ION Cafe & Bar

4 Reviews on “ION Cafe & Bar”

• Matt

  Great place located away from the cluster 150m down the road. The menu is really interesting and only let down by being over priced. This will not stop me coming back.The stuff are friendly but don’t smile much.Overall a good average place- comfortable, roomy, a bit of road noise led to a 3. will be back to monitor its progress

  October 5, 2020, 9:15 am

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• Mollie DB

  Good breakfast range and location on Blackwood Street. Friendly staff and variety of drinks (fridge) options is ideal. Night pizza menu good too but miss the old tapas menu.

  September 5, 2020, 2:37 pm

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• Lifelovetravelfood

  I visited here for Saturday lunch and sat out the back on the lovely deck. While its quite loud from the Samford Road traffic, its still a really nice spot to have a relaxing lunch. The lunch menu is quite small, however you can also choose from the breakfast menu which gives a few more alternatives. I chose the corn fritters with smashed avocado, tomato salsa and added haloumi and my friend chose the chicken tacos.Both meals arrived quickly and were presented really well. My corn fritters were a little blackened on the outside, however this isnt a complaint, I thought it added extra flavour and they were quite yum! I did need to season my dish as it lacked a little bit of flavour. I also thought almost $5 for two small pieces of haloumi was a bit rich, however this seems to be the trend these days! Im glad I added the haloumi, I felt it needed just a little bit extra to make it a proper meal. My friends tacos were nice, but nothing spectacular. I think a little more thought into the additional fillings it was served with, and a bit more excitement/flavour/spice in the chicken would have been good. Its a nice caf in a convenient location for the locals so I will be sure to return again. I think the evening menu is a little more adventurous and its also great to see good beers on tap for a nice neighbourhood bar. lifelovetravelfood.wordpress.com

  June 5, 2020, 7:02 am

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• Gastrobitch

  IONIm yet to try the dinner menu, so the following review is specific to breakfast. For folks not familiar, this cute little cottage used to be known as Valentina Cafe, until a recent change of ownership where they curiously decided to name it after an electrically charged atomic particle. Ion Cafe, theres still time for you to be a cation instead of an anion. Let me give you some tips, and Ill start with the positive things about the cafe: I like the coffee, the sourdough, the balsamic glaze, they way the eggs are scrambled and the generous portions of crispy bacon, your quality glassware, your friendly and attentive staff, and the beautiful open deck and bar at the back. However, your music SUCKS. Every. Single. Time. I get that roughly 80% of the population likes Ed Sheeran et al. (God help me), but please, just occasionally change the genre of your music to something other than soppy ballardy pop rubbish. Now – we need to talk about your issues with volume, capacity and proportion. Im talking about your corn and zucchini fritters, one of your best breakfast offerings, blighted by a fundamental misuse of the above mathematical concepts. Firstly, you serve two wholesome, dense fritters which are very large, roughly 10cm in diameter and 3 cm tall, EACH (well, it appears that way). Thats a lot of fritter. Heres the problem; they come with a teaspoon sized smear of guacamole, sour cream and salsa on only ONE of them atop a compacted bed of greens enough to feed a rabbit for a week. You dont need to be a mathematical genius to realise why this is a very big problem. To save you the hassle, Ive done the maths to solve your fritter problem: V = r2 h, (disclaimer: thats radius squared as the stupid app doesnt allow superscript) times that by two fritters and you have V 471.24, almost 500 cubic centimetres of frickin fritters and a stingy 20-50 mls of the other key ingredients = culinary disaster. For the love of god, please fix this. I am sick of running out of condiments after the third bite. If its a cost issue, then just make the fritters a bit smaller so you can afford more avocado (Im sure the average diner wont notice theyre eating only 400 cubic centimetres of fritter instead of half a litre of the stuff). You have so much potential, Ion (no pun intended), the owner seems like a nice bloke, please dont blow it. Mitchelton needs you!

  January 8, 2020, 8:18 am

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