Favourite Roadside Caffs / Burger Vans?

[rmclark]

Hey all. For something we all see most days there's a surprisingly little amount of chat online about burger vans. You know, the road side, fold-out-table-and-chairs, sizzling onions, questionable sausage kind of establishment.

Does BCF have any particular favourites? Anyone got a claim to the longest-running van? I've heard whispers of a caff near Saddleworth that's been going for over 30 years....

[A100man]

For a first post this is surprisingly lucid and honest, although I suspect BCF regulars will try and prise out the truth..

..now tell us a bit about yourself - what do/did you ride ?
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

I’ve always been partial to a questionable sausage

Nothing to add except this a winning first post
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[Ash-69]

just in case this is genuine - Lock Keepers Rest, Glasson Dock, Lancashire...
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[struan80]

https://www.driftalong.co.uk/

If you're ever in East Lothian this has the best views of any cafe or restaurant I've ever been to. It is made of cargo containers.

Not that anyone's likely to be in East Lothian

[doggone]

I haven't been to one for years since being served tea made with lukewarm water and a half cooked burger in one

[hellkat]

There's a pretty good one by Whipps Cross Hospital, somewhere just off the North Circular. There's even picnic tables but the "car park" was potholed to fuck last time I was there.

And apparently there used to be a good one on the north exit of the Dartford Crossing tunnel. But I can never remember where.
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[blurredman]

I'd rather just get home instead of squatting around beside a busy road in the cold, and make a huge fry up that is 1/10th of the price of their bacon bun and all the tea I want. Made perfectly as I like it.
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[hellkat]

I vote we should all troop round to blurredman's gaff, then.
Sounds like the grub is good.

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[Copycat73]

[hellkat]

Couldn't be much worse than the way we carry on in this forum
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[hellkat]

Whilst we are on the subject of sausages generally ...

I'd like to make a special mention of Jolly Hog's "Black pudding porkers".
They're very yummy, even without mash and onion gravy.
Hot or cold.
Today I've been dipping the remaining three cold ones in a tub of guacamole instead of ketchup.


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[Skudd]

https://www.facebook.com/Annkitchen1968/

Ann's Kitchen North Wales
A very nice place with very big portions. I had a large breakfast and really struggled to finish it and it was well priced too. Ideal if you are popping into Wales.
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[to v or not to v]

around my way bikers seem to congregate at pubs rather than cafes.
i guess its cos we are all loaded down south.
last weekend the sun was out, so me and mine went to Mudeford seafront, to give the dog a splash about. there were about 50 bikes parked up in their own space and the owners were sat in the pub garden.
still too cold for me to get mine out yet.
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[Weisse Schlange]

[MarJay]

Does it have to be a van? Because I seem to live at the centre of a wide range of excellent bike cafes. Either that or I just got old and now only ride to cafes...

The Iron Bull - Old Basing on the A30 - Nearest to me so don't really ride there as I'd not even warm up my engine but they do a great cooked breakfast

Loomies - West Meon Best Cheesy Chips around, and attracts a shed load of bikes even in the winter

H Cafe Wallingford, on the A4074. Not the best food, but not the worst. Biggest parking, next to an M and P and a dyno place so is often rammed with bikes. Surprisingly quiet in the winter

Ryka's Cafe Boxhill - Original and best, went there recently and it had been completely refurbed since I was last there. Very nice indeed with a huge car park always rammed with bikes.
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[A100man]

[hellkat]

I have still never even been to Rykas and indeed not even up Box Hill

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[hellkat]

I did used to like stopping at that hinky little caravan* on Blackheath not so much for the grub or the tea, but mainly to perve on various chaps.

But what happened to it recently?? I think something happened to it - did it set on fire or something ... or was it carried away in a tornado like Dorothy and Toto?


*"the tea hut"

Also I liked hanging out at the one on Chelsea Bridge back in the day when I was a West London girlie. Is that even still there?
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[sickpup]

[Polarbear]

[blurredman]

[A100man]