The Penny Farthing - Cowbridge

Absolutely delicious brunch had here. The Penny Farthing breakfast was amazing. Best black pudding taste I've ever had. Gluten free breakfast available too. A must if you're in Cowbridge!

Such a disappointing experience here today!! Between queuing outside on the pavement to get in and actually getting our food, took a good hour! Yes it's Christmas Eve and yes they were busy initially when we got there but that is no excuse. Every customer should be valued and we most definitely were not. We were made to feel invisible. When we finally got a table for 2, we were handed menus, quickly made our choices of a plant based breakfast with a hard fried egg and a gluten free breakfast with 2 teas. Had to wait quite a while before anyone came to take our order. Then we waited and waited and waited! We saw people who had come in after us receive their hot drinks yet still we had nothing! They also received apologies for the delay, nobody had the courtesy to do that to us. I eventually flagged down a passing waitress and asked if we could at the very least get our cups of tea! This was brought to our table after I had asked for it, but no apology for the delay. Our food eventually arrived, my plant based breakfast was missing the vegetarian sausage, so I pointed this out to a waiter. He came back with a pork sausage(!) so I pointed out that I had a vegetarian meal....he finally came back with a vegetarian sausage. There was nothing on the plate to warrant what I was being charged for this very meagre portion! A few measly beans, a fried egg which I was charged an extra £1.50 for and couldn't eat because it was runny despite me specifically saying I needed it hard and not runny! A lump of cold avocado, lump of soggy spinach, 2 bits of small toast and a couple of mushrooms. Both our breakfasts were barely warm and quite unappetising. By this point we were losing the will to live and what should have been a nice Christmas eve treat was well and truly spoilt. I paid almost £30 for this below par food and sloppy indifferent service! Never have I felt more ripped off and undervalued. We won't be returning.