Cafe Brie — Restaurant in Palmerston North

2x Vegetarian breakfast: One of our eggs was nice and runny, the other was over cooked and not runny at all, the halloumi is good quality not too firm, good potato gratin, baby spinach good, relish good, kūmara chips on top were also nice; overall okay flavour; doesn’t look like much food for money, but will satiate your hunger. 7.5/10

Regular mocha: Good temperature, sweet foam, a bit too chocolatey. 7/10

Bowl Flat white: Fun, good temperature, okay bitter foam, nice bean roast. 7/10

The lemons in the water weren’t washed and there was dirt floating in the water. Glasses and pitcher were dirty and had spots all over them. 0/10

No vegetarian croissants, or other pastries; everything that isn’t a cake or macaroons has bacon in it.

Near by attendees had ordered not long after us, and waited half an hour for their food, and have not received it. Probably best to come earlier and on an off day. (I feel they need at least one more staff member to be a dedicated waiter)

The ceiling was dirty, and the paintings were wonky; the feet of the table made it hard to adjust the...

Edit:

I was contacted shortly after I posted my reply by Meagan, who was professional and apologetic about my experience. She offered for me to come in to Cafe Brie again and have a flat white remade for me at no cost. I came here today and again the staff were very polite and welcoming, and the coffee was fantastic. I can now highly recommend this place through the effort that was put in to rectifying not even a one star review. (Previously 3 stars.) The coffee was made excellently today. Thanks so much.

Came in here for a coffee this afternoon. Usually I order a latte but I thought I'd have a flat white (takeaway). Got handed the cup and instantly thought this is suspiciously light, opened it and saw the coffee had even more froth than a cappuccino should have. Was pretty disappointed. On the other note, the service was very friendly and I had a pistachio macaron which was amazing. Overall, sweet place but I will not be coming back...

The service was excellent. As we arrived an hour before the cafe closed, the staff politely told us that kitchen has closed and we can order whatever that is on the counter only. We had no problem with that as we only wanted some tea time snacks. The English Breakfast tea and the metal teapot wasn’t impressive but the tea cups were beautiful! It would be great if they serve their tea is nice porcelain tea pots. The ambience was definitely great, very comfortable to dine in a such a well decorated premise. I would recommend their bread pudding except that they were too rich in berries. If there is less berries, it would not taste as sour and the bread pudding will taste even better! The custard danish is quite normal, crust is a bit on the hard side and not as fragrant. Overall, I would still like to come back again for their excellent service...