Coffee Box - Hastings

Went to Hastings centre to give blood. Very clean and well organised. Parking was very reasonable and gave discount on a drink in the coffee box.

This cafe attached to the Kings centre is a pleasant place to meet friends. The coffee is good and the cakes even better! Service slightly slow but worth the wait! Sometimes a bit noisy with lots of young children if you coincide with one of the pre school classes in the centre.

We went for lunch. Drinks came, fine, thirty minutes later I asked if they had forgotten our food and was told there are lots of orders . Fifty five minutes later my husband asked if the food was coming, they told him they had lost our order and they would do it right away, another ten minutes and our toastie arrived , that was sixty five minutes in all for one toastie. They gave us cards for free drinks, should have been a full refund!

Went to the coffee box for lunch on Friday and was really disappointed. We had to wait 15 minutes for our drinks and a total of 45 minutes for our food. The place was far from busy and people who came in after us were served before us. My grandaughter was getting very impatient....mind you she is only 2 so I am not surprised. When I queried the amount of time the food was taking a member of staff went to check what was happening. She came back to tell me it was just being made. I presume the 2nd person that came out to us with the food was the manageress, She said that it was her fault as she didn't tell us the length of time it would take...the baby wouldn't eat hers as the bread smelt as if it had been stored too long and tasted awful. In fact all of the food tasted similar ...it was either very dry or stale. We were given 2 stamped cards as an apology. I will NOT be going there again.

So got recommended to come here by a family member. Decided to come here on Friday. Ordered some food and then sat down. We waited over 45 minutes for 2 sandwiches and 2 toasties. When we asked why so long the lady said it's really busy. We should have been told there's a wait. We saw people that arrived after us get served their food before us also. When the food eventually arrived it was disgusting. The toasties were burnt and the bread for the sandwiches was stale. We did get given 2 free coffee stamp cards as an apology but it is unlikely we will be returning.