Early Birds Lunch Bar — Restaurant in North Island

We were driving from Auckland to the Far North in our Campervan and planned to stop at the Whangarei visitor centre…. But , Oh No! The cafe was closed, so we headed into the town basin as we needed lunch for our daughter’s & we were short on time. We spied this cafe & there was parking for the Campervan right outside. Yay! We went inside…. Ohhh… what is this? A lunch bar that also does hair cuts?! How strange… we reviewed the food offerings… some sausage rolls and pies that had been sitting in the warmer (clearly for a while) and some dried up sandwiches in the cabinet. Hmmm, well we don’t have much time, so that will have to do. A pie, a sausage roll and a dried up chicken sandwich were purchased & we settled in to the one table to chow down. The steak bacon & cheese pie was ok! The sausage roll was bog standard, mostly pastry & kinda stinky. Chicken sandwich was dry & had horrible old blackened lettuce (awful!) …. There is no plates or cutlery or even serviettes supplied, unless you ask & having a view of the hairdressing shop in the corner made for quite a bizarre lunch experience. (Is this ok for food health standards?) After we left & our daughter threw up sausage roll in the Campervan we thought that was an appropriate review & we shared her sentiment. We will try & avoid Early bird lunch bar in the future, perhaps as the name suggests it is better in the early morning? We won’t be back...

All good, good food, bit tough around the edges infrastructure, the barber attached is a cool idea but a bit of a hindrance on eaters, otherwise it’s prob a good place for local workers wanting a mean feed, would go...

I found factual hair in my sausage possibly pubic hair so grose. Prices are raised so much and food gets worse I give this lunch bar 1 star because of my failed hair cut that went wrong and costed me 59.99...