Little Mali Tuckshop — Restaurant in Gold Coast City

I’ve been to this café a few times, and up until now, I’ve always been impressed. The service has been friendly, and the meals were consistently delicious. It was my go-to spot for a quick and satisfying breakfast. However, my experience last Friday was deeply disappointing.

I was working nearby and decided to treat myself to breakfast. I ordered a breaky burger (without bacon), juice from the fridge, and a carrot cake to snack on while waiting. Unfortunately, when I bit into the carrot cake, it tasted off. Upon inspection, I was horrified that the bottom was completely covered in green mould and furry growths. It was disgusting and made me gag.

I immediately returned it and showed it to the staff. While they offered to replace it, I declined and asked for a refund instead—I didn’t want to risk another one. Serving mouldy food is a serious health hazard, and it’s alarming that it wasn’t checked before being sold. To make matters worse, I noticed other slices of carrot cake on the tray, raising concerns that other customers might have been served from the same batch.

This experience has made me lose trust in their food safety practices. I hope they take this as a wake-up call and improve their quality control to ensure this doesn’t happen to...

I don’t know what has changed but Little Mali quality of service and food has decreased…

Asked for an Acai Smoothie with berries instead of banana ( which is a VERY standard request and in every gold coast cafe people ask for they do it ,may charge extra, may not but they DO IT)…. The lady at the counter said they can’t do it, it was a BIG NO like NO we can’t do it because then the consistency it’s gonna be an smoothie and tried to explain to me such a stupid thing which is not true at all

I make Acai smoothie with berries and coconut water at home EVERY morning and I am sure it is still an smoothie… Also every cafe I order acai with berries it’s nice

Anyways I couldn’t buy the Acai with berries smoothie… What a basic thing to ask for them to reject on doing it and being an smoothie bar…. What a pity for them they’re loosing so many local customers…

If you want an Acai Smoothie with berries go somewhere else because these guys...

I’m disappointed! I’ve heard great things so I was very excited to try this morning, I ordered the bacon and egg roll and asked for chipotle mayo as the sauce! (I hate tomato relish) so I made sure to order the chipotle! I get my burger and I open it up and they had accidentally put tomato relish (no biggie), I go back and say sorry but I ordered the chipotle (honestly if it was bbq or tomato sauce I would’ve just eaten it, but as I said I HATE relish) they say it’ll be a bit of a wait (again no problem) they come back not even a minute later handing me the burger, and I was thinking wow that was quick, I head home and upon inspection the burger is drenched in chipotle (completely inedible) and I notice they didn’t even remake the burger they just drenched the burger in chipotle OVER the top of the already drenched TOMATO RELISH, so disappointing, I’ll be sticking to palominos for my weekly Saturday...