Vanilla Cafe — Restaurant in Devonport-Takapuna

Fantastic little cafe with delicious cabinet and menu options!

Tried the matcha strawberry latte, early grey basque cheesecake, and the HK French toast. All were delicious and drool worthy. They look AND taste amazing (which can be hard to find). Really want to go again to try more of their menu!

The staff and owners are very warm, welcoming, friendly and cheerful. There were so many locals that swung by for their usual orders and the team were tuned in. Knew the regular orders, continued conversations from when they last saw them, so just some really genuine people.

Also dog friendly, which is my personal...

This cafe is so good, that I’m writing a Google review for the first time in my life.

I traveled 10.000 km to visit my sister, that lives around the corner and she told me that she was going to show me what real matcha tastes like. Risky! because I never really liked it, but boy was I wrong. Their strawberry matcha latte is AMAZING!! So good that now every time I visit, this and a bacon egg english muffin are my breakfast after a 12 hour flight.

Please do yourself a favour and try it! Also the staff/owners are super nice and the cafe is a chill place to work but fun and cozy enough to bring a friend...

The owners here are very nice, BUT the employee there was very rude and condescending. She would act really flustered when we were just trying to order, even tho we were being really patient and polite. She constantly would let out a big sigh and scoff. When she brought our food out she would leave it an arms reach of us and leave it very aggressively and storm off. I don’t know what we did to make her this mad....