Secondeli Cafe — Restaurant in Mount Lawley

Okay, so here is the tea… Picture this, a lovely sunny day, recently fallen in love, last day visiting the perth-fect Boorloo. You couldn’t paint a better picture, unless you were maybe a young Van Gough. Even then, you’d struggle to capture the sense of hunger and famine rumbling in our tum tums.

I spot the steak sandwich. Boom, ordered. A large cappuccino for my gay ass. Boom, ordered. Me the fellow fab 4 are sitting there, patiently waiting when our, dear I say sexy, meals get put in front of us. “Yum!” my best friend, Shivy, exclaims. But her yum quickly turned to a bum as the wrong meal was placed in front of me. “I think I ordered the steak sandwich” I said, smiling through the pain of an empty (yet toned) stomach.

What I definitely did not order was the large, triple cooked, parmesan and truffle coated ATTITUDE the waitress then served me. “Well 2 mushrooms on toast went through on the ticket” she said ripely to me. Ummm, excuse me, do I look like I work here? I don’t know how the ticket machine works. Checking my bank account, I had definitely been charged for the steak sandwich, rather than the mush toe.

Alas, she was wrong, but with no apology from her. I think I saw her slip in the kitchen and get a French stick stuck up her butt because the attitude did not stop there. As soon as the clock struck 3 we were so swiftly told that they were closed and to get up and leave, meanwhile I was still chewing my last mouthful. What in the Cinderella. It was as if at 3 o’clock she was going to turn back into a polite person. We asked if we could fill our water bottles as we were leaving and she quickly said no. Um, excuse me, we just paid to eat at this establishment, the least you could do is give us a few drops of your liquid gold. We were like 4 dehydrated deer, lapping at the thinning puddle of a dry waterhole.

In saying all this, you will see I have given 3 generous stars over the potential 1. This is because the food and coffee were phenomenal. Wow wow wow, big delicious, commun-tasty, and social yum. All of us loved the meals, and the coffee I had was one of the best I have ever had in Perth. Compliments to the chef, and complaints to that waitress. Joking! She was clearly going through something and I hope she’s doing alright. Live, laugh, loathe. Will not be coming back here, unless we were getting take...

I went for brunch here with my partner in mid-May of 2023.

We ordered a mocha each, and I was very impressed with the quality of these drinks. I would have to put the drinks I had from here to be one of the best in Mount Lawley.

The reason for the 3 stars instead of the 5 however was due to the food. I had a steak sandwhich and although the sandwhich was quite tasty, there was only half a piece of steak in it which meant the sandwhich only contained meat in the middle. The outer was just bread and leaves.

The chips were okay and were at a good temperature (weren’t boiling hot and weren’t cold) despite looking like they had just come out of the freezer (no crispness and were very bland in appearance; hardly any seasoning).

My partner had the açai bowl and this was quite disappointing. The açai was still in frozen chunks, and the kitchen made no effort to blend it, or break it up (from my experience, an açai bowl is similar to a smoothie bowl and is not usually served in chunks).

The waitress who served us was very polite and professional, however there was a few members of staff who were running around the cafe trying to do 18 things at once.

I would recommend this cafe for a hot drink. The food, however, wasn’t that impressive.

Was quite busy though so I get that they would have been...

This entire dining experience at this place was pitiful. I would save my money and go somewhere else.

I got the shaksuka asking them to substitute the sausages with mushroom, the lady at the counter assured me that this would be done. When my dish finally came, there was no mushroom. And I thought it was a bit strange that my dish was only half filled in the bowl It came out in???

I went back to the counter and showed the lady there was no mushroom in. She said that they would make a replacement one for me. I waited and waited.

Eating out with my son is an experience that I cherish, and this place has ruined my lunch with my son today.

He sat there watching me wait for my meal while he was eating his.

15 minutes later I went back to the counter and asked the lady about my dish and she said it’s coming.

In the meantime, I saw another shakshuka being taken out, and it was filled to the top with an egg and garnish! I went back to the lady said my son has almost finished his meal and I want my refund. I don’t want the dish anymore. Again she said it’s coming. I sat there for another 15 minutes waiting for my dish watching other dishes go out to other tables.

This place has really left a bad taste in my mouth to say the least. I regret going here and I will never go back here...