The best restaurants serving British food in Cowes North Isle of Wight South East

As I was wandering along one of the main streets in Cowes, I happened to notice the blackboard outside declaring that they had crab sandwiches on their menu. This prompted me to go inside and find a table. The staff member could not have been any friendlier. Not only to me, but she treated everyone the same. I ordered a coffee and a crab sandwich. The coffee arrived quicker than the food, but as soon as I took my first mouthful of this heavenly sandwich I was hooked. The bread was so soft and fresh it was as if they had baked it just a few moments beforehand. I have no idea who their bread suppliers are, but I wish I could find bread like that in other areas of my travels. The cost of the meal was not cheap, but the service and quality of the meal more than made up for it.

"Not been there since it changed hands" "It was really good but haven't been there since the old people left" was what we were told. Well, as a real fussy bugger about my food, let me tell you we're very pleased that we went to Mojacs tonight as it was fab! We had the scallops and the king prawns as starters, both were cooked to perfection. I was hesitate about the apple and parsnip puree that came with the scallops as thought it would be too sweet but not at all. We had the lamb chops and the pork belly (from the specials board) and again, they were both delicious and cooked fantastically well. Don't take my word for it, try it yourself as you will not be disappointed

Stay away from this restaurant. It has a policy of harassing people on the table if the next customer has arrived early. I agreed with the chef 3 days previously...his exact words than were "as long as you're in and out by 8, will be fine" and the waiter is my witness. My goal was to leave at 7:50, 7.55 at the latest . I contacted the restaurant 25 minutes before arriving to ensure my starter would be ready to eat immediately upon arrival. This was to ensure there would be no problems nearer to 8pm. The starter was not ready when I arrived. I was the only person in the restaurant and I had to wait 15 minutes for the starter. This made a big difference to the evening. At 7:50 the next people arrive and she tells me to vacate the table while I'm eating my dessert. I ignore her and carry on eating my dessert. 2 minutes later she tells me again to vacate the table. I ignore her as I am halfway through my dessert. At 7.55pm the next people were able to sit down. Prioritising the next customer who's arrived early over the person on the table is guaranteed to lose the custom of the person on the table. The common sense thing to do was to leave me alone and let me finish my dessert and then she would have kept my custom but she'd rather lose my custom. I go to four restaurants a week and I've never seen anything like it. This restaurant's policy of harassing customers on the table because the next customer has arrived early is losing customers and I suggest you don't even think of becoming a customer there, it was extremely rude. I've been to 21 restaurants on the Isle of Wight and the red duster tops them all for rudeness, the sheer audacity of this place beggars belief. Also, the chef's wife/waitress could not answer basic questions about the menu. I was astonished at her lack of knowledge of the menu. She did not bother to understand the menu and her explanation was for this was because she was a vegetarian.

Service was excellent. I ordered the breakfast and my daughter had cheese jacket potato. Both were delicious and came out piping hot. Defiantly worth a visit.

We have returned a second year at this location. Everything in general is very good. There are some things that could use attention which I believe they are striving forward day by day to improve. There are very limited kitchen items (containers for storing food,different things that may arise for cooking, pizza pan). Overall it is pretty decent . Everyone who works here are really friendly, helpful and very curtious. I'll see how things turn out next year if I return. Great location near ferris wheel and al the shops just a short walk from the boardwalk out back at 14th ave.

Friendly for sure. Good sized breakfast but feel the sausages could be of a better quality as it let the meal down. I couldn't eat them as they were not meaty and felt rubbery.

The guys here need a serious lesson in custom relations and need to learn some manners, amazingly rude. Claim not to have had access to their website for 7 or 8 years, although it was updated last year or to be able to get Google to update their times etc…. find somewhere else

Lovely breakfast, friendly staff, would visit again. Made to feel very welcome at this gem of a cafe. Nothing too much trouble. One of the best breakfasts on the island. Ask for the trains to be switched on and see them, it was lovely.

After reopening again in 2023 after its closure in 2022 everything seemed to be going well until late in 2023 when despite not having any information that it had closed, it shut one night never to reopen. No notices in the windows. No announcement like last time to tell their loyal customers that they'd decided to close down. And now it seems it HAS closed down & is being turned into flats! Well, there's a lot of unhappy people from over the last 30 years who would have liked to have been told 😔 Bad form Chip Ahoy....

I don’t normally leave reviews but today I felt like I needed to - what a wonderful young woman Nicky is - A perfect example for the younger generation of how to deliver perfect customer service. Thank you lovely woman.

I felt compelled to write a review as the previous negative reviews do seem to be inspired by Islington/North London style hypocrisy/entitlement, notoriously associated with the looney gauche (coincidently and most appropriately also the word for lacking in good grace). The exterior and window display is very appealing and has the ‘kerb appeal’ you need, however it is from this very point, that the signs (in every sense of the word) are obvious. Virtually all notices, including food descriptions, names and the ‘house rules’ are indeed written on brown paper bags, which in any (Islington/North London style establishment) would be hailed as ‘retro’ and ‘rustic’. They do heavily emphasise that this establishment is NOT self service and any normal person would ‘connect the dots’ and so begin to read what they all say, if nothing else to establish what the offerings are. It is not really quantum physics to work it all out, with a little patience and indeed consideration for others. I, read, studied, waited and then ordered a ‘Hog’ sausage roll, a muffin, a huge hot cross bun and a ham and tomato sandwich/large roll. The total came to just over £20. To support a local enterprise, that is worth it. The Hog sausage roll was absolutely lovely, well spiced, pastry perfect and the meat tasty. The muffin, though perhaps a little burnt, was beautifully soft inside and had some lovely fruity bits. The Hot Cross bun was stunning. Twice the size at least, of supermarket bought and wonderfully soft inside, fruity with a really nice, almost fondant like, cross. The sandwich roll was perhaps the least successful of the items, but even so, only as it was lacking in florid and a little basic. It also did have perhaps too much butter. The sole points from the negative reviewers I would agree with are that the owner/lady is perhaps a little ‘matter of fact’ but frankly with the hypocrisy/entitlement of the negative reviewers, most people would get frustrated (the customer is NOT always right) and the other point is regarding payment. This is where the cost/charged amount is not announced, which is not great, but there again, one could ask!!! The ‘magic window’ is an understandable work around due to connectivity and frankly allows for a swift exit. Overall, would I visit again? YES. Would I recommend? YES. Just be considerate!!!