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One of the coolest places in town- whether you are after a coffee, a drink or a meal. The staff here are excellent and the service is prompt. The coff…
S Farrell
Citizen Q
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This is my local coffee spot on the week days -generally coffee is good, nice and strong. Also, its a good spot for one-to-one meetings with your boss…
Anna Griffin
Citizen Q
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Big group of us went. Staff serving was great. But what spoiled it was the up herself snob getting our payments. What do you break ice with? No smile …
Ben
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8 Reviews on “Citizen Q”
This is my local coffee spot on the week days -generally coffee is good, nice and strong. Also, its a good spot for one-to-one meetings with your boss:) Their ham and cheese croissants are very filling and flavoursome and recently I tried Caesar salad with chicken. The portion was big, filling but I thought there a little too many anchovies that overpowered the flavour of the salad. Will be back to try more food off the lunch menu.
Big group of us went. Staff serving was great. But what spoiled it was the up herself snob getting our payments. What do you break ice with? No smile and could tell she had her favourites. You can work for a real classy joint but if you have crap service like that it spoils the experience. She needs to learn basic customer service skills. She gives the place a bad look.
We have dined here often since the theatre opened as it is convenient to have a quick bite to eat before you see a show. This restaurant started off really well and everyone in our theatre group could always find something they enjoyed. Over the years the menu has changed and, in my opinion, gone downhill big time. Having to go up and order from the bar now seems a bit ridiculous. I get there are savings on wages but they are definitely losing on drinks orders, as who is going to stand up mid-meal and leave the table to go up to the bar to order another wine? Well, we didn’t anyway. The food is ok but really only just ok. My halloumi and winter vegetable salad was very disappointing to be honest. Had there been a waiter in attendance, I would have told them there was no dressing on it AT ALL. It was dry as a bone, but I just picked at bits and left the rest because I couldn’t be bothered leaving my group to go up in search of said dressing. Others said their meals were flavourless although chips were good! On a positive note, the bar staff are really, really nice and helpful. I do hope Citizen Q up their game because they were such a welcome addition to the Auckland theatre dining scene but are average at best now.
We had an early dinner here before a show and was surprised by how busy they were. You have to order and pay at the bar before they seat you somewhere.The menu is small with a few options available. We got the lamb meatballs which were average at best. There were about 6 meatballs on a bed of couscous and salad. Quite a small portion for $22. The sticky wings were OK at $18, the tamarind sauce was a pleasant surprise. The chips were a bit stale and a small serving.The food was served pretty quickly but service was a bit slow. I probably wouldn’t dine here again.
It was about lunch time when I walked through the doors of this cafe, I was really feeling like breakfast menu 🙁 when I walked in I was great by a girl and sat down at the table. A young polite gentleman came over and said did she explain what the specials where I said. No… then I just asked him if they where doing breakfast he said no. 🙁 so I asked if there was a salmon bagel left he said we have one. I had it was nothing special there was not enough flavour more dill and more cheese would of been nice. The iced coffee was really strong just what I needed. I will go back to try the proper breakfast or lunch menu.
Inattentive wait staff, the table wasn’t cleaned when the dishes were cleared and we had to call the waitress over, when we did she seemed super put out.Sold out of a lot of items on the menu and the drinks were poorly made. I had the souffle, which was OK, but needed more fruit to balance out the pickled vegies. The choices of dessert were basically ice cream or panna cotta, no Dairy free options at all. I ordered a Mocha and got an overly sweet hot chocolate with hardly a hint of coffee.
$10 lunch special on a Friday. Delicious steak, polenta and broccoli. The polenta was absolutely delicious, could have had a tub of this to take home with me. Steak was cooked well and cut nicely. Just can’t beat this for the special of the week. Meals were served quickly, and all staff are very friendly.