The India Gate - Forest Heath

Great local café, with a good selection of food and drinks; I stopped in here recently for a milkshake which was lovely. I’d definitely recommend visiting.

Great, good quality food, really nicely done. Quick friendly service and nice atmosphere. Would definitely recommend.

Small cozy cafe with good breakfast food. Pancakes and eggs benedict very good Nice friendly staff and relaxed atmosphere…

I'm currently studying for masters disertation and came in here on a quiet Tuesday morning to have breakfast and work. I'd come here before a few weeks ago when the manager was in. He was lovely and let me stay for 4+ hours even though I only ordered a coffee and I'd been raving about how lovely this place was for the past few weeks. This morning I went and arrived at 11:30 and asked to sit in and was told that I could only sit on the bar I pointed to an empty table and the waiter grudgingly allowed me to sit. I was sitting next to two other people on their laptops neither of whom had ordered food. I ordered pancakes and a coffee (asked for no banana on my pancakes) and bottle water, the coffee never came and pancakes had banana on but I left it because the staff seemed stressed. After only an hour and half I was asked to aggressively leave because the cafe has a 2 hour limit. Despite the fact that the person next to me who hadn't ordered food was not moved a long and there was no queue of people waiting. Little did the know I was about to order lunch so they missed out on my service. If you're the lovely manger reading this then I would talk to your staff about the tone they are taking with customers. I understand a 2 hour laptop rule but I was only there for an hour and a half compared to people next to me and I felt like I was picked on. because I was a younger woman working in the cefe covered to the middle aged people sitting next to me.

Came in for a quick breakfast, were seated by a lovely woman who took our order. Sat on a table of 4 as they had no table for two, they were taken up by people not eating or on laptops. Another couple came in and they asked to sit them with us, in front of them which made it very awkward. Coffee and food arrived cold, one sandwich was very dry didn’t have any butter or sauce after requesting it. When we asked for sauce it was a large task for the woman to assist us, she never spoke or made eye contact when she placed the sauce on the table. When my partner had finally started to eat, another server walked up with a family and asked us to move as she was eating. I agreed as again I felt awkward that they had brought people to the table as we were eating and the family began to sit down before my partner moved, we were rushed off the table instead of staff asking a man behind us sitting alone on a table of four to move. Disgusting behaviour At this point we decided to leave and while putting my coat on the ladies behind the till were watching and talking about us. We have been here a few times but treating paying customers like this isn’t right, the food had to go in the bin after we left. Ask people to wait and leave customers to eat in peace!