berta — Restaurant in Hobart

Efficient breakfast and coffee in Hobart city centre!

Fitout = warm, minimal Melbourne vibe with large share tables, open skylight, fresh greenery. Relaxing and contemporary music (I visited 9am Sunday in the off season).

Service = friendly, greeted within 5sec and served as I was ready. Quick coffee and food delivery. Very efficient.

Offering Scrambled eggs on toast - 5/10. Meh. Lacking flavour, slightly watery and inconsistent. Basic. Delicious butter:toast ratio, rye bread. Long black - 9/10. Crema, temperature, water:coffee ratio, speed, flavours. Total spend = $27. I also had a immunity juice $6.

Bathrooms = had to ask for location they are out the back door, literally through the kitchen. Pros; watch the kitchen doing its thing (!) and seeing all the fresh food. The bathrooms are fresh, pretty and have two cubicles. Cons; super stressful navigating the kitchen as though I was in their way (and it wasn’t busy) and felt toilets were more of a ‘yes, we have them, and use them if we HAVE to’ situation (unfortunately this is a building design thing).

Overall vibe - I wouldn’t rush back as I didn’t feel that it was amazing, however, Berta was doing everything right; service and design wise. I would recommend for their specialty dishes as these looked exciting. Also great for fast service, but I have heard it can get pretty busy and as it is a smaller/narrow venue this review may be different for peak times, esp in Summer season. Overall, a good, quick, friendly and...

Don’t go lol!!! This place is nothing like it looks online. The manager was literally bullying a poor trainee in the restaurant, which was so uncomfortable. Just read how she’s responding to negative reviews on here. If you can’t figure out how to run a business ethically, you shouldn’t be in business! The food is nowhere like it was looks online, not sure what happened - maybe the restaurant changed hands?? We asked to send back the salad I got, which was clearly not worth the price, and she bullied us and refused to remove it from the bill despite me not touching it and so we ended up having to pay $70 (!!!) for a couple long blacks and my partner to eat half a chicken sandwich which gave him food poisoning!!!

Edit after owner response: I’m not racist hahaha. I called ahead to ask if they could cater to gluten free (coeliac), your trainee told me she was new and in training and wasn’t sure, and went to get you. (You still served me something with gluten after this and if I hadn’t asked to double check, I would have been VERY sick). And we didn’t try to walk out, when we came to speak to your employee and pay we let her know we wanted to leave some feedback, and we waited at the counter for several minutes for you to come over, never even turning to leave. If I can offer you some advice human to human, it is clear that this restaurant is a large weight on your shoulders and if I were your friend, I would tell you to let it go and find a new project that you can...

BERTA SWEET BERTA...

We ordered the special fritters and the eggs Benedict on muffin bread, both very good, but that is the most expensive breakfast we ever had. One muffin bread in half with two eggs on top, added two slices of ocean trout topped up with the hollandaise suace, the food cost of this dish is literally around $5 and selling it for x6 times more it feels like a robbery. The long black was the smallest I ever received, especially for that price! Hot water and one shot of coffee, how much would that cost?

The weirdest thing I ever seen is that to go to the bathroom you literally have to walk through to the kitchen while the chef are cooking, plating and preparing dishes for the costumers, the hospitality and higene law in Tasmania must be unique and different then rest of Australia!

What happens if you sneeze or you cough while walking through the kitchen while the staff is cooking or preparing any food Or you have dog poo under your shoes, or really can be anything!!! Any bacteria from the toilets goes under your shoes and infect any area that you walk...

Surprised that the chef are accepting to work in this condition and not complaining about it. Moving and turning around with knife...

From a restaurant owner that is a BIG NO COMMENT! And is...