Cafe Botanix — Restaurant in Hamilton

I ordered a single shot americano coffee and asked for a tiny amount of milk only to find that I was going to be charged $1 for about 20mls of milk. Doing the sums, as I only wanted 50% of the usual amount of coffee (for which I was as happy to pay $4.50) you would have thought that when I objected to paying $1 for a tiny amount of milk, the assistant (who may have been the owner) would have had the commercial sense to waive the milk charge. Not so! But then again when this business changed hands the new owners (which may or may not be the current owners) refused to honour the previous coffee card even though the business had not changed its identity. Needless to say, neither I nor the ladies behind me in the queue, who were listening with interest, will be going there again as I was able to tell them the names of other local cafes that did not...

(Updated in response to owner comment below)

Ordered a latte, flat white, iced coffee with oat milk, mocha and a scone. Latte and flat white were great! Iced coffee with oat milk wasn’t very good. We sampled the oat milk - and it was tasty - but the remade drink wasn’t much better. The mocha didn’t taste like anything. They offered to replace the mocha, but we opted for a cold drink from the fridge.

The scone came with margarine instead of butter. It was a really good scone (maybe a bit too dry and crumbly) until we found a hair in it. We were a bit over the experience by this point and opted not to mention it.

Caffe Botanix is good for a takeaway latte, but we’ll probably get coffee from...

Set in a large garden centre gift shop, this cafe is bright & cheery. Theres a good selection of fresh food, ranging from cabinet food to a set menu. I came to celebrate my birthday last week & enjoyed what I had so much, i dragged my family back for brunch on Saturday. I had the Waffles with Deep fried crispy chicken, bacon, & Chilli Maple syrup. YUM!!! The other members of our party had the omelette, Eggs Benedict with salmon, & the Angus Burger. All said that they really enjoyed their meals. One comment that was made about the burger was that they felt that it would have been better if it wasn't in the oh-so-trendy sweet...