Northern Perk Cafe

Food is amazing

Loved the brekkie board, especially being able to pick how the eggs are per person rather than having to have the same as your sharing partners. Was reasonably priced and all delicious! Can’t wait to go back and try more.

Food towers were absolutely delicious. However only rating 4 due to 1. Being a big group with a baby squashed into a corner with a high chair when there was plenty of other tables with space to accommodate us 2. No changing room for babies which is unfortunate seeing as they do cater to children 2. We had to wait quite some time to be served apart from that it was great and I would return and also recommend to other friends and family

We visited this cafe, and highly recommend if not to cold to sit out the back! We ordered the two epic boards, the burger one and breakfast one! They were both delicious but if you wanted to get one I loved this burger one a little more. Both the crispy chicken and beef burgers were amazing! Staff were actually the sweetest, there were a lot of people and just be patient if you order these as they take a little longer than standard dishes! Definitely though recommend! (Note I was invited here on behalf of the cafe to review via my blog - review is true of experience)

Great menu. We stayed in a hotel nearby so visited 4 days in a row. They have a great, well-priced all-day breakfast menu and good coffee. Chicken tacos are great for lunch and the eggs on sourdough toast were great. There was a mishap on the first day with a 20 min gap between the meals coming out, and having to ask twice to get the drink I ordered. That was at lunchtime. They were much better at breakfast time.

A friend and I arrived at 11, after being initially ignored we were rudely told there would be a 2 hour wait for a table and to just come back later. I've honestly never felt so unwelcome in a cafe before. What made it feel even worse we that we could see free tables, we even offered to sit out the front which was empty, and when we walked past later after having brunch elsewhere, there were still empty tables.

Had brunch with a friend- good food, good coffee, great customer service, what more can you ask for?

Was quiet disappointment by the service.. don’t get your hopes up about the hype. Unfortunately service wasn’t the only thing, we literally received our food over 45mins later.. they claimed they were busy however staff had enough time chitchatting around.. people who were seated after us, has gotten their meals before us. Finally when our food arrived everything was cold… the pancakes with the breakfast tower were rock hard. My breakfast came to me like as if it was just out of the fridge. I had to return my meal back, it was honestly that bad. The owner was genuinely apologetic and asked for us to return and give them another chance… which I may consider if we had gotten some sort of compensation for the horrific experience. So just for future this is something you may encounter with this location.

Despite the food being nice, my friends and I had a terrible experience with the customer service. We were not asked for about 20 minutes if we were ready to order so we politely asked someone to take our order. They said they would be back however they weren’t. We tried a completely different waitress after that. Still no one came. After the third time someone came and took our order. Our drinks took about 20 minutes to arrive and when they did, it was only one of the drinks. We asked about 10 minutes later where the other drinks were. The waitress said she will get it for us. Another 20 minutes later we finally got all of our drinks. Food took a while to come out - we also had to ask for cutlery and plates. This was quite disappointing considering we just wanted to have a nice girls brunch after the COVID lockdown.

We went in without a booking and got asked to return in an hour as they were at capacity. When we returned, our table was waiting and we were seated straight away. Our drinks arrived within 15 minutes and we really nice. The food took almost 1:15 hours to arrive and we were losing our patience. After we asked for the fourth time time what was happening, we got informed that the initial order never made it to the kitchen due to a man issue with the electronic ordering system. The food was really good and, visually, it was fantastic! We really enjoyed it and couldn’t finish it all! More importantly, the Manager really looked after us and was very apologetic about what had happened — thanks to the way she handled everything, we were very happy and we will definitely be coming back for more! The tech glitch and waiting aside, this was a great experience!!