Sunbeam Cafe in Elmbridge

Friendly staff, food look fresh and nice, we had the chilli and rice. Which I have to say was overly hot, as in cooked hot, it was lukewarm. Plus the chilli did not have much taste to it. I understand you have to make bulk but just slightly disappointed. Later on though, in the afternoon we had a cup of tea and shared a scone, jam and cream, that was much better.

There was a queue to be served and some of the food our party would have chosen had run out. But given we were hungry the solid servings were probably what we needed

I had pasty and chips and you get the feeling it was cooked especially for you and not just reheated.

Chicken curry was watery and tasteless. Worst of all, having obtained it, there was a 10 minute delay before anyone was on the till resulting in the food being completely cold by the time it was eaten. If you go to this café, I advise you stick with the sandwiches.

I do not expect fantastic food at museums but the sandwiches were underwhelming, but the cake and coffee were o.k. The cooked meals 12 to 2.30 are the best bit but the wait means the food gets cold. This has been the same for some years now and needs a serious look at.

Located in the historic Brooklands Clubhouse, the Sunbeam Cafe makes a pleasant place to have lunch (or breakfast depending on the time). There are plenty of tables inside and also some outside tables (weather permitting). There is a reasonable choice on the menu. I had decided to have a hot snack, rather than a full meal, and I can recommend the Cornish pasty. Very tasty. Covid-19 rules and restrictions apply and are obviously well managed. Tables are well spaced. Contactless card payments only, no cash. Friendly staff, great service.

Popped in during our visit to the museum, everything was Covid safe, tables cleaned and bagded for next sitting , good value and food was pleasant and simple

Had lunch here, good variety of hot meals with vegetarian options. Sat outside in the sunshine; most pleasant!

Well social distancing tables and out door areas. Good selecting of snacks and meals. Just a cup of tea and a bag of crisps would of done but the cream teas took over, with cake.

We had a great light lunch (soup and cake and coffee). Nice atmosphere. Possibly the only place on sight to warm up on this chilly day!

Staff are very helpful, very busy at certain times of the day. A good selection on offer.Self-service, no table service.

Sunbeam cafe is fine for a basic snack and/or a tea or coffee when visiting Brooklands Museum. It is fairly basic but there is a good array of sandwiches and a few hot dishes. As there are no other cafes on site and you you will need a full day at the museum a majority of customers will come to the cafe sometime during their day.

Really welcome lunch break while at Brooklands Museum, quirky original looking interior with the Sunbeam Cafe offering tasty wholesome food suitable for all ages at reasonable prices.

£17.50 for 2 lots of Sausage & Chips & 2 bottles of water. 2 medium sized sausage each & about 2 handfuls of warm chips. No trays to carry the plates on. Seriously overpriced

There was a good choice of food. Hot meals were reasonably priced but the packaged salads were ridiculous prices - all for a few leaves and a spoon of cheese. We had jacket potatoes; they were cooked through but hardly warm, which was disappointing.

Good value, tasty food. Clean and friendly staff. Rather disappointed that there was no strawberry jam available with the scones and clotted cream!

We were surprised at the choice of meals, sandwiches, cakes etc, all at reasonable prices. The service was very good, the cafe clean.

The restaurant although busy, still had plenty of tables to use. The food, hot and cold, was reasonably priced. The cakes were delicious particularly the scones. The cafe is situated in the Clubhouse where you can see the Ladies Reading Room and snooker room.

Disappointing as Brooklands is such a great day out. The veggie options were bland, the baked potatoes we ordered were cold and the general atmosphere just not appealing.

The food is O.K. but not brillliant, prices are reasonable. But when you eventually get your food there will probably be nowhere to sit and eat it.

Like the layout of the museum itself, this pleasant cafe, (apart from pushchairs and riotous children), is not laid out in a logical way, with the small service area in the middle of the seating spaces. It is not over-priced but given the location, the food selection could be more attuned to the history of the place. Pleasant staff and tables cleared rapidly at busy times.

We were plesantly surprised by the friendly staff, very enjoyable short and sweet visit. its a good place for where it is

babies and screaming young children running around and little seating available, no full breakfast offered, long queues for drinks.Pie and chips with everything for lunch.

Really recommend this cafe, the hot food was of very high quality and a fair price, can particularly recommend the soup and cottage pie. Portion sizes are good. Tea coffee cakes etc are of an average price and free tap water is available.

Good selection of hot and cold food, reasonably priced. It ranged from fish and chips and similar hot food, to scones, cakes and sandwiches. Good coffee. Large seating area and also tables outside to enjoy warmer days.

Attended Brooklands Classic Breakfast today and enjoyed the Classic breakfast in Sunbeam Cafe. Great cafe with loads of seating and even a kids play area. Really fun place to eat, complete with a row of historic motor bikes

This is the only location at the museum to get a drink and bite to eat. On the day of our visit they were a little short staffed with an agency person helping who had no idea what she was doing or how to operate a till. In stark contrast anther member of the team was engaging and wanted us to be completely happy with our day and couldn’t do enough. That said, we deliberately waited until 2:30 to get an advertised cream tea only to be told they didn’t have any. Instead we were offered any cake and tea/coffee for the same price. Cake was very fresh and certainly hit the spot. I asked for a coffee and was given filter without clarifying exactly what I wanted. Overall a feeling of disappointment but the team tried their best to make it the best it could be.

Friendly staff, good selection of cakes, cooked food, sandwiches and a large variety of drinks. On this occasion I just had a nice cold bottle of Brooklands Goldstar ale, was enjoyed sitting outside in the sun. Good break! There’s also plenty of indoor seating and even a large children’s play area in the cafe. Great for a pit stop while exploring the attractions of the museum and attending an event, in my case today the American car day. Recommended!

Quite crowded but easy to find a table as the staff are good at cleaning them. Lots of things with chips so your kids will like it and nice cakes. A lovely setting. Wonder into the rooms where Barbara Cartland once sat or see the Billiard Room. The gents have some great retained porcelain to admire.

Good simple food served by very helpful staff in a quirky setting. Can get very busy even on a quiet day so worth timing your visit outside rush hour.

Not a bad place to stop for a sit down. Can be a bit slow when busy. The coffee is good but the food we felt was only average.

Attractive themed restaurant with memorabilia upon the Brooklands site serving a selection of hot and cold snacks. We were visiting the museum site for the day so enjoyed our refreshments and a well-earned rest at lunchtime. Worth a visit.

A sufficiently wide selection of food, very palatable and hot. The café is a little basic but worth eating at. You must look at all the other rooms and memorabilia in the building.

very nice food good amount of places to sit and eat food is usual grub like sausage and chips and welcoming staff

You don't have much choice of food options in Brooklands Museum - this is the only outlet. I had a cottage pie which was good for the price. The amount of chips and peas they gave me was huge.

I think a fair few reviews prior to this one pick out most of the bad points about this place, which is kind of disappointing. But first and foremost, the drinks are way overpriced! £2.10 upwards for standard 500ml still or sparkling water!!!!!

Took my sister and her husband to cafe as nice treat for breakfast before looking at museum. They where visiting me having travelled from north Wales. I was embarrassed when their food was not of an acceptable Standard. Returned badly cooked fried egg. (The white was raw). No apology. Cook argued that it was not his fault . I should have specified how cooked my sister's fried egg should be!!! Unbelievable. Will take my visitors a picnic in future.

We used this cafe for lunch during our visit to Brooklands Museum.

If you are at the Brooklands Museum for the day, then this cafe is OK for light refreshment. Food could have been a little hotter but overall was just fine for a quick pit-stop. Staff friendly and efficient.

I attended the VSCC meeting at the museum which was excellent. However the Sunbeam cafe wasn't; the portions were tiny to the point I think they were doing rations! What we did get was overpriced cold food really let the whole day down.

Food from the hotplates get cool very quickly & is of only average quality. Very atmospheric though as expected in a museum. Easy to overlook that there is seating upstairs.

The surroundings are quite basic but the food is thoughtfully offered with an interesting variety to suit most tastes. A soft play area is a welcome provision for the boisterous clients.

40 of us visited today, a U3A trip from Hertfordshire. We all ate in the cafe, a good range of hot food, sandwiches an cakes, enjoyed by all

The food is very mixed. The canteen section mirrors school food, whereas the sandwiches, cakes ect are very good. They have recently installed a new coffee station which is an excellent addition.

There is a nice cafe on the site. They serve hot food at lunchtime and tea, coffees, cakes etc during the rest of the day.

Super cafe in Brooklands Motor Museum. Tasty home style food. Chile and rice. Sandwiches. Salad. Pasty. Sausage roll. Sausage chips beans. Soup. The normal stuff. Never going to win any culinary awards but pleasant enough. Part of a most interesting visit to Brooklands Motor Museum.

I came here again for hot food followed by coffee and cake. The steak pasty was excellent and very reasonably priced. The cake was pricey as was the cup of tea but very nice quality.

We are regular visitors and every time we ask about allergens in the meals served we are given either inaccurate or evasive answer from the serving staff. They always have to ask in the kitchen despite the restaurant serving the same food every time we visited. Also, cakes labelled as 'gluten-free' are NOT gluten free because they are left right next to the 'normal' ones with the same serving utensils and without any covering so they are contaminated. Staff have been asked to rectify this on 3 previous visits yet last time it was just the same. Reshuffling the tills didn't help as people queing with trays block the doors into the cafe. The food itself is good, just correct the mistakes, educate the staff and it will be a winner.

Set in the historic Clubhouse, the Sunbeam Cafe is the onsite cafe for Brooklands Museum. As museum cafes go, it's good. My light lunch of baked potato with cheese was very tasty and reasonably priced. The cafe staff, like all staff at Brooklands, were very friendly and helpful.

I came here with friends for a hot lunch and afternoon tea. There was a much better range of hot food than I had expected which was home cooked, very good quality and excellent value at about £7-8 for a main dish. The scones were really fabulous too. The cans of San Pellegrino were £2.40 which I thought was a bit dear. Other than hot food there were salads, sandwiches and snacks for kids too.

Great atmosphere and relevant furnishings for a motor museum so it felt very relaxed. There was a very good variety of hot meals on offer for the size of the cafe and there was lots my wheat intolerant diet could choose from. Two GF choices of cake in the morning too which was a bonus. One issue I had was the organisation of getting a much needed cuppa. Self help teabag and hot water in mug, THEN queue up to pay. A longish wait meant my tea was stewed and no opportunity to add milk and remove teabag until after payment was completed by which time it was too late to add more water. Not so good.

The food looked quite ok. We just had coffee and sandwiches. The atmosphere was a bit frantic and untidy, and it was a confusing layout for paying. There is not much room for resting a tray at the pay point. Not easy to choose the route for food. I feel it needs a bit more organisation .

Quite average as cafes at such places go but not expensive by any means Cooked lunches available but we just had snacks

Nice cafe in Brooklands Museum. Everything is freshly made and it is great value for money. Super cakes. Despite us visiting during the chaos of half-term, staff kept everyone flowing through remarkably efficiently.

In effect this s the museum cafe. It has grown over the years to meet the needs of the increasing visitor population. It rather depends on the catering contractor, but the standard of food is good and varied whilst being the main attraction for some. There are enough staff to assist and respond to specific needs.

Had a snack & drink at the cafe at lunch time. Food was good & service friendly enough. Price was reasonable as well😀

I felt that as this is a cafe within an attraction the prices were very reasonable. Staff friendly and pleasent

I tried very hard to like this restaurant as all the staff were just so sweet and helpful but I failed. It was rather overpriced and frankly the chilli con carne I had was no more that mince on rice - chilli was entirely lacking.as were amy condiments like cheese or sour cream Plus £4.50 for a rather small brownie and coffee seemed a little on the pricey side. However other half stuck with a cheese scone and loved it. It was not all doom and gloom tho as the ambience is very nice tho and the self-service water dispenser was a nice touch. and as I mentioned the staff were all very helpful and sweet

There were three different sections to sit in this small but very busy cafe. We had cold drinks and sandwiches lots of choice for cold snacks not so much choice for hot food. Service was quick at the tills but slow on clearing the tables and there was no where to move your own dirty/used items away to.

Outside and inside seating with bench seats outside. Smoking allowed outside. Friendly young staff. Gets busy.

Great variation of refreshments available, well presented, and reasonable prices. Lovely staff, lovely clean areas

The Sunbeam Restaurant is located within the Brooklands Museum in Weybridge.