Freshwater Cafe

Looking at the menu in the window I was almost immediately bothered by a waiter asking me if I was just looking. I'm sure he meant well but give us a chance... Greeted and seated and swiftly abandoned before I got a chance to order coffee. Menu and water arrived then abandoned again. Ordered a quick egg bacon roll snack. Waiting I was asked if I had ordered four times by four different waiters. Twenty minutes later still waiting for my quick snack. A waiter noticed and went to look and immediately returned with said roll. How long had it been sitting there waiting to go out? Wasn't particularly hot so a while I guess. Looks to me like the balance is not quite right. Too many FoH and not enough cooks. Coffee is excellent. I had mocha which had good balance of coffee and choc sweetness and a long black which had a fine subtle bitterness so not made too hot. Nice place overall just a shame about the wait. As a local I'll likely give it another go. It might be later than sooner. * UPDATE * Impressed that the owner had read and replied to my post I came in for breakfast this morning. Armed with prior experience I didn't let the waiter escape before ordering coffee! Had porridge and full cooked breakfast. All is good in the world when food arrives in good time. Some of the ingredients are locally sourced (the butcher here in Freshie does bloody good bacon) proper bread and local honey. Food was cooked and presented well, nice portion size and good flavours. The caramelised banana porridge is worth every penny. Again the coffee was consistent in its excellence. Lovely family atmosphere with good calm timely service. Not a place, as I have found out, to get a quick snack at lunch time but to sit and have a leisurely meal and soak up the local vibe. Adding to my review today. I'm kind of a regular now and that will remain so as it IS the best coffee and great service that keep me coming back. Today there's a lot of families with kids and the atmosphere I think is good for giving them an fine example of what it is to eat out. The semi confined eating areas allow for kids to be kids without too much angst for the parents. *Another update: A quiet lunch today of salmon and a salad of seeds and pearl cous cous. Very nice healthy modern cuisine with the fish being cooked to within 0.01 of perfect. My compliments to the chef. Having only a little, even miniscule criticism, hardly worth mentioning (but I'm going to anyway!) is I found the salad to be a little under seasoned. Perhaps that's just me and my penchant for over salting my own cookery but in the interest of constructive comments. Consistently though this cafe/restaurant has not disappointed over the last three or four years I have lived locally and the coffee remains top notch.

Oat cap coffee was delicious and the famous breakie wrap was *chefs kiss*! Now I understand why it’s famous, bacon was perfectly crispy and it came with a yummy sauce. They even cut it in half and served us on two plates when we said we were sharing it (thats good hospitality service). Definitely going to be a staple weekend breakfast spot for me. Cant wait to come back for pasta, it’s meant to be amazing too. Highly recommend!