Cafe Rouge Dorking

The food is delicious! The portion sizes are perfect! The service was excellent! We had a good experience! Yay!

The negative reviews posted here are from sometime ago and I would suggest that they have changed the staff since then because the current staff are very good.
I have never had a problem eating this restaurant and is often very busy. The food is great and the service is pretty good too. I have never had to wait very long for my food.
I have some excellent vouchers which can be used pretty much any day the week.
Don’t be put off by the previous negative reviews.

I have only given one star as there is no option to choose no stars.
We unfortunately decided to eat here on a whim last night — never again.
The experience didn’t start well when they sat us at the smaillest table in the middle of the throughfare, even though they were practically empty.
The starter i ordered (crab cakes) was luke warm and very small for something that cost over £5.00, and then, worst of all, my chicken main course wasn’t cooked properly and was very pink.
When my husband tried to explain to the waitress that it hadn’t been cooked properly she told him that all the food is delivered pre-​prepared and all they do is heat it up, therefore ‘it must be ok to eat’. When he pointed out that raw chicken is very dangerous and asked for a sample to pass to enviromental health for testing, they took the meal away very quickly after agreeing to remove the cost from the bill.
After this, they couldn’t wait to get rid of us and we were back on the street within 15 minutes.
We had almost gone to Pizza Express and afterwards i really wished we had.
The good news is that I am still feeling well which I’m sure wouldn’t have been the case should I have listened to the waitress and eaten the ‘ok’ raw chicken.

The staff just can’t cope with more than about 5 people at a time. Which pretty much makes it the same as every other Café Rouge!

We had a lovely meal here on Sunday lunchtime, although it was noticeable that the restaurant was very quiet.
The food was good, standard fare; the mussels were excellent.
The wine list is good and service was reasonable, but the whole place lacked the ambience generally found at this French food outlet.

Slow service, and ive wasnt impressed with my hot chocolate either, was luke warm and boring! food has always been nice, although small portions

Here’s a tip for anyone who, for whatever reason, ends up in Dorking when there’s something popular on at the theatre: don’t expect to be able to eat anywhere decent. Pretty much the only half-​decent place you’ll find is Pizza Express.
Unfortunately for me, I had no idea that you need to book to get into Pizza Express if you want to eat there pre-​theatre time. So we ended up in Café Rouge, a chain I’ve not visited for about a decade. It has not improved in my absence.
The Dorking restaurant quite clearly could not cope with the overspill of people who had not been able to get into Pizza Express. There seemed to be one waitress trying to deal with the whole restaurant, and it would appear that there was only one cook in the kitchen. You’d think they’d be lucky to get any food out at all, but given that it’s pretty obvious that the food served is just re-​heated pre-​made crap, one ‘cook’ is probably all they need.
Avoid at all costs. I’d rather eat the KFC down the road.