I think I liked the idea of this cafe more than the execution. It has sort of ramshackle hippy-trippy look (there is a mural with anti nuclear imagery for example), with bright colours, relaxing looking sofas and a piano stuffed into a small living room space (there is upstairs too but I didn't see that).
Unfortunately on closer inspection the upholstery seemed pretty grubby and in general it felt like fastidious cleaning is not high on their priorities. Not the end of the world, but it bugged me a bit.
The place only had about 3 other customers in it when we sat down for lunch at about 1:30pm. We ordered two sandwiches. Unfortunately it took them 30 minutes to bring out our food. They had 2 cooks in the open-kitchen. Music was playing and they were having a good chat. I kept wanting to just go on there and make my own lunch, or at least to watch them to see what was taking so long. Seriously, I just had a tuna melt sandwich. I really was scratching my head. So yeah, don't go here if you want a quick turn around.
At least my tuna sandwich tasted good. It didn't look how I expected a tuna melt to look (loads of bubbling cheese falling over tuna) and generally the presentation was poor. I had a baguette and it wasn't cut in half which is a small annoyance considering I had to do that to eat it, but with a crap knife. Also the side-salad was a bit strange. Think it had mung beans on top and a few other unusual things. No problem to me...the big issue was it was poorly dressed (in fact I thought maybe it was undressed) and shoved into this unwieldy little bowl (which immediately had to be tipped out if you had a hope of eating it).
On the plus side they did sell Origina which is cool.
On another visit I ordered a take-away flat white coffee. First, like many places, I'm fairly sure they don't know what a FW is because what they gave me wasn't one. I think a lot of coffee places think a FW is just a latté with a different name. I just wish those places would just say "sorry how about a latté instead?". I'm not going to rant in any more detail, but the coffee I got was average at best. It was way too hot and came in a paper cup ill designed for hot liquids (e.g. corrugated). It was also way too 'long' on the milk and not strongly flavoured like a FW should be. read more