Lot 2 — Restaurant in North Island

I don’t know how this place has such great reviews or maybe coming for breakfast was our mistake.

We visited Friday morning, arriving just after 9am. When we arrived, we weren’t greeted, found our own seats, got our own menus, so not off to a great start.

I would have expected table service but there was none. We had to go up to the counter to order from who seemed to be the manager who was uninviting and didn’t want to be there. We had to grab our own cups and jug of “who knows how long the water had been sitting there for” - it didn’t taste very fresh. At least there was no credit card surcharge.

Coffees came out promptly and pretty much all all that was good ended there.

After a bit of a wait, food finally arrived. For one dish, we had ordered scrambled eggs only to receive poached but didn’t say anything as we didn’t want to make a fuss. The garlic on the mushrooms was a nice touch.

The eggs benedict was not so great, just barely edible, only finishing to avoid food waste. The eggs were good quality but poached in extremely salty water, leaving the entire egg white very salty. The hollandaise sauce was equally salty and a weird consistency, smeared on the plate. The combination of the two left me cringing with how salty it all was. The hash was more crushed potatoes, a single “patty” and something to skip. Saving grace for the dish were the raw baby spinach leaves and bacon.

Sadly won’t be returning for any of the menus or...

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