Cafe 39 — Restaurant in Waitematā

My sister and I have been going to Cafe Thirty Nine for many years. It used to be excellent and we always ordered 2 x 39’s, the bacon was delicious.

As I have move away from Auckland the last 10 years, any time I came home one of the first stops was always Cafe Thirty Nine for the 39er. Yummy. One year I came home to find the cafe had new owners sadly.

The portion size over the years has got smaller and more expensive but you sadly accept that. What I don’t expect is to find that the BACON IS PRE-COOKED and DRYED OUT. DISAPPOINTING to say the least. I realised this last weekend after asking for the bacon to be cooked in a frying pan instead of how they now usually cook it and it came out DRY AND SHRIVELED instead of lovely and moist with the cooking juice included.

No more 39’s for me. I have been having their omelette but unfortunately that too has the dried out bacon with it. We continue to go as my sister still enjoys her 39er. I think she just loves the pesto though.

The cafe is never as busy as it used to be, they are never flat out busy when we go, so I just don’t understand why they have to Pre-cook their bacon making it unappealing.

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