The best restaurants serving British food in Wokingham Without Wokingham South East

Great food and service - very warming & homely pub/restaurant. Staff were lovely and the food was delicious. They were also good enough to send an item back to me that I left behind when I got back to Manchester. Will definitely go again on my next visit.

We used to go here when it was called the Chocolate Cafe, which was always great value for money, lovely food and very busy. We went to the rebranded Viv’s Cafe where the number of customers and value for money menu options were very much down in our opinion. I had a bacon brie and cranberry toastie with side portion of chips (at £12.50) and my wife had a fishfinger wrap (at £11.0). The bacon turned into ham and the fishfinger wrap was mediocre at best. Probably won’t be going back to where we originally spent many a lunchtime snacks at.

Went in to get a spot of lunch around midday after a busy week away for family. Very warm welcome and quickly offered a table. It wasn’t busy in there but several tables were occupied. An extremely nice lady came and took our order with a few minutes and brought drinks out quite quickly. However, this was as good as it got. My wife could see the kitchen area from where she sat and after 10/15 minutes she could see what she thought was her order on the hot tray at the counter. After another 15/20 minutes we concluded it couldn’t be hers as it was still sat there. Eventually another plate arrived next to it, looked like my order. The waitress then brought both over to us - my wife’s had been sat there nearly 25 minutes!! I had a pie and mash dish; the pie was piping hot and tasted pretty good. The mash, I’m afraid was, at best, warm and the roast carrots were tasty but cold. My wife’s meal was little more than warm, the peas she had were cold and looked shrivelled and if a pea could look sad, these were very unhappy peas. I said we’d tell the lady but my wife said we’d waited 30/40 minutes already and she didn’t want to wait another half hour so we did the typically British thing and ate it. Probably our mistake, we should’ve sent it back and left. I’m not a fussy guy but simply ask for decent service, the same I would provide in any job I would do. We won’t be going back again. Disappointed to say the least.