Two Penny Blue Cafe in Tunbridge Wells

We had an extra hot latte and hot chocolate, I also had the warm scone and butter. The scone was lovely and warm served with a quenelle of butter, good scone.

Not only does this building look dauntimg from the front of the building, the well known "bearded bar man" is not so aproachable as heard as we heard. We loved this little spot to begin with. Had our friends wake here and the woman that served us on this occasion was so lovely and attentive. Regrettably, we came to The Royal Oak this evening for a quick pint *29/04/25 and an " Angry Bearded man" came towards the door and stood in the dooorway and abruptly told us they are closed. Obviously there was lights on and several people at the bar aswell as seated and in smoking area. So we walked away. However, That is discrimination at its finest and as much as I understand you can refuse people in customer service. There was no clear understandable reasoning behind this and because of this we feel deeply discriminated against as we have contribution a lot to this pub over the last few years and had no problems with previous owners.

The restaurant is the sister restaurant of TN12, which we have visited a number of times and is generally very good. This restaurant offers breakfast/brunch and tapas menus. We visited for lunch midweek, hoping to test out the tapas menu. We ordered, only for the waitress to come back a few minutes later to say that they had no chicken, which eliminated some of our choices. We selected some alternatives only for the waitress to come back to say the chef had now decided not to offer tapas today! It is extraordinary that a restaurant runs out of a key ingredient on a Wednesday lunchtime - especially when there is a perfectly good butcher 100 yards away who would no doubt have sold them as much chicken as they needed. We ordered from the brunch menu - the steak sandwich was very good but sadly the poached eggs on toast were overdone and hard. The ambience was nice and the waitress helpful but sadly it is unlikely we will visit again.

Awful place. They have obviously spent a small fortune on a re- vamp, but the bored and indifferent girl behind the bar was enough to turn your beer sour. What has happened to bar chat. Every one was staring at their phone or playing the Pokeys. The staff should be taught Barcraft instead of a cold, unfriendly & indifferent attitude......small wonder pubs are closing. As a local pub it should be lively and a fun place to be instead of a cold and unwelcoming hole...never again.

Great place for lunch after a visit to the Owl & Raptor Centre. Lovely food. Amazing history. Friendly staff. Recommended!