Tasi cafe — Restaurant in Maungakiekie-Tāmaki

Went in at 10am Saturday and the place was empty. Should have been the first warning really. Friendly staff member. Canadian maybe. Coffee setup pretty dated so didn’t bother with a coffee. Cabinet food looks very pale and anaemic. Looks like cheap as frozen Mrs Mac’s product that you’d normally see in a dairy or service station. Got a croissant and a sausage roll. They’ve got a Merrychef oven for the cabinet food which is awesome as your food doesn’t get put in a microwave. However, they don’t know how to use properly as the croissant and sausage roll were both cold in the middle. There’s so many great suppliers now with wonderful pies & pastries etc you don’t need to settle for that cheaply made stuff these...

It is such a great location, nice covered deck area the staff really are very nice & they welcome dogs. However The premade prepackaged food is really not up to much at all. Have eaten there several times because of the above points but won’t purchase anything but from a drink from now on. The food all seems a little dried out. The chicken filo was not made from filo as when I peeled the paper off had a tiny little piece of filo at the top but was all rice with some random olives thrown in there and all a bit dry. Also had the toasted sandwich which was a lot of bread with not much in between. Sort the food out & it...

Tasi is located at the back of One Tree Hill Domain on Campbell Road. I was wanting to try it because they are a Samoan style cafe. I was a bit disappointed in that the menu is fairly standard cafe fare and there wasn't anything which was different. They did have coconut buns but they are only available on Friday and weekends so I wasn't able to get any. The food itself is nice. I had the lamb and kumara pie and an almond croissant and both were nice. I had it at the cafe so they served it sequentially which was nice. The iced chocolate...