Cafe Jacko — Restaurant in Palmerston North

Polished concrete floors, wooden chairs, rustic decor, fair trade coffee and an efficacious use of the colour yellow make mornings at Cafe Jacko a truely delightful experience. Located in the heart of George St Jacko's is truely an indispensable member of Palmerston Norths cafe scene. Offering a wide selection of food and beverage, the salad cabinet is worth special mention where the health conscious patron may purchase a cardboard takeout box (chinese style - love those!) in one of two sizes filled with a selection of their delicious salads - try the roast vegetable (it's famous). As afore mentioned, the coffee at Jacko's is fair trade, meaning the farmers growing the beans get a fair price for their product and are not exploited like other brands, this provides a truely guilt free experience for the socially conscious consumer. Jacko's coffee is consistently some of the best in town and modestly priced at $3.50 for a long black and if one uses their loyalty card price is reduced to an average of $3.11 a cup with every 9th coffee purchase free making Jacko's coffee one of the most affordable on George. Seating arrangement is good, not too crowded with ample room outside if, like myself, you prefer to enjoy your coffee in the sun. Of note are the friendly professional staff which add to the already vibrant  homely atmosphere. I really, really enjoy Cafe Jacko and have no doubt you will...

Super friendly, helpful staff. It was very busy when we got there, and were told it'd probably be 15 minutes before we got our coffee, but ended up being faster than that, and was worth the wait. Great coffee, and the food was really good as well. I asked for crispy bacon on my bacon, avocado, feta, tomato bagel (yum!) -- and got actual, proper crispy streaky bacon. I grew up in the U.S., and have found most places give very flabby streaky bacon here, which is not very nice to eat. Asking for it crispy usually makes it edible, with cutting some bits off, but here it was properly, fully rendered, and the whole piece of bacon was nice to eat. The feta was beautiful too, some kind of whipped feta that was very...

I can see why cafe Jacko has a 5 rating. I'm a Chef here's what I give them...

Staff service x 5+5+5 great hardworking people could they push those meals through.

Food 10+10 I ordered the mince on toast with poached egg. I feel if a cafe can do such a great job on something so simple then they're worth a top score. These guys were great and so friendly. the clients were many and I can see why. its fathers day every client was treated with the same courtesy.

Thanks cafe Jacko you've got my vote 100 percent and then some. Hmmmm think I should become a food writer. Happy fathers day to all the wonderful dads out...