The best restaurants serving British food in Heron Canterbury South East

Cafe offering reasonable priced food. Friendly staff. Appears to be popular with local Herne Bay residents. We visit Herme Bay on a regular basis and usually pop in here for brunch / lunch.

Visited mackaris by the bandstand. Popped in for lunch and was impressed with the menu. I ordered a chilli and my wife ordered a ploughman’s. We seemed to wait a long time for the good but thought it reasonable to wait for freshly prepared food. Was a little concerned when we gazed around during our wait, no one else was having food, only drinks and ice cream. When the food eventually arrived I was surprised by the amount of chilli and rice I was served, I then realised that the rice was a packet of “ping ping” (microwave) variety, how wet the chilli was also indicated that it wasn’t fresh and was also “pinged”. The chilli had very little flavour. I ate a couple fork fulls and decided to leave the rest as I was enjoying it. The ploughman’s was rather unbelievable, it consisted of two small piles of grated cheese, a slice of wafer thin ham, a centre mound of salad, the salad looked like a pile of lettuce that had been put in a blender, a bit of onion and a slither of tomatoe, the plate was decorated around the edge with a slice of bread (with excessive amount of butter/spread) cut into quarters. It really looked like something a child had put together, it certainly was not a ploughman’s lunch. I have nothing against microwave food (if it tastes nice) but when you are charged restaurant prices, ( almost £40 for two drinks and the two meals) I feel it’s totally unacceptable