The Yellow House Cafe — Restaurant in North Island

We decided on impulse to go there, as we had never tried it. Over the bridge and it was right there opposite the park. We walked in to be greeted by lovely friendly staff. The mushrooms I had were delicious and the others in our group enjoyed their meals My mochachino was very nice and the vegetable muffin I had was superb. We ate outside in the garden with so.e local sparrows that were remarkably restrained. The garden area welcomes diners even of the canine variety with water bowls out for them. There were two lovely well behaved dogs there with us. I would recommend this cafe as a great place to go for delicious food, great service, and a family meal, inside or out. Try it when you're in Wanganui and...

So disappointed! Came for breakfast and as we are vegan had 2 options to choose from on the menu, the quinoa porridge and the muesli, though the muesli had regular yoghurt and porridge had coconut yoghurt. So we ordered both but could they change the yoghurt on the muesli for coconut as we don’t eat dairy? No was the reply, it can’t be changed. It isn’t priced for coconut yoghurt. Then charge us more we said. No sorry, we can’t, they said. And so we left. If you are that inflexible you don’t deserve our custom. And we won’t be recommending this...

This place is one we've been to a handful of times and is alright but appears to have become more expensive in recent times for the same menu. The service and venue are both great and the selection of artwork to view is a bonus. I ordered the roasted vegetable salad which was alright but slightly under-roasted, lacked variety and came with slightly too much dressing. The steak sandwich, we felt, ought to have been an actual steak for $33 but was instead sliced steak strips, so a bit disappointing. Coffee was good but we probably won't pay these...