Cafe Max in Castle Point

Super friendly atmosphere and wonderful staff. Food is GORGEOUS and some lovely Vegan options. I had the Vegan ‘Potato Rösti Stack’. Thank you so much 😊 🙏🧡💜🩷

Great cafe with friendly staff and large front & rear inside and outside garden areas

Very attentive staff. Always checking everything is ok and ask if you need or want anything. Chatty and friendly. Lovely food and great staff

Fantastic service. Above and beyond. Amazing food and beautiful setting.

Great all round Brunch for my family. They all so enjoyed the food (all of it!). My two grandchildren (boys) were adequately filled up!! They all want to come back whenever they are in Benfleet!! See you soon ….. Pat and Eddy. x

Very nice and warm atmosphere, coming for first time in this city. The single coffee which was opened is Cafe Max. Very good food and nice service. I will comeback 😉 Highly recommend!

Always a happy place with a great atmosphere.. friendly staff and always great service..

Very nice atmosphere Very nice food The staff are friendly Lots of food options to choose from I would recommend coming here

How someone can charge 6.50 for this is beyond me, will not be returning. Very disappointing

Lovely food with great service from happy staff!

Perfect place to eat, lovely food and staff

Hands down! In all aspect! Tried a different dish each time and just simply wow!

If you are fussy about your English breakfasts this is the perfect place to go, proper sausages and thick bacon and good portion sizes will definitely be going back staff are friendly too.

We Popped in at 7.45 this morning four miles into a five mile walk , so to see it open was a delight, had tea and gorgeous toast with marmite and marmalade, not mixed obviously!. Highly recommended, will visit again on our walks.

It is my favourite cafe! Excellent food with really good prices and all the staff are lovely!

Service and food is so good. You forget you are in a cafe this is more like a restaurant and I am able to take my dog in the lovely garden. Fantastic lunch once again.

Best breakfast in the area, the rear seating garagen feels like you away on holiday Great staff always welcoming. This is my go to cafe!!

Love this little cafe - lovely little spot for breakfast. Highly recommend!

Popped in for breakfast and really couldn't fault the whole experience. Friendly staff good food what more could you want? Will be returning.

Have been coming here for years and service is impeccable and so is the food. High standards here and always has been consistent over the years. You certainly can tell the quality of the food. Staff amazing and always helpful and smiling. Thankyou cafe max Sammy xxxx

Lovely food very polite staff will return.

Thank you so much to all at Cafe Max! We had a beautiful breakfast, service and food was amazing would highly recommend!!

Amazing food & friendly & helpful staff

Great quality food. Excellent friendly service. Menu caters for all. Clean and nice atmosphere. Go here for breakfast mainly with family or friends. The owners and their staff are always so welcoming.

Amazing Bistro Cafe in Benfleet. Our favourite place at the moment for breakfast. A must try if you're ever in the surrounding area, second to none....Brunch is also truly amazing.

Dear Cafe Max, I hope this message finds you well. I recently visited your establishment and ordered a simple breakfast consisting of an omelette with two sides, toast, two bottles of water, and one black Americano. To my surprise, the total cost amounted to £30. Given the current economic climate and the competitive nature of the hospitality industry, I find this pricing exorbitant and disproportionate to the value of the meal. I appreciate quality dining experiences, but this seems excessively steep for a standard breakfast offering in Benfleet.

Do not go to Cafe Max! The owners are the most obnoxious people. We are unfortunate enough to be neighbours with these people. They have regular parties at their house which are so unbelievably loud and go on until all hours. We have even had this on a Sunday where our children have been unable to sleep because the bass from the music scares them! We used to be regular visitors to the cafe but ever since we realised they were the people causing such disturbance we have refused to go there anymore. Awful, rude people!

We ate here at lunch during a weekend away from home. The food and smoothies were fabulous, staff incredibly friendly and kind, and the decor was also nice. It was an overall very good experience.

The best breakfast in benfleet. The service was amazing, a very relaxing atmosphere and the sausages were top quality! Will definitely be back and highly recommend.

Don't have the German cheesecake it's all for me... Have the scrumptious Biscoti cheesecake instead..😁

Very busy, but friendly staff, good food at a reasonable price. Bonus that they served a couple of beers

This is a Lovely little gem me and my partner come across last week, Great tasting food, and Nicely decorated throughout. Plenty of space. Will definitely be returning.

The best coffee in town and the staff is awesome.

A very friendly cafe with a big selection of snacks, meals and drinks. If you're a vegetarian the choice is a bit limited, but the service is very friendly and the food is good.

Arrived as a walk in for Breakfast at a very busy cafe.Seated promptly and ordered 2 Flat Whites immediately 👍🏻 Browsed the menu and ordered the Cafe Max English Breakfast & Sliced Avocado & Tomatoes on Sourdough Toast with Poached Eggs & Cheddar Cheese. Unfortunately for us the Poached Eggs were hard, avocado was black in places and the tomatoes had a very acidic taste as if they were going off. Coffee not the best taste in our opinion. Not sure what has changed as been to this establishment many times before! Spoke to the server/cashier when paying the bill about the situation and she just said ‘ I’ll remember next time you are in’ 🤷‍♀️

We are visiting from Canada and just passed this place and decided to pop in. Wonderful menu and very good service. The owners made us feel at home. Highly recommended. We went back again for a family celebration. Catherine and her team were awesome. The food was perfect. Thank you chefs.

Amazing menu and great service. Would definitely come back again. They have a beautiful outdoor seating area at the back.

Superb breakfast again, sat in the sunshine in the Garden.... best Cafe in Benfleet by a mile

Really nice good food friendly ☺️

Lovely find food very tasty and freshly cooked gluten free available coffee excellent staff friendly and welcoming definitely visit again

Great find, well worth the trip out. Superb food, gluten free options & very polite staff. Thank you.

My local cafe and never disappointed. Great food, great service

Food is good, the coffee isn’t so great…. Could do with some work!

Food is always good, good selection of food, the staff are always lovely and the services is always good, however, the coffees are not good and definitely needs improvement

A nice local cafe with lots of variety. Great friendly service.

Love cafe max! Always a reliable place for breakfast or lunch and great vegetarian and vegan options. Always friendly service and love the outdoor sitting area. Amazing cakes.

Met my cousin here for lunch. Have been a few times before, always a treat. Food, service and atmosphere great. A lovely place to eat, especially on a nice day in the garden terrace. Great meal again today. Thank you.

Food delicious. Cooked perfectly, ingredients fresh and plentiful.

A favourite. Even better in the sunshine. Nice venue, good food, great people.

Love coming to Cafe Max especially in the summer when we can sit outside. Always a friendly welcome, staff lovely, good food but your coffee is terrible! Please, please invest in good quality coffee, barista style. It’s almost undrinkable with no depth or actual taste & the milk is not frothed correctly. It would make all the difference….

Great cafe, lovely food and the staff are equally as nice.

Lovely friendly staff, and great food

Nice but way too expensive. I would not go back

We visit regularly...lovely food great coffee and such lovely staff...what more could you ask for ♡♡

Love this place for lunch. The sandwiches are to die for

Gets busy at lunchtime but the food is really nice.

Superb service at a busy time. Friendly efficient staff. Excellent food. I really enjoyed my chicken pesto granary sandwich.

Food brilliant as usual, staff friendly efficient and lovely.

Great cafe, excellent coffee. Service helpful and friendly despite the fact we were caked in mud! Great (but little) seating area. Cake was fantastic, prices reasonable.

Amazing food and always friendly

Thank you for lovely service food and coffee ☕️ ❤️

I wouldn't go back, I only came for a coffee and that was awful but maybe the food is better.

Had breakfast this morning. Great food and excellent service.

Great service which is important. Food was fresh and flavourful in one word, delicious.

Friendly service. Flavourful and tasty food.In one word delicious and well priced.

what a gem of a find! Amazing food , beautifully presented. Lovely staff lovely cafe . we will defiantly come again !! . Modern and traditional food so delicious!! l!!

First time eating here and it was well worth it! Service was excellent and staff was so lovely and worked quick to get your food to you.. This was a birthday celebration for our friend and we all enjoyed ourselves. Great prices 😊

Nice food and people. Good service. You can even get a beer or a wine which is nice

Good service and food, pleasant staff

Must go there during every visit to Benfleet

This is a great place to visit for lunch, tea, snacks all food freshly cooked and enjoyable recommend

We visired the cafe today, We had the grilled goats cheese panzanella salad. One word: amazing !! Staff friendly and service was good too. Well worth a visit.

Friendly service, food was lovely. Will definitely be going back

They do really good food and service is always friendly

Excellent food and friendly, welcoming staff. Great atmosphere too.

Great food and friendly staff ...A1 👌

Lovely atmosphere. Great staff and good food

Great service, friendly staff a relaxing place to visit.

I've eaten there several times now. Staff are always friendly and willing to help. The food I've had has always been as expected and good quality. Nice eating area outback, though closed off in winter.

We visited Cafe Max today (New Year's Eve) and had the most amazing meal as always! Food was exceptional and the service is unlike any other. I feel very privileged to have worked for the Cafe several years back while completing my PhD; it's rare to find an employer that offers so much support to their employees. Both of my children have since worked for Mark and Karin and it has set them up for life in the real world. We've all said that if we could work for them forever, we absolutely would! If more employers were like them, the world would be a better place! They always make sure that the staff get 100% of the tips (a rarity in the hospitality sector nowadays). So, if you're looking to eat fabulous food in a place that truly makes you feel welcome and you know invests in their staff, this is the place to go!

Excellent cafe good food with friendly staff.

Lovely surprise in benfleet High road pretty interior lovely freshly prepared good nice staff and management will return I loved the avocado and tomato brekkie

Just been announced on the news that owners are not allowed to keep tips!!! Which is the case in this cafe, my daughter worked here since she was only 16 for 3 years, to be told she would never mount to nothing!!!! She is now training as a dental nurse.. Karen & the husband always kept the tips, my daughter was paid her wages out of the tips!!! So as the food is overpriced do not leave a tip because you will only line the owners pockets!! To the customers they come across as lovely people but are bullies!!, that reduces my daughter to tears daily!!! Also her boyfriend was threatened for standing outside on the pavement waiting for her to finish her shift.. If this treatment was against your son or daughter you would feel the same as me.. The owners are not nice people to work for unless your giving them money for their overpriced food.

Comfortable, clean and friendly, With Great food. What more do you need? A cut above normal cafe's.

We had a fantastic brunch this afternoon! The food was delicious and the drinks were lovely too. Our waitress Catherine was so attentive and friendly it made the experience really enjoyable. We will definitely be back!

Excellent food friendly staff reasonable prices. It's nice to sit in the garden at the back. And it's dog friendly

Love the full English dinners they do, one of the best I've had and really nice people there

Upon arrival we was told we needed to book but they managed to find a small table for two by the window. Once sat we was left by ourselves for 20 mins waiting for our order to be taken. A long stare at the kitchen prompted staff to come over and take our order. Once the food had finally arrived after waiting 40 mins, it wasn’t warm, the plate was hotter than the food. It seemed to be very poncey for what it actually is. Portions was small. Very over priced. Staff was not helpful, didn’t take pride in working for the business

Breakfast was really good, great service also.

Lovely and clean. Food delicious. Indoor and outdoor seating areas. Good service. A bit pricey, but you get what you pay for.

Great food and friendly service.

Amazing food lovely friendly welcoming staff and a beautiful garden terrace will definitely be returning

We went for a bottomless brunch and it was excellent the food was delicious and came out in cages the Prosecco flowed and they even bought out a cake for our friends birthday the only thing I would have liked a little bit more food.

We have visited Cafe Max a couple of times for breakfast and have always been really pleased with the food and service. On our most recent visit we found all COVID rules were being followed but the visit wasn’t too ‘stuffy’ with rules. We will definitely return for the eggs florentine and Italian breakfast!

Lovely breakfast. Great outside space

An excellent experience. Lovely staff with great food. Can't wait for the New Year to go back again

Visited Cafe Max with wife having been on many occasions previously. Karin , Mark and staff we very welcoming as usual and there was an excellent choice of menu. The cafe has a great atmosphere and the food is always tasty and fresh , the service is attentive without being pushy and we love it there .

My first visit and loved it. Great garden at the rear! Lovely selection of food. Will be back soon!

Very nice the food was nice and the people that served us were very nice

A random stop off and what a pleasant surprise, very clean and attentive staff. Food was very good with a wide variety on the menu with great prices😀