Karapiro Cafe & bakery — Restaurant in Waikato

Serious review: The food was great however there was soon a foul taste in my mouth and extremely disappointed feeling upon adventuring into the large outdoor garden and viewing the chickens enclosure outside of the cafe which it was noted by several people and myself are kept in an inhumane way. The drinking water bowls have gone green with filth and leaves the chickens with no fresh water supply. Knowing this is the chickens that have laid the eggs for the all day breakfast being served was disturbing.

You need to seriously pay attention to the conditions in which you keep the chickens. The chicks also did not have any access to water and the enclosure was extremely dirty.

Please do something about this as I will be checking upon my next visit as multiple visitors did notify the cafe worker on duty today about these conditions (despite worker not speaking much English).

I didn’t take photos as it was actually upsetting to look at and had...

I absolutely love taking the time to stop into Karapiro Cafe on my way through to the Waikato, especially when being served each time with a welcoming smile, no matter how long or short my last visit was (if you haven't already figured me out, my one biggest pet peeve is poor customer service, and I'm definitely not afraid to post about it!!).

There is something for everyone, a variety of choices for food and drink, including gifts made by locals, to browse the store while you wait, oh and purchase (thank you soooo much for my #'s, and the offer to gift wrap them) plenty of seating options inside and outside, my mango smoothie was soooo yummy and cold, perfect for a muggy day, with a sml chicken pastry 🥧, and a sml mince 🥧 was packed with so much flavour, I'll have to go back and try the venison one... so people get off the busy roads before hitting the waikato express way......

We were doing a trip around the North Island, by car...so lots of stops at cafes and such. 3 weeks after being home Karapiro Cafe sticks in my mind enough to find a place to write a review. It was absolutely disgusting. The service was frosty at best and the prices of the pies was ridiculous. Above and beyond even being an expensive pie....now we could have coped had they not been the very worst pies any of us had eaten. In a car full, not one of us ate the whole thing, in fact most of us opting to squeeze the mixture out and try and eat the pastry.Yuck. I recommend waiting till you get...