Terre Cafe — Restaurant in St. John's

We recently stayed at the ALT Hotel and visited the café inside the hotel several times for breakfast and lunch. The food is fresh, delicious and honestly beautifully prepared. The coffee is excellent too. That said, the café doesn’t make nearly enough food to meet the morning demand. By 8am, many of the most popular items are already sold out. For example, their scones (which are excellent) are baked in quantities of just 4 or 6 for the entire café, so unless you arrive around 7:30am, you’ll likely miss out (and if you arrive at 7am, they’re often not ready yet). So we learned to come early and buy everything, which was crazy unfair to the folks waiting in line behind us. And there were many. We could not understand the baked goods quantities. The other disappointment was the attitude of a few staff behind the counter. To me, the food shortage contributes to the problem: the staff are left apologizing with sad faces, something which could easily be avoided if more food was prepared to meet demand. Just make more of your beautiful food! I can't believe I had to type this, you're the best bake shop on the entire island but your shelves are...

I stopped into this café to get a coffee to go during our hop on hop off bus trip in St. John's. The shop was extremely busy resulting in a very long line for even a takeout coffee. Although the staff were friendly and helpful, it was obvious they were struggling to keep up with the demand, and there were numerous problems with their interact machine.

However, the quality of coffee was excellent and I definitely would return. There was no seating available at the time we were there, but again, to be fair, it was a very busy morning.

I would certainly recommend a visit to this café, perhaps at d an off peak time because the staff is certainly helpful and courteous and the...

Coffee was the best I’d had after a week of conferences on the east coast, but I was very disappointed in the $5 burnt croissant. I love a bien cuit pastry as much as the next person, but I think what must have happened is they underproofed and then tried to compensate by overbaking. Actually the customer behind me was warned and offered “2 for 1 since the croissants came out small today.” I wish I had been offered the same warning, I would have gotten something else. I couldn’t finish the croissant, particularly the ends which are usually my favorite, due to the acrid burnt flavor. Forget 2 for 1, I don’t think these should be sold if they are not up to the...