Information about Oldpost Workspace
RH1 4HH, Redhill
Our comment from FitFit UK about Oldpost Workspace:
Oldpost Workspace in Redhill, UK is a charming café and community space that offers a unique blend of delicious food, excellent coffee, and a welcoming atmosphere. With ample parking and a lovely courtyard, it provides a perfect spot for relaxation. Customers have praised the café's friendly staff and the quality of the food, especially the artisan sandwiches and delightful cakes. Many users appreciate the café’s chic and contemporary decor, making it a great place for both casual visits and more formal meetings.
While most reviews are positive, some concerns have been raised regarding menu limitations and the café's dog policy, which has disappointed a few pet owners. There have also been comments about occasional delays in service, particularly during busy times.
Despite these minor drawbacks, Oldpost Workspace remains a treasured location for locals and visitors alike, known for its cosy ambiance and high-quality offerings. Customers often mention it as a favorite spot for lunch or coffee breaks and appreciate the efforts of the staff to create a welcoming environment.
Oldpost Workspace: Reviews
Fantastic experience: A lovely cafe with ample parking and good selection of food/drinks. Lucky to have something like this in the area.
Fantastic experience: No cash accepted; cakes are lovely but the coffee and artisan sandwiches are fabulous. And the courtyard seating with the sound of waterfalls so relaxing in the sunshine. This is my preferred lunch stop whenever I’m in Redhill with time on my side.
Positive experience: Very exspensive friendly staff
Negative experience: I recently visited this cafe in the area and was extremely disappointed with my experience. Despite the fact that they had tiled flooring, they did not allow any dogs inside the premises, even small (clean) ones. This is a huge disappointment considering that the culture is rapidly changing towards more dog-friendly environments, and it is becoming increasingly common for cafes to allow pets inside. The limited menu options on the day we arrived only added to our frustration. It's frustrating to pay a premium for food and drinks only to find that there are hardly any options available. It was a huge letdown and left us feeling dissatisfied with the entire experience. The fact that this cafe doesn't allow dogs is a huge downside, and we won't be returning anytime soon. With so many other options in the immediate area, and Redhill that are becoming more pet-friendly, there's no excuse for a cafe to be so restrictive towards customers with pets. I hope the management of this cafe will reconsider their policy and move towards a more inclusive and modern approach. Until then, I cannot recommend this cafe, especially to pet owners looking for a comfortable place to grab a bite and relax.
Hi Scarlett,
I am sorry that you were left disappointed by your visit.
I will aim to help you understand why your statement below is misinformed, and to give important context to other customers who will read your feedback.
''there's no excuse for a cafe to be so restrictive towards customers with pets''
Please let me share with you just some of the dynamics we carefully maintain in order to be inclusive as possible. I will illustrate why letting dogs inside makes it impossible for us to provide an inclusive and safe environment for all users of our building.
Olpdost is a shared space which operates Cafe, Fitness, Retail, Office & Events making it fundamentally different to a standard cafe requiring us to manage a multi business, multi activity environment within the confines of our insurances and expectations of customers and landlords. It is very difficult to always get this balance right but I wish to reassure you that such decisions are approached pragmatically with the aim of being as inclusive as we can. This means we must respect everyones values, including your own, which we do. This in essence is what you are explaining is important but you have not taken the time to ask for more context in your review.
Oldpost is a HQ hosting a number of small businesses who occupy the offices upstairs and whom often have meetings within the Cafe space. It is therefore important we provide a hybrid professional space which allows them to hose meetings / helps them to incubate and grow their businesses in an environment in which we try (where possible) to limit noise. Barking, which might not be an issue with all dogs, but certainly is with some is inhibiting for those hosting meetings.
Another example of why it is difficult to allow dogs inside is due to our parent & baby focussed fitness classes which often mean newborn babies are asleep in car seats on the ground whilst guardians are able to do a fitness class for a well deserved moment. We have had occasions in the past where inquisitive (but friendly) dogs have been face to face with babies on arrival to the premises which presents a less than reassuring environment for guardians as well as a genuine safety concern and potential source of avoidable conflict between parties.
We have also had examples of owners bringing dogs into the premises without leads which is not always a comfortable or predictable for other customers.
We love dogs and its with great consideration that we try to balance being as inclusive as possible with the genuine safety concerns we have a responsibility to manage.
These considerations as well as the question...
Where do you draw the line? Which dogs do you allow inside? What size do you not allow inside?
These nuances become problematic when you do not have clear guidelines which can be effectively communicated....
We decided to be dog friendly in our courtyard 8 years ago so I like to think we were more forward thinking than most for a lot longer than most - however as much as we love dogs for the reasons outlined above we cannot allow dogs inside the Cafe.
With regards to your comments on the menu. Taken with the context you have provided I would ask why you would pay a premium for food and drinks before you realised there are hardly any options available?
The quality and price of our menu is not related to the depth of offering we should, in your opinion, be offering customers. I would also urge you to understand how the last few years have impacted small businesses before you write such reviews without important context and some empathy for what we, and others, have done to exist.
I really do hope you will give great thought to your review, its impact and the intention behind your review.
Kindest regards,
Oldpost Management
Fantastic experience: Lovely place for a coffee and cake. Stopped in with my kids around 10.30 one morning, it was lovely a quiet and the staff were impeccable. Helpful and polite at every opportunity. I had a chai latte and slice of cake and a babychino for little one. The drinks were the right temperature for the age and tasted amazing (my daughter was thrilled with the number of marshmallows). The cake was gorgeous and a very generous portion!! Will be going back again for lunch one day the sandwiches and other items on show (and on the menu) looked amazing. Good size car park but not can be busy and quite muddy. Toilets available with baby change facilities. Most is buggy friendly and on one level but the area to pay and order is down a couple of steps.
Fantastic experience: lovely staff, great food and drink. We will definitely be back!
Fantastic experience: What a lovely place. Very chic and contemporary inside. A complete suprise. Wonderful selection of cakes. Great coffee. The ladies taking our order were so welcoming and friendly. My mum has dementia and they even put on my mum's favourite tunes to compliment her stay. Everything was a delight.
Positive experience: Very long wait for food although the food was very nice.
Positive experience: Nice and quaint but expensive for a coffee
Fantastic experience: Beautiful place with really great food
Fantastic experience: Enjoyed a delicious lunch here with the best homemade coleslaw ever! Reasonably priced and lovely staff, in a beautiful setting - we loved the outdoor courtyard! A hidden gem! Will definitely go back.
Fantastic experience: Popped in for an impromptu coffee. The first thing that strikes you is the tasteful decor. Understated and not cluttered. A beautiful indoor space and the courtyard is serene. Service was superb. Coffee was exceptional and served in gorgeous cups. We’ll be back soon and thoroughly recommend visiting. Well worth the trip if you’re passing through, live local or come from further afield.
Fantastic experience: Good food and fresh drink and a very calm place make me want to comeback again.
Fantastic experience: Lovely gift ideas. Coffee in the courtyard was just what I needed! Definitely a good stop when in the area.
Fantastic experience: Lovely stop off on our bike ride, stylishly decorated, great menu and a really excellent cup of coffee. Recommend a visit
Fantastic experience: Excellent very popular. Parking at the side of the building.
Fantastic experience: Such a cosy place for a hot drink and some delicious bites. You can also order sandwiches for a lunch/brunch. I loved browsing the unique pieces that are also up for purchasing ( got myself a good bargain on a set of clay plant pots).
Fantastic experience: Attended a surprise birthday party
Fantastic experience: Regularly ate lunch here prior to lockdown. Lovely, humble homemade food and service. Homemade bread is a particular stand out. I never normally order soup but I often do so I can have the bread.
Positive experience: Lovely waitress serving us. The staff are slightly nervous about Covid. I’ll opt for sitting outside or getting a takeaway next time.
Fantastic experience: Coffee probably one of the best I have had
Fantastic experience: We've been coming here since we moved to the area 4 years ago. The service is always great and particularly now during Covid times they have adapted their service to keep customers safe. The food is amazing and the atmosphere is brilliant. Thank you to Erin for making our daughter smile so much today!
Negative experience: Shut until mid August because of Covid
Hi James, Apologies that our opening hours were not updated on Google! It has been an incredibly difficult period for most and our feedback scores are of great importance for future trade. Now that we are back open we look forward to welcoming you with the hope of impressing you with our service and environment!
Fantastic experience: Lovely cafe and shop, nice place to be able to drive to for lunch with the parking at the back
Fantastic experience: Such a lovely place. Excellent food very fast service. Beautiful surroundings highly recommended
Fantastic experience: Food was amazing and the staff were so friendly
Fantastic experience: We were a prebooked table of eight people on the last Saturday before Christmas, meeting for a family catch-up with some of us being from as far away as Cornwall. When we arrived we were told with profuse apologies that they were two members of staff down and that there would be an hour wait. This was absolutely fine as they prewarned us and it gave us all a chance to catch up. The food arrived within the time they said it would and it was well worth the wait. All of our dishes were absolutely delicious and very generously proportioned. The service was excellent and despite being exceedingly busy, all the staff were super friendly. I would highly recommend The Oldpost. Thank you to the staff who were there on Saturday and I wish you all a very merry Christmas.
Fantastic experience: Love it
Positive experience: Lovely atmosphere. Although arrived after 8am. Had to wait for drink and do not serve food until 8.30am.
Fantastic experience: Lovely little coffee shop; I visited for the Christmas market. Thank you to all the nice people working there, and I hope to see you again soon.
Fantastic experience: Very pleasant place to linger off a cup of tea.
Positive experience: Good place for meeting with friends for coffee and snacks also shopping for niknaks.
Fantastic experience: Great place for lunch or a little light breakfast ,and lots of bits for Xmas , don't miss the salection of sweets
Fantastic experience: Beautifully laid out shop, cafe and working space. Food always excellent. Well worth a visit.
Fantastic experience: Lovely coffee shop with some great nik-naks, go and enjoy
Fantastic experience: Lovely staff and nice coffee in the sunny courtyard.
Positive experience: Good space, clean and well laid out. Food is OK - poached eggs have a lot to be desired, quite rubbery. Staff attentive and polite, can’t fault them.
Positive experience: Not cheap but pleasant ambiance and staff exceedingly pleasant
Negative experience: Was alright but didn’t really enjoy so much
Positive experience: Service a bit slow but good food when it arrived.
Fantastic experience: Clean , friendly , lovely food and atmosphere
Fantastic experience: An excellent place to chill out. Gifts and cards as well as coffee and cake.
Fantastic experience: Great place for lunch. I had breakfast for the first time today - fantastic.
Fantastic experience: Lovely coffee, tea and smoothies. Great breakfast & lunch menu. Free WiFi.
Fantastic experience: A newly discovered hidden gem. We have been without fail every week over the last month and bit. Fabulous fresh sandwhiches and cakes. The Tiffin is a favourite and a must try! Modern and cosy inside and always clean. Friendly staff too :) and very welcoming of young children.
Negative experience: Not very welcoming to families with children.
Fantastic experience: Nice staff
Fantastic experience: Lovely cosy place with friendly staff. Delicious lemon cake :-)
Positive experience: Nice coffee
Fantastic experience: Good coffee, better cakes. Mmmm
Fantastic experience: Lovely coffee shop, delicious food and friendly service! Best sweet potato fries
Positive experience: Nice coffee
Fantastic experience: A great place for meeting up with colleagues for a coffee and a light bite. Very spacious inside but the car park does get a bit full. Need to weed out the people parking but not using the facility.
Positive experience: Most enjoyable
Positive experience: Quiet, nice (but small) selection of food, spotlesly clean. Needed somewhere to wait first thing in the morning and as it opens at 8am this was perfect. Added bonus that I really enjoyed my mocha . Definitely go there again.
Positive experience: Really nice place with good food and very acceptable coffee.
Fantastic experience: Absolutely lovely.
Fantastic experience: Lovely place to work, friendly and cosy really enjoying being part of the team xx
Fantastic experience: Friendly staff and quirky seating with a great selection of fresh salads and cakes
Fantastic experience: Friendly environment, just right for some time with friends over a coffee.
Positive experience: Nice coffee but bring your coat if it is cold
Fantastic experience: Lovely place, excellent coffee
Fantastic experience: Lovely cafe. Very quite, good for a business meeting, great staff. They also have a gift shop & gym!
Fantastic experience: Great place, lovely food nice atmosphere X
Positive experience: Lovely people, nice menu, welcoming space. The only thing is the car park... It's so popular that sometimes it's difficult to get parked!
Fantastic experience: wonderfull friendly place .
Positive experience: Nice friendly cafe.
Fantastic experience: Wonderful food and atmosphere
Positive experience: Great ambiance, lovely food and coffee. Good customer service. Highly recommended.
Fantastic experience: Fabulous tea and coffee shop with very friendly staff and delicious homemade cakes.
Fantastic experience: Brillant coffee and shop
Positive experience: I visited the gift shop at Oldpost to buy an unusual gift for Xmas.
Fantastic experience: Very pleasant and delightful place to get tea and cake or light lunch. Everything is hand made. Recommend the baked potato, but they sell out quickly. There is also a craft shop selling a few things for the house. This building is also a bit of a community centre (e.g. yoga classes). The staff are wonderful, as is the setting, which feels like it is in the countryside.
Fantastic experience: Really cool place and shop had some excellent gifts
Positive experience: The Old Post is a great favourite. It is a friendly grown-up venue. Lovely coffee with freshly prepared salads,ciabattas etc. Avo with poached egg on toast is a suberb breakfast.
Positive experience: Warm and cozy spot I stumbled upon.
Negative experience: Poor menu, one thing I did want was a jacket potato and they had none. Staff very unfriendly and unapproachable, it felt like it was an effort for them to serve us. For a fitness place the menu did not provide any substantial fitness foods. The food was brought out within about 2 minutes of ordering, making it very clear no preparation or love was put in to our food. The staff did not ask if anything was ok and the plates where not cleared even after half an hour of finishing our meals. We where served a soggy baguette and a packet ceaser salad. We were left feeling very unsatisfied. The two stars have been awarded to the gift shop and the nice interior. I will not be returning. Save yourself the misery and go green room in Godstone.
Fantastic experience: Lovely space, great service and an all round wonderful experience
Fantastic experience: This is our favourite place for coffee, good food and being made welcome. A lovely place run by lovely people. Check it out.
Positive experience: Nice cosy spot to relax and enjoy a coffee and cake
Positive experience: Good food freshly made. Also sells gifty items and unique hand made items
Fantastic experience: Not just a lovely cafe and fitness/ gift emporium but a great place to stop off and get a takeaway lunch when you are on the road.
Fantastic experience: Great place for food and gifts
Fantastic experience: Lovely cafe in Nutfield with quirky design, tasty food and delicious cakes. The shop also adds a nice browsing element will you enjoy coffee and the history of the building has been preserved in a delicate way. The staff are really friendly and welcoming.
Fantastic experience: Really interesting place
Positive experience: Relatively small portions for the price of a local cafe. Slow service and no parking available in dedicated car park but lovely gift shop. Only 1 loo. Free wifi
Fantastic experience: Lovely family oriented local cafe with friendly staff.
Fantastic experience: Well this was a hidden gem, came across this place after a day out.
Positive experience: Very nice coffee and cake
Fantastic experience: Lovely coffee and gluten free cake.
Positive experience: Great enterprise, and lovely place. Child friendly
Fantastic experience: What a wonderful shop and cafe,so many unusual gifts and wonderful candles The cakes are absolutely amazing and the Mount Everest hot chocolate is to die for Just wish I lived nearer
Positive experience: Very pleasant hour spent here. The sandwich was fresh and ample the coffee excellent. The decor quaint and the garden area with fountains is very pleasing. The staff are lovely and friendly. I'll be back with my wife asap! Lots of parking behind.
Fantastic experience: Excellent food in a welcoming environment.
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