I booked for breakfast weeks ago for 10am Sunday morning 24 December and at the owner's request sent an email to confirm. I arrived a little after 10am having got a bit lost on the country roads. On arrival Maira, the owner was making Gelato and when I said who I was and that I had booked for breakfast she looked aghast, obviously having forgot. There was no apology.
She said it would take half an hour as she had to cook bread and in the meantime kept making the gelato. I ordered a coffee and went outside and fortunately had taken a book to read. I really wanted to leave but decided to stay and give her the benefit of the doubt that it would be worth it.
The outside table I sat at was grubby as were the floors in the shop and outside it was obvious it was all rather run down. Weeds everywhere, though some nice lavender bushes.
The breakfast was very very ordinary to say the least! Commercial orange juice which always tastes awful and the muesli, though apparently homemade not toasted, was very dry and unpalatable. I have my doubts as to it being homemade?
The dining room area was tatty and again the floors covered in dirt and grasses and lots of cobwebs. All very slap dash. I suspect the owner is trying to run the place on her own, though there was a girl there making the coffee.
The final insult was a charge of $35!!!!!! for THE MOST ORDINARY BREAKFAST I have ever had out. It says on the website that breakfast is $25, so either they have increased their price and not told visitors, or the girl I paid charged the incorrect amount. Suffice to say I will not be returning. I did not walk about the gardens because I am a bit immobile and find it challenging. Seeing all the weeds and general unkemptness of the place, I suspect they may not be up to scratch either.
Don't bother visiting, it is a waste of time. They are thoroughly disorganised and the place as I said is rather run down. There are better places to go with much better food to spend your money on. I thought it was a complete rip off and $35 for the worst breakfast ever - Never again.
3 January 2024
I did not bother reading the Owner's tirade in response to my review as I had read one she had written recently to another customer who did not find the experienced very satisfactory.
A business owner should take responsibility for their shortcomings and not blame the customer for Covid or the shortage of staff. That is the Owner's problem and does not make for personable interactions with visitors.
I did tell the Owner my name but she turned her back and got back to making her Gelato and did not listen and could not hear me because of the noise of the machine.
The Owner can keep the $10 her staff member overcharged me, after all, it may help towards improving the property?
Incidentally, on the website the pictures for breakfast show a lovely table with fresh fruit, a large bowl of what looks like fairly substantial muesli and what look like pastries and brioche. That was my expectation and of course what I got was far from it.
Putting up pictures that don't relate to what is offered is surely 'false...
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