Four Leaf Clover Hitchin Ltd - Hitchin

Donna

We regularly pop in for some food or in the summer sit outside with a coffee. The food is GREAT. Always freshly prepared and always served nice and hot. I'm a huge fan of their omlettes and my husband enjoys their liver. Their cooked breakfasts are always a winner. Always more food than we can manage to eat.

Sam A.

Living in North London has made visiting Hitchin a convenient and enjoyable weekend trip, especially on market days. Every few weeks, we make the journey and like to begin the day with a pit stop at a coffee shop before exploring the market.

We've tried several artisanal, organic, and modern coffee shops in the area but, to be honest, we haven't found anything that quite hits the spot. The combination of sourdough, sour coffee, and high prices seems to be a common theme. Sometimes, you just can't beat a good old-fashioned fry-up and a decent cup of coffee. As the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

We've had breakfast at the same spot a few times now. It's nothing too fancy, but the service is quick, the portions are filling, and the prices are reasonable. We usually order either the Mediterranean or full English breakfast, and they always come out perfectly fine.

Lena F.

Usually a decent experience as we've been visiting this place regularly. Unfortunately, the most recent visit resulted in me almost vomiting, having found a really long black hair in my breakfast. Not the garnishing you'd expect, to say the least. It was our last visit, that's for sure.

Jill F.

Used to go here a lot and there were two lovely girls waiting thr tables, one cook and the senior man overseeing it all. Today we visited and no adult apart from the cook. Three young waiting staff who were clueless. Two breakfasts and two hot drinks. One drink came, they forgot the other one and dive minutes later they finally realised. Breakfasts arrived but no toast, another five minute wait and was plonked down unceremoniously without a word.
Finally someone should tell the young boy in there to get his mum to put new elastic or a belt on because he kept his joggers half way down his backside and they kept slipping off, constantly adjusting them slightly up so his pants were in show. Not appropriate for serving in a cafe. Overall service was downhill but food still good.

Nigel

I ordered a spaghetti and when it came to my table, i asked if i could have parmasan cheese, but i was told they do not have it and was given Cheddar cheese instead. The meal was tasteless and looked more like a soup. It was awful food with a chef who could not careless what she was cooking and serving. Hitchin is a place that has a food festival and here is a restaurant that serves awful food.
I urge people to steer clear of this place as there are many many restaurants that do good food, waiters look embarrassed by serving such awful food and have the cheek to ask if the food is ok, i replied honestly that the food was bad and the only thing that was good was the bottle of beer i had.
Don't waste your money in this place.

Gemmy B.

My partner and I were holidaying here from Australia. We walked passed with this restaurant with a good signage outside the food they were serving. So we dine it for our daily breakfast whilst in Hitchin. To our surprise, the food was terrible "Absouletely Terrible". The liver was burned- overcooked like a rubber, the bubble and squeak was gluggy, and the fresh avocado was not even ripe at all....it was hard as cantaloupe. I was being told after it was not ready. Seriously, are you gonna serve something that is not ready to your customer when you knew it beforehand! Terrible!

Please do not come and dine to this restaurant at all. Do not be deceived with their signage displayed outside since it was a completely different from the meal we had.

What a waste of money, time and experience! Get your so called "Chef" sorted.

Joseph E. C. (.

Great classic cafe. I will definitely go again.

Jemima H.

Unfortunately, I'm disappointed with this place. I believe it's had a revamp as when I came here a couple of years ago, I remember it being very different. It used to be more of a wholesome greasy spoon, and now I feel it's trying to be a bit too posh. The drinks are more expensive than other places like this. The food was a reasonable price but more than I would pay for the quality if I'm honest. I had a prawn jacket potato, and unfortunately it was incredibly underwhelming. The potato itself was cooked very well, but the filling was miserable. A few prawns on the side with an overpowering thick sauce. I had to leave half of the potato because there was only filling to go with half of it (so not a lot) and the rest dry. The salad was a generous portion, but was ruined with the awful vinaigrette that was on it.

The kids meal (fish fingers, chips and beans) was a good size and was fairly good quality. My partner had a burger, it was medioka.

Although, the service was fantastic and the atmosphere was nice, as well as the music.