Silly me didn’t read the pricing for toasted panini. I ordered a tuna and cheese panini and a chicken and sweet corn panini. To my shock-horror when it came to pay they said £15.00. Not only was it a rip-off but, it was mega overpriced, tasteless, bland, cold and definitely not worth the money. OUTRAGEOUS pricing, and definitely not worth that amount or NOT value for money. I will NEVER go back there again that’s for sure. I’ll stick to Costa as their toasted panini’s are better quality, delicious and worth the price.
Julie Gibson
Grabbed a quick breakfast. Friendly service and good food.
Lindsay East
I often come here for breakfast, on a Sunday morning, before the Harlequin opens. I have fried eggs on toast, and bacon. Always freshly cooked, and tasty. They do an excellent freshly squeezed orange juice. Service is friendly, chairs comfortable. Recommended.
Carmen
Having never been here before we thought we’d give it a try. We should have read the other reviews first…I ordered poached eggs and avocado. Admittedly the eggs were well poached and warm but arrived with the thinnest slivers of avocado, huge chunks of cold (straight from the fridge?) tomatoes and 1 (yes one) slice of toast. The pesto was a nice addition but all in all I expected more given this was almost £10!My son ordered a tuna melt… such a shame there was more leek/onion/tomato etc. than actual tuna. If you like a ‘hint’ of tuna in your tuna melt this is for you!! Again, given the price we expected more and better.We’re relatively new to Watford and really want to support Watford businesses, but it’s hard to do so in this instance.P.S. My son wanted to add that he likes the decor and layout!
Mark Woollams
Not to bad food, bit pricey but everything is inside the shopping centre these
Rishi Hindocha
I went here after doing some shopping with my family, we went around Midday, about 15 minutes before the cutoff for brunch. The man at the till seemed to make a real point of checking the time, and basically ignored us for a minute, before taking our order, he kept just standing there, not doing anything. We all found him incredibly rude.We ordered 2 cappuccinos, 2 poached eggs on toast, chips, and a panini, costing almost £40 for the 3 of us. We then asked for some brown sauce.The poached eggs were horrible, they were rotten and had an awful overwhelming smell. The eggs were brown and the sickly smell put us all off our meal, the brown sauce was incredibly watery, and was bubbly. For almost £40 this is some of the worst value food that I have ever experienced. We will never return, and would recommend that you don’t visit this place, as you may also be served rotting food. The cost of this place is high, which would be fine if the food was actually edible and they didn’t serve rotting food to their customers.This is the worst place I have visited in my life, and my family will be telling our friends to avoid this place at all costs, we all wish that we never went here, and hope that the food doesn’t make us all ill!
Rishi H
I went here after doing some shopping with my family, we went around Midday, about 15 minutes before the cutoff for brunch. The man at the till seemed to make a real point of checking the time, and basically ignored us for a minute, before taking our order, he kept just standing there, not doing anything. We all found him incredibly rude. We ordered 2 cappuccinos, 2 poached eggs on toast, chips, and a panini, costing almost £40 for the 3 of us. We then asked for some brown sauce.The poached eggs were horrible, they were rotten and had an awful overwhelming smell. The eggs were brown and the sickly smell put us all off our meal, the brown sauce was incredibly watery, and was bubbly. For almost £40 this is some of the worst value food that I have ever experienced. We will never return, and would recommend that you don’t visit this place, as you may also be served rotting food. The cost of this place is high, which would be fine if the food was actually edible and they didn’t serve rotting food to their customers. This is the worst place I have visited in my life, and my family will be telling our friends to avoid this place at all costs, we all wish that we never went here, and hope that the food doesn’t make us all ill!
C
I found this café in the heart of Watford’s shopping centre so I decided to give it a go. I had a regular cappuccino and a slice of apple pie. The barista burnt the milk of my cappuccino - fortunately the pie was decent, even is clearly overpriced (5 pounds??). Quite disappointed but still hopeful, if I hadn’t been forced as some point to stand up and go away by a member of the staff who decided to pass the mop almost on my feet.Not nice.
D P
I've been a regular here for around 20 years. The staff are very friendly and always have a smile for you. I'm on first name terms with them all! The coffee is fantastic and the sandwiches and panini's are great. I especially like the Greek and Italian three bean salads.The place is regularly packed at the weekends and there are plenty of regulars that I frequently catch up with over a coffee and toast.I thoroughly recommend coming here if you've never visited.
Kathy Pennie
I go regularly to cafe Giardino for coffee and toast,it's my favourite place to go for coffee as the staff are very friendly and efficient and I've met lots of nice people,I've recommended it to friends.
Very disappointed with this cafe, the front staff was a europeon lady, absolute appalling attitude. The food was awful and once again that woman stinks!
harrywarn
This cafe is up there as one of the least pleasant establishments i have visited in my life-time, I question myself, what negative do i even start with? First off, me and my family came into Watford to have a nice spot of breakfast/brunch, as on entering through the car-park we saw in big letters 'CAFE GIARDINO' and now, i have been here before and thought the food, the drinks and the staff where very very poor, but my family insisted on going here for our food, little did we know this was a terrible mistake, As a family we ordered: Poached eggs on toast, a bacon sandwich and 3x iced late's. Upon ordering the lady taking the order was very very miserable and looked like she would rather have been doing another job instead of this one, the one positive of this whole trip was how fast our items arrived to the wobbly table, but you could tell why. The bacon in the sandwich was clearly done in a microwave as it wasnt the correct and normal colour it is meant to be, it was as grey as ashes. Also the bread of the sandwich has multiple finger prints indented into it. The poached eggs on toast, now, I did not have this however a family member did, as soon as the rude lady came to give my family member this, a pungent, overpowering smell of vinegar struck me, i didnt think much of this until my family member said, i have just had a whole mouthful of vinegar. We got up and said all this to the lady and she was nothing but rude to us. Never and I mean never are we coming back here and neither should anyone.
Patricia Dodd
Grt8 service lovely Earl Grey tea & a fresh fruit scone..thanx. I will definitely b going bk there.
R C
First time eating here. Ordered two sandwiches, cheap bread, microwaved tasteless sausages, bacon seemed pre cooked and reheated in the microwave. I ate my sandwich because of hunger. My partner took one bite and that was enough, felt she would get ill if she ate the whole thing. I was given a glass for my drink, the glass was dirty, the plates where dirty. Meal came to £17.90 for what felt like cheap ingredients. Would not recommend.
Graham Davidson
I was going to eat here last week with my daughter however the service i recieved from a particular memeber of staff was shocking to put it mildly. I do not know her name but she has dark hair, glasses and a european accent. Due to health issues i sometimes struggle to make decisions about things in a timely manner, this did not please the woman who was serving me who thought it was ok to tell me to "hurry up, because others want to be served". When i tried to explain my situation to her she just rolled her eyes and told me "that doesn't matter, be quicker".That was it for me and i decided to tell the lady i was going to go elsewhere for my lunch to which she replied "at least you finally made a decision" and laughed!Such a shame as i have eaten here many times in the past and really enjoyed the atmosphere. I will never return and advise anyone who needs a little extra time or understanding to avoid this place while this lady is working here.
Silly me didn’t read the pricing for toasted panini. I ordered a tuna and cheese panini and a chicken and sweet corn panini. To my shock-horror when it came to pay they said £15.00. Not only was it a rip-off but, it was mega overpriced, tasteless, bland, cold and definitely not worth the money. OUTRAGEOUS pricing, and definitely not worth that amount or NOT value for money. I will NEVER go back there again that’s for sure. I’ll stick to Costa as their toasted panini’s are better quality, delicious and worth the price.
Grabbed a quick breakfast. Friendly service and good food.
I often come here for breakfast, on a Sunday morning, before the Harlequin opens. I have fried eggs on toast, and bacon. Always freshly cooked, and tasty. They do an excellent freshly squeezed orange juice. Service is friendly, chairs comfortable. Recommended.
Having never been here before we thought we’d give it a try. We should have read the other reviews first…I ordered poached eggs and avocado. Admittedly the eggs were well poached and warm but arrived with the thinnest slivers of avocado, huge chunks of cold (straight from the fridge?) tomatoes and 1 (yes one) slice of toast. The pesto was a nice addition but all in all I expected more given this was almost £10!My son ordered a tuna melt… such a shame there was more leek/onion/tomato etc. than actual tuna. If you like a ‘hint’ of tuna in your tuna melt this is for you!! Again, given the price we expected more and better.We’re relatively new to Watford and really want to support Watford businesses, but it’s hard to do so in this instance.P.S. My son wanted to add that he likes the decor and layout!
Not to bad food, bit pricey but everything is inside the shopping centre these
I went here after doing some shopping with my family, we went around Midday, about 15 minutes before the cutoff for brunch. The man at the till seemed to make a real point of checking the time, and basically ignored us for a minute, before taking our order, he kept just standing there, not doing anything. We all found him incredibly rude.We ordered 2 cappuccinos, 2 poached eggs on toast, chips, and a panini, costing almost £40 for the 3 of us. We then asked for some brown sauce.The poached eggs were horrible, they were rotten and had an awful overwhelming smell. The eggs were brown and the sickly smell put us all off our meal, the brown sauce was incredibly watery, and was bubbly. For almost £40 this is some of the worst value food that I have ever experienced. We will never return, and would recommend that you don’t visit this place, as you may also be served rotting food. The cost of this place is high, which would be fine if the food was actually edible and they didn’t serve rotting food to their customers.This is the worst place I have visited in my life, and my family will be telling our friends to avoid this place at all costs, we all wish that we never went here, and hope that the food doesn’t make us all ill!
I went here after doing some shopping with my family, we went around Midday, about 15 minutes before the cutoff for brunch. The man at the till seemed to make a real point of checking the time, and basically ignored us for a minute, before taking our order, he kept just standing there, not doing anything. We all found him incredibly rude. We ordered 2 cappuccinos, 2 poached eggs on toast, chips, and a panini, costing almost £40 for the 3 of us. We then asked for some brown sauce.The poached eggs were horrible, they were rotten and had an awful overwhelming smell. The eggs were brown and the sickly smell put us all off our meal, the brown sauce was incredibly watery, and was bubbly. For almost £40 this is some of the worst value food that I have ever experienced. We will never return, and would recommend that you don’t visit this place, as you may also be served rotting food. The cost of this place is high, which would be fine if the food was actually edible and they didn’t serve rotting food to their customers. This is the worst place I have visited in my life, and my family will be telling our friends to avoid this place at all costs, we all wish that we never went here, and hope that the food doesn’t make us all ill!
I found this café in the heart of Watford’s shopping centre so I decided to give it a go. I had a regular cappuccino and a slice of apple pie. The barista burnt the milk of my cappuccino - fortunately the pie was decent, even is clearly overpriced (5 pounds??). Quite disappointed but still hopeful, if I hadn’t been forced as some point to stand up and go away by a member of the staff who decided to pass the mop almost on my feet.Not nice.
I've been a regular here for around 20 years. The staff are very friendly and always have a smile for you. I'm on first name terms with them all! The coffee is fantastic and the sandwiches and panini's are great. I especially like the Greek and Italian three bean salads.The place is regularly packed at the weekends and there are plenty of regulars that I frequently catch up with over a coffee and toast.I thoroughly recommend coming here if you've never visited.
I go regularly to cafe Giardino for coffee and toast,it's my favourite place to go for coffee as the staff are very friendly and efficient and I've met lots of nice people,I've recommended it to friends.
Restaurantji Recommends
Very disappointed with this cafe, the front staff was a europeon lady, absolute appalling attitude. The food was awful and once again that woman stinks!
This cafe is up there as one of the least pleasant establishments i have visited in my life-time, I question myself, what negative do i even start with? First off, me and my family came into Watford to have a nice spot of breakfast/brunch, as on entering through the car-park we saw in big letters 'CAFE GIARDINO' and now, i have been here before and thought the food, the drinks and the staff where very very poor, but my family insisted on going here for our food, little did we know this was a terrible mistake, As a family we ordered: Poached eggs on toast, a bacon sandwich and 3x iced late's. Upon ordering the lady taking the order was very very miserable and looked like she would rather have been doing another job instead of this one, the one positive of this whole trip was how fast our items arrived to the wobbly table, but you could tell why. The bacon in the sandwich was clearly done in a microwave as it wasnt the correct and normal colour it is meant to be, it was as grey as ashes. Also the bread of the sandwich has multiple finger prints indented into it. The poached eggs on toast, now, I did not have this however a family member did, as soon as the rude lady came to give my family member this, a pungent, overpowering smell of vinegar struck me, i didnt think much of this until my family member said, i have just had a whole mouthful of vinegar. We got up and said all this to the lady and she was nothing but rude to us. Never and I mean never are we coming back here and neither should anyone.
Grt8 service lovely Earl Grey tea & a fresh fruit scone..thanx. I will definitely b going bk there.
First time eating here. Ordered two sandwiches, cheap bread, microwaved tasteless sausages, bacon seemed pre cooked and reheated in the microwave. I ate my sandwich because of hunger. My partner took one bite and that was enough, felt she would get ill if she ate the whole thing. I was given a glass for my drink, the glass was dirty, the plates where dirty. Meal came to £17.90 for what felt like cheap ingredients. Would not recommend.
I was going to eat here last week with my daughter however the service i recieved from a particular memeber of staff was shocking to put it mildly. I do not know her name but she has dark hair, glasses and a european accent. Due to health issues i sometimes struggle to make decisions about things in a timely manner, this did not please the woman who was serving me who thought it was ok to tell me to "hurry up, because others want to be served". When i tried to explain my situation to her she just rolled her eyes and told me "that doesn't matter, be quicker".That was it for me and i decided to tell the lady i was going to go elsewhere for my lunch to which she replied "at least you finally made a decision" and laughed!Such a shame as i have eaten here many times in the past and really enjoyed the atmosphere. I will never return and advise anyone who needs a little extra time or understanding to avoid this place while this lady is working here.