
Cafe Smile
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About Cafe Smile
Cafe Smile is a community cafe in Peterborough, on Ortongate Centre, suited to people with learning disabilities and autism. The kitchen serves breakfast until a cut-off before midday, and an all day breakfast is also on the menu, including a full breakfast with sausage, bacon and hash brown. For heartier meals, the menu lists scampi and chips and roast dinners, and a ham salad is available for a lighter plate. Hot drinks, including coffee, mocha and tea, come alongside the food. Orders are placed and paid for at the till.
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Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention all day breakfast, scampi and chips, ham salad and sausage roll.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention all day breakfast, scampi and chips, ham salad and sausage roll.
Customer Review Summary
Reviewers most often single out the cooked food at this cafe, with a ham salad and scampi and chips described as excellent, and the ham slices praised as big and not thinly cut. A sausage roll with coffee and a breakfast that was not greasy also earn good words, and several call the prices cheap or reasonable. Staff are repeatedly described as friendly, helpful and polite, and one reviewer calls it a friendly community atmosphere, even while noting the team is sometimes short staffed or under pressure.
Customer Review Summary
Reviewers most often single out the cooked food at this cafe, with a ham salad and scampi and chips described as excellent, and the ham slices praised as big and not thinly cut. A sausage roll with coffee and a breakfast that was not greasy also earn good words, and several call the prices cheap or reasonable. Staff are repeatedly described as friendly, helpful and polite, and one reviewer calls it a friendly community atmosphere, even while noting the team is sometimes short staffed or under pressure.
Featured reviews
- Paul Biggins
“I stood for five minutes at the till and no one could be bothered to serve me. The staff were too busy chatting out the back. In the end I walked off.”
- Rosalyne Carey-Townsend
“Served not very hot, veg not cooked properly. Pork was a chop. Stuffing not cooked. Asked for more gravy for 2 but was told if I wanted more there would be a charge. Supposed roast potatoes inedible. Left most of my meal. Smile cafe where staff foes not smile. Will not be eating there ever again. Ros Townsend Cambridgeshire”
- Timotei Radulea
“I was expecting more from the chef, something fresh at least, if they advertised it! But instead I got caned tomatoes which tasted quite bad and left juice in the plate mixing with everything :( ! As for the coffee I suggest a better barista and a different coffee bean roast.”
- Pia-Louise White (XDistancia)
“Arrived at quarter to 12 to find breakfast was over. Bit of an annoyed face on the woman at the till, no problem, we are here food food not a smile I guess. Ordered an all day breakfast and a Mocha, half an hour later and food finally arrived, was cold, undercooked bacon and pale sausages and a barely cooked hash brown. Could hear plenty of women having a chat and a laugh put the back in the kitchen though... I guess even mixing the drink was too much work.”
- Helen “Dandy” Delmar
“Always a friendly community atmosphere. The staff are helpful and polite :-) Cheap eats. Seems to be a safe space for people LDs and or autism. Sometimes short staffed, but the staff do their best in spite of this.”
Hours
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
Good to know
- AccessibilityWheelchair-accessible car park · Wheelchair-accessible entrance · Wheelchair-accessible seating
Amenities
- Wheelchair-accessible car park
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- Accessibility· 3
- Wheelchair-accessible entrance
- Wheelchair-accessible seating
- Wheelchair-accessible toilet
Location
Cafes near Cafe Smile
- Squirrel Cafe4.41513.8 mi
big breakfast, cash only, black pudding and eggs
| Place | Rating | Distance | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cafe Smile | 3.991 | — | all day breakfast, scampi and chips, ham salad |
| Squirrel Cafe | 4.4151 | 3.8 mi | big breakfast, cash only, black pudding and eggs |
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