Mayfair Cafe — Restaurant in Wellington

well well well, where to begin? i ordered eggs on toast, which the website told me would cost $11.00 and once i arrived the menu told me it was $12.00. No biggy, but should probably update your online menu.

The eggs on toast consisted of two bits of lightly toasted whole grain bread, 2 soggy eggs which left lashings of liquid on my plate. The bread wasn’t even buttered and i was given two packets of craig’s butter to butter it myself. Now let’s talk about the “garnish”, or was it an attempt at a salad? i couldn’t tell, it was unnecessary and straight up weird.

My accomplices ordered the Vegetarian nachos and a chicken bacon and cheese toastie. The nachos looked unappealing and shabby, it was not worth the price. You cannot justify serving this soupy, soggy mess for $16.00. The corn chips were drowning in whatever bean juice you served us and when they were fished out, the bottom half of each chip was as flaccid as i was when the food arrived.

None of the food was seasoned but once the salt and pepper was added by my accomplice they said it was marginally better but would never pay $16 for that again.

Now the toastie, was the highlight. Chicken, bacon and cheese, well seasoned and quite yummy. The top slice of bread was crisp, as you’d expect but the bottom bread slice had succumbed to the steam, and was unfortunately left soggy again, for $8.50 not too bad. My accomplice would order again.

The drinks were mid.

The service was pretty average, there was a surcharge sign which was below eye level so it’s understandable i didn’t see it and one of the workers rudely told me how big it was. The same worker also mansplained where to put our table number, instead of on our table it should have been placed on the back of the chair.

The atmosphere was eclectic…. sure. The fairy lights were a sad attempt at lightning up this dismal place and actually worked to excentuate the lacklustre experience.

I’m sad this was my first meal of 2023! Will not be coming back…. any time soon anyways. Please embrace this review as The Mayfair has some real potential, but nobody seems to want to grasp hold of...

We've been trying out places for scrambled eggs for my dairy free Wife. Mayfair seemed like a good option at the time.

We arrived, picked a seat and looked through the lunch menu. many options intrigued us but my wife stuck to her scrambled eggs on toast.

I went up to the counter and ordered for her, scrambled eggs with no dairy and some bacon and mushrooms on the side. I then asked for a recommendation under $20 as id never been there before and always love to ask the cashier's what's good.

the cashier immediately recommended the biggest thing on the menu ($34) and I reiterated that my budget was $20. they then recommended the hash stack, which I ordered. she asked whether or not I would like my butter on the side. I asked for no butter at all.

once I paid I returned to my seat and chatted with my wife, admiring the area as I used to be a theatre kid. cameras, pictures and lights painted the scenery of a long history of the theatre.

the food arrived 15 minutes later. my wife and I looked at the plates and I was confused. my wife had no bacon or mushrooms, while I had a small pot of butter that I didn't want.

I went back to the counter with my wife's plate and asked where the bacon and mushrooms were that we had paid for. the waitress who took the order apparently hadn't put the changes in. she assured us the rest of the meal would come soon and that she'd deliver it to us.

I returned to my table with my wife's food and she started eating.

now, I wonder what the Mayfair counts as a "Stack" because my plate only had 2. it was more like a burger, with a cheap supermarket hash brown on the bottom, tomatoes and bacon on that and another cheap supermarket hash brown topped with an egg and a biblical amount of bland holindaise sauce.

we never got the bacon nor mushrooms and the waitress never came back over. we left soon after and went somewhere else to have...

Do not go here for special occasions! We booked a table for Mother's Day and were seated in the Boileroom which was freezing. Staff asked if we would like a heater turned on which we agreed to not knowing that the heater was an outdoor gas heater! The heater was turned on in a room with no doors or windows open which made the room smell like gas so be prepared for a dose of carbon monoxide if you come here.

We expected a bit of a delay with the food being Mother's Day but ended up waiting over an hour. We were offered some fries for the table as compensation but they didn't come out until after we had finished eating so that was pointless. When I complained about the wait the response I got was "everyone has had to wait". Not really an excuse for lack of organisation. If you don't have enough staff to cope with that many tables then don't accept that many bookings, simple as that.

The water glasses were also all dirty which surely is something that's pretty easy to get right.

When the food was coming out the staff also didn't know what table the food was for and twice went to give food to the wrong table.

We were already giving Mayfair a second chance by going there today as previously they served my vegetarian husband a meat dish instead of the vegetarian one he had ordered. So that's it now, we will not be returning and will not...