Tuesday, June 23, 2009

The Grapevine Café

It was cold, it was late on a Sunday, but this place was totally empty. Not a good sign, but there was not much else that was open and doing breakfast, so in we go.

Food

We ordered the Large Breakfast (£5.25) - Sausage x2, Mushrooms and Bacon, Black Pudding x2, Egg x2, Beans and Tomatoes, 2 Slices of Toast - which really wasn’t that large. Everything was cooked well, but the ingredients weren’t that first rate so it was nothing special. The tomato was especially bland. The Soup of the Day and Crusty Roll (£2.95) was mixed vegetable, which was very nice. I didn’t really need the crusty roll as there was plenty of bread that came with the Large Breakfast, but hey, the roll was nice (and crusty), so I’m not complaining.

Rating - 6

Atmosphere

A quaint little place with a collection of old vinyl records stuck on the wall. Very few tables, a makeshift bar at the front, the menu posted on the wall. It’s all very original and quite homely.

Rating - 2.5

Service

VERY family oriented. As is, they do it all within the family, you do feel like you are in a guest house or something. Casual and caring, and they were very amused, and surprised, that we swapped food. It seemed they were quite worried about us, they kept telling us that we could get sauce from the counter – even though we didn’t want any sauce – maybe because they know that the food would need the sauce…

Rating - 3

C-factor

Not really that cheap, but we are in a resort town afterall.

Rating - 0.5

Brownie Points - 12

Info

2 Grape Lane
Whitby
YO22 4BA
Phone +44 (0) 17 2382 0275

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