Lavender Bakehouse - Stroud

This is a fantastic restaurant that I have visited a few times with my grandmother. We often get takeout from here. It's always busy, which is a good sign. There is a wide variety of items on the menu, making it difficult to choose just one cake. The staff is friendly and polite, even when they are busy serving customers. They always make an effort to acknowledge you and ensure you don't feel ignored.

I have visited this place twice while out on my motorcycle. The cakes are incredible, you receive a generous portion, and the lattes are delicious. I also enjoyed a wonderful pot of tea during my visit.

We sat outside and the service was slower than usual. Eventually, we ordered food and drinks. This place never fails on quality, but today something went very wrong! I ordered a soup and a sandwich. The soup was as good as usual and the sandwich was very nice. However, the menu said sandwiches are served with salad and from my experience, it is always very good. Today, I was served half a tomato and a leaf of parsley. I found it amusing and after asking, the young lady brought out a small plate of the usual salad. I will attach a picture.

Lovely cafe we visited after a nice walk. Varied menu, tasty food and friendly staff. It was a busy place, clearly very popular. We had jacket potatoes with coronation chicken, one of the special toasted sourdough with pesto and roasted veg (which was huge and a tart with goats cheese and salads (also quite big! Didn't try the coffee, we just had cold drinks. The afternoon tea looked good. as did all the cakes on the counter.

We came in for lunch and left a little under-whelmed. Two friends ordered sandwiches which were epic and they had no issues with. One friend has the Bakehouse Platter which he said was nice but just felt like a load of random things had been loaded onto a plate. I ordered the Chilli Platter. The amount of chilli on it was very small and there was absolutely no heat or spice. Also, although I don't believe it was advertised as a vegetarian chilli, there seemed to be no meat in it. That was a shame because the staff were incredibly friendly and it's a lovely venue, Oh, but I do challenge the sense of allowing someone to let their baby stand on a surface used for serving food.