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    Surf Cafe

    3.7 (3 reviews)
    Closed 6:00 am - 2:00 pm

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    13 years ago

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    13 years ago

    Great breakfasts, great views and great location. Undercover tables do you can pop in for a coffee and enjoy the beach in any weather!

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    Cove Cafe

    Cove Cafe

    3.7(3 reviews)
    0.5 km

    Coffee was amazing and everyone liked their food. Beautiful view and friendly staff.read more

    Cove Cafe has a prime spot overlooking Terrigal beach and of course you will pay a premium for this…read moreluxury which is reasonable to expect. My family and i arrived for an early lunch. The waitress was friendly, we ordered drinks and we're off to a great start. Then along comes another waitress "Can i get you some drinks?" she asks. A bit of a double up, no worries! Minutes later, another waitress, "Have you ordered drinks yet?" OK so they're keen to work the tables. After drinks, the waitress relay gets underway again with the first, then second, then third asking us if we're ready to order our meal, within a 10min span. Since we weren't in any hurry we kindly replied each time 'Not just yet, while mentioning to the third that we've been asked the same question by 2 others already. Don't waiters get assigned a section of the restaurant/cafe to serve to? This gets quite annoying quite quickly. I ordered the grilled Bream which is served with Ratatouille, baby octopus and a rocket salad and another ordered the special Thai beef salad. Meals were served in a fair time but i was surprised to find my main course to be a little bigger than an entree especially at $23. The dish had good flavors, well presented but was too small a portion to be considered a main. The verdict on the Thai beef salad was that there was nothing Thai about it. Sliced beef on a standard looking green salad can be called Thai apparently! This is one of those cafes that expect you to order an entree, main and dessert to ensure that you feel you've had a sufficient sized lunch. For those who don't want to go through a 3 course lunch you may end up walking out with your stomach growling at you for not spending up. It was comical to watch the waiters running around helter skelter, aimlessly darting from table to table to kitchen and everywhere else. If there is a manager perhaps take a seat at a table over lunch and take note that your dancers need a choreographer.

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    Waiting for the world to catch up !

    Freestate Cafe

    Freestate Cafe

    3.0(2 reviews)
    0.2 km

    Worst breakfast ever! Order one: eggs and bacon roll with…read morehash browns. Received eggs on a roll and hash browns but no bacon.. Second order: eggs benny with bacon and hash brown. Received four eggs on toast with spinach underneath and something that looked like shaved pork. No hollandaise sauce and no hash browns. The waitress said the girl taking our order got it wrong. She thought I wanted additional eggs but I said what about the rest? and what was the shaved pork lookalike? She said it was ham. It's didn't look, smell or taste like ham. She brought out bacon but once again it didn't look, smell or taste like bacon. We don't mind if a place doesn't have bacon or ham but please inform us. We checked the website and we didn't receive nothing like the photos shown on the site or anything saying it was alternative meats. The coffee was good thou.

    I am such a tremendous fan! All meals can be catered to any dietary requirement. They have…read moreplentiful gluten free, vegan, keto, or vegetarian options as well as meat which makes this a great establishment for mixed groups. Hippies would be happy but my carnivore friends wouldn't complain. The bacon is there (yuck) if your friends want it. I was so thrilled to find a vegetarian keto breakfast out. And it was delicious! The keto bread was very good. I don't have to be keto or vegetarian but it feels good when I am. My friend is a vegetarian with no other dietary requirements, and he loved the pie. He swears he will be back soon. The third thing we ordered was the gluten free vegan lasagne: I liked it and appreciate effort like this but it was not a delicious wow like everything else: fresh with good texture and look, but we doing it a bit sweet. Nevertheless I'd be willing to eat it again.

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    Freestate Cafe - All produce is locally sourced, fair trade, free range, organic and chemical free where possible

    All produce is locally sourced, fair trade, free range, organic and chemical free where possible

    Freestate Cafe - Clockwise: vegetarian nut meat pie, Vegetarian keto breakfast, keto bread, vegan keto lasagne.

    Clockwise: vegetarian nut meat pie, Vegetarian keto breakfast, keto bread, vegan keto lasagne.

    Freestate Cafe - Most menu items can be made gluten free, keto, vegetarian, or vegan.

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    Most menu items can be made gluten free, keto, vegetarian, or vegan.

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