Telford and Wrekin
Truffles Cafe

Truffles Cafe

2/3 The Wharfage, Telford And Wrekin, United Kingdom, TF8 7AW, Telford and Wrekin

Cafés • Seafood • Mexican • Fast Food


"First visit since new owners took over first impressions were positive. Now has table service which is friendly efficient. Prices are comparable to rest of Ironbridge (so don't expect cheap eats despite the rustic look , but dog friendly will be a positive for many people . Food looked nice, but as they didn't have any vegan dairy free cakes or even vegan spread , there's no website (only Facebook there's no allergen vegetarian vegan info on the menu, I can't actually comment on the food first hand as I didn't fancy dry toast! The menu says to ask for the allergen sheet, but how many people who don't have to do this anyway because of full blown allergies will bother when the place is busy. It's a shame, as simple changes such as vegan spread (eg Flora not even anything exotic! veggie vegan labelling on the menu would make it so much easier for customer waiting staff (who in fairness did go ask about options, though seemed flummoxed at being asked . If the Vegan Gluten free tags on Tripadvisor are left from the previous owners, they should be removed. If they are indeed current, better in house info is required. On a plus note got a decent pot of tea the loos are good including a disabled loo, though neither it nor the cafe itself are wheelchair accessible (not surprising given the ancient nature of Ironbridge generally, so this is a comment for info, not a criticism"

Jenko's Mongolian Barbecue

Jenko's Mongolian Barbecue

The Compasses Inn, 72 Beveley Road, TF2 6SD, Telford and Wrekin, United Kingdom

Food • Full • Pasta • Barbecue


"I visited Jenko's just before Christmas. Being a log cabin it looked great both inside and out. It had a good sized carpark too. The bar was the first area I visited, and to be honest it was far too small and felt extremely cramped. Being such a small room it was a bad idea to let people sit around the bar on stalls, this just made a very cramped room even more cramped! There was only about 2-3ft between the wall and the bar stools! Having people sitting around the bar made ordering drinks difficult too. Luckily, the eating area was much better. A small room contained THREE tables, one table had a range of raw meat, fish and vegetable ingredients that you put into a small stainless steel bowl using tongs. The tips of the tongs were quite small like chop-sticks which made it difficult to pick up some foods. Each tub of ingredients had their own set of tongs too, however there was nothing to stop people using tongs from the seafood tub to pick up meat or something else. Cross contamination could be possible, so this method of eating is not advised if you have allergies. On the second table was a range of herbs, spices and sauces. So you could create a range of different flavours. However, most of the foods you could create with the available ingredients would be curry or chilli based. I could not see anything like creams, yogurt, coconut, or meat stocks on the table. You could certainly create nice tasting food though, even without ANY cooking knowledge! On the third table was three large heated tubs of pasta, rice or noodles. Basically, the idea of Jenkos is to allow customers to choose whatever raw ingredients they want, which will then be cooked by the two chefs on a large cast-iron hotplate. You hand the chef your bowl of ingredients which he tips onto the hotplate, as it cooks it is slowly moved clockwise around the table, with the next customers ingredients being added soon after. Each customers meal is divided by two long pieces of wood. Again, as one customers meal is soon cooked on exactly the same area of the hotplate as the previous meal (due to rotation), cross contamination could be possible. Once your meal reaches the end of the hotplate it is fully cooked and handed back to you on a plate. You can then add either pasta, rice or noodles on the third table. As it was all-you-can-eat when I visited, customers can also go through the same process again, creating something different each time. This was more fun than eating the food!!! So Jenko's is certainly different to most restaurants, and I recommend it. But improvements could be made to make it even better, including customer communication via Facebook or email. I NEVER got ANY replies to several messages. Including BACON in the ingredients would be good too"