Situated in the stunning new Mary Rose Museum, the cafe is disappointing.
We missed the hot food and so the only savouries on offer were sandwiches. Sadly, they were not good sandwiches. They were all in plain white bread; cheese salad (dry looking grated cheese with a few leaves), cucumber and cream cheese (yawn), Turkey and salad (my partner didn't enjoy this) and others in a similar vein. As a vegetarian I was limited to three cheese sandwiches so cheese and red onion marmalade seemed the best of a bad bunch. Sadly, the cheese tasted of nothing, neither did the bread and the onion marmalade was just a sweet accompaniment.
We all had a pot of tea - tea bags as expected, no water to top up and tasted utterly tedious.
I could pick up a much, much more interesting sandwich in Marks & Spencer and I've had much better tea in a polystyrene cup from a caravan in a layby. This standard, at a new state of the art museum, is depressing.
Take a flask and your own sandwiches! The hot food (which we were too late for) included a nice sounding soup and jacket potatoes with about three different fillings which sounded better. read more