M4 Breakfast stop

Mccraque
Mccraque Posts: 819
edited September 2009 in MTB general
We're travelling along the M4 to Wales for some MTBing next weekend.....other than the crappy roadside services, is anyone to recommend a good breakfast stop enroute?

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  • nferrar
    nferrar Posts: 2,511
    Whereabouts are you looking to stop (the M4 is quite long :p ).
  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Going to Afan?

    Hold off till you get to the Drop-Off Cafe if you can. Lovely.
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  • Mccraque
    Mccraque Posts: 819
    Yep! Afan it is.

    Where's the Drop off Cafe? We're coming from Brighton way so will be rumbling by Bristol!
  • P-Jay
    P-Jay Posts: 1,478
    Ah, it's at the Glyncorrwg centre, the bigger of the two Afan centres.
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  • papasmurf.
    papasmurf. Posts: 2,382
    come off the M4 down the M32 keep straight on past the shopping centre then on the left is york cafe for a giant breakfast bap. :D but serioulsy

    As for on the M4 no idea theres only really the motorway services, plenty of nice places in Bath or Bristol, but the time lost doesn't really make it worth while...why not pack your own then wait till post ride for a food at the dropp off.
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  • Mccraque
    Mccraque Posts: 819
    P-Jay wrote:
    Ah, it's at the Glyncorrwg centre, the bigger of the two Afan centres.

    Ah yes...I know it. Had lunch there last time. But was unable to move afterwards. 6km uphill nearly killed me!
  • wordnumb
    wordnumb Posts: 847
    papasmurf. wrote:
    york cafe

    The man knows what he is talking about. Can't stand a fry up before a ride, m'self. Had fried eggs inna bap before the Exmoor Explorer and felt quite incorrect for the first five miles or so.
  • Deputy Dawg
    Deputy Dawg Posts: 428
    You should be able to find somewhere on http://www.5minutesaway.co.uk.

    I usually just run on pot luck & pull off the motorway when I need a break into a village pub I like the look of though. ;)
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  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,893
    There is a little country tea house type place about 10 minutes off the M4 towards Bath. I've never been there though, so I can't give you a review. Looks like the sort of place in the country where you'd stop for tea and scones, so I don't know if they do a good brekky.
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  • craker
    craker Posts: 1,739
    don't knock motorway greasy spoons, they're as good as any. They're better when they're busy mind, so the eggs don't have too much of a chance to turn to rubber.

    If you want to come off at Chepstow and run into town (ten minutes from the motorway at most) there's a chippy / greasy restaurant by Safeway in the town centre and then you've got an hour and a bit to Port Talbot / Afan in which it will think about digesting...
  • Stu T
    Stu T Posts: 127
    there's a Sainsburys with a cafe at the designer outlet at Bridgend right by the side of the motorway. Also a Macdonals etc inside the actual outlet
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  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    llamafarmer wrote:
    There is a little country tea house type place about 10 minutes off the M4 towards Bath. I've never been there though, so I can't give you a review. Looks like the sort of place in the country where you'd stop for tea and scones, so I don't know if they do a good brekky.

    You're not referring to the place where Ron Davies MP went looking for badgers are you :oops:
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  • Mccraque
    Mccraque Posts: 819
    I think Clapham Common is well off route....
  • TonyS
    TonyS Posts: 104
    If you don't want to go off the motorway then try Madgor Services, about 5 miles after the toll bridge, niot the cheapest but last time I was there reasonable food.
  • redvee
    redvee Posts: 11,922
    Mccraque wrote:
    I think Clapham Common is well off route....

    Tog Hill, just off the A46 Bath Junction.
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  • llamafarmer
    llamafarmer Posts: 1,893
    redvee wrote:
    You're not referring to the place where Ron Davies MP went looking for badgers are you :oops:

    Not quite, but it's pretty close :lol:
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