Crepes & Cones South End Croydon

I'm late to the party!!!!! only just found this place and it's on my doorstep!! I've now been 3 times in a matter of weeks and have enjoyed every visit.... well, honestly, I've enjoyed the food so much....my go to..... is loaded fries, MAC&CHEESE....OMG Wicked! and the Prawns with Mango, they just melt in my mouth. and to top it all.......Portions sizes are great value for money. Service can be a tab slow, but I've been to The IVY, and it was slow too.!!!

It was a quite a quiet night, food was good. Really enjoyed the chicken & waffle. Wasn’t too pleased with the brownie dessert because it was quite rough on the edges which scrapes my pallet and it was a bit dry. But overall it’s a nice chill spot. The Passion fruit Mojito was really nice.

I know that this is not a Michelin starred restaurant, but my oh my, I would also think you can expect some sort of standard... Maybe we had our expectations too high🤣. But this is something else. You see the menu was not that big so you would expect the chef to be able to take time and create something he or she is proud of and know taste amazing right ? Wrong ... I'm not sure if they just focus on the presentation rather than how the food is cooked. So let's get on to what we ordered 🙈 We ordered two portions of plantain, x5 Mac and cheeses + one banna boat for starters. The the main we ordered three Buff burgers, a set of ribs, one chicken burger and a chicken and waffle for main. We didn't dare order desert🤣 So the two plantains we ordered they were somehow both different one was fried normally but burn and the other one was dipped in something and then fried , when we asked staff as to why we had two different types of planting and we both ordered the same we was told that is how it comes. I don't know how if it's the same dish just ordered twice . The mac and cheese with average nothing to write home about 3 out of the 5 of Us could taste cinnamon and they did not like the taste although I couldn't taste any cinnamon. The banana boat was just a bed of lettuce with mushroom in jerk paste with plantain dipped in something before being fried. The prawns are amazing ! Slightly over cooked but that was ok because the flavours were out of this world ( the chef should be proud of themselves) So onto the main: The buff burger was very dry , overcooked and burnt in some places but the salad was very fresh in the burger so I suppose that's a plus to the fail of the burger . The ribs: I was expecting a rack of ribs but got this slab of meat which was mainly fat , that just tasted awful. I took one bite and I didn't eat anymore and I sent it back to the kitchen. On to the chicken and waffle although I did not try this dish I was told it was nice so one dish out of 6 is not bad . Only 1 dish out of the 6 main dishes served was eating. The ribs were sent back with one bite eaten and all the burgers were sent back with more than half the burgers on the plate yet that did not cause concern for the chef or the staff or the manager to come over and find out why no one had finished their food and everyone minus one person had sent back majority of their food ☹ On to the service: The service is awfully slow and the staff seem to not be with it. Savannah was the only staff who seem to be very attentive to all customers and really tried her best. Savannah has a very positive attitude and is very good with customers, you can sense Savannah gets real job satisfaction from her job. She truly deserves a pay rise working there amongst her other colleagues as you can clearly see the other staff will Slack at doing their job if they can get away with it. But I'm not surprised if a manager like theirs. If it wasn't for Savannah making art experience as pleasant as she could do I wouldn't have paid a penny. And I've put my receipt up so you can see exactly who I am and the time and date I visited your restaurant. From the off the manger was very rude and  he didn't make anyone feel very comfortable or welcome from the beginning. I had a booking booked and was running late which I phoned up Prior to explain my reasons for being late as I was traveling from out of London and the traffic was really bad I didn't want the restaurant waiting for us at a time we wasn't going to arrive at. My first phone call to the restaurant the manger claims he can't hear what I said and put down the phone and then on the second phone call it was resolved yet the manager still had an attitude because we was going to be late. On arrival the staff seemed very friendly I told them I was outside parking the car which the staff had no problem with , when I came back into the restaurant the manager was acting like we couldn't have a table we booked and then went on to say that he will kick us out after an hour as it's only a 2 hour time slot to eat as we are la