Mister Hoffman — Restaurant in Melbourne

Over priced and over hyped.

First visit there: we paid through the nose over $60 for two meals and a coffee. The food was boring and honestly nothing special. Nothing worth the price point and the menu was lacking in ur staple cafe breakfast items. We finished our meals and decided this is not the place we will dine at again.

Second visit: we were walking the dogs and decided to stop by and grab a coffee to go.

They charged us $6 for a hot chocolate! I questioned them on how much they charged and they stated it’s because all hot chocolates must be served as a “large” but large coffees(which were the size of regular coffee cups at other cafes) are $4.60 or something? The staff were being awkward and the conversation was uncomfortable because even they knew it was just ludicrous.

In total I paid $10.10 for a regular (small) cappuccino and a “large” (regular) hot chocolate.

The hot chocolate tasted no different to the $1 at 7-11.

Very very disappointed and we left feeling completely ripped off. The milk in the cappuccino and hot chocolate were boiling hot and the coffee was burnt.

I should have walked back to the cafe and asked for a refund.

We will not be returning and do not recommend this place.

There are plenty of friendly, welcoming and fairly priced cafes with great menus a few hundred meters away on...

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