Quiet and relaxing place, nice variety of food, but must improve the way of preparing it. Pasta salad: the pasta must be boiled in salted water otherwise no taste and should be combined in different way to the vegetable, otherwise for example the cucumbers are raw and pasta to soft overcooked then need to have an aromatic ex.vir. olive oil base with some basilico pesto and grated grana padano cheese that combines together all components. This is the secret of the italian attention to simple but harmony in taste that gives quality to food.... Croissant with almonds: The French croissant secret invented by a Romanian cook is the softness of inside heart of so called "pasta sfoglia" if instead it collapses and become a very sticky solid layer then something is wrong in the...
Read moreNice and modern building and pools. The coffee tasted like the sewer smells around here! I got sick from a caramel latte! Service is terrible and the shuttle bus does not wait one second for you and it’s late. Might as well not even use it. Service staff is stupid and can’t count for instance if you ask for a double shot they charge you for 2 drinks and make 2 drinks. Omelets as well I overheard. You ask for 4 omelets and they make 4 egg omelets with 4 eggs in them not 4 separate omelets. I was on time for the shuttle bus and they didn’t know if it was there and I asked them to check and by the time they checked it was gone. No one wants to pick you up here either, referring to grab. I will not be returning. Ruined my last...
Read moreThe actual setting of this cafe is lovely, it's air-conditioned, plenty of room to sit with your laptop if needed, and the food was good. However, me and my partner stayed at CityGate for two weeks and in that time, we both ended up with a sickness bug from the drinks we ordered from here, I had a smoothie and my partner had a cappuccino, of which we ordered on separate occasions, so it was really disappointing to have to spend half our time in Phuket stuck in our room unwell. After that we opted to find local coffee shops which were much more welcoming and didn't...
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