The best restaurants in East Dean Wealden South East

There are about 8 staff in the cafe, however, the time taken to .prepare drinks that are hot was insufferably long. Staff perfectly nice but pretty much ineffective. Most places make your drink while you wait but they seemed to have a ridiculous wait time, mine was 12 minutes. This meant that my "kept warm in a cabinet" pasty was luke warm at best by the time my coffee was ready, and I had to ask for it to be exchanged for a hot one, adding.to the waiting.time for those behind me in the queue. There was also an issue with dhot drinks served in take away cups for "outsde" although I explained I was sitting in the National trust seating area, I was not allowed a china cup, because they " get left outside". I did point out that there were many customers leaving their crockery and cutlery on tables inside as they left and they were not being.penalised, the staff member explained it was National Trust Policy.....stupid policy!

Went here as a friend compared it to Pevensey Cottage tea rooms for its oldy worldiness. It's garden setting has a sense of the 1940's, but I prefer the latter. It's a bit challenging to get to if disabled...the food a bit uninspired, and presented in a basic fashion...I had avocado on a bagel with salad...a very basic salad, and the chilli was not left off the avo as requested. Good they had some vegan cakes...but no vegan icecream or vegan cheese.