Cafe Limoncello — Restaurant in Melbourne

Where do you start the claim on their website drew me to the cafe. .we are serious about our food serving delicious Italian inspired breakfast brunch lunch menu.. So I ordered 1of the 2 only Italian inspired options both gnocchi my friend ordered the pasta special braised lamb pasta with Parmesan and lentil. After 10 minutes of ordering the waitress returned to advise me that they had no gnocchi, so I asked to have the special as well, to be told only 1 serve was available. So after coming to this cafe for Italian I ended up having to order the pork slider. After another 10 or so minutes I observed the chef well actually I won't call him a chef because a chef would not serve up the disgrace they called pasta. I watched as he shook Kraft Parmesan cheese that you get from any supermarket over my friends meal. When presented at the table the special looked like something from a 70's woman's weekly recipe made by a 2 year old. It had no sauce it was packet processed pasta combined with Kraft Parmesan and what looked like rectangles of tinned processed meat. The waitress can back and asked if the meals were satisfactory to which my friend complained it was dry had no sauce and was flavorless, she also asked if she could even get olive oil over it to which that request was ignored. So upon going to settle the bill we complained again and asked to speak to the manager. She completely dismissed our complaints advising us that we are the only people that had that opinion. So after paying $80.00 for let's just say mediocre service a disgrace of a meal let's just say do yourself a favour steer well clear of this so called Cafe you can get a better meal off the local homeless...

Had a great experience here!

The owner (I think he was the owner), was lovely to all customers who walked through the door and you could tell he put so much pride into his establishment. The rest of the staff were all wonderful and lovely!

I had the eggs benny (slightly deconstructed as I’m fussy) and it was delicious! Eggs and bacon were both cooked absolutely perfectly! I also had the iced chocolate which was so yum!

My partner has the crispy chicken burger with added avo and it was great. Fresh and crunchy! He also had the lemencillo spritz and it was delicious!

The food also came out really quickly. Also a bonus that it turned out to be a beautiful day and sitting outside was such a vibe!

Will definitely return when we’re in...

I used to really like Limoncello, hadn't visited for a couple of years. Today I walked in at 2.56pm, the waitress asked if I'd like to sit down, I asked if the kitchen was still open (front door says kitchen open until 3pm). Two people sitting near her, sharing a breakfast dish, one with an iPad (I later guessed owners/manager) both said "no" without looking at me. Would've understood if it was closed, but a sorry or hello from them, or letting the waitress answer wouldn't have gone astray. Later heard them bad talking a customer who had come in and complimented them and the soup.

Coffee was average, orange poppyseed muffin really tasty.

Really disapointing that an institution has ...