Mamawu Café

The Mamawu is an ideal meet-up location and worthy of being called a destination cafe. The large free car park, easy accessibility, directly on the main road, and being easy to spot make this an ideal location as a starting point for group rides. Friendly, chatty, and knowledgeable staff make ordering a pleasure, even for fussy eaters. Vegan, vegetarian, coeliac, gluten intolerance, wheelchair, and dog friendly, it has a lot going for it. There are several tables with mains power, which make it an ideal place to snack and work. It also uses locally sourced ingredients where it can. The food, however, was a mixed bag of delight and disappointment. We both had a small breakfast, no tomatoes, with a coffee that came in at £13.50 per head. This puts it above the average price locally. I will start with the sausage, the heart of any full english. Only gluten-free sausages are available, and even though it is a butchers gluten free sausage, it really did lack in texture and taste and were incredibly dry. Maybe you could consider making a few non gluten free sausages available for the 99% of the population that is not gluten intolerant or a coeliac. The bacon was well cooked and very tasty, along with the artisan bread. The hash browns were pretty standard, as were the beans that were, for some unknown reason, served cold. The mushrooms, however, were a delight as were the eggs, with their vibrant orange, dippy yolks. It had the feel of a busy community hub with people working on laptops, dog walkers, and wheelchair users, all enjoying the facilities provided. Would we stop here again? For sure, but definitely not for the sausages.

Really good food and such good gluten free options