Cafe Zest

Perfectly located right inside the central mall near Lock Lomond, Balloch, this is just the place you need after a nice long stroll while roaming around the beautiful place that Balloch is. While it is usually swarmed by the locals, it also attracts a lot of tourist crowd.

The staff is friendly and their service is great! While the cafe has a lot of sweet bakes and sandwiches as options, they also provide for amazing coffee and food deals that are really pocket friendly and unmissable.

We had a ham sandwich and hot baked potato with beans and cheese on a cold winter day while touring the place and can say it was one of the best lunches we had had. Generous in portions, the meals were quite filling and delicious! A must visit cafe

School cafeteria style dining
The atmosphere is very nice, but the cutlery wasn't very clean so we had to make do with wooden knives instead
We got fish and chips (9.50 each portion) which contained very little fish, which was quite dry and flavourless, and mostly batter! Wouldn't recommend this, definitely get another option if you are visiting
Prices are not expensive but not cheap either. Photo shows how much excess batter there was

Delicious scones with clotted cream and jam. Coffee is good too. A wee bit pricey but worth it. Nice view over the Loch.

Had been wanting jacket potato all week and finally got to eat one here. It was superb!

Lovely simple cafe environment but really good food.

Highly recommended... 👍👍🙂

Very expensive in comparison to other restaurants and cafes that sell similar teas, coffee and scones. Was very busy with a large slow moving queue. Exacerbated by a dog event and owner allowing dogs in. One had pooped at a table that was closed off for some time till someone got round to cleaning it up. Our table was dirty with a tray of used crockery on it which we did our best to sort as there was no one about clearing tables. The scones were nice though their large latte was quite small in size.

Came here for a quick lunch with kids. Couldn't fault our experience, food was served quickly and friendly service. We chose halloumi burger, beef burger and kids boxes, all tasted fine. Would come again.
Parking for the whole area was a bit confusing at first.

Food and coffee great. Seat with view down Loch beautiful. Had super toasties, I had cheese & ham, good coffee and a fine piece. What's not to like?

Food is good. Maybe not a lot to choose from, but enough to have some options. Coffee is delicious and cakes some of them just great. Service is great and atmosphere too.