Super Eight — Restaurant in Melbourne

Ah yes, the hospital café — the most unexpected plot twist in the healthcare system ☕🏥. Nobody plans to come here, yet somehow it becomes the emotional support café you never knew you needed. You walk in expecting sadness and antiseptic smells, but boom — there’s carrot cake, gentle jazz, and someone frothing milk like it’s therapy.

I got myself a mocha and a slice of dessert cake, and honestly? A little too good for a place surrounded by blood pressure monitors and beeping machines. The mocha hits that perfect sweet-bitter balance, and the cakes… soft, comforting, almost whispering “you’ll be okay” between bites 🍰💞.

The lounge chairs are ridiculously cosy — like, why are these nicer than my GP’s waiting room? I sat there contemplating life, sipping my mocha, while somewhere down the hall a code blue might’ve been happening. It’s the strangest calm.

You don’t go to the hospital for good coffee, but when you find it — it makes the whole experience just that little bit more bearable. 5/5 for emotional support...

Top quality service and clever interior design make Super Eight stand out. The owner clearly has a vision for the place, and is innovative without being pretentious nor confusing. In fact, the layout is more intuitive and flowing than 90% of other cafés.

Food us good quality hit and cold lunchtime fare for busy folks, though in one section of the cafeteria there are grass-green carpets, low lounge tables and three book nooks along one wall. This section also features five iPads with Wi-Fi for public use.

Being in a busy hospital precinct it's often a fast-paced atmosphere, but that's where the service shines through as a balancing agent. Every staff member to serve me has been courteous, un-rushed, and efficient.

As I watched the brand new cafeteria being fitted out, I found myself thinking, "on no, not just another Zouki." Far from it. Super Eight is in a class of its own.

Bustling yet well-oiled, functional and personal, the S8 is possibly the perfect addition to the new PeterMac...

19/06 /2019 Came again for lunch. Still my TOP +1 hospital restaurant in Melbourne.

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Great price for great food, great service, and comfortable dining environment.

I'm an interpreter. I go and work in different hospitals around Melbourne. I can tell you that there's hardly good food you can find in hospital cafeterias.

However, this Super Eight in Peter Mac on Grattan Street surprises me every time I dine there, with their outstanding food and services.

I found the newspaper on the table (terrible news to read with your lunch though), and a lovely service staff brought me this bottle of water. In fact, I got to choose between sparkling and tapped water. I might bring my friends there for a lunch date to be honest.

I couldn't finish the risotto because it was a big portion for $13.90. Next time I'll have to ask them to cut the portion smaller for my tiny...