Vanilla Bean — Restaurant in Fremantle

I had the pleasure today of having to park at the Fremantle Hospital, coin-only, carpark across the road from your cafe; and then being aggressively rebuked (while being shown your no-coin-policy taped to the counter) by a member of your staff when I asked for coin-change from the $20 that I used to purchase a florentine (that I didn’t really want).

I think you are going about this the wrong way. Instead of fighting against coin-seeking “customers” that would not have otherwise come into your delightful little cafe, you would do better to accept this demand for parking coins by not only having a ready coin supply available, but by advertising the fact that coin change will be provided with a smile with every take-away coffee purchased.

Fremantle’s dark-ages, coin-only, parking ticket machines is providing you with an opportunity to draw in customers that would not have otherwise known you existed — welcome new potential customers, don’t...

BREKKIE WITH A CAPITAL B!! Hanging out around the corner in accommodation on Arundel St and Googled “breakfast near me” and super glad Vanilla Bean popped up! Set for a day out wandering Freo and keen to fuel up on brekkie options that weren’t greasy and allowed Gluten Free choices with 3 of us having grumbly guts.

Everything put in front of us was fresh, delish and came in awesome portion sizes with us indulging in Breakfast Stack, Classic Omelette and Eggs & Toast with a few extras added. Fresh juices, a spot on iced coffee and a good old pot of tea. Over the years we’ve had many breakfast stops in Freo, and this would have to be one of the best...see you again tomorrow...

First visit after a while and the coffee was always good, back then. My wife ordered an almond latte and it came out too hot to even think of picking the glass up. When she took it back in and asked them to remake it the owner top it up, even though it had not neen touched, with cold almond milk which flooded into the saucer and bid her on her way. Hmmmm... a cafe that has no idea how to make coffee. Go figure. They even nuked our pastry so had to wait for that to cool down. Lady who served...