Hours of business
MONDAY TO THURSDAY 6AM until 9.30pm
FRIDAY 6AM to 8.30PM
SATURDAY 6am to 2.30pm
SUNDAY 7.30am to 2.30pm
Phone 01327 350 522
Jacks Hill Cafe was owned for about 30 years by a Mr Barry Freeman. In about 2003 it was purchased by John & Suzanne Capella.
FACILITIES
New Air Conditioning
TV Room with Sky TV and Video films
Bar
Showers
Overnight accommodation
Overnight Parking
Jacks Hill Transport Cafe (Truck Stop) is located on the A5, just north of the A43 roundabout intersection. If your northbound its on the near side. The entrance and approach is one of the easiest from either direction.
Jacks Hill Transport Cafe (truck stop) was operating in the 1950s, I used it quite a lot as a breakfast stop early in the day.
A Fuel station used to be operating on the frontage area, but this no longer does so. Parking is plentiful at the rear. Not many Transport Cafes (truck stop is a new word, possibly American) have operated for about 50 years, the A5 used to have some 100 possibly, from London to Holyhead. Many were between London and the Birmingham area. There was a Transport Cafe called the 46 on the north side of Bletchley (Milton Keynes) by the old railway bridge on the old A5. I remember being aware that it was so called because it was the 46th Transport Cafe from London.
There is a take away there now of the imported type, the number 46 is still in evidence on the building.
I have called in at Jacks Transport cafe for a meal a few times, I have not been disappointed. Meat and two veg is good value and healthy.
I noticed the egg and chips, a tasty meal when cooked correctly, here it was just right, nice clean whole chips, and two eggs white and also clean on the plate.
Egg and chips is a simple food, uncomplicated, but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
When its done with care and thought it’s a fine and enjoyable meal with bread and butter and that mug of tea. Posh Restaurants can cook meals with wonderful names, which is fine, as is the price, but,,,, when simple foods like this are done well,,,,, they take a lot of beating, keep up the good work Jacks Hill café.
There was also a Jacks Hill Transport Cafe on the old A1 north of Balddock, it is no longer, but the name Jacks Hill garage still does business. You can see a black and white photograph of this taken from the air in the period 1949 1953 by an Royal Air Force photographer friend of mine. It was very low level so all is plain to see. You can see the photo http://www.transportcafe.co.uk/trucking_photographs_54.html on this websites photo gallery list page. I have not linked this page as you can copy and paste if required.
