The Sandwich House
Next door to Peter de Wits, The Sandwich House is an ok snack bar selling teas, coffees cakes and buns as well as the odd savoury snack. I can't say the cakes taste as nice as they look (to be honest they're pretty bog-standard) but it's really not bad as a quick snack venue. You can get the usual fried stuff and sandwiches and there are definitely worse snack bars in the centre of town (albeit there are also better ones.) In the summer, there are tables and chairs in the tiny yard at the back, though unlike their next door neighbours, they haven't made much (read "any") effort to render it particularly "cute."
Labels: Eating Out
posted by The Greenwich Phantom at
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This place must have improved then, because when I went last year it was absolutely disgusting! The cakes were stale and tasteless, and it's ran by the world's rudest women (she shouted at us to take our order and threw our food down when it arrived). To top off the insult, it cost us about £14 for two scones and two cups of tea! Avoid at all costs.
I confess I didn't get BAD service like you - indifferent, I would put it. And the cakes weren't great - but not totally inedible. But I guess with so much choice around there's no real reason to visit it at all. My vote is still with The Meeting House for snacks in the centre of town.
I've always avoided The Meeting House because of the quite high prices, but I have to admit I had a craving for a nice jacket potato at the weekend and searched the village high and low for one. The Meeting Place sold them but was sadly closing! I will give it go though.
Managed to track down a nice spud on the new menu at The Yacht, which is generally a lot better.
Nice Jacket spuds:
The Meeting House
The Yacht (yes I'm a fan)
The Trafalgar cafe (Woolwoch Rd.)
If you like your jacket spuds crispy don't go to the Cutty Sark - they are very proud of their "soft-skin" recipe which tastes like it's straight out of the microwave.
Why single out the jacket potatoes at the Cutty Sark? The whole menu is awful, awful awful (well, I haven't tried everything....) dry, unappealing and basic, I believe they're quite proud of their food for some reason. Some hope lies in the fish and chips as Julian at The Fishmongers now supplies the fish.
I only single out the jackets at the Cutty Sark because the guy went to extreme pains to tell me how fantastic they were and how they had a special recipe for them.
Specially horrid.
Well, if we're on the subject of bad cafes in Greenwich then Pistachios definitely takes the biscuit. Dirty, poor service, slow, expensive, and I haven't been in there once when they haven't messed up the order. Trafalgar Cafe is superb but sadly not always open.
AM
Thanks for the heads-up. I confess I've been putting off visiting Pistachios as it just doens't LOOK very nice. I will, of course, visit it for Phantasmogorical reasons at some point, but I'm not looking forward to it - your review makes me bleach at the thought. There are plenty of other places I need to check out first!!!
I agree about the Cutty Sark, I've never had a spud but the beef sandwich and their horribly overpriced surf and turf were lifeless. Never considered the Trafalgar Cafe for spuds, I went once and keep meaning to return.
I have to say, I've been served up un-cooked food (not undercooked, UNcooked) at Pistachios twice. Raw burgers and pink chicken. Watch out for their 'extra special' sausage that comes with the breakfast too! (what do they make it out of, brick?)
You mean you went back a second time! That's dedication to fairness beyond the call of duty!
Given the duff reviews I've read they'll get one chance from me - but frankly it's not top of my list and I'll have to go alone as no one's going to want to come on that one...
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