Café Zest — Restaurant in Palmerston North

We stopped here to feed the family for lunch on a Saturday and instant regrets. The waffles were hard and crunchy, dark brown and burnt on the bottom, the side of bacon ordered was placed under the waffles and drowned in syrup...I had the scrambled eggs on Ciabata with creamy mushrooms and sausage and hash brown....photo included below...the mushrooms were $8.50 to add on and they were dry...not creamy and the amount was like one tablespoon in quantity...bad value and not what I ordered. The hasbrown was good but $5 for one small round hashbrown...wow...the sausage was amazing...best tasting one i have ever had...anywhere...but at $4.50 for one...not worth it at all. Sorry Zest...we...

Ordered the fries which came out so hot I got a second degree burn on the roof of my mouth. I didn't realized how bad the burn was, but five days later, it still hurts to eat. :( I guess I burnt the feeling right out of my mouth at the time. The plate they were served on was waaaay too hot to touch let alone eat as it had been put under the grill, which I found out the hard way. It would have been nice to have been warned. I am having a laugh at the cafe being conveniently located across the road from the hospital,...

Busy little cafe as it's just across the road from the hospital. Staff were friendly. They did have some difficulty understanding our order but got there in the end. Hot chocolate was delicious. Food was a little slow to arrive but to be expected for such a busy location. When it did arrive it was well made and tasty. Worth a visit but keep in mind if you have a tight time-frame this might not be the...