Café at the Royal in Chesterfield

Over the years this place is going downhill, Limited options and most food runs out well before closing time, today even worse at 1700 only bacon & jacket potatoes no chips, no Cornish.

The most horrible fish and chips I've ever had in my life . Seriously !

Went for breakfast at the cafeteria today after my husbands anappointment. The young girl who served me wants to learn how to present food on a plate, she just slapped to beans and tomatoes on which made the ashbrowns all soggy and sloppy, put mushrooms on without fully draining the water from them. Toast came in a brown bag instead of on a plate, butter just spread in the middle of the toast, bread has 4 corners, so basically the toast was dry. If I want dry toast I would of asked for it. So in all the breakfast was bloody awful waste of money.

Dirty cups were provided by the coffee machine, I took six of them to the servery to be told that they are just coffee stains. Another lady came out from the back to give me every excuse under the sun to justify why they were putting dirty cups out, "we're limited what we can use because of COSHH" "We don't have a proper dish washer", what they didn't do is agree that they are dirty cups and apologise. Back at the coffee machine other customs were looking at the cups saying how disgusting they are and that at home we wouldn't dream of using cups in that state; we all ended up using paper take out cups instead. I asked for vegetarian sausages but told they've all gone, this was only at 9.30am, no offer to make any fresh and no other veggie option. We had fried eggs, hash brown and mushrooms, the food we had was OK, the hash brown was lovely but we would like to have full veggie breakfasts. Our overall experience of this cafe was not good, what food was there was OK, the coffee very weak, the staff were not very helpful. Will I come back again? Based on this experience the answer is NO; I've used the cafe several times in the past but over the last year the service has taken a nosedive. Value for money? I've always thought of it as good value here but today I felt robbed; just under £10 for 2 fried eggs each, 1 hash brown each, some sliced mushrooms each and a mediocre coffee each. If I had gone to a pub I could have spent 3 or 4 pounds more and had two full veggie breakfasts with unlimited coffee and clean cups and friendly helpful staff.

Nice to get a edible meal while visiting a patient

Nice friendly cafe with good food and reasonable prices

Absolutely horrendous!!!!!! The staff are very very RUDE! Throw sachets of sauce at you, tell you they are 10 pence hoping you say ‘keep it’!!!! Told me toast takes ages-trying to put me off buying it!! Then collected it rammed in a brown bag!!!!!!! Special mention to the young lady on the till - spent more time telling a visitor about life with 2 very young kids than being attentive to my needs? When asked why no coffee machine? Answered very nastily’ITS BROKE’!!!!!!!! Needs a job away from public! The other restaurant within hospital much much nicer with friendly attentive staff!!!!!!

Basic food, but very reasonably priced, so overall good value.

By the time I got to till with my coffee it was warm an not hot I like my hot drinks hot not cool enough to drink down in a few seconds 😩

Coffee was awful , luke warm . Very strong and expensive. Staff very friendly ...

I wasnt impressed at all as you have to queue for a cup for the hot drinks machine then you have to queue again to pay! Also the vegan Croissant wasnt advertised as having a blob of jam in the centre it was also very dry and old tasting.plus the young girl with dark rimmed glasses wasnt very polite or helpful when i asked for a vegan roll and when i asked if the croissants were vegan she said i think so!! I had to ask her to chck! So all in all my experience wasnt a good one!!

The cafe itself and there staff where lovely and helpful. But once we had seated were had to endure a very nhs domestic staff who was very rude all because of were we had chosen to sit . We sat were we sat as no one else in the seating area and my mum is diabetic. My mum has put in a formal complaint regarding this person .. we expect more from nhs staff..

Nice food throughout the day with social distance on all tables. Including a heated teepee (wigwam.) in the garden 🎪

Food is normally good inexpensive and nice staff

Not to bad food expensive but I find shops in hospitals are

Friendly staff, fantastic sausage rolls and delicious hot chocolate.

Coffee is self serve. Its good enough coffee for the price. I wouldn't complain. Took a but to work out the machine though.

Very awkward for a wheelchair user and the foods not really that nice.

Really nice hashbrowns and lattès

Yes, I'll let you know when we eventually get to use this place. Food line was massive, there was nowhere to sit and it's not wheelchair friendly whatsoever!

If you like chips it's great . !!!

Price OK. Mainly served in cardboard boxes.

Only called in for a hot drink on this occasion

It's cheap its food but dont expect top quality dining. Staff do a cracking job looking after the patients and everyone involved at the Royal.

Nice food, not too high in price

OK place to eat had lovely salad.

Did not go into the cafe due to problems on last visit Took my own water & a snak.

A limited menu, but food was good.

Great food,good prices and happy staff

Could do better. Staff need improvement in training for customer service. The ham salad should never have tuna fish in it !!

Great the lady who served me was lovely she asked if i needed help to a table with my coffee due to me having a stick. The small things like that make a persons day xx

Great choice plus staff discount. Friendly service

spasty chips lovely coffee disgusting watery

Awful went in to get a coffee they had only a machine that didn't look clean at all then I turned to look at the food and the server dragged a dirty tea towel holding hot 'fresh'food through the beans and bacon being served. To say it's in a hospital youd think hygiene would be paramount- obviously not

Good food, good service, clean environment

Always good Cornish Pasties fab

Nice coffee coste a little expensive

Good food. Chips, sausage roll and gravy 👍😋

Nice hot cup of coffee reasonable price

Better tea than hallamshire and cheaper lol

Had breakfast the the cafe within royal Chesterfield hospital the breakfast was nice and staff very friendly and helpful

We use it often but it is what it is just a cafe and a restaurant

Not bad. Fills a hole but not cheap! 15 quid for 2 breakfasts with drinks!

Friendly staff with good servoce

Brilliant cafe, can highly recommend the wonderful Cornish pasties!!!

Lovely little cafe. Nice jacket potatoes. Nice sausage rolls and pasties. Reasonably priced too.

Lovely coffee and good value for money

Food basic not the best ok if you need food here

Makes a good change from hospital food, glad to be out of bed and able to get a better meal,

Very disappointed both coffee machine out of order at 2 30 I had been there since 7 30 without having a drink one of the staff told me to go to the costa shop cafe I don't like Costa coffee I said she just ignored me

Professoinal friendly staff. food good

Ok but everything expensive at the royal including car parking

staff very rude need a personality injection food ok

Getting to expensive for two sosage rolls.£1.90

Bit pricey but ok if you want a quick cuppa.

Had a lovely cornish pasty a nice cup of tea, and a nice sit down. Can recommend food.

Expensive, basic food. We'll lit and clean.

Good food reasonably priced. Just what you need when you are spending a long time visiting someone in hospital.

wasn't great but better than hospital food

Nice clean friendly resteraunt good food And you can also pay your car park ticket at the till then get the security office to swipe it on the way out sometimes there can be long queues at the ticket machine outside

Reasonable priced home cooked food. Very cheap I must say.

Very slow service for breakfast resulting in lukewarm food of poor quality. Very few customers (I'm not surprised) so workload is no excuse.

Much needed coffee place, away from main eating area.

Reasonable canteen style quality, given the location and price.

Good food good service friendly people well recommend try the (Cornish pasty)

Good food prices not too too bad too

Staff helpful in this busy hospital cafe . Food is limited but ok

Excellent staff,scrummy canteen food and very reasonable too.

Reasonable for hospital cafe...

Staff were more interested in moving chairs and wiping bowls than serving customers

I have been a couple of times for breakfast and there is plenty of choice for me. I'm always a bit disappointed as it's not as hot as I expected but I suppose it goes with the territory. The staff are very friendly and helpful so that you can always get help if needed.

Good home made food just what you need when you're not well.

Nice food and friendly staff clean and tidy

Food quality is ok but they charge like it's Harrods 85 pence per rasher of bacon is extortionate

Not good at all Sould eat of plates not out of cartons not be eating there again

Good for a lunch while at the hospital. Drinks ok from a dispenser. Plenty of seating and wheel chair access.

Menu said "healthy meal of the day". Asked what it was. Told (very abruptly) "don't do it at weekends - just left menu out". Saw there was boiled rice (healthyish), asked what there was to go with it. Told (abruptly again) "there's nowt. It wa' fo' t' chilli but we've got none". Asked for a jacket potato. Told "got none a them done neither". Saw plain boiled new potatoes. Asked what there was under all the foil to go with them. Told "not much. There's a bit a stroganoff left" (no kidding! Dried up sauce and not much else). Ended up with boiled potatoes and the scraping of what was described as stroganoff. Bloody awful! Expensive left overs and mannerless staff. No apologies. Nothing healthy considering it us a hospital. Needs sorting out on many levels. Appalling all round. Should not be trading in a hospital!

Reasonable prices but not very veggie/vegan friendly

GOOD selection of food and drinks at good prices, with plenty of seating.

Very good coffee and service particularly from Tracy who I have met before in Bakewell

Limited food choice but staff friendly

Garbage for gluten free options. Allergies youd expect to be catered for at a hospital. Disgraceful. In fact aint it law that there should be a gluten free option in a resturant at all times. The lad said the chips wasnt even glutenfree as they share a fryer with other products.

Overall decent food and good ooening hours

The staff are nice good range of hot and cold food. The salad bar is good, but often sells out quickly.

Had some nice chips and my partner a jacket potato. Quite cheap price and nice too.