The Best Cafes in Brookland, Kent, United Kingdom (2025)

First timer today after passing by on the Rye road many times. This is an excellent "greasy spoon". Extensive menu, efficient, cheerful service, good cooking (perfect fried eggs, not easy). This is a star on my Google Maps!

Thanks to Jo and the team for a lovely sausage sandwich today. Merry Christmas from the second guy today with only £3.50 on him. Lols.😜

We have passed Jo's café so many times as we drive between Rye and Folkestone and have said a hundred times, we must go in, and today we did. You drive down a bit of a track and into an open, rather run down area, and follow the signs for the café but, do not be put off! The café is bright and welcoming and the charming woman who runs it (Jo?) is delightful. There was a bit of a queue, for which she apologised, but the wait was well worth it. The menu, on boards in traditional fashion, was brilliant, all my favourite stuff; breakfasts, steak and kidney pudding, sticky toffee pudding with custard, and much in between, yum! We settled on a standard breakfast for me and a bacon sandwich for Suzanne, and tea. Suzanne adjudged the sandwich to be the best she'd ever had, and my breakfast was perfect. A large sausage, large egg, large mushrooms, tasty bacon, tinned tomatoes, baked beans and toast. All the food was hot and nicely presented and the tea was dark and flavoursome, as it should be. Suzanne used the loos and reported that they were clean and well stocked. This really is a gem of a café and we will definitely return. The food was much cheaper than you'd pay in any town, we paid £15.15, which include a can of Coke, and the waitress and cook were both smiling, polite and lovely. Do support this charming, out of the way, eatery, you will not regret pulling off the main road where you see the sign, we didn't...

Unfortunately didn't take any pictures. Plenty of bike parking spaces, although most of the car park is still just dirt and stones, so be carefull coming in. The food was good, not alot for the price tho, bit poor. Latte was great, had 2 very nice. As a bonus there is s petrol mini car race track, lovely friendly staff and food cooked really well. I don't eat alot but for 9.99 breakfast my husband could have easily eaten two. Will defently go again, and they remember, NO BEANS next time !!😍