Eden Rocks Umhlanga — Restaurant in KwaZulu-Natal

Attended the Father’s Day lunch buffet..the reviews are accurate. I would not recommend nor would I return.

The food was enjoyable for the most part, however the menu advertised is not what is served. This appears to be a common problem and the establishment seems to have no issue with false advertising. While the food may still be good, people make bookings based on the menu advertised. There are no starters whatsoever, nor are there any bread / rolls as indicated. The service is awful. The first lunch sitting was supposed to start at 11:30. The food was only put out at 12h00 and a pasta dish that had already been served at a previous sitting was still left out, cold and dry. Food wasn’t refilled timeously and when one dish ran out they would replace it with a different dish. Therefore some patrons did not have certain dishes. The desserts advertised were not present. They simply purchased a few cakes from the spar next door, put them out and didn’t have the right utensils to properly cut the said cakes. The staff were not particularly attentive. The food station constantly ran out of clean plates and the plates were put out still wet. An automatic 10% tip was added to the bill, however when paying using the card machine, the server discreetly asked if we could pay the tip in cash. The server explained that the service staff did not receive the tips as indicated on the bill!! This is appalling!

While the food is enjoyable, the false advertising and poor service completely ruin...

Worst place to go to, such a pity! there used to be a really nice restaurant there then these people opened up and we went for breakfast today, gross they said they have a buffet breakfast that comes with orange juice. The orange juice is not orange juice it’s that type where you mix a syrup with water very gross. The buffet breakfast is so disgusting it feels like I was getting the cheapest types of food it was red viennas fried 😂 polenta with one piece of bacon wrapped over it ( I thought it was a block of cheese with bacon wrapped over it) that was yuk. A strange thin sausage that tastes like a mixture of rotten spices. Brown toast the butter was a huge block of butter chopped up into little tiny squares mushed into a mush horror on a side plate. The waffles were ok but chopped up into halves small things. It felt like we were eating a a side street cafe with the most cheapest grossest food you can buy. What a disappointment. We were there for literally less than 15 minutes picked at the food paid and left. I felt like we just walked in gave our money for no reason at all and left. Wish I could give zero starts. The plates...

My friend and I went for breakfast and loved the vibe and the look of the place. It made us feel relaxed and trendy! We were attended to very nicely in the beginning when we placed our drinks orders. My friend's coffee arrived with a lipstick stain on the cup, unfortunately. We then asked for 2 more minutes to place our order and we were left for about 10 minutes so we had to call someone to place the order. Then, they were out of stock of the crispy chicken patty for the burger, so we exchanged for beef. The food took 40 minutes, for a beef burger and a florentine benedict. We had to ask for it to come out because we needed to leave. The burger arrived with no onion rings. When we asked them for the onion rings they had to make them, and then 2 whole onion rings arrived on the plate. The side salad was equivalent to a spur side salad. The beef patty was so overdone a steak knife could barely get through. Florentine breakfast is meant to be on English muffin - it was on bread. For the price, it was okay. Not going back. What a shame that such a nice looking place with friendly people lacks so much...