my ear.More

Date of visit: November 2023
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Reviewed 1 October 2023 via mobile

Whatever the family dynamic, it is a very strange one. Unpleasant attitude, disgusting food, cheap tasting but costs a fortune. Every time i’ve visited this establishment ive been greeted with what feels like passive aggression? that’s not all, i’ve seen the abnormal chef stand outside...and smoke a cig, every time without fail and it’s comical to see others posting on here sharing the same experience. It really doesn’t scream cleanliness, does it? but i’m not convinced that’s the image they’re going for anyway, it seems there’s probably a combined amount of very low IQ bouncing around the employees, i would 100% recommend AVOIDINGMore

Date of visit: October 2023
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Reviewed 4 August 2023 via mobile

Visited with my son today. £18 for two traditional breakfast (smallest fry up with one of each thing and two hash browns), with extra fried bread, a mug of tea and a child’s Pepsi. I assume they charge for the condiments as well. Well over...priced and poorly cooked with the cheapest ingredients. The joke most definitely was on me. What I had hoped would be a nice experience was one where I didn’t eat most of my breakfast. Neither did my son and I left feeling sick. The sausages have so much gristle and fat content I couldn’t eat it after the first bite. The bacon barely cooked and yet the fried bread was drenched. Cheap beans, cheap hash browns and thin white toast. I would have saved myself £18 and cooked a better breakfast every day of the week.More

Date of visit: August 2023
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Reviewed 31 July 2023

Lovely food, Hilarious customer service, clueless on how to deal with customers, But a ruddy good laugh

Date of visit: July 2023
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Reviewed 28 July 2023 via mobile

Whilst ordering it was clear this was a mother/daughter operation. Whilst the jokes between them were awful, I had reasonable expectations for the breakfast, after all, the cafe is situated in a large premises in the centre of the town. What followed was terrible, £12...for a ‘mega’ breakfast and a small cup of tea. 2 poorly cooked eggs, 2 almost raw slices of thin bacon, 1 deep fried sausage(around 2p worth) 2 hash browns, beans, 2 wafer thin slices of toast, and 2 slices of fried bread, if I’d paid £6, I would’ve given it 3 stars. Just shows that it’s worth spending a few minutes reading Tripadvisor reviews before entering somewhere, as this place is as bad as the reviews.More

Date of visit: July 2023
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Reviewed 22 July 2023

Disgusting food and disgusting attitude from staff. Hair in the breakfast. Burger cold and raw. Bun stale and fell apart. Staff arguemntative and aggressive when we tried to address this. Unfortunately had to give one star.

Date of visit: July 2023
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Reviewed 14 May 2023 via mobile

We had a Tuna salad and a cheese and ham salad and oh boy it was big but it was absolutely lovely and worth the money aswel. But unfortunately it beaten the both of us. But because the portions are big we will definitely return...in the near future. It was absolutely yummy 😋 YummyMore

Date of visit: May 2023
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Reviewed 1 May 2023

Greeted with do you won’t the special as I was giving my order and it went down hill from there as I was not listened to and then one item not put on the order that I had to reorder when 3 of us got...our food leaving one 14 old without hers Behind the counter the staff were all morning about how knackered they were? As they where cooking my order I then watched the cook go across the road and lit up a cigarette in full view of us how appealing is that? The food was then served when he got back in And quite frankly the quality was appalling and non-appetising I’m a trucker and have had better service in a lay-byMore

Date of visit: April 2023
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Reviewed 8 April 2023

Good food and quick but they could do with learning some skills in dealing with customers. We sat close to the counter and the lady at the counter was so short with their paying customers I really thought she didn't want to be there.!

Date of visit: April 2023
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Reviewed 1 April 2023

Ask for a toasted sandwich and got 2 pieces of toast with margarine and what I can only describe as a lump of tasteless cheap so called cheese Worse food I have ever tasted If you can’t do toasted sandwiches say so I ask and...you said you could won’t be going backMore

Date of visit: March 2023
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Reviewed 15 February 2023 via mobile

My daughter and I went to the this cafe today , we have been a few times before and really liked it. Unfortunately the lady serving was extremely loud and rude to the customers including us. My daughter is very anxious and did not like...it at all. The food arrived cold and not very appealing. I'm afraid we won't be returning.More

Date of visit: February 2023
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Reviewed 12 January 2023 via mobile

A fantastically, huge breakfast for 2. Served fast with builders coffee and a smile! Sometimes only a fry-up will do and this is just the place if you are hungry

Date of visit: January 2023
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Reviewed 29 December 2022 via mobile

Excellent cafe with proper full English and amazing decor. If you ever find yourself in Dorchester it is always worth a trip into the Gorge, unpretentious and genuine.

Date of visit: December 2022
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  • Food: 3.5
  • Service: 3.5
  • Value: 3.5
  • Atmosphere: 3