I remember coming here with some friends ages ago to have our traditional Friday lunches. What I didn't realise was that this place is actually a Thai restaurant, something that I certainly wouldn't have picked up by the name. Thus, I guess it was some place that I wanted to return to, considering my love of Thai food. So, when I was back in Adelaide, I made an effort to come here for a meal, and it wasn't bad. It's fairly fancy, and a little pricey, but it still does a pretty decent curry. Yeah, I quite liked this place and wouldn't have any issues returning. read more

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Great food like always, friendly staff, definitely recommend for a nice night out. One of the best restaurants in Adelaide

Café Michael 2 has, in my opinion, close to the best Tom Yum Soup in town! I come here frequently and the Tom Yum is consistently tasty, with the right hint of spice (you can choose mild, hot or extra hot). The same goes for the curry puffs and fish cakes. Some of the mains, on the other hand, are not as amazing. There have been times when the vegetables are not as fresh and the phad thai is not as tasty, rather slightly dry and plain. Considering it is a fairly pricy restaurant, I would expect much better. However, the curries are nice. I find them not too overwhelming with just the right amount of flavour. Service is great, location is convenient, and the interior is warm and cosy. read more

Cafe Michael 2 - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Adelaide, SA

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Amazing food and great service! Attentive staff only complimented the awesome food and amazing flavours. We have come here for decades and the food and staff are as good as they have ever been (Feb 2021). read more

The Rundle St precinct for me has always been dominated by Mediterranean food, late night kebab joints and crazy loud clubs with expensive cocktails on big group drinking binges. However, this unplanned evening turned out an absolute treat thanks to the great hospitality and fun time we had at Cafe Michael 2! We (my wife and I) crashed a pre-booked table of 7. I know first hand how annoying it is to get a change of booking when a group of patrons walk in; However, CM2 were extremely gracious and polite and shuffled a couple of table to fit us in. Great job right off the bat team! Our food order was a tough choice and as much as we wanted it to come out quickly we wanted to spend just as much time arguing about what we would have...a fairly standard issue when there are 9 adults involved. We eventually opted for the banquet for $34 a head and it was perfectly matched to the quality and quantity you'd expect for that per head. I loved it all, especially the pad thai. my wife was sad because for some reason she didn't get to taste the pad thai but she also wasn't overly impressed with the chicken. Service was tight for a fully packed restaurant on a Friday night in the middle of the Fringe season. The staff were friendly, polite, sharp and best of all, when I checked in on the Yelp appl Boom! we got 20% off the bill...although the T&Cs meant we didn't get the discount on the banquet ( fair call and actually unnecessary as the banquet is good value () all in all we all had a great time and I'm looking forward to getting back soon! Cheers CM2! :-D read more

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We had tickets to a Fringe show and decided to find a nice Thai restaurant. This restaurant was disgusting to say the least, the toilets were so dirty they even had watered down liquid soap. The food was revolting, the salad was so old it had even turned brown in colour, the Pandan chicken and chicken wigs we ordered as entree were burn and uneatable. The beef red curry dish cooked to death and tasted like old cardboard . The décor was so dated and daggy. My best advice to anyone that reads this would be not to go there. read more

Hubby & I had a Scoopon that we decided to use on our night away from home. Staff were very accommodating, the waitresses were just beautiful they couldn't do enough for you. We came in with a bad experience with a previous booking so we weren't overly confident. Really glad to be proven wrong. Food is delicious, good serving sizes & comes out in a reasonable time. Can get noisy the more customers that are added. read more

I first went to Cafe Michael 2 after a friend highly recommended it to me. We went together for lunch and ordered from the lunch specials menu, which is extremely well priced ($9 - $13 for a meal). The service staff were polite, friendly and quick and we had our meals served to us without waiting for very long. I was really impressed with the size of the meal - at some restaurants you are served far more than you could possibly eat, but at Cafe Michael 2 the serving size was just right. I ordered the beef curry with noodles and it was delicious. Convenienty located, with good service and well priced, delicious food - I'll definitely be back for lunch again soon! read more

This has always been my favourite Thai restaurant in Adelaide. Situated in the middle of busy Rundle Street the cafe/restaurant is always buzzing and noisy in a good way. The reason it is called Cafe Michael 2 is that there was an original cafe (one) that was more of a take away cafe which then evolved into the restaurant that it is today. I have been coming here for many years and have never had a bad meal. The service is always great and the waiting staff are usually lots of fun. My two favourite dishes here are the Basil Chicken and the exquisite Red Fish Curry (whole fish). The flavours are amazing. After the fish is devoured we usually end up soaking up all the delicious sauce with the left over rice. Tip: Try and book a table at the front part of the restaurant as the back part can feel a little bit isolated from the general atmosphere. read more

Wowsers, there have been some terrible reviews for Cafe Michael 2 lately, so when my partner suggested we head there with his folks for his birthday dinner I was a little hesitant. But, it was his birthday, and so I went along to see if the reviews would sit true to my experience. Finding an online discount voucher that gave us 4 entrees, 4 mains AND a bottle of wine for $89 was also a bonus! Starting with the service, I have to say I do see where people are coming from. The waiter was really lovely, but he was a bit all over the shop. We were sitting for a while before he addressed us, he brought out our mains before clearing our entree plates, and trying to get his attention to settle the bill was difficult, despite the fact that we were the only table left in the restaurant, and we'd finished our mains quite a while ago and he still hasn't cleared our plates. All that aside, the food was tasty, the portions were of a good size, and the vegetables generously distributed, and fresh and crunchy like they should be in good Thai. All in all, I was happy and would return if I could get another special deal. I'm not sure I'd be as happy paying full price as the service really wasn't great and paying more than $20-25 for a Thai main without impeccable service just isn't something I'd be keen on. read more

First and last time visit for me - terribly slow and unenthusiastic service, dirty tables and dishes not cleaned from previous customers and the cramped and noisy conditions all made for a very unhappy experience! Food was mediocre at best. Don't bother going if you are mobility limited, as their only "flat" access is around the back, down a lane way that is full of pot holes, bumps and a very unstable drain pipe! Never again shall I eat here. read more

Went here for a very rare date night a few months ago now so the details are a bit hazy. What I do remember is attentive, friendly service & Thai food that actually tastes like it does in Thailand! My partner & I both agreed that we hadn't had Thai that good since we were last in Thailand. It was fresh & spicy with no hint if MSG ;) The serving sizes were really big too - we couldn't finish it all! Will definitely be back! read more

I've always thought Cafe Michael 2 was somewhat overrated. This may be due to my first time there being preceded by a gushing friend who adored it and promising I would too. Perhaps no mere restaurant can live up to that kind of hype. For me this one never has. It's not bad but for the fact we're dealing with Thai food, that is renowned for its flavoursome spice, the palate just isn't there. I don't know if it's simply not freshly prepared, or the chef is tastebud-challenged, but nonetheless that's my experience. Akin to other eateries on Rundle Street it's not exactly cheap either, which only adds to my 'not really worth it' sentiment. The decor is pleasant, the wait staff are pleasant, just not pleasant enough to overcome the food issues. In a nutshell-there's better Thai elsewhere! read more

Cafe Michael 2 - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Adelaide, SA

Came in for the first time, with a LivingSocial deal for two entrees, two mains, a split dessert and a glass of house wine each. Service was a 4, good for me, unlike other reviews. They may have noticed the complaints and stepped it up. Food was a 3. The pandan chicken was really good, but sour chicken soup and drunken noodles were just ok. Really punchy anise flavor in the noodles was a bit overwhelming. Compared with my recent meals at two other Thai restaurants (Chinatown and Hutt st locations) this was definitely at the bottom. The sticky rice dessert is nice but missing something... Maybe needs more fruit? The atmosphere is what drops this down for me -- it was so weirdly quiet that we could hear every conversation of the four or five tables around us. I chatted with my partner about an awkward dream he recently had and he had to shush me -- a nearby solo diner could hear every word if I spoke above a whisper! That guy sure got an earful... Tip: the house white wine isn't worth the price.... and it was free. read more

Massaman was thin strip's of pre-cooked beef, very chewy should be chunks of slow cooked meat cooked in the massaman sauce. The sauce was very grainy as if the crushed peanuts had been cooked in the sauce from the start and not whole or half peanuts cooked in the sauce towards the end. Not happy. read more

I ordered on the phone seafood Pad Thai for $16.50 and a coke zero can for $3.90 which should be $20.40 in total when I went to collect the meal and pay for it. The owner who I found to be very rude and not only lacks customer service and professionalism but also dishonest, tried very hard to charge me $26.50 instead of $20.50 insisting that I have to pay that much when I refused and told him I don't want the meal anymore. He offered to charge me the correct amount and became very agitated calling me names. I told everyone I know about this restaurant to be careful on how much they charge. I wonder how many more customers they rip off?! Also, I found their food to be quite average nothing fancy compared to many Thai restaurants I've been to and the place wasn't the cleanest. read more

I was absolutely disgusted by the service I received from Cafe Michael 2 recently. I had always really loved this restaurant, and even worked for them ten years ago as a delivery driver. I was excited to see them listed on EatNow.com.au, so ordered laksa for myself and my family. It wasn't long after the delivery man drove away that I realised that all of the laksa had spilled into the plastic bag. I gave them a call to discuss and was met with rudeness by one of the staff member named Ajeet. He insisted that I was at fault, telling me that they had taken a photograph of the food just prior to knocking on my door. It seemed absurd, which he eventually accepted, then refused to put me onto his manager. When I asked that we be refunded for the food, he stated that it was "Eat Now's problem" and again refused to put me onto his manager. I was left to eat laksa without the soup (just noodles?) with my family, and was treated so poorly by Ajeet after spending $70. Needless to say I will not be eating there again. A shame, as this was previously my partner's favourite restaurant and a gathering place for her and her medical colleagues. read more

Yuck. Our glasses of wine were warm and our meals incredibly bad. My Phad Thai was dry and I've had better instant dinner versions by far. My wife took the opportunity to try something different, the chefs special of Yellow Curry. I should have seen the warning signs when she asked what mixed potatoes meant for the curry and was told there are red potatoes, white potatoes and brown potatoes. She left most of her dinner and we went off to our show hungry and with no intention of ever returning to pay $65 for a poorly cooked over priced meal of 1 drink and 1 main each for 2 people. read more

If I had never stepped foot inside Cafe Michael 2 over ten years ago, my love affair with Thai food may have never began. You see, I wasn't lucky enough to grow up with parents who were 'adventurous' with food (adventurous for my parents was adding some paprika to a casserole, I'm not even joking), so ordering something as exotic as a Green Chicken Curry was a little scary to me. Was it going to be too hot? What if it tastes like crap? Good news, the one from CM2 was none of those things. It was perfect. As if the clouds had opened to the sounds of angels singing! Fast forward a few years and it's still delicious. Mi amor and I regularly order the Pee Pee's Island for two from their take-away menu and for under $30 we can get 3-4 serves from it. Oh so huge and tasty! The Pee Pee deal includes 1 x Green Chicken Curry (perfection), 1 x Phad Thai (bloody good) and 2 x Vegetarian spring rolls (delish!). Sure they are not the most attractive looking dishes (a bit on the brown side), but my goodness do they taste good! I hear they also do some great lunch deals, so really, what are you waiting for?! Let your love affair begin :) 5 stars with love x read more

I'm not sure if I was eating at a completely different restaurant to the other reviewers, however my experience at Cafe Michael last night wasn't exactly amazing. The aroma of varnish mixing with chicken greeted us as we walked through the door - I could have easily forgiven the varnish smell as I'm all about progress however there were simply no redeeming qualities to make up for it. We ordered a hot and sour chicken curry and a beef Thai basil stir fry, along with rice to share between two. The food appeared quick enough but that couldn't save the fact that the flavour just wasn't there. The Thai basil stir fry was bland and this is usually one of my favourite dishes at other places. The veggies in both dishes seemed as if they had just come from a packet out the freezer - and they had certainly had all the goodness cooked out of them. The chicken curry, at least had some flavour however the sauce was very runny and watery - not thick like one would expect from a tasty coconut based curry. Even the rice was flawed - it was gluggy and sticky, I've certainly been served better rice in my time. Although the staff were friendly, it certainly wasn't an experience worth returning for. Split between two, we ended up paying $20.90 each - and our meals were certainly not worth even close to that! read more

Fabulous, fresh Thai food. Really great place for lunch. Centrally located just on Rundle Street; a 2 minute walk from the Mall.

This place took me back to Thailand!! Really nice location, delicious meals and friendly staff. We ended up here thanks to deal of the day, $20 per person for a house wine, entree, main and shared dessert and you can select from any section off the menu. The red duck curry was a standout as well as the pad Thai. Great value for money for a lunch, would return especially if there was another special like this. read more

Very boring food was there on a Monday night the waiter was ok mind you had to ask twice for water and wasn't busy The food wasn't amazing it's something I wood make at home the rice was gluggy and the presentation wasn't much to rave about me personally would go back unfortunately Cafe Michael 2 has gone down hill won't eat there again read more

Decent Thai food in the city. We were a big group of people and some of us (myself included) really enjoyed our dishes while others were not so enthusiastic. I thought the service was good. We had a small baby with us and they were really accommodating. read more

In one word "AWFUL!'' The worse Thai meal we've ever experienced. No wonder we were the only ones in the restaurant. The starter of vegetable puffs were obviously not made on the premises, while the fish cakes were tasteless and rubbery. The main courses of Pad Thai and Larb were also tasteless and uneatable. Where's the chilli, coriander, lemon grass etc? The cheese cake spring roll deserts were revolting, the contents of the rolls was just a watery glug. At least we managed to get the ice cream down! We left this place looking for somewhere else to eat. Will not be back, and advise others to stay well clear. read more

Good service but the food was just okay. I had the red duck curry and I thought it was lacking in curry and spice and the duck was clearly boiled rather than roasted first. read more

Like a few people below I think I went to a different restaurant than described in the reviews. When I walked in, there was a strong disgusting odour. The place was really messy. I had to wait for a while till someone attended to the counter. They tried to charge me extra but I refused. As for customer service it was the worst ever. For me never again read more

The service was fine but as I had my tom yum soup, and scooped up a fly out of my soup!!! the day started to go down hill, as I asked if they could please replace my soup, and please don't put mushrooms in it, the next bowl tasted of totally fish sauce and full of mushrooms I emailed them to comment on my problem but to no response Very disappointed and would not recommend this restaurant read more

Nice food, and great service. I am new to the town but this restaurant proved to be a best Thai restaurant in Adelaide. I will give 10 out of 10. read more

Cafe Michael 2 - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Adelaide, SA

I was really happy to have dinner at Cafe Michael 2. Great job guys, delicious food and fantastic service. Highly recommended.

After reading many reviews raving about Cafe Michael 2 I decided to have lunch there. We ordered the "Banquet for 2" as it consisted of our favourite dishes, namely Spring rolls, chicken wings, Pad Thai, and green curry. The chicken wings were quite good and tasty, however the spring rolls were not crispy at all, the skin being very tough due to the thickness. Then came the Pad Thai which we found to be a bit mashed up, which it shouldn't be. The last dish was the green curry, which is okay and tasty although it could be more spicy. As I've read advertising that the cooks are Thais I had high expectations, however I'm sorry to say I've experienced better elsewhere. read more

Foods great, service is ordinary!! Took an hour for delivery and they didn't deliver the whole lot knowing that it was left back at the restaurant. It took another 25 mins to deliver the rice and entrees, meanwhile the mains were all cold. Pity that happens considering the food is pretty good. read more

Don't bother. Ordered delivery from them and they took almost 2 hours to come. I called them and they did not apologise and said "no problem, it will come". read more

Even though the food is okay from Café Michael 2, we will never order food from here again, nor eat in. Three times now (for work catering purposes) have I ordered food in advance (allowing a minimum of 24 hours notice) and each time I have given them the benefit of the doubt when the order has been incorrect or incomplete. Our last order on 24 October '14 was incorrect (again!) and when I went back to the restaurant to request that they fix the error (having paid in advance too), I was literally bombarded by accusations from five staff of them having given us the food (one missing meal!). I stood my ground (all the while being polite) but had three of five staff in my face, and the remaining two standing less than a metre from me, telling me loudly that the order was correct. Eventually, they agreed to make me the missing meal, for them to then "find" the missing meal on the counter which they had omitted to give to me when I collected it. Only one person (the chef) apologised but all other staff gave me the look of death. They will no longer get $300 per month out of us and were adamant on arguing over a $14 meal! This is not the first time I have encountered such rude behaviour from their staff - all the while it being their fault for providing incorrect meals or not including the full order - the past two times now I have checked the meal (or gone to check the meal) and had a staff member loudly telling me that the order is "all there", only to get it back to the office and find it is incomplete - including the last time on 24 October. I find this astonishing when they staple the receipt to the bags so providing incomplete orders is appalling - how hard is it to check off the receipt as you place the items into the bag! As I said, the food is "okay" - sometimes a bit dry, sometimes a bit bland when ordering a medium heat curry - so we will be taking our catering elsewhere from now on. read more