Bracegirdle's McLaren Vale — Restaurant in Adelaide

I work in Mclaren Vale and one of my friends always raves about me trying out Bracegirdle’s for some time now, as they know how much I love chocolate and decedent/fancy foods and beverages. So I finally stopped in there today on my way home to study (thought, I’ll treat myself for some motivation). I walk in and was greeted by a nice young lady on the coffee machine with a big smile who said “hello how are you”? I responded with “good thank you, do you have some kind of extravagant iced coffee here?” (as it was a +30*) She said “what do you mean” I said “as in, an iced coffee with ice cream, whipped cream and chocolate sauce”. “No” she said. “We have an iced coffee with ice cream”… I was quite surprised by this as I thought Bracegirdle’s was a chocolate place. So I asked “what syrups do you have for your coffees?” And she said “none”. “We melt chocolate into them” which of course will instantly set and be undrinkable in an iced coffee. Dumbfounded I asked “do you have any other flavours for your coffees”? (Even though I Really wanted chocolate.) She said “we can melt caramel into them”. Which sounded alright, so I said “yes please” Well $12 later with no sizes to chose from (I wanted an extra large one lol) the weakest most flavourless coffee was served to me. In a large take away cup, with one scoop of ice cream and luke warm coffee that tasted half strength. Zero caramel flavour as well. I ended up driving home (3 minutes) added 2 ice cubes, extra ice cream, (as it had melted in the warm coffee by this point) made a coffee pod shot, added some chocolate and bam, some flavourful iced coffee was created. Sadly to say you can get a better iced coffee from the OTR. Breaks my heart to even type that. Praying they fix this by next summer. Must, must try and be happy with your product before serving. Their iced coffee recipe is not right at all and don’t think it’s been tasted by the owners/manager. As I’m sure they would have much brighter standards then what was...

How has it taken me so long to write a review for the best Chocolate House on the planet ? We've been coming to Bracegirdles McLaren Vale on a regular basis since before our daughter was born and she's 7 now ! They've seen her go from a pram to a high chair to now a small child getting her own drinks. We make a special trip from Morphett Vale each weekend to have our regular Mocha, Chai and kids Hot Chocolate (sometimes banana bread too) it's just that good, it's worth the drive each week. Even better than that is occasionally we'll have breakfast there also. The Bacon and Eggs is a generous size and it's always been delicious. The staff are always friendly and I feel like we're a part of the furniture there now. Which is lovely furniture actually. Old fashioned , home style decor, pleasant music and the food and drinks are the star of the show. The chocolate is amazing also. A lot of places in Australia do chocolate, a lot of them are frankly over rated, Bracegirdles is absolutely under rated. We'll continue to go there and get our drinks, light meals and breakfast most weeks for the foreseeable future, most likely up until and after our daughter can...

Our group stopped at Bracegirdle's, McLaren Vale, for a light weekday brunch. The food was expensive but nice. Although I’ve travelled the world it was here in my home town I found some of the most inefficient café service I’ve ever encountered. Fortunately it’s something that could be fixed by a competent manager or efficiency expert.

There was no way staff could match an order with a customer. Perhaps a table number would have helped. Consequently staff would bring a drink or meal and call out until someone with that ordered accepted it, resulting in a later customer taking food meant for an earlier order.

It took an hour for two slices of toast to arrive. How long does it take to toast two slices of bread? Another order of a waffle still hadn’t arrived two hours later which is completely unacceptable in any circumstances. Other members of our group waited for over an hour for their orders to arrive.

Bracegirdle's didn’t provide service that deserves a good review or a recommendation to family...