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Max F.
14th October 2012 1 star 

I was disappointed with my coffee this morning.

I came in for a trim latte and 2 fluffies.

This might be considered by some as nit-picking but having worked as a barista previously I have very high coffee standards. When I’m charged $5.00 for a coffee and $2 per fluffy I expect a properly made cup.

I watched as the milk was prepared and then the best froth given to my children’s fluffies. Then, the next milk lot was poured into another customers cup (who came in after me!) and I was given the “leftover”. Any barista worth their weight knows the poorest milk is the last. And that was my cup. Which ended up a Flat White, not a Latte. Unforgivable for a cafe IMO.

Maranui, Queen Sally and Elements are equidistant from my house. I regularly choose Queen Sally as the barista there knows how to make a decent cup of coffee and not short-shrift his regulars.

I thought I’d try Elements for a change but I won’t do this again. The only thing positive I can say is their coffee blend is “good”.

$9 value? How would you feel?

Oh, and my kids (who have almost no standards) complained their fluffies were cold.

Steve M.
5th September 2012 4 star 

Love this place. I quite often come here for breakfast and it is always fast and delicious. Not very original of me, but I usually get the Benedict, they do it well. When I do branch out everything else I have tried has been a winner. Love their take on lambs fry(always reminds me of mum)
And I enjoyed the lamb pie I had recently .
Nice and relaxed atmosphere.
Looking forward to trying out the evening menu at some stage.

Jenni M.
3rd June 2012 5 star 

Being from out of town and wanting to host a celebration dinner with family and friends, Elements Cafe was the perfect choice with the private room.
The correspondence I had with the staff in organising the dinner we always helpful and the evening itself was a great success. Everyone commented on the excellent food and friendly, professional service even when the 30 of us kept changing places!
I cannot recommend Elements highly enough, it was perfect.

Jane a.
1st April 2012 5 star 

We celebrated a 50th birthday with 25 others at this restaurant last night. The food was fantastic – and I’m pretty picky! The waiting staff were also helpful and efficient. I would return again and again. Well done!

Rory P.
26th March 2012 4 star 

Love the cafe and love the food. The salmon, excellent. Pate, delicious and well seasoned. Souffle was about as good as a twice baked souffle can get.

The problem I have here is the steak. I eat my steak blue, and the chefs don’t seem to be able to cook steak blue the first time.
Steak #1 came out rare – sent it back, came out perfectly the second time.
Steak #2, I told the waiter to make sure it still moved when I stuck a fork into it. The steak came out, I stuck my fork in it and sighed – overcooked, probably medium. Before I could cut it though, the waiter came out and told me he had been informed that it wasn’t blue – and offered to replace it before I could take a bite. Gave me a free beer too. The second blue steak was perfect.

The lemongrass panna cotta was oversweet, though this may be my palate. Couldn’t finish it.

Awesome menu, awesome food. Wait staff were full of humour and seriously awesome service.
Tread with caution if you eat blue steak though. That’s all.

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