Recently i have been trying to eat healthier, with the lack of places to buy quick healthy food, i…read morethought i would try the cafes around. This cafe was the closest. So i asked for jam on toast, i was being very generous and orders 4. They had no jam "it is not something we get asked for" they had marmalade, but it just is not the same. I went on to ask for a toasted balm, they didn't have these either. I left as this was obviously a greasy spoon type of cafe. Today i figured i wanted boiled egg on toast, they didn't have any boiled eggs, AT FIRST she nearly offered to make me some but stopped with a big "NO", i was hungry so i asked for a sausage on toast with brown sauce... i ended up getting 2 slices of bread which looked like they had been prepared for French toast(eggy bread), the sausage was breaking into pieces. I sat down to wait, and they have big wooden VARNISHED tables, my hands were sticking to it.... very unpleasant. I must say, i am not pleased and i will not be going again... huckleberry's is down the road.

The food at Ruby's is generally very good and we've always found the staff friendly, until now…read more Unfortunately our visit today was spoiled by a very rude staff member. Having politely asked which meat dishes were on the menu she fixed me with a thunderous stare that lasted a full 5 seconds (but felt like an eternity). Nervous glances were exchanged across the table. What terrible sin had I committed? Finally she deigned to reply: "I don't know what's on the menu. We USUALLY expect people to look at the blackboard on the way in" That'll teach me, pesky customer, about to part with nearly £40 on food and drinks for five people (and of course she knew what was being served that day, what with being the person serving it!). Intelligence well and truly insulted. I have to confess, working in the professional customer service industry myself, I sometimes quite enjoy encountering a slice of good old-fashioned out-of-town rudeness. You can visit any number of charming Suffolk village tea shops and receive much the same treatment from a variety of bizarrely unpleasant folk. But what a shame this had to happen in a cafe that, until now, has been a firm favorite of ours.

Superb home made chips together with suffolk ham off the bone and a couple of fried eggs made a…read morefirst class lunch for just over seven quid. Coffee's not bad either.