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Great coffee great prices especially for uni students Can get quite busy but its worth the wait Best place to eat on campus thats for sure Would only …
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Reading Room Cafe
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Been there a few times and there chai latte with soy milk its good. Price is reasonable. Can be busy at times but service by staff is friendly and nic…
Jenny Cao
Reading Room Cafe
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The first time we ever went to the Reading Room made us want to return and then the last time we went made us never want to go back. We used to love i…
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Reading Room Cafe
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6 Reviews on “Reading Room Cafe”
Great coffee great prices especially for uni students
Can get quite busy but its worth the wait
Best place to eat on campus thats for sure
Would only recommend the coffees as the other options arent fresh and are pre made !
The prices arent reasonable especially as most of the customers are uni students 🙂
3/5 score
Been there a few times and there chai latte with soy milk its good. Price is reasonable. Can be busy at times but service by staff is friendly and nice. There banana bread is also good as well.
The first time we ever went to the Reading Room made us want to return and then the last time we went made us never want to go back. We used to love it, but management switched over and our revisit was just a bad experience. The customer service is terrible and there are inconsistencies between what the wait staff think they serve and what is on their menu.
We had the Corn Fritters with extra side of Fried Haloumi and the Big Breakfast with extra Smoked salmon. The waiter forgot to ask how we wanted the eggs on the Big Breakfast since the menu stated eggs your way but they never came back to ask us we assumed theyd probably be two poached eggs. When the big breakfast was served they shortcut the eggs and gave us a single-egg portion of scrambled eggs they should at least put two portions of eggs on if they werent going to bother asking what the customer actually wanted.
The two main dishes came out 10 minutes apart, and the extra-sides came out after everything else, sparking poor time management of the order and lack of attention to what was ordered. A dishs extra-on-the-side shouldn’t come out 10 minutes after it does and if it does, the waiter should inform the customer of the delay there was none of that, leaving us to wonder if they just forgot.
Also we had to remind the waitress the Corn Fritters actually came with a side of Avocado, but she thought we wanted extra. She had to double check on the menu then take it to the kitchen. The corn fritters tasted just like a fried slab of batter, had no pleasant flavours, as all I could taste is the oil.
In general the service was poor and they probably didn’t realise the native language they were using happened to also be ours as they made unflattering remarks from the kitchen about the things we asked for.
To be honest, the food was disappointing, but not as disappointing as the service and what The Reading room has become. Were never coming back.
Hidden Gem inside Victoria university footscray campus. You get bang of flavours for every bucks you spend.
Came here for weekend brunch and greeted with nice waiter in a cosy library like environment. Looking at the price menu, we didnot put high expectation, but was amazed. We highly recommend their French Toast. The corn fritters were nice as well but sadly bit soggy.
Disapointing!. Used to love this place and visit quite regularly. Food was generous/consistent and staff attentive and friendly.
Unfortunately standards at this caf appear to have plummeted since new management took over late last year.
They basically broke all the basic rules of good hospitality during our visit this weekend. After taking our coffee orders when we walked in, they didnt come back to our table to take our food order. Eventually my partner had to go up to the counter and order, despite there being 3 or 4 staff in the restaurant and we were the only ones there.
They managed to royally screw up my partners order. He wanted poached eggs, avocado, toast and bacon and they forgot the eggs and toast, and oddly gave him pancakes instead (despite two attempts and getting it right). Then they charged $20 for a dish he didnt ask for!
I had a smoked salmon omelette, which was nice. But it came out with one piece of dry toast, so again the dish ended up pretty overpriced. It looked like something I could easily make at home.
They also brought my dish out 10 minutes ahead of the other one, another failing of basic hospitality that annoyed me.
Sad to say we wont be going back here again, with plenty of solid breakfast options now in Footscray. I hope the new management takes note of the negative reviews. The place has heaps of potential, but the staff didnt seem to care at all about providing good food or service. They were lazy and clearly not concentrating on what they were doing. We were actually really shocked that it had gone so downhill so fast.
Was one of my favourites until new management took over.
They were very amateur. Don’t understand the basic fundamentals of hospitality.
– Had to approach a staff member to be seated
– Brought out luke warm coffee
– Didn’t take our order so I went up to the counter, it took almost 10 minutes for them to process it off the very basic menu. In the meant time people arrived, sat down, didn’t get served then left.
– brought out the wrong meals.
– Overpriced for what we ate.
Definitely won’t be going back.