Columbus Coffee at Mitre 10 MEGA Botany — Restaurant in Ōtara-Papatoetoe

Update Friday 19 Jan 24. Went back today and had a very different experience.

Had Farmers Breakfast and Ultimate omelet. Both were delicious. Even had gas in the sparkling water.

Much improved and a pleasure once again to have brunch there.

Well done Columbus.

Dined in on Sunday 14 Jan 24 and had our worst experience ever. No gas in in the sparkling water (not so bad, it happens). Ordered eggs benedict x 2, 1 on Ciabatta and 1 on Rosti (extra cost). My order came first on Ciabatta within a reasonable time, however, it was warm only and the ciabatta was untoasted and not buttered at all (strike 2). My wifes order arrived and they had the order wrong, it was on the same untoasted ciabatta and not rosti. They took it back when I pointed this out and then returned with the correct order only a few minutes later. The problem was they were the same eggs and everything was cold, including the rosti which were not even properly heated through (strike 3).

Worst experience ever and seriously doubt we will be back. Very very average and...

Very poor experience this morning. My husband and kids took me to have breakfast for Mother’s Day. We came and all table in side was full, and we waiting until they have a few free tables and my husband came ask one staff to clean the table and we can move from outside the garden because my kids feel cold. And he keeps to ask the second staff. Still no one want to help and both of them look each other and give my husband a smirking. My husband never know what happened to him, but I was watching them from the garden. I did speak up to one of them. And other staff came to serve us very nice and gave us some cake for free, we just want to have good service. We dont aks things without payment after...

6 out of 7 tables around me were dirty (including ours), i had to ask them twice to clean. Chocolate frappes was more like diluted choc milk with ice cubes (not crushed ice). Creamy mushrooms were very tasty but very few mushrooms for the $23 price tag (particularly how mushrooms aren't an expensive ingredient anyway). The playground is good and coffee is good. 2 stars

Edit: we came back about 3.5 weeks later and they really upped their game. Food prices are still the same, but cant do much about the current economic climate. I didn't retry their "frappes" after their poor form last time. However, Good service & good cleanliness....