Ambiance Cafe

 Ambiance Cafe
 Website: http://www.ambiancecafe.co.uk/



Following a slightly heavy night celebrating Lewis 30th, plus Monika and Heather birthdays (I won't disclose their ages). We decided a second breakfast of the weekend was on the cards and where better than the beautifully placed Ambiance Cafe in St Neots.

Now, we have been coming here for years (me and Lewis) and as breakfast clubbers we have been her a fair few times (breaking our multi visit rule again) but we struggle not to come here when the sun is shining. For me, Lewis and Evan it is perfectly placed as we can walk there, which means Woody gets a good walk and Evan gets a good practice on his bike. 

Following our sobering walk, we arrived at Ambiance Cafe, we always get a table close to the play area so as soon as Evan has finished his food he can head over and play whilst still in sight. We were soon joined by Monika, Craig and Oliver (and Dixie aka black dog and Snoopy aka brown dog) and then Pete (who is becoming quite a regular to the gang). We sent the boys in to get drinks and menus and they soon returned with gallons of liquid to satisfy our dehydration, after a little scan of the menu we soon made our choices and sent the men back to place the orders. I'm not sure if it was double breakfast club weekend or the fact a few of us had enjoyed one to many glasses of bubbles and/or skittle bombs but our choices were a bit random. Now there is no changing Craig so he had a fry up however he didn't go for the biggest on the menu for a change, Monika had an omelette, Lewis has a bacon baguette with a side of hash browns of course, I had cheese on toast and sausages and Pete had the daddy of all breakfasts, it was huge!!!! This place has never disappointed food wise, service and location is spot on. Even though we sit the furthest away from the cafe itself the food arrives really quickly and piping hot every time. 

We finished this lovely breakfast club experience with Evan and Molly having a sit in Pete convertible (which Evan loved), Evan had a good play in the play area followed by a walk around the park and a good laugh at black dog and brown dog after going head deep in the bog and Craig having to chuck them in the river to clean them followed by a few apologies to people who may have been caught in the doggy mayhem. 

Price - really good value for money. 8/10

Quality - good quality food above average for sure. 7/10

Quantity - Great portion sizes it's very handy that you have a lovely park to wonder round after to burn some of it off.  8/10

Sandy Cafe

Sandy Cafe, Market Square, Sandy


After meeting up with Craig, Monika and Oliver in Sandy town centre to try out a new little cafe we were very much disappointed as we didn't even get in the place it was rammed full (hopefully a good sign for when we do get to sample the goods) so we decided to go to another old faithful Sandy Cafe. This place has plenty of room for our little lot and again with a bit of rearrangement of their furniture we were in. 

This place is a little like Moores Walk Cafe in St Neots its a proper good old fashioned cafe. Once we all got seated and spent a few minutes browsing the very extensive menu they were soon over taking orders and apart from Lewis (who had an omelette surprise surprise!) and Evan that had sausage chips and beans we all went for variations of the good old British fry up. The food portions here are amazing and Craig's was huge it came with the works including chips, beans and two of everything else. Me and Monika went for the same (mine without beans as they a yucky) it included sausage, egg, black pudding, bacon and bubble and squeak which was all very nice. Sandy Cafe is a bargain I think for mine Lewis and Evan it tallied up to around £16 including drinks they are also very accommodating and even gave Evan a lolly as we were leaving. 

The only thing this place is lacking is a WOW stand out factor however you really can't complain value for money is excellent and service is good.

Price - Excellent value for money   8/10

Quality - Typical greasy spoon quality food . 6/10

Quantity - You will leave satisfied if not a little uncomfortable stuffed, excellent portion sizes 8/10

Danish Camp

Visited: The Danish Camp
Website:Danish Camp Website

Following our exciting couple of weeks of special occasions we decided we would continue with a special breakfast club breakfast and meet up at the Danish camp in Willington. The old group were together again and we had one guest member Pete.

The setting here is picture perfect and we picked a beautiful day to enjoy the scenery too and found a lovely spot in the sunshine on the terrace. All was going well and the place was slowly packing out, as you would expect on bank holiday Monday.  We all picked what we wanted off the menu and went up to place our orders. Now this isn't the cheapest place and Monika and Craig's breakfasts including a hash brown side and x2 latte came to over £24, ouchie! 

Now I don't know if I was just having an unlucky day but my breakfast ordering went badly, the menu said 2 eggs on toast - £4.50 so I thought perfect poached eggs on toast, sadly they said it was only a choice of scrambled eggs or fried eggs on toast so I went for scrambled which they charge an extra £1 for because they use an extra egg! 

Right, we all sat back down and our breakfast came out bit by bit Monika and Craig's first followed by mine, Lewis and Evans (all with long waits between) when the lady came out to give me mine and it had fried eggs, fine, so I said that I had ordered scrambled, she then went on to say that they don't offer scrambled when they are busy (would of been nice to of been told that rather than bringing out something I didn't order) we explained we had been charged an extra £1 then she went back to the kitchen only to return with the fried eggs again I decided to accept them and get the £1 refunded ( which was a separate argument with her as she said it had already been refunded) now this is were it went from bad to worse, she went to put the plate down and there was a great big black hair across the eggs, by this point didn't really fancy breakfast! She took the breakfast away and returned with another plate of fried eggs on toast hairless this time. I can't say her manner won me over she was fairly rude with no flexibility or apologies, however their only saving grace was the young lad that came out after and offered a complimentary cup of tea. Anyway by this time Heather, Ross and Pete had had there's delivered. Heather had croissants, same as Evan, Pete had the regular breakfast and Ross had the full breakfast (same as Monika and Craig) Lewis had a bacon and egg wedge but was charged for a bacon sausage and egg wedge but by this time it wasn't worth the effort to complain anymore. 

This place could of been amazing it's in a beautiful setting and because we picked a bank holiday there were loads of things to see and do afterwards including a viking village to look around, a bouncy castle and even a few animals which Evan loved . I understand mistakes are made and would never slate a cafe for it as in my view it's how they deal with it that is key and sadly the Danish camp dealt with it all badly. 

Price - Expensive paying a little over the odds for the beautiful setting is fine but your customer service needs to be as "beautiful" too, also the teas and coffee are not included in the breakfast prices.  4/10

Quality - the food is good quality and the bread wedges were a nice stand out item that I haven't had anywhere else  6/10

Quantity - Good size breakfasts . 6/10

Flitwick Manor - Love is in the air

 Visited: Flitwick Manor
Website: Flitwick Manor Hotel Website

 At the moment our life's seem to be full of special occasions and this was no exception. We spent the night at this amazing hotel following my sisters (Heather) and Ross (now official brother-in-law) secret wedding. So this is another special breakfast blog, but sadly we are missing Craig and Monika again but I couldn't miss an opportunity to do what I love most and write about a breakfast experience.

The wedding party was only small and for breakfast we only had 7 of us plus my little people Evan and Molly. So it was me, Lewis, Heather, Ross, mine and Heathers mum and dad (Lynda and Geraint) Ross mum (Cathie), Kevin and little Rach.

The lady that was serving us the night before told us that we were all set up ready for breakfast in the library (all very fancy). We all met at 9.15 where there was a little selection of continental food set up for us to dig in to, all of which was lovely and a young lady soon turned up to offer us our toast and tea and coffee. We were told to have a look through the menu and they would be back to take our order.

This was my type of menu full of fish and eggs but with the obvious choice of a full English too. Now the price scared me so it was a good thing it was included in the room price, £18.00 for a full English and £9 for the lighter breakfast options. It took me ages to decide between the eggs benedict, dippy duck eggs and scrambled eggs and smoked salmon but I eventually went with smoked salmon and scrambled eggs. Lewis, my mum and dad, Heather and Ross went for the full English, little Rach went with salmon with poached eggs, Ross mum also had the smoked salmon and scrambled egg (dairy free) and Kevin had eggs benedict . There were a few small hiccups on delivering the food to the table (a couple of wrong items on plates) but I really couldn't complain as I think I had pretty much half a salmon on my plate, happy days. The full English seems a little pricy to me but you are paying above average for location and service, plus we had our own special private breakfast room. Because we had our own special room the kitchen must of been a little way from where we were eating as the poor girl serving us looked like she had run a marathon by the end of it.  This was a lovely way to end a beautiful couple of days and would highly recommend a stay at Flitwick manor, especially in the room we stayed in, number 7 as it's the most haunted room in the house, good thing I found this out after my stay! As anyone that really knows me knows I'm the biggest wimp out there.


Price - I don't think the full English is worthy of an £18 price tag however as part of the room price you can't complain.  5/10

Quality - Lovely food, my salmon was excellent but nothing else stood out. 6/10

Quantity - The full English breakfasts were not vast, but I did get a lot of salmon with mine, there was a good supply of continental which you can full up on. 5/10