Porcupine Pantry - Menu

Before leavng Penshurst I stopped at the Porcupine pantry for lunch ... a bacon, brie and cranberry panini with a Coke and local ice cream. Delicious.

Delicious food, quick and friendly service, lovely atmosphere that is currently being expanded. Wish I had discovered this place earlier! The sausage rolls were especially tasty.

This is to expensive the food all looks nice but it’s not that nice I paid £4 for 1 sausage roll!!! do specials cut the price for people who live in Penshurst and are not wealthy!!! If you live there you should get a discount anyway!!

4 of us had coffee and freshly baked pastries before a long walk. Returned for lunch. Sandwich was well filled and tasty, sausage baguette had three good quality sausages in fresh baguette. Coffee was good and staff were friendly. Definitely look forward to going again.

Not an extensive menu, went on Father 's Day, two specials bit none were veggie, perhaps as well. The cheese and pickle sandwiches were very unpleasant. The bread was slightly stale, but the big problem was the so called cheese, processed pre-sliced cheese with an unpleasant taste. Nasty. No lettuce/cucumber/tomato in sandwich, or on the plate.

Despite the extension to the tea room, the menu has not been updated or expanded to include hot meals. The cake selection is very limited and looks bought in. Also limited selection of sandwiches and paninis. This would be a nice spot for lunch if they can sort the menu out. You used to be able to get hot food from the café inside Penshurst grounds but that closed some time ago. Seems like the pantry is mainly catering for groups of cyclists and not people who want to dine out.

There is a lot to like about Penshurst Place. But what we experienced this weeks renders this place a no-go again for us. The male staff(older men) bullied the young ladies serving at the front desk!! They were rude and unjust in the use of language. And blaming (out loud) them for mistakes that clearly was not their fault. We felt very uncomfortable and left. Whoever is in charge needs to look the culture of the place and eradicate these men who feel it’s ok to talk down to their staff and then to us as their customers. Mistakes happen. But to blame staff and clearly not understand the facts. And to do so out loud. Is unacceptable.

Unfortunately, the restaurant's interior was closed while everywhere else seemed to be open. Upon ordering, I received a small piece of dry cake and a cup of questionable brown liquid (supposedly coffee) that I had to collect from separate serving hatches. After collecting my items, I had to search for a table in the outdoor dining area, which did not resemble the photos on the website at all. The tables and chairs were dirty and in need of repair, scattered across an uneven pebbled/dirt parking area. To make matters worse, the price for the subpar coffee and cake was exorbitant at eight pounds. I will not be returning to this establishment and would recommend dining elsewhere or bringing yo...

This place is a bit rubbish, I’m afraid. At these prices, it should be so much better. The layout is stupid, with no thought given to traffic, or where and how people will queue so we were all constantly bumping into each other. Today the staff were all sulky teenagers: morale is clearly not high. They were all grumpy and gloomy. We were greeted in a surly manner, we were never offered or directed to cutlery or napkins, no smiles it was all begrudging. Cakes and coffees were good, but coffee was served in unrecyclable paper cups, not nice to drink out of, and cake served on a plasticised cardboard box, again unrecyclable, and hard to eat out of. Apparently they haven’t heard of china cups or...