Elk on 38 — Restaurant in Macksville

Came here for breakfast and to sum up what an excellent experience here

. You can see the owners excellent attention to detail with everything here. Not the usual small old teapot, but a beautiful large designer one that doesn’t stew the tea and beautifully presented on a lovely platter with a good sized pot of milk.

The muffin was perfect, warm, fresh and tasty and as an added bonus it came with some cream ( I would recommend you change to double cream rather than spray cream)

The cafe looked lovely inside and I can’t wait to come back for tapas and the staff were very friendly and helpful.

Prices were excellent and not the rip off you normally get in the area for poor quality and service.

Congratulations to the owner for the care and thought that is obvious in all about the place. It was not what I was expecting in a small rural town!

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Could try harder. The atmosphere and decor were very appealing, and we enjoyed our coffee and cake eventually, but here are 5 disappointing issues we encountered: There was a LONG delay in bringing our very small order (coffee and cake) which they must have known about when we placed our order, so advising us with a smile and apology would have been much preferable to the mounting frustration we felt. Why serve coffee in takeaway cups when we are dining in? No coffee spoon or napkin was provided at the table or by the server- we had to go and ask for these. Providing a plastic spoon to eat a (delicious) pecan pie felt cheap and nasty. There were no hand towels or...

Second time here after a good experience last time. Pastry was stale and dry. Returned to counter to ask about alternatives. No eye contact just…”here’s your money back” asked about anything that might be fresher and was told “sorry it wasn’t up to your expectation. Dreadful way to handle customers, I was happy to have something as an alternative but left without anything. Disappointing experience and totally salvageable situation but staff clearly had no training in dealing with such scenarios. EDIT: To the owner’s credit I did get to talk by phone about what happened post the day concerned and she helped resolve most of the...