rev:text
| - This place is so disappointing. I agree with the reviewer who said the one thing it has going for it is its location. I've been here quite a few times because I live very nearby. I like to take my laptop and work in the cafe in the winter time - the ambiance is lovely! But the food! The coffee is mediocre, and everything else I've tried is just so meh. This morning we had breakfast there. Fries/potatoes are from frozen. Sausages are incredibly processed. Eggs are rubbery, no salt or pepper on them or on the tables outside. My fruit dish - the melons were a funny off-colour and the grapefruit pieces looked like they'd gone through a shredder. It was all so unappealing and then I got thinking about the Kitchen Nightmares episodes with nasty kitchens, untrained or uncaring staff, low food standards, etc. This place could use a real redo. Is there nobody in charge who really cares about the quality? It could be SO MUCH BETTER. It's got to be one of the prettiest locations to eat in the city; that's why I feel it's such a pity.
On one of my recent visits I ordered soup and found a hair. I told one of the young waiters, and he said, 'Oh, really?' and never offered to take it away, to replace it, never suggested I ask for another one... nothing. Who trains these staff???
Outside, the patio chairs and tables look cheap, dated, old, faded and awful. And yet we ordered coffee and sat there because it's so lovely under the trees.
I don't know what's happening, but I wish this place got an owner who really cherished it. I wish it was me!
|