Cafe Mbriki - Leicester

I've been here several times and never reviewd, and I should. Never had a bad lunch or coffee here. Today for lunch the drinks, food and service was great... as always. Polite staff, quick service and hot tasty food. Lovely venue inside too!

We popped in here on the off chance because it looked nice as we walked past... Glad we did. Lovely hot beverages and tasty snacks served by two nice members of staff. Quite an extensive menu for a small place too.... very clean and tidy also.

We were really disappointed with our visit. Staff were pleasant and the setting ok, we were really looking forward to a lovely breakfast/lunch. Hot drinks prices were a little steep and the quality of food was terrible. Such a let down. We had a sausage baguette for my daughter, English breakfast and Greek breakfast. I really don't know how you can get a fry up wrong. It was all watery and rasted of nothing, plus the toast was burnt black and I had to ask for a fresh slice. (Such poor standards to even serve the burnt toast! Very bizarre. My partners toast was also burnt on the Greek breakfast but with a young baby he just couldn't be bothered with the hassle of asking for more fresh toast for him too). The quality of food being used for these three dishes was just so poor. The sausages were pale horrible looking things and they didn't taste much better. I dread to think what the meat content was! Scrambled egg was watery and tasteless. Grilled tomato was the same. And the bacon also taste of nothing, along with the hash browns. I think the food suppliers seriously need looking at, as it reminded me of a terrible buffet breakfast or old school dinners. Such poor quality food. We also expected the Greek breakfast to be alot more appealing. My partner said the sausage tasted ok but it was a tiny skinny thing we actually chuckled at the state of his plate. A pale cheap looking piece of ham, two bits of cucumber and two slices of tomato, some olives and a boiled egg. I probably could have made something more authentically Greek at home...with more flavour too. We'd been looking for an independent cafe for about half an hour and we were sadly disappointed. We really wanted to love it. Maybe other things on the menu were OK but it's unlikely we would return to find out. Such a shame. But in the meantime, I'd really recommend they look onto sourcing better quality food and working harder on what they out together as it was a disaster! We went elsewhere in the silver arcade afterwards as we were starving! Positives were the potential, the pleasant atmosphere and the staff were nice. Just Such a shame about their standards...even if they couldn't do anything about the produce...charcoaled toast isn't hard to re do before serving! Very poor

I just love this place! Whenever my mum and I pop into town we always head here for lunch! Freshly made food! Freshly cooked! Great service! Friendly staff! Definitely place. Great value for money. Have been using the little cafe for years now! Always happy with my meal! Thank you!

Good points : Friendly welcome, rapid service, many vegan/gluten free options. Food OK with some interesting Greek/Cypriot options Not so good points : Bit pricey...pushing £10 a head for basic lunchtime snack+drink. Background music inside too loud : I didn't mind the music being played, it just needed to be quieter! And maybe we sat in a poor place but any time anyone went to the loo, the sound of the hand driers drowned out conversation at our table inside. So not bad and anyone visiting will do OK with the food served , but just in a place like Leicester where there are so many tempting independents I think there might be places with better ambience.