Thursday, August 14, 2008

The Waterside Coffee Shop - Le Friquet

The Waterside Coffee Shop - Le Friquet
Morning coffee at the Waterside Coffee Shop is a stop well worth making. Le Friquet is a garden centre which is situated close to the St Pierre Park Hotel. The coffee shop is light and airy, and the rather nice Arne Jacebson chairs (though the tables don’t match)give it a pseudo Scandinavian style. Counter service makes it rather tedious to wait for your tea, though the servers are very pleasant and had a level of English which enabled them to smile and joke, which is good. We were surprised by the freshness, quality and niceness of the scones. With a reasonable amount of B, J and Cream. A latte coffee looked really appetizing and other drinks were OK. Overall a really good tea and coffee break.
Cream Tea: Monster, really good 10
Cream: Good, but seldom 6
Jam: Good, with whole straws. 5
Butter: Sufficient, pot rather than packets 8
Goodies: Looked very tempting 7
Environment: So so, in a garden centre 5
Comfort: Scando style 7
Service: Good, reasonable english spoken, 8
Speed of getting tea: Good 8
Price: Very good 8
Confusion: None, (even warmed the scones) 5
Total 77
Special Feature: Best Cream Tea
Voted the best Cream Tea overall.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Unfortunately they have a tendency to use frozen cake and that doesnt mention the raw bacon in the sandwiches (with no refund on complaint)