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Reviews for The Beachfront Cafe

by Rhonda
24th February 2013

Visited The Beach Front Cafe yesterday. Views are lovely. Service okay, however, meals were disgusting. Our chicken satay worked out to be $6.00 a skewer, stone cold with nasty bottled (possibly Homebrand) satay sauce. A small clump of dry green salad leaves did not add to the experience. The chips were okay (how could you go wrong!) but the aoili came complete with the dried edge from the jar! Experience we would never repeat. Would definitely not return and would recommend that anyone who was considering a meal here to try elsewehere.

by Meagan B.
10th December 2012

We have visited this cafe quite frequently over previous summers, and while the food has never been outstanding, it has generally been pretty good and we have often shared meals as the portions were so huge! Yesterdays visit suggested either ownership or the chef has changed … the food was terrible and the portions have shrunk substantially! My partners squid rings were cut so thinly it was hard to find them in the batter and they were tough and totally tasteless. I paid an extra $6 for chicken in my caesar and there were a handful of small cubes of over cooked dry chicken amongst the sloppy cos lettuce leaves and the rock hard croutons. I also noticed their paninis are $12! We will definitely be heading to the cafe down the beach next time we’re on Onetangi!

by Sally G.
9th October 2012

A wonderful location – friendly staff who went out of their way to accomadate my fussy order. Food was great but the desserts are to die for. My favourite is the chocolate cake.

by wanda
30th November 2009

Have been to this cafe before on previous visits and liked it a lot.
However, I went in a few weeks ago and found that their breakfast had gone up in price by $7.00 for what looked like less food on the plate than before. That’s a big price hike in anyone’s book. All the other items on the menu have gone up too. Funnily enough around labour weekend.
I won’t be going back.

Comment from Alan T. of The Beachfront Cafe 9/12/2009    Hide »

During the winter months we ran a special menu at $15 for…    More »

During the winter months we ran a special menu at $15 for breakfast or lunch mainly because we are a restaurant right on the beach on Waiheke Island and this was aimed to attract customers as winter can be very quiet. Once winter was over we reverted back to our normal menu we introduced 18 months ago when we first opened and the prices havn’t increased since.

by Roxy
24th July 2009

Wonderful cafe. We came here during a storm and loved sitting by the warm fire and watching it out the window. Ambiance was fantastic, lovely food, fantastic service and we would defiantly come back.

by joy light
6th June 2009

Lovely warm clean atmosphere. Great varied menu and hot specialty coffees, beers etc on offer.
Really good meals, views and service.
Tough to beat…would go back for sure.

by Julia Macleod
16th March 2009

loved this place, food was amazing and the location is stunning. service was good, even though they were really busy.
great shop out the back for the beach stuff and ice creams too. would go back and highly recommend.

by d griffin
7th February 2009

food is great. the staff at front of house let this place down. dress is definitely an issue, friendly tho, not very experienced in dealing with overseas visitors, but then that is a typical new Zealand attitude in hospo..by the way, im a kiwi, and fully licenced general manager up to five star. all in all, a good atmosphere, good food, and a fantastic view.

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