Ritual Cafe — Restaurant in Marlborough

We always go to this cafe for lunch or morning tea when we visit Blenheim from the sounds where we live. We are vegetarian and it seems to always have something vegetarian that is interesting. We have found some of the staff members over the years very unfriendly and it has nearly put us off several times but we have persisted. Today however I got a very hard piece of plastic that nearly broke my tooth (and the tooth hurt for some time afterwards) in my food and I showed this to the girl behind the counter who took my plate to show it to the manager?owner? The girl came back and very matter of fact said “ we will give you a refund. Sorry about that”. She gave me cash back and that was that. No real apology. I would have thought at the very least the owner/manager would have personally apologised. No other food was offered so I went without lunch essentially. I guess I could have purchased something else with my refund but that would hardly be compensation for the horrible experience I had endured. Shame because we have generally enjoyed the food. They don’t deserve our loyal custom any...

As a visitor to Blenheim its always enjoyable roaming the cafes. ‘Rituals’ is absolutely delish. Being on a keto diet can be highly restrictive when out but this cosy cafe caters for those brilliantly. I immediately eyed up the egg wrap (how they get that egg wrap so smooth I don’t know) filled with cream cheese, sour cream, bacon, spinach and I think capsicum. It was superbly made (I look forward to trying to replicate this recipe at home), huge but most importantly mouth watering. I devoured the lot without one ounce of guilt and felt full for the re,winder of the day! Staff very friendly. One staff member directed us to their other cafe a short distance away in the nearby suburbs. We visited their for a morning coffee and a search of their food cabinets. This day they had an egg wrap heavily filled with Brie and smoked salmon. I had to restrain myself,having just had similar for breakfast, but gosh, whoever is their baker I wish they could open a place down...

To be honest it wasn’t the best experience. I will say the tables and the general atmosphere inside the cafe is lovely . However , the two main issues were service and food . The service is what I would call , short . The two people who served us were not very friendly , and it wasn’t very inviting . They also were not very attentive and it made it not the nicest . Secondly would be the food . The friands were almost frozen . I had to put yoghurt on mine to soften it and my mother in law put hers on top of a freshly heated scone to thaw it a little ( an in jest move but it worked ). Overall not...