Blend
University of East Anglia
Norwich
United Kingdom
NR4 7 TJ UK
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I wonder how hard it is to use a panini making machine. Here's one to have a look at, http://www.nextag.com/panini-machine/search-html. There doesn't seem to be a great deal to it. You have your panini, you have your ingredients to go inside it. Once it's been filled, grilling it seems to be a fairly straight forward procedure. This only seemed to make the fact that, unbeknown to me at the time of purchase, my panini had exploded. There was cheese, peperoni and tomato everywhere. It wasn't a pretty sight. The food in Blend all could have been purchased en masse at Iceland. Limp, lukewam potato wedges, microwaved sausage rolls, spontaneously combustable paninis. It isn't groundbreaking stuff. Clearly all shipped in from external vendors and heated up by the limited expertise employed there, the end product was always going to struggle to be anything more than extremely mediocre. The hot beverages are a product of hot water self service machines. As a place to sit, it has the feel of a sub par Starbucks to it. The whole place is extremely red, and full of wacky booths and stools which offer neither style nor function.
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Frankly, it's bad enough having to eat service station food, and make no mistake, that is what this is the equivalent to, at 3 in the morning on the M11 when you have precious little choice. To try and inflict this rubbish on people when you don't have a monopoly on the through traffic, and the university has so many other eateries to choose from is almost embarrassing for all those concerned. The food here is bad, the coffee is bad, the decor? Really, incredibly bad. As a cafe, when the SU bar is capable of producing better hot beverages and food than you are, something's definitely not working. All in all, a woefully poor second best to The Hive, The SU, and any other university catering facility you care to mention.
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