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| - Food: 1/5
Drinks: 3/5
Service: 1/5
If you choose to go to Brickworks Cider House, I would only recommend going for the drinks. I would not come here for the food.
Came for brunch on Sunday with a friend. The space is beautiful - floor to ceiling windows, lots of light, high ceilings, and a buzzy industrial vibe. It's very spacious and has two levels. We were seated on the second floor balcony and were able to see into the restaurant down below.
We each ordered the simple breakfast ($14) - my friend ordered over-easy eggs, which were fine, while I ordered poached eggs. The kitchen doesn't know how to do poached eggs. The centres were NOT RUNNY - they were solid! I could even see a border of fully cooked yolk. One of my eggs was shaped like a little log, actually, and had a chunk of solid egg white running through the middle. I'm pretty sure that egg broke while in the boiling water, and I think they tried to rescue it but failed. I was not impressed. The sausage and bacon were fine. Pretty standard, nothing to be too excited about. I liked the toast - it was a multi-grain toast with sunflower seeds embedded in the crust, and the strawberry jam added a sweet touch. I'm pretty sure the hash browns were frozen, machine made and merely tossed into the deep fryer. However, it was a bad fry job - there was a pool of oil on the plate and when I bit into the hash brown, I could taste the grease. I will give them credit for serving 2 decent sized hash browns instead of 1.
We each ordered a flight of ciders ($16 for 4, 5 oz each). My favourite was the peach cider, with the cherry cider a close second. Hawaii 5 was not bad, though I felt it could have had more pineapple flavour. My friend really enjoyed the mint basil cider, though I personally hated it (it's very herbal-y). We both agreed that the raspberry cider was a bad choice - it's dry, watery, and SOUR! It needs some sweetness to balance it out. We wanted to try the wild honey cider, but it wasn't available that day.
The service was not great. Our server was extremely abrupt and disgrunted - not sure if he was having a bad day or just not a morning person. He didn't smile or make us feel welcome, didn't even say, "Hi, how are you?" After taking our orders, he left and then returned shortly after, saying, "Who ordered 3,5,9,7?" No context, nothing. We were confused and slightly taken aback. Apparently, he wanted to verify our cider orders (each cider is numbered on their menu). He could have communicated it more clearly and nicely to us, e.g. "Hi there, can I quickly re-confirm your drink orders to ensure I have them correct? Who ordered XYZ ciders?"
The place had a great vibe but the food and service really left us desiring more. Quite a disappointment.
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