The Coffee Tavern

Anyone familiar with Oundle will know it’s coffee central with lots of competing offers, so it’s important to stand out. Coffee Tavern is a great choice for several reasons, especially its two floor layout which means there is usually plenty of space. They also offer online ordering to your seat, which is great for bigger orders where you might chop and change what you want as people choose. There is outdoor seating across the road which is a lovely setting to watch the world go by (food and drink has to be served in takeaway boxes/cups though, for safety I think). As the name suggests, coffee is good but there is loads more on offer especially a wide variety of cooked breakfasts, panini etc. All supported by quick and friendly service.

A cozy and dog-friendly coffee place. We sit at a table upstairs with a nice view of the street. We had Omelette with chips and Bacon&Brie toastie (took a while to come but worth the wait), millionaire cappuccino and spiced apple warmer, cherry & rhubarb cake and chocolate brownie. Everything’s great and would definitely visit again!

Ordered online not sure if it’s any better when you go there but the pizza base was bland and tasted like cardboard which ruined what were decent quality toppings. The chips were ok nothing amazingly fresh. The waffles however were inedible. Shop brought sugary rubbish that was headed up in a microwave which resulted in a quarter of each waffle to be horribly hard and burned on the inside.

A nice place for a coffee and breakfast. It has a friendly and relaxed feel and a great place to start your day with a fine coffee. The breakfast menu had many options, and my mushroom bap added to my fine start to the day.

Good upstairs seating. Fair paninis and sandwiches.

Really not great - tried to give it a go but quite a few poor things! - Table was dirty from previous customer, no problem but when staff member came to clean it, sprayed table once, didn’t even collect half the crumbs and left ketchup on table so we had to redo it. - 30-40 minute wait for food - not even at full capacity at that time so can’t really have been a ‘busy’ excuse… not ideal with two kids in tow. But the food was the biggest problem and the menu itself… so I ordered a jacket potato with prawns and the menu stated with salad and coleslaw. When it arrived my husband said he had to choose with one - it didn’t come with both Bit odd as looked plain without both and the jacket potato was pretty poor. The potato wasn’t soft, probably the wrong sort for a jacket, and prawns were hot (unusual for Marie Rose) and very rubbery. I then noticed my husband had ham egg chips, the menu again said you could have peas or beans and salad or coleslaw. Again he didn’t have either of these on his plate nor was he offered. Maybe we were reading it wrong but that’s how it read to us? It felt like we’d been short served. We told the staff on the till as a bit of feedback who just replied saying ‘sorry about that’ with no explanation as to why it wasn’t offered nor offer of compensating us for a poor meal. Left it a bit awkward and a sour note. Good customer service makes all the difference. We hope you can review how your menu reads or ensure staff knows what’s to be mentioned on ordering/serving.

The best part of being here was lunch with my husband. The food was awful. Chips and chicken burger tasted like they were cooked in old oil. Vile tasting. Made me feel nauseous all day. Won't be returning.

Or breakfast want to bad, but no avacado today. Not to upset, just sad no avacado.