Open Table — Restaurant in Ōrākei

Back again and just had to share the corn fritters are great here. Nice fresh salad topped with corn fritter, bacon with avocado. Right amount of sweet chilli sauce. Corn fritter nicely made right corn to batter ratio and the bacon in between with crispy bits on the ends. Will be back for these again.

Have been frequenting this place for coffee and the occasional breakfast for a few weeks now. Was feeling hungry so stopped in for the eggs benedict and added 2 hash browns. Job done! Exactly what I was looking for. Set for the rest of the day now. Eggs cooked perfectly. Good helping of bacon all on toasted sour dough bread topped with bene sauce. Nothing to complain about here. I've also had the OT breakfast here and if you're hungry then thats a great option. Staff are always friendly. Always smiling and wanting to help. Cafe is an open area. Lovely in the summer and is still OK today tho it is wet outside. Happy to recommend this one to those that work, live or traveling in the area. I'll be back....

Firstly, the important stuff. They have excellent well made coffee.

The food was good, but not great. Everything was cooked really well which is the hard part, with a few tweaks it could go to the next level.

I got the OT breakfast which sounded like their signature breakfast dish. I'm being fussy, I asked for sour dough, which I got, but it was, if I'm not mistaken, Ploughman's brand supermarket sliced bread, the hash brown was bog standard too, and they added a sprig of parsley as a garnish. Swap out the parsley for some pesto or a sauce, upgrade the hash brown slightly and have "proper" sour dough and this would have been great.

I like the vibe, the staff are friendly, food came quickly and I'm having more excellent coffee, while wondering if I should have the breakfast burrito which some of the regulars have ordered or something from the cabinet which...

We came here on a good recommendation from friends, however it did not live up to the reputation.

We ordered 2 x Classic Eggs Benedict, one with Salmon the other with Bacon, a side of creamy mushrooms and two coffees. The coffees were fantastic however the food was underwhelming. The creamy mushrooms arrived in a bowl drowning in cream, including large lumps of cream and were overly sweet and not seasoned well. The hollandaise too was unseasoned and lacking in flavour - it tasted like they had used lime instead of lemon and had an unusual taste. The rest of the food eg bacon, eggs, toast etc was fine.

The cafe has plenty of seating and nice tables outside, long wooden bench style seating, however we won't be back - or maybe just for coffees...