Cafe Fresco - Rhondda Cynon Taf

Brilliant. The food here is superb. Been using this cafe on and off for a couple of years now and everytime the service and food are second to none!

I'm vegetarian and miss a fry up occasionally, so I thought I'd try cafe fresco as I'd heard it was good. Now, if I was a meat eater I'd be laughing all the way to the bank, vegetarians not so much. The item I wanted was avocado on toast with egg, no avocado, so I opted for the other vegetarian option, which was the veggie breakfast. Now 4 types of potatoes, 2 manky veggtable sausage a spoonfull of mushrooms (I'd say 2 small mushrooms chopped up) cpl eggs, fried bread, beans and/or tomatoes for the same price as the large meaty breakfast is not value for money. It was cooked well and was super hot and fresh, but so hmmmm and a bit disappointing. The coffee was nice, proper coffee, could have been a bit stronger, I did ask but the lady behind the counter was new, so am giving her a break about it.

My wife and I decided to eat breakfast here, we weren’t disappointed, we both had 1slice of bacon, 2 fried eggs mushrooms, also toast, the breakfast was lovely, my wife had peppermint tea, I had normal tea, the staff are friendly too, the only fault is some plates are chipped also mugs too. Otherwise it was delicious, we will definitely eat here again. Thank you, I would highly recommend this place.

Partner and I had forgotten our bank cards so unable to draw out cash. We came to cafe fresco and asked if they took card payments. Was told cash only, we replied we only had our phone so the server said he would take a card payment this once. We ordered. Came to pay and after getting up the list of available wifi networks, I asked which wifi was theirs as my reception was terrible and he shrugged. Then produced a piece of paper with the network and password. I joined, opened my banking app to make the transfer and handed my phone over for him to input his details. He then told me “no” very abruptly. I was confused. He then, again abruptly told me “how I pay in shops” and told me to put my phone onto his. I then realised he was using his phone as a terminal. While the transfer was going through the way he proceeded to talk to me, as if I was stupid and a child, caused the cafe to go silent and customers staring. He then dismissively told me the transfer had gone through and to take a seat. One, of taking a card payment had been so much of a hassle we would’ve gone elsewhere two, I have an honours degree and 3, I’m 38 years old. The food was decent, no complaints there but, the whole experience was marred by the servers bad attitude. We couldn’t wait to finish and leave. There was no thank you for our custom, even when our drinks were brought over, there was silence. We will not be returning here again. Maybe he was having an off day but, if paying by card was such a chore then we would have happily left and eaten somewhere else.

I love this place! Such a good place to go if you’re looking for a nice meal. I tried the chicken curry the other day and it was the nicest curry I’ve ever tasted in my life it was so good. I went today and I’m tempted to go back tomorrow just for the curry! Highly recommend staff are great too!