Banjo’s Bakery Café – Devonport — Restaurant in Devonport

There's not much to say about Banjo's. As a franchise, it's pretty consistent with the others - alright pies, overpriced everything-else. Good for a quick lunch and coffee. However, one thing about the Devonport Banjo's sticks out like a feathered thumb -- the birds. The Devonport Mall is full to the brim with urban grey doves (A.K.A. pigeons), and Banjo's Devonport keeps their door open most of the day. This results in the best in-house entertainment, as pigeons are not afraid to hop around on the tile floor picking up crumbs. They never poo on the floor, they never fly indoors and they never hop up on the tables, but they're great companionship for a meal as they don't mind getting within a foot of your...

Great quality pies here, love the cape grim beef range, though they don't display the prices which i find a bit dishonest.

Coffee is lacking dimension. In some ways instant coffee has a more nuanced flavour. I recommend getting your coffee elsewhere then dropping by to pick up a pie.

Staff are mostly quite friendly but young fella has absolutely 0 customer sevice skills, don't think I've even seen him smile or heard him say anything before even when he's the one "serving" you.

The pies are the real redeeming factor of this place, hard to get a good pie these days so i still...

I ordered a salad sandwich, drove 5 minutes back to work, took the sandwich out of the back and cringed with the instant moistness I felt with my fingers. The top layer of bread (pressing against the tomato) was not just moist, but full on wet. It made a squish noise when I poked it. I tried to lift up the paper to move the sandwich and the moisture had soaked through so the paper fell apart and salad went everywhere. I tried to eat around the soggy bread but the tomato was so old and had soaked onto everything that it was completely inedible. Hopefully my chickens...