COPPER & CLOVE CAFÉ — Restaurant in Brisbane City

My partner and I decided to try this little cafe out but were very let down.

We started with a Flat White which was incredibly bitter, and almost had a taste of sour milk which was not pleasant at all. The menu had buffalo chicken wings which is what had caught our attention. Unfortunately this is no longer on the menu. My partner settled for the pulled pork sandwich and a bowl of fries with aoli and I had the Eggs Benedict with Bacon.

Whilst the service was fairly quick, the meals were disappointing.

The pulled pork sandwich was a small brioche bun that you could buy from the supermarket. A handful of slaw and small amount of pulled pork. It was practically gone in 4 mouthfuls. Highly overpriced at $16.50. I would have included a side of fries for this price. The $8.00 bowl of fries were beer batter fries which had been deep fried in what tasted like vegetable oil meaning all of the oil had soaked into the fries leaving a not so nice taste in the mouth. A fair sized serving, however still overpriced for fries. These could have been very nice if done properly. The aoli for the fries was nothing more than cheap mayonaise with no hint of garlic or lemon to be tasted.

The Eggs Benedict, nearly made an impression. Nice large pieces of freshly sliced bread with fair sized pieces of bacon. The eggs were slightly overcooked, therefore not giving the runny yolk you expect for eggs benedict. The hollandaise sauce which is of course the main characteristic of Eggs benedict, looked the part but tasted disgusting. I would have taste tested that before putting it on my customers food. Far too much lemon juice, left it as lemon sauce, not hollandaise.

Such a disappointment, as this is a great location for this little cafe, with no one within its vicinity, but might I advise that you taste test your own products before you sell them to the the general public. Who ever is cooking your food, does not have what it takes to run a kitchen. And you need to change your brand of coffee, as it is very bitter.

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Staff were friendly and efficient, unfortunately however quality of product served was below that I was expecting for the price paid. First up, the banana smoothie was literally banana flavouring, honey and milk! Not an actual smoothie at all. Best to just call it banana & honey favoured milk and be done with it and the $7/$8 price. As for food ordered, the smashed avo was served on bread only slightly bigger than the poached eggs ordered, and the avocado itself.. not sure how but it literally had no flavour, nothing to write home about. This and the rest of food ordered was overpriced and lack of quality, a shame for my partner and I looking forward to good weekend breakfast.

As a positive, the pancakes were pretty nice tasting and looked ok. But definitely needed more of it satisfy and justify $17.

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Ordered a iced vanilla coffee. The drink is good but service is absolutely terrible. I ordered a vanilla latte, half sweet. They gave me an extra sweet vanilla latte. After i told them i wanted half sweet. She "fixed" my drink by pouring out half then top with milk and a bit of coffee on top. Then sarcastically ask me "is it alright now". I told them they get my order wrong. Then she blame me for being unclear because "half sweet is very confusing, it could be mixed up with extra pump vanilla." Then blame me for not ordering correctly. Drink is good, service is horrible. This is my first time here, I'll only go back if I'm...