Little Chef - Little Chef

...my partners annoyance love visiting Little Chefs. I must confess that the only meals I have ever eaten in them have been from their wonderful selection of 'All Day Breakfasts' and can honestly say that I have always found their food to be superb ( with the exception of one outlet - see below on locations). The food is always cooked fresh, and the service is generally good and quite speedy. I should imagine that their other meals are of a similar ...
...and found a seat, the Little Chef can prove a better option, as we proved on a recent coach trip to Germany. Of the ones I have visited and can remember vividly, I rate them as follows: A40 (Just outside Monmouth) - Food - Excellent: Service - Excellent - a little disappointed that they have stopped serving scrambled egg - yes - I am that fussy!) - this is apparently due to the increased risk of salmonella Cross Hands, A40, Wales: Food - Excellent: ...

sue.51 24.03.2001 (05.02.2002) · Read full review
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...a strange area, you have little option but to put your faith in a motorway service station or a Little Chef. I stayed at a Travelodge at Washington services in the north east of England just south of Newcastle on a number of occasions & had the choice an overpriced Moto restaurant or an overpriced Little Chef; I chose the latter on a number of occasions for evening meals & breakfast. I have also used Little Chefs in Dumfries, Cramlington & Bristol. ...
...other customers. I wrote to Little chef complaining about their rip off prices when they were going to charge me 99p for a ration of bacon, 99p for a sausage & 99p for a fried egg if they were added to an existing breakfast meal. I got a real snooty letter back explaining that they have to pay high rental fees for being situated on motorways & they need to charge high costs. However, many of their sites are located on country roads & they charge ...

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...Indeed, there are about 4 Little Chefs within 20 minutes drive of each other (that's East Anglian logic for you!) Last weekend we stopped at the nearest, although in the past we have sampled the second adn third in line respectively. Apart from a few minor changes in layout, they are all pretty similar. ~~ Appearance ~~ An easy to spot plastic sign with logo of a white-hatted chef on a red background. The facilties here are all on one level, so there ...
...menu, and comes with a little pre-packed pat of butter and pot of jam. ~~ Other Facilities ~~ The cafe is obviously popular with long haul drivers, looking to stretch their legs and grab a bite to eat. To this end, it serves its purpose well. The toilets have always been functioning and clean in my experience, if unfailingly lacking in paper towels! Also available, a few gossip magazines, newspaper, cold drinks and chocolate bars. It has never ...

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...adjoining Travelodge, I visited the Little Chef in Uttoxeter, for an evening meal and also breakfast the following morning. - APPEARANCE - Little Chefs can be spotted by the red and white logo (with a picture of a chef and the title 'LITTLE CHEF' underneath, amazingly). There are usually little chef logos along the roadside outside the restaurants so they can be easily seen. Inside, Little Chefs seem to have a standard interior design trhough the ...
...too full-up! On leaving the Little Chef you have to go to the till on your way out (the till is next to the door) which is quick and easy. It also means you can leave when you want rather than waiting for the waiter/ress to bring over the bill etc, which is a good thing. However, on one of our visits we were in a rush and so the waiteress kindly offered to speed things up a little for us - take our order immedietely etc - good service. Although we ...

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...last set foot in a Little Chef restaurant, over a year in fact, until yesterday that is. I’d always remembered them as expensive places to eat, not particularly comfortable and with rather a bland café style menu and a long wait for your meal to arrive at your table. But yesterday I have to admit to being very pleasantly surprised! We visited the Little Chef just outside Thame, towards Oxford. There have been some major changes since I was ...
...double bacon cheeseburgers, yayyyy!!) The Little Chef restaurant itself is very roomy, lots of good quality wooden tables and with very comfortable seating, complete with nice thick padded cushions. Considerably better than the old days of hard wooden seating and plastic topped tables! The first thing I noticed was that they were now offering a selection of goodies you could purchase too, arranged neatly in a display section close to the entrance. ...

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...pleasure of visiting on of Little Chef's restaurants (near Morcott on the A47 between Leicester and Peterborough). I feel I must register my disgust at the service myself and my companions recieved in return for what I feel was a ludicrously expensive bill, given the circumstances. Around twenty minutes after placing our initial order in the little more than deserted restaurant, I was told that my order was unavailable because "the panini machine's ...
...prior to our arrival at Little Chef), but the two eggs were united in their semi- cooked state. My companion was of the opinion that a good biochemist may well have been able to stuff them back into their shell and rear a couple of fairly healthy chicks, given the disposition to do so, and was unable to bring himself to consume them as a result. - A "Classic Burger": Again, this was most definitely cooked, as was evidenced by the black and charred ...

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...am not a fan of Little Chef restaurants due to a couple of bad experiences which I will tell you about here. The first was when visiting Little Chef at Doncaster when myself and my partner were staying overnight at the adjacent Travelodge. We were hungry and thought we'd give the Little Chef a try. It was early evening when we visited and apart from a couple of customers was virtually empty. We ordered two meals and drinks from the menu which arrived ...
...this and was feeling a little more irritated now as we were trying to eat our meals, and she was standing over us! She disappeared then returned a minute later, came back to our table and began reaching across us to pick up the bowls which contained sugar, sauces etc and began re- filling them, even though they did not need re-filling. I was beginning to wonder by now if this was some sort of set-up and that we were being filmed secretly for some ...

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Can’t you just picture that little piece of heaven just off the Motorway called ‘Little Chef’. Succulent, tasty meals all reasonably priced. Somewhere to relax a while and break your journey. What would we do without them? Hey hold on a minute... – what am I saying? They’ve become an ‘institution’ at the side of the British roads. Little Chefs have been around for years. For a while challenged for supremacy ...
...USA. Walk into a Little Chef anywhere in Britain and what are you faced with? A canteen-like restaurant serving overpriced breakfast platters and pretty bland and tasteless main meals. The Staff would appear to be completely disinterested with a ‘short order cook’ (hardly a ‘chef’) hashing up the fried stuff on the griddle in plain view. They usually look like the sort of people that can’t wait for their break to go ...

flashpointz 26.04.2001 (09.05.2001) · Read full review
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...time I was in a Little Chef I think I was about six. I can’t have been with my parents as they grimace just at driving past one, and I can’t imagine for a moment they’ve ever ventured inside. Anyway I ended up in one this afternoon, and was actually pleasantly surprised. Menu The Little Chef does not only serve burgers. That was my overwhelming impression of the place, and yes, the menu is geared towards grilled food and chips, but there are other ...
...to perfection, tasty, although a little overpriced for what it was. Restaurants The restaurant was very clean, with a diner layout (reminded me very much of the same style diners in Seattle, an American chain whose name escapes me) and the service was prompt, efficient and friendly (if a little scripted.) It would be an excellent place to take children. There was a special area for kids with lego and toys, plenty of high chairs, and they even provide ...

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...chain!! .... until ....... Little Chef, the gates of heaven (not my quote!!!) Little Chef, is one of my boyfriends favourite eating holes!, and since being with him, I have probably been in about 60 of them!!! (now thats sad!). And yes .. Im converted!! ***Where are they *** LIttle Chef have over 380 restaurants in the UK, so you are never far away from finding one!! The majority appear to be along "A" roads, very few are found on motorways. ...
...if you go into any Little Chef, they have a booklet called Out and About, which has a road map showing the locations of all the Little Chefs, and if they are attached to a travel lodge, for those requiring an over night stay! Its A5 size, so fits easily into your glove compartment. Alternatively, if you don't have one of these booklets, click on to the RAC website route planner, and once you have put your route into the planner, there is an option ...

englishminx 24.02.2004 · Read full review
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The Little Chef chain has been owned by Granada for some time. Granada are currently in the process of renaming all their Granada services into MOTO presumably to fool us that awful old Granada services have gone and the new ones are better. Like that’s going to work for precisely one visit. Little Chef’s have been beside the major roads of Britain for almost 50 years now and it is rumoured they should soon have used up the first sausage ...
...we will meet ‘At that Little Chef on the A38 near whatisplace’. This is the one positive side to Little Chef restaurants – they have a higher omnipresence rating than the Gods of most religions. The problem I have with them though is manyfold. Firstly because of their excessive controlled branding they are all the same. Even the waitresses all look the same. Go into any Little Chef and there will be a size 18 or 20 waitress squeezed ...

polydeuces 09.07.2001 · Read full review
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...days seem to have a Little Chef somewhere inside, and numerous winding country roads are home to them too. Although we drove past a million on the M6 the other day when driving down south, we eventually ended up in one in a little village near Basingstoke. When I say little, I mean it. Wee. Tiny. Very ‘ickle. A few houses, a pub and a petrol station seemed to make up the rest of it, and that’s not an exaggeration. We didn’t really ...
...I’ve eaten at Little Chefs many a time, usually through convenience over everything else. Over the years the menus have change slightly, but one thing has remained constant – they always include very tempting looking pictures of every dish on offer. You know the sort – gleaming crockery holding plump, juicy food oozing with flavour. In reality though, this is far from what you get. ** Location and Layout ** Little Chef’s are ...

zoe_page 09.05.2002 (22.04.2003) · Read full review
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...Well I’ll tell you. Little Chef’s. Oh yes, we’ve all been there. After hours of travelling you are always hankering for a small lunch or dinner and there is always one within about 20 miles. Our family is the same. My Dad travels the country and often pops in. But not any more as I will explain in my negative op about that Little Chef… WHERE ARE THEY? Where aren’t they would be an easier question. On the A14 stretch ...
...have to go to the Little Chef to get something I browse the menu. Why is it, they always make the food look so good. For instance the continental breakfast. On the menu, the eggs are bright, the sausages don’t have a smear or a burn and the bacon is prefect. Then they serve it. The egg has shrivelled up, the sausages are charred and the bacon will disintegrate if you sneeze. It’s not the first time either. I watched my Dad eat a bacon ...

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Do not go to a Little Chef if you are ever in a hurry. There seems to be a pre-determined number of waiting periods that you have to pass through. When you walk through the entrance there is a sign stating "Please wait to be seated". So you obediently wait. The waitresses will keep looking at you from across the room, as if to say, why are waiting there? I am sure there is a hidden clock, and after the required waiting time a waitress will take you ...
...to just walk out as nobody ever seems to want to take your money. If you have a good book to read then maybe the Little Chef is the place for you. One title it will never win is Fast Food. Be ready for a wait. ...

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I had never been inside little chef until about 6 years ago I went to one while on my way to Manchester! While on our recent holiday we stopped at Washington to stay overnight and went to Little Chef for our evening meal! It was a Sunday evening at 6pm and it was quite quiet! There were about 4 other tables being used from the 20 or so available. There were 2 visible members of staff when we went in, 1 young girl who was serving and one older lady ...
...I have encountered at previous Little Chefs, but they do tend to cook one order at a time. But the girl serving admitted it was her first shift so everything did take a bit longer! I had been on the little chef website just before we left and had looked at the menu, it had a wide variety of choices, but when I looked at the menu in the restaurant, it was different, with not so many choices and different things to eat. I don't know if this is a limited ...

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