Cafe Vh - Chiltern

Very disappointed with the menu choice and price. Selection of cakes and pastries poor. Have always found previous visits to this cafe to be good value for money.

Avoid at all costs; service is extremely poor and staff are easily overwhelmed by more than a few orders pending. Food takes a good 30+ minutes to arrive and whilst pleasant, feels overpriced. A serious lack of management and attention to detail is apparent.

The cafe is a good place with lots of snacks and cakes. However the cakes there were before under VanHage brand were unique and delicious, now I am afraid is the same cakes as everywhere else.

We dropped in here, for old time 's sake, for a quick lunch while in the area. The vegetable soup (not broccoli and Stilton, as advertised) was lukewarm and extraordinarily salty. We waited for the toasted sandwich to appear it finally arrived about 25 minutes later and after a trip to the counter to enquire about it. We then asked if the soup could quickly be reheated it disappeared, reappearing about 15 minutes later, no warmer but sprinkled with chopped chives. At the table next to us, there was a similar problem with the soup which also disappeared and reappeared, redecorated rather than reheated, and one bowl had soup slopped right over the side. This was not due to a lack of staff there really were too many cooks to spoil the broth ... along with a nice little notice pleading for patience while staff were trained in the new menu (primarily of soup, sandwiches and cake). And one soup and one toasted sandwich with two bottles of water came to £19.85... Old time 's sake or not, we shall not be returning.

They have extended the seating and it is lovely on a nice day, however the cakes are far too expensive and they are the meanest slice. £4.75! One of their slices of cake is easily half a portion! Can you please provide value for money when it comes to cake and not make everything about profit.