Xpressomondo — Restaurant in Melbourne

Expensive, rude, unclean, dodgy. I wish I could give this place ZERO stars.

My advice? DO NOT EVEN CONSIDER GOING HERE! I was in Melbourne on holidays with my family recently and we dropped in for coffee and breakfast. From the moment we arrived it was not good. The interior is very bland and not very clean either. It wasn’t busy at all so we asked for a table for 6 people and were pointed towards the corner. There were no menus so we had to go get some ourselves. Soon after beginning to look at the food and drink options, the young male waiter come over and almost barked at us ‘Ready?!?’. We quickly ordered our drinks and food and he just walked off - didn’t even take the menus away.

The drinks and two items of food came out quickly and then the other 4 items took another 10 or so minutes more.

Even though we’d asked for no bacon on the French Toast, when it came out it had bacon all over it. We told the waitress who took it back to the kitchen and returned with a ‘new’ plate a few mins later with a banana on top. My daughter attempted to eat some of this second dish but it tasted horrible! She lifted up one piece of toast to find that it was simply a piece of bread cooked on top of an egg. There was almost no sweetness - a bit of poor quality ‘maple-like syrup’ and zero icing sugar. She then lifted up the banana to find…you guessed it - more bacon.

We complained to the waitress about this dish, as well as my sister’s omelette because it was so tough, salty and flavourless that it was inedible. We explained that we were happy to pay for everything except the French Toast and the omelette when the manager/owner came out to confront us. He tried to make excuses about why the French Toast had bacon on it (his excuse of saying that our dish had been swapped with another diner didn’t even make any sense logically) and told us that because my sister had begun eating her dish, he could not refund that one.

In the end we had to threaten to walk out and not pay for anything before he gave in and agreed to only charge us for the other dishes. As part of this though, he decided to whack on a 10% surcharge for no good reason.

There are PLENTY of other places to eat and drink nearby so my advice is to walk straight past this place and get somewhere...

We popped in last Saturday 14/12.

The street seating area is very cramped for all of the restaurants down this street- it’s fine kinda adds to the charm.

We had a lovely blonde girl serve us who I think is ESL. When I said I wanted the Roasted Pork Belly I had to say it about half a dozen times because she didn’t know what I was saying. We ordered a Big Breakfast and the Pork Belly.

The wait time was about 25-30min? There wasn’t much in the way of communication. The table next to us ordered, received their food and ate all of their dishes before our food arrived. The food honestly wasn’t worth the wait.

The big breakfast was very bland and a little bit undercooked. The hashbrown was good, but it’s a hashbrown.

The pork belly was terrible. We could barely cut through the ‘crackling’ and I couldn’t chew through the ‘crackling’ it was that tough. The pork was very tough and over cooked. This dish with surcharge was nearly $40. I’ll even attach the video of us trying to cut through it and this was after my partner had been trying to cut through for like 5 seconds before I started filming.

The meal with a soft drink was about $75 including Sunday surcharge (I don’t think it’s a big deal but worth mentioning). I don’t mind paying a bit for a good meal, but I strongly advise against going to this establishment.

I think this is one of those places that puts the effort in getting customers, but everything after that is lack lustre including the food. No one asked us at all throughout or at the end of the meal how it was. I’d say this is one of the most disappointing meals I’ve ever had- especially for the...

I was a minute or under away from Xpressomondo with my mother to introduce her to my partner over a meal. Halfway down from the stairs from Degraves Street about to approach Flinders Lane I got a call from my partner saying he got us a table but we need to get there now and apparently need to order now. And the guy was basically pushing him to go. I never had experience like that on degraves street at other cafes. I would normally have waiters ask me for a coffee while I wait, even if it was a busy period. I said we are almost there but we haven’t even sat down. How are we meant to order? My partner kept telling him that we were two minutes away. We weren’t even two minutes we were under a minute. 30 seconds or less we arrived. My partner said see, they’re here. He then went to call my partner rude ect and he was just doing his job. Then walked off and didn’t even ask if we wanted a coffee. So what was the point of all of that.. So not a great way to welcome people especially if they are a tourist like my mum. Kinda gave a unwelcoming vibe when we arrived. Luckily the food was yummy. Coffee was good and the ladies that served us were really sweet which helped us enjoy our experience from that moment. But as I was eating, I was noticing some people who were sitting next to us and didn’t order anything and didn’t get spoken to like we were. I will avoid this place if I see this guy working there....