Breakfast club this Sunday
Discussion
L100NYY said:
What an absolutely superb Sunday morning, a lovely early roof off blast through the Sussex countryside to see such an eclectic mix of modern and classics.
Hard to beat
Have to agree with that - we had a mini convoy down on the A283 and it was an absolute blast, especially when the end of the journey has such an interesting blend of vehicles. Great event. Hard to beat
tomtom said:
It was £24 last year too. And it was overpriced last year too. 
I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The van it is next time then! I know it's churlish to harp on about the price/quality of the breakfast but they make a big issue of the food etc in the publicity and it just doesn't deliver. Call me old fashioined but when reading this linked to The Breakfast Club webpage......:I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The Vitra Café is located at the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit and is open to cater for track days and special events. The Café is housed in a fascinating modernist building, which was formerly a control tower for our wartime airfield. Stylish and modern, the interior style has been fashioned by Vitra with classic furniture which reflects the golden age of design from the 1940s – 1960s: the period celebrated each year at the Goodwood Revival, and a time of great innovation in both the motor and the furniture industries. Appropriately, the Café enjoys the very best view of the track.
Our menus are about simple cooking using great ingredients from Goodwood Organic Farm and local suppliers. The Vitra can be used for business entertaining or special occasions. We can accommodate up to 50 people and provide a service to suit your needs.
.....I really did expect to have breakfast there. Well, you would wouldn't you?!! Instead, I had to ask about 5 differen't 'marshalls' where it was situated before I learned it was closed. CLOSED?? On the morning of a 'breakfast meet'? Why? So that people wanting to more than a roll from a van were forced to sit outside in a cold wind eating cold overpriced food?
Yes, yes, I KNOW the cars are the point of the meet but this is an irritation which leaves a bad taste - in more ways than one
The Wiz said:
jgoodwood said:
Hi All,
If you are coming, please can you pre-register at www.goodwood.co.uk/breakfastclub
Also...the event starts at 08.30...no food available until then..
Cheers and see you on Sunday.
J
When does the pre registration for the next one start?If you are coming, please can you pre-register at www.goodwood.co.uk/breakfastclub
Also...the event starts at 08.30...no food available until then..
Cheers and see you on Sunday.
J
James
nikman said:
tomtom said:
It was £24 last year too. And it was overpriced last year too.
I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The van it is next time then! I know it's churlish to harp on about the price/quality of the breakfast but they make a big issue of the food etc in the publicity and it just doesn't deliver. Call me old fashioined but when reading this linked to The Breakfast Club webpage......:I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The Vitra Café is located at the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit and is open to cater for track days and special events. The Café is housed in a fascinating modernist building, which was formerly a control tower for our wartime airfield. Stylish and modern, the interior style has been fashioned by Vitra with classic furniture which reflects the golden age of design from the 1940s – 1960s: the period celebrated each year at the Goodwood Revival, and a time of great innovation in both the motor and the furniture industries. Appropriately, the Café enjoys the very best view of the track.
Our menus are about simple cooking using great ingredients from Goodwood Organic Farm and local suppliers. The Vitra can be used for business entertaining or special occasions. We can accommodate up to 50 people and provide a service to suit your needs.
.....I really did expect to have breakfast there. Well, you would wouldn't you?!! Instead, I had to ask about 5 differen't 'marshalls' where it was situated before I learned it was closed. CLOSED?? On the morning of a 'breakfast meet'? Why? So that people wanting to more than a roll from a van were forced to sit outside in a cold wind eating cold overpriced food?
Yes, yes, I KNOW the cars are the point of the meet but this is an irritation which leaves a bad taste - in more ways than one
J
jgoodwood said:
nikman said:
tomtom said:
It was £24 last year too. And it was overpriced last year too.
I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The van it is next time then! I know it's churlish to harp on about the price/quality of the breakfast but they make a big issue of the food etc in the publicity and it just doesn't deliver. Call me old fashioined but when reading this linked to The Breakfast Club webpage......:I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The Vitra Café is located at the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit and is open to cater for track days and special events. The Café is housed in a fascinating modernist building, which was formerly a control tower for our wartime airfield. Stylish and modern, the interior style has been fashioned by Vitra with classic furniture which reflects the golden age of design from the 1940s – 1960s: the period celebrated each year at the Goodwood Revival, and a time of great innovation in both the motor and the furniture industries. Appropriately, the Café enjoys the very best view of the track.
Our menus are about simple cooking using great ingredients from Goodwood Organic Farm and local suppliers. The Vitra can be used for business entertaining or special occasions. We can accommodate up to 50 people and provide a service to suit your needs.
.....I really did expect to have breakfast there. Well, you would wouldn't you?!! Instead, I had to ask about 5 differen't 'marshalls' where it was situated before I learned it was closed. CLOSED?? On the morning of a 'breakfast meet'? Why? So that people wanting to more than a roll from a van were forced to sit outside in a cold wind eating cold overpriced food?
Yes, yes, I KNOW the cars are the point of the meet but this is an irritation which leaves a bad taste - in more ways than one
J
Does it matter that you moved the display area from the Vitra car park to elsewhere? It's perfectly accessible and seats 50 people. That's more than the number of hardy souls seen braving the easterly wind in the open area at any one time next to the marquee. However lukewarm the food was in that tent, I can asssure you that the journey on a tray from the pick-up point, to the till and then outside in the cold wind to the seating area rendered it completely cold and almost inedible by the time a table was chosen.
I repeat, the Vitra Cafe publicity I quoted is linked directly from the very Breakfast Club webpage you have supplied and it forms an implied part of the event..
Great morning I thought. A fitting start to the rest of the year.
Some amazing cars there.
As for the breakfast, I've never bothered with the whole sit down affair. It's never been able to cope with the numbers and I don't like the organic sausages, bit to dry. I've always rolled up to the Naffi wagon and had food from that although the prices now appear to gotten closer to the Organic ones.
Rolled up in my Isuzu Trooper and into the Tarmac area. The look on the marshal's face as I Waved a cheery hello to him as I went past did bring a smile to my face.
Very nice of the weather to hold off for us too.
Some amazing cars there.
As for the breakfast, I've never bothered with the whole sit down affair. It's never been able to cope with the numbers and I don't like the organic sausages, bit to dry. I've always rolled up to the Naffi wagon and had food from that although the prices now appear to gotten closer to the Organic ones.
Rolled up in my Isuzu Trooper and into the Tarmac area. The look on the marshal's face as I Waved a cheery hello to him as I went past did bring a smile to my face.
Very nice of the weather to hold off for us too.
nikman said:
jgoodwood said:
nikman said:
tomtom said:
It was £24 last year too. And it was overpriced last year too.
I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The van it is next time then! I know it's churlish to harp on about the price/quality of the breakfast but they make a big issue of the food etc in the publicity and it just doesn't deliver. Call me old fashioined but when reading this linked to The Breakfast Club webpage......:I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The Vitra Café is located at the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit and is open to cater for track days and special events. The Café is housed in a fascinating modernist building, which was formerly a control tower for our wartime airfield. Stylish and modern, the interior style has been fashioned by Vitra with classic furniture which reflects the golden age of design from the 1940s – 1960s: the period celebrated each year at the Goodwood Revival, and a time of great innovation in both the motor and the furniture industries. Appropriately, the Café enjoys the very best view of the track.
Our menus are about simple cooking using great ingredients from Goodwood Organic Farm and local suppliers. The Vitra can be used for business entertaining or special occasions. We can accommodate up to 50 people and provide a service to suit your needs.
.....I really did expect to have breakfast there. Well, you would wouldn't you?!! Instead, I had to ask about 5 differen't 'marshalls' where it was situated before I learned it was closed. CLOSED?? On the morning of a 'breakfast meet'? Why? So that people wanting to more than a roll from a van were forced to sit outside in a cold wind eating cold overpriced food?
Yes, yes, I KNOW the cars are the point of the meet but this is an irritation which leaves a bad taste - in more ways than one
J
Does it matter that you moved the display area from the Vitra car park to elsewhere? It's perfectly accessible and seats 50 people. That's more than the number of hardy souls seen braving the easterly wind in the open area at any one time next to the marquee. However lukewarm the food was in that tent, I can asssure you that the journey on a tray from the pick-up point, to the till and then outside in the cold wind to the seating area rendered it completely cold and almost inedible by the time a table was chosen.
I repeat, the Vitra Cafe publicity I quoted is linked directly from the very Breakfast Club webpage you have supplied and it forms an implied part of the event..
I can see how it could confuse. We'll make sure it gets moved when the new website comes on-line at the end of April.
Thanks for pointing it out.
J
jgoodwood said:
nikman said:
jgoodwood said:
nikman said:
tomtom said:
It was £24 last year too. And it was overpriced last year too.
I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The van it is next time then! I know it's churlish to harp on about the price/quality of the breakfast but they make a big issue of the food etc in the publicity and it just doesn't deliver. Call me old fashioined but when reading this linked to The Breakfast Club webpage......:I wouldn't mind if it was properly fresh, but £24 for two plates of 'warmed-under-lamps-greasy-eggs-and-soggy-bacon' is not good value if you ask me.
The Vitra Café is located at the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit and is open to cater for track days and special events. The Café is housed in a fascinating modernist building, which was formerly a control tower for our wartime airfield. Stylish and modern, the interior style has been fashioned by Vitra with classic furniture which reflects the golden age of design from the 1940s – 1960s: the period celebrated each year at the Goodwood Revival, and a time of great innovation in both the motor and the furniture industries. Appropriately, the Café enjoys the very best view of the track.
Our menus are about simple cooking using great ingredients from Goodwood Organic Farm and local suppliers. The Vitra can be used for business entertaining or special occasions. We can accommodate up to 50 people and provide a service to suit your needs.
.....I really did expect to have breakfast there. Well, you would wouldn't you?!! Instead, I had to ask about 5 differen't 'marshalls' where it was situated before I learned it was closed. CLOSED?? On the morning of a 'breakfast meet'? Why? So that people wanting to more than a roll from a van were forced to sit outside in a cold wind eating cold overpriced food?
Yes, yes, I KNOW the cars are the point of the meet but this is an irritation which leaves a bad taste - in more ways than one
J
Does it matter that you moved the display area from the Vitra car park to elsewhere? It's perfectly accessible and seats 50 people. That's more than the number of hardy souls seen braving the easterly wind in the open area at any one time next to the marquee. However lukewarm the food was in that tent, I can asssure you that the journey on a tray from the pick-up point, to the till and then outside in the cold wind to the seating area rendered it completely cold and almost inedible by the time a table was chosen.
I repeat, the Vitra Cafe publicity I quoted is linked directly from the very Breakfast Club webpage you have supplied and it forms an implied part of the event..
I can see how it could confuse. We'll make sure it gets moved when the new website comes on-line at the end of April.
Thanks for pointing it out.
J
In my humble opinion, it would be a more 'inclusive' event if instead of removing the Vitra cafe from the new website, you actually used it! However inadequate you may believe the kitchen is, surely it's more appropriate than having to transport everyhing to a makeshift tent. The Vitra concept was presumably designed for the preparation of food after all!!
As for the "cost effectiveness" of it... If you can't, in a catering facility that already exists, profitably produce scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and tomatoes with a soft bap and beverages for the £10.22 you receive after paying the VAT but you CAN in a makeshift tent, and think that's more conducive then I'll happily accompany whoever made that assumption to his or her business management college to seek a full refund!!!
nikman said:
There's no reference to the freezing cold tent and open area under one of the grandstands either. But a reasonable person would assume that a 50 seater cafe linked to the actual page would be the venue for breakfast!
In my humble opinion, it would be a more 'inclusive' event if instead of removing the Vitra cafe from the new website, you actually used it!
I'm guessing that you didn't go to the Breakfast Club meetings when the Vitra Cafe was used: the complaints about the length of the queues and lack of capacity were considerably more vociferous than those about the current arrangements.In my humble opinion, it would be a more 'inclusive' event if instead of removing the Vitra cafe from the new website, you actually used it!
Proof positive that you can only please some of the people, some of the time ....
As has been mentioned many times on this thread, the NAAFI wagon at the back of the paddock is the cognicenti's choice.
jeremyc said:
nikman said:
There's no reference to the freezing cold tent and open area under one of the grandstands either. But a reasonable person would assume that a 50 seater cafe linked to the actual page would be the venue for breakfast!
In my humble opinion, it would be a more 'inclusive' event if instead of removing the Vitra cafe from the new website, you actually used it!
I'm guessing that you didn't go to the Breakfast Club meetings when the Vitra Cafe was used: the complaints about the length of the queues and lack of capacity were considerably more vociferous than those about the current arrangements.In my humble opinion, it would be a more 'inclusive' event if instead of removing the Vitra cafe from the new website, you actually used it!
Proof positive that you can only please some of the people, some of the time ....
As has been mentioned many times on this thread, the NAAFI wagon at the back of the paddock is the cognicenti's choice.
to your experience of it. It just seems a great shame that things couldn't be improved there rather than making people endure the discomfort and unpleasant food I witnessed yesterday.My retort to the comment about cost effectiveness comes from years of experience in that field and knowing that the profit margin from such food items cooked 'en masse' served with a soft hamburger bap and a hot drink for £10.22 net of sales tax should be extremely cost effective.
However, all advice noted and the NAAFI wagon will be my choice next time!
Gingerbread Man said:
AMG Merc said:
The Wiz said:
One question ... this pre registration lark what exactly does it mean/ Does it guarntee parking or something?
No, no guarantee. It sounds to me like the local council is breathing down Lord March's neck re the congestion caused by his events so he is gathering stats in order to better prepare and plan events.So how do you get into this car park over the grass field? Smile and look pretty?
Yep, I arrived just before 8am hoping to get into the pit area but no luck as car is too "new" (off theme). If you arrive early enough you can park in the hardstanding car-park to the right of the gate, when it fills up you are in the field of long grass across the lane (long grass - a
for Porkers of course - ignition potential!). They seem to change the parking arrangements and rules each time I visit so next time it could be anything!
AMG Merc said:
The Wiz said:
One question ... this pre registration lark what exactly does it mean/ Does it guarntee parking or something?
No, no guarantee. It sounds to me like the local council is breathing down Lord March's neck re the congestion caused by his events so he is gathering stats in order to better prepare and plan events.Many thanks,
J
nikman said:
AMG Merc said:
The Wiz said:
One question ... this pre registration lark what exactly does it mean/ Does it guarntee parking or something?
No, no guarantee. It sounds to me like the local council is breathing down Lord March's neck re the congestion caused by his events so he is gathering stats in order to better prepare and plan events. I think it's just to build up their mailing list for future marketing purposes. I'm sure the noble Lord pays for the police presence in relation to congestion and must pay so much council tax that I can't see him needing to collect numbers from a registration form that isn't even a requiment for anyone attending!Great cars and good turnout today but I'm a bit miffed that by taking the 'public' parking option at the roundabout (rather than 'themed cars and disabled') I found myself trundling across a field to park (fortunately NOT muddy thia time). Then upon entering the circuit on foot I found a huge hardstanding car park still with plenty of space at 09:15 where my Chimaera 450 would have been better suited, next to similarly low cars in there.
That and £24.00 for two cooked breakfasts which were cold and had to be eaten in an outside area through which was blowing an icy wind, were the only clouds on an otherwise really great event. First time for me and lessons learned!
That field is a pain for low cars - I can't go in there for fear of a split splitter!
I gave up on cooked breakfasts after a few bad one's in year one - the service, cost and condition of the grub was (sounds like still is) not great. I know of a local lad who tootles along to the local MacDonalds for one of their brekkies instead!
shoestring7 said:
BTW, that scruffy old Bristol not only seemed to attract the biggest crowd at the event, but it seemed the BMW/Bristol '6' had been replaced by an ancient 4-pot diesel!
SS7
The note in the windscreen stated it came from the first ever production car with a diesel engine (I think).SS7
nikman said:
However, all advice noted and the NAAFI wagon will be my choice next time!
Always get a great cup of 'rosey lee' and bacon bap there 
Trouble is the queue will be a mile long next time. 
Overall I thought it was a great start to the breakfast club year, real good atmosphere again, lets hope it continues that way as we get near the 'warmer months'
Some very nice examples of some real classics although, some did tend to stretch the 'tax free' theme
Look forward to next months - 'Modern sports car legends' 1980 onwards, maybe I should resurrect my dads old MG Maestro 2.0 EFI (1986) which is stored in a barn on his friends farm, not sure if it is a legend though
Although my wheels spins were when I used to borrow it as a 18 year old boy racer
Any ideas of numbers at the first event then jgoodwood ?? People who registered and if any other form of numers are taken would be interesting to know.
And on the breakfast front, I dont bother with it, I just get some brekkie at home and look at cars when im there !! I come down from Tidworth so its not like I live nearby either
p.s: pass on thanks to whoever is involved with the event
And on the breakfast front, I dont bother with it, I just get some brekkie at home and look at cars when im there !! I come down from Tidworth so its not like I live nearby either
p.s: pass on thanks to whoever is involved with the event
The Breakfast at Goodwood on March the 2nd was out and out
SHOCKING !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The single handed, the 1st and biggest day light robbery in 2008
£12 each ( again this year ) for STONE COLD, Tesco Value products was a total disrespect to the hardened motoring fan base.
We all know the breakfast is to help pay for the running costs but that was the biggest SLAP in the face ever.
Do it again and I will NEVER buy a breakfast again and I will eat before I arrive.
GOODWOOD get it sorted
SHOCKING !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The single handed, the 1st and biggest day light robbery in 2008
£12 each ( again this year ) for STONE COLD, Tesco Value products was a total disrespect to the hardened motoring fan base.
We all know the breakfast is to help pay for the running costs but that was the biggest SLAP in the face ever.
Do it again and I will NEVER buy a breakfast again and I will eat before I arrive.
GOODWOOD get it sorted
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