I was recently in Dundrum late one morning, so I decided to have breakfast in Cafe Mimo.
Their breakfast menu wasn't the largest, it only had about 6 - 8 items to choose from, such as vanilla, cimmamon french toast, a bagel with cream cheese, granola, a fried breakfast and something else I don't recall anymore.
As I considered my choices, I tried to remember why I haven't been back here since my first time, shortly after House of Fraiser opened. Then I remembered, the noise. The acoustics of the open plan area are horrible. Cafe Mimo appears to be popular with young families, so a lot of the noise is young children running around, so it's very hard to have a conversation while you're there. It also feels a bit odd eating in the middle of a department store, with nothing but a half height glass barrier to distinguish the cafe from the store.
The food was average, if slightly disappointing - my french toast was just ordinary and didn't live up to the expectations the description on the menu set. The staff weren't the friendliest, they were brisk and a little surly, but that might have just been the result of a busy Saturday shift still ahead of them. They did appear to initially question why we sent a cup with lipstick marks back (we had no problem with this, neither of us were wearing lipstick).
As I left, I considered taking a photo of the 8 or so badly parked strollers at the very front of the restaurant, before deciding that such a shot wouldn't be a very helpful Yelp photo either.
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