Goodness Gracious Cafe — Restaurant in Brisbane City

I get my weekend coffees from this place up the road from my house. Coffee and cakes are always good. Staff is keen to get the product out the door with minimal fuss. Wait time is acceptable even when it's busy. Street parking available. They take cash and card. - Original review posted Sept 2023 -

Update Sept 2024 - Something is now off here. Bought my usual coffee 2 weeks ago. It was lava hot. Ok fine, can't carry it back to the car without 12 hand changes. Went back the next day and got another coffee, please make it warm, no problem there.

The next weekend my wife and I popped in. I let my wife know that the coffees are now made scalding hot and we need to order it "warm" as the lady at the counter said. So we ordered it "warm". Out comes another cup of lava. Took the coffee back inside and asked for one made that was "warm". 55 deg or close please. This is the part that annoys me more than the fact that they missed our request for a drinkable coffee. The lady who took our order says to us, "oh we are quite busy currently so the remaking of your coffee is going to take some time" like, what? When you have rework to do on an order that you made incorrectly, you don't penalize the customer, you push it in front of all other orders. Lucky for us at the time another staff member stepped in and pushed the remade coffee through for us straight away.

So in all, coffee, too hot to drink. No consistency. Other coffee shops in the area. I won't...

A good friend and I went to Goodness Gracious for a catch up over coffee and a bite to eat. This place is absolutely charming with the cafe in an old house and further seating on the veranda and lower down in the courtyard. Outside is shaded by large trees and shade cloth maintaining a cozy atmosphere throughout.

We settled in at a veranda table and the conversation flowed with wait staff patiently approaching us several times before they could pry an order from us....we were busy talking.

The menu is brief, but with enough variety and we both enjoyed our meals. I had the Chilli Scrambled Eggs with Crumbled Chorizo and Sourdough. Verdict = Scrambled eggs were light, plenty of flavour without anything overpowering, good portion and well displayed. I would recommend. They also have a cake and pastry display inside with loads of mouthwatering treats....next time 😋

Easily the stand out feature for me is the staff. They were all cheerful, energetic and alert to customers. Our main waitress was a young lady from New Zealand who was bubbly and cheeky and very on point with customer service. Thank you. I can get coffee and food at a hundreds of places nearby, it's the ambience and customer service which distinguishes one place from the next.

And lastly, to recognise the owner/mangers as it starts with you. Full kudos to creating a fabulous environment for customers and staff alike. I'll definitely...

I went there today with high hopes as I’ve seen so many fabulous photos online. When we arrived, we can see many flies flying around the table, that’s fine, they’ve got the outdoor dining area so it’s understandable. We are vegetarian with no onion and garlic, so we’ve limited options, which is also fine, we had that a lot. But when the meal came out, it looked like the photos attached, with lots of bruises on the avocados (there is also avocado on toast, I didn’t bothered to take the photo), when we told them, they brought us half of avocado and still has bruises... they asked us if we want another avocado we said no, don’t bother.. it would be the same as they all came from the same box... this is totally different from all that beautiful photos I’ve seen online, although they did take out the price for the avocado on toast (the lady who served us told me she had took the price off the bill but when i went and paid for it, she didn’t, i had to tell the person to get the price off...another bad service). So the conclusion was, no one can beat the Degani at Calamvale, I’ll stick with them, they have the best meal, vegetables are always fresh, specially avocados! Best service and best location (with undercover parking)!!! We’ll never go to Goodness Gracious...