Vileroy — Restaurant in Adelaide

Very cozy atmosphere as I walked in but it was almost completely empty - only one customer. I was confused because it is in a great location -middle of Norwood. I realised why a couple of seconds later. The guy behind the counter was exceptionally rude. When I asked a simple question about one of the things they served, he stared at me, almost in a hostile way for quite a while, then he literally shrugged, said "I dunno" and just continued to stare at me. All I wanted to know was if one of the items was gluten free - so I could buy it -as in I wanted to give him money! After a while of continuing to stare at me, he said "In 15 years of working here I've never been asked that" - as though it was a completely outrageous thing to ask, and I was some kind of offensive, deranged freak. Now, I don't want to call someone a liar outright, but it seems unlikely to me that in 15 years no-one has ever asked him about whether what he sells is gluten free. After staring at me for a bit longer he suggested I go to the cafe down the road. I did exactly that, because he was so hostile - I felt quite intimidated - and I actually didn't want to stay in that space. The cafe just down the road was great - they have lovely food, great service, were very friendly, went out of their way to check what they were serving me was gluten free. I would not recommend Vileroy at all. The whole experience was a bit disconcerting and definitely unwelcoming. If they changed their name to Vile it would be...

We Went to meet a friend for coffee At this cafe we have never been , owner I presume wanted to close but didn’t say . It was 3pm . There were still customers in the shop and like 20 empty tables still outside. We sat at a table and the man came over annoyed and took the cutlery and crockery off our table. No greeting . He said what do we want ?clearly he didn’t want us to have anything. When we said we are just waiting for a friend he huffed off. When our friend arrived 2 minutes later we placed our order and the man went over and with a key and locked the door locking us and the remaining customers in the shop . Then walked off out the back. All the customers were looking around knowing this is a strange thing to do. When a table of people wanted to leave the man was missing in action. It was very uncomfortable for everyone knowing this man didn’t want us in his shop. His service was rude and abrupt and down right grumpy. We sculled our coffees to get the hell out of there. He couldn’t lock us out quick enough. While I read this cafe has 5 star reviews for food, service is a huge part of a business. Coffee was nice and to the mans credit a good barista and the place looked really...

I have been a regular at Vileroy for the past 18 months (along with about a hundred others from my office) and no coffee beats theirs - they use South Australian jersey milk and just know how to make proper coffee. I have also had plenty of brunches and lunches there and on the whole all meals were delicious. I haven't tried dinner there yet but plan to as I've heard the meals are excellent. If you are there for cake and coffee try the choc apricot cream cheese slice - the chocolate is not overpowering and is also offset by the tartness of the dried apricots (proper ones, not those second rate overly sweet Turkish ones). It also has a cream-cheese-cake-like layer marbled through. The whole slice is light and fluffy not heavy at all - just totally scrummy - reminiscent of something your Grandma might have made but with a modern twist. Grant (the proprietor) always...