Creme Cafe, Woollahra
So, this is probably the most depressing review I will ever do if I'm lucky. Terrible food? Check. Rude waitress? Check. Inefficient service? Check. Overcharging? Check, check, check. There are only 2 dishes in this review, but oh trust me, I have plenty to say about them.
This depressing creation of two poached eggs on two pieces of bread and a sad excuse of a 'salad' is Creme Cafe's version of 'poached eggs on toast'. I suppose they decided to take a literal approach to their food, because there is literally nothing on the toast but eggs - no butter, no salt, no pepper, no flavour. My companion then spent 10 minutes trying to get some butter and salt out of the very rude waitress who snapped at him to wait, and in the end he had to go into the kitchen to ask for some himself while his food got cold - imagine cold poached eggs on toast! I don't understand why Creme Cafe decided to name itself after a dairy product because they seem very reluctant to serve any. The salad looks almost insulting.
This concoction is apparently Creme Cafe's version of baked eggs. It consists of 2 poached eggs (again, no salt, no pepper, nothing), some wilted spinach (much like my spirit when I saw these over-priced dishes get served up), some under-cooked baked beans (which gave me indigestion), some chorizo on a piece of bread and that salad-slash-garnish-slash-insult. Now, compare this to the better and cheaper version of baked eggs at, for example, the Dover Deli (which is in the non-food-capital-yet-expensive suburb of Rose Bay btw), and weep: http://reasonablywednesbury.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/the-dover-deli.html
Things got even more depressing when I went to pay for this. A sign instructed patrons to pay inside their rather small kitchen-area, so I did that. The rude waitress decided to tell me to 'move aside' and 'give me some room here'. I understand hospitality business can be very stressful, but she should not be a waitress if she is unable to refrain from taking it out on patrons. This, combined with her rude behaviour earlier, irked me to the core.
As a final straw, after I paid, I realised that the staff at the counter had over-charged me.
Score: 0/5
Terrible food, over-pricing, rude wait staff, inefficient service, over-charging patrons. I'm being extremely kind by not giving them a negative score here. Save yourselves, avoid at all cost - Victor Churchill's is just down the street.
Cost: $35 for these and a coffee. Judging by the price of menu items as I recall them (and as listed on their website), they charged me about $8 for that coffee.
Address: 101 Queen Street, Woollahra
Website: http://cremecafe.net.au/
Oh and don't be fooled by the lovely flowers in their website photo. Those belong to the shop next door.
This depressing creation of two poached eggs on two pieces of bread and a sad excuse of a 'salad' is Creme Cafe's version of 'poached eggs on toast'. I suppose they decided to take a literal approach to their food, because there is literally nothing on the toast but eggs - no butter, no salt, no pepper, no flavour. My companion then spent 10 minutes trying to get some butter and salt out of the very rude waitress who snapped at him to wait, and in the end he had to go into the kitchen to ask for some himself while his food got cold - imagine cold poached eggs on toast! I don't understand why Creme Cafe decided to name itself after a dairy product because they seem very reluctant to serve any. The salad looks almost insulting.
This concoction is apparently Creme Cafe's version of baked eggs. It consists of 2 poached eggs (again, no salt, no pepper, nothing), some wilted spinach (much like my spirit when I saw these over-priced dishes get served up), some under-cooked baked beans (which gave me indigestion), some chorizo on a piece of bread and that salad-slash-garnish-slash-insult. Now, compare this to the better and cheaper version of baked eggs at, for example, the Dover Deli (which is in the non-food-capital-yet-expensive suburb of Rose Bay btw), and weep: http://reasonablywednesbury.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/the-dover-deli.html
Things got even more depressing when I went to pay for this. A sign instructed patrons to pay inside their rather small kitchen-area, so I did that. The rude waitress decided to tell me to 'move aside' and 'give me some room here'. I understand hospitality business can be very stressful, but she should not be a waitress if she is unable to refrain from taking it out on patrons. This, combined with her rude behaviour earlier, irked me to the core.
As a final straw, after I paid, I realised that the staff at the counter had over-charged me.
Score: 0/5
Terrible food, over-pricing, rude wait staff, inefficient service, over-charging patrons. I'm being extremely kind by not giving them a negative score here. Save yourselves, avoid at all cost - Victor Churchill's is just down the street.
Cost: $35 for these and a coffee. Judging by the price of menu items as I recall them (and as listed on their website), they charged me about $8 for that coffee.
Address: 101 Queen Street, Woollahra
Website: http://cremecafe.net.au/
Oh and don't be fooled by the lovely flowers in their website photo. Those belong to the shop next door.
was expecting an angrier review lol
ReplyDeleteA food reviewer can be scathing, but never angry :P
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