Cafe Rappor - Hartlepool

Always a warm welcome at this lovely bar/cafe. Great place for breakfast or lunch, good value for money and service with a smile

Once again, the food was delicious and the staff were friendly and constantly smiling. My family and I chose this restaurant for dinner and were impressed by the amazing dishes. The staff were attentive, consistently ensuring our drinks were topped up and checking if we enjoyed our food. I would highly recommend this place to friends and family searching for a great dining experience.

Struggled to find the place due to poor signage but when we did, we were impressed by the layout and cleanliness. It gave a very good impression. The menu isn't great, giving no description whatsoever to the breakfast items and so we had to ask what was going to be on the plates. We ordered two full English (no description at all on the menu). When the plates arrived they were well presented but it was very obvious that the ingredients were very low quality. The bacon was very very overcooked and crumbly but this alone would not have ruined the meal. It was the quality that did that. Low quality hash brown which was soggy and unpleasant to eat, sausages that were about 90% grain. The poached eggs were nicely prepared, but super pale yolks so again, very low quality. The only thing that tasted nice was the black pudding. Even the ketchup was absolutely terrible, watery and with a very strange sweet, fruity taste. We left a lot of uneaten food on our plates and won't be going back. It's a shame because the restaurant is set out to a high standard and the atmosphere was pleasant despite the music being a little loud. We'd have happily paid a little more for better quality ingredients and we've definitely paid less elsewhere in the past for better than was served here.

Quite pleasant atmosphere more for the mature clientele. They advertise opening hours till 11pm but don't be surprised if you go after 9 O'Clock and find it closed, especially on a weekday.

Very disappointed…I understand it’s dog friendly place, but when the serving staff stroke other peoples dogs, you would at least expect them to wash their hands, before going back round the bar to serve drinks,food etc..This happened the last time I was there and with two different members of staff. I thought I would try it again (my friend didn’t believe me) so it might have just been a one off, but exactly the same happened! The people near noticed this too and were mortified. A Massive hygiene problem as far as I’m concerned and I won’t be returning as will the people near to me. Lovely place but can’t get my head around having the same unwashed hands serving my food and drinks. Hand sanitiser on the bar top to use could be useful, so people can see hands being clean before service at least.