bendigo corner store cafe

we loved our visit to the corner store, there is nothing they haven't included or thought of. the cherry on top, a sandpit and blackboard in the backyard, both shaded by a huge overhanging tree branch. i could sit and sip lattes there for hours.

great all round. the boys at moto bean sent me here to continue my 'coffee journey' through this part of victoria.

i dont know what the morons on this site are on about with their bad reviews, the food was outstanding, service excellent and the coffee was a big hit!

good job to all of you guys. i will be recommending!!

worst cafe meal i've ever experienced. we were visiting bendigo for the weekend and thought this cafe looked quaint and the food sounded delicious. pity it didn't taste that way. i had the roast vegetable, quinoa and feta salad. it was inedible. i've never left a meal completely uneaten before. the large chunks of pumpkin were parboiled, with a minute scattering of quinoa, sprinkling of flavorless feta and no dressing. whilst the waitress was delightful, the manager was initially quite rude. the rest of our food ordered was also not great. could do with a new chef and better attitude from management.

great service, even better coffee. is this the best cafe service in bendigo? possibly.
is this the best coffee in bendigo? definetly!

this place is awesome

located slightly out of the cbd, the cornerstore cafe has become my regular haunt to unwind from my hectic work schedule.

the food here is delicious. i love that they source their produce locally, it is organic as much as possible and the meat is free range. my favorite dish? the chicken snitzel burger.

i do a lot of travel, and i can safely say the coffee is the best i've tasted in bendigo and even melbourne. i also enjoy their beers and wines on offer.

the bendigo cornerstore cafe has such a nice feel to it. it seems to breed content and happiness amongst it's customers. the owners are so meticulous in the way they run the cafe. and the results are simply magnificent.


-----07 oct, 2014-----

located slightly out of the cbd, the cornerstore cafe has become my regular place to unwind from my hectic work schedule.

the food here is delicious. i love that they source their produce locally, it is organic as much as possible and the meat is free range.

i do a lot of travel, and i can safely say the coffee is the best i've tasted in bendigo and even melbourne. i also enjoy their beers and wines on offer.

the bendigo cornerstore cafe has such a nice feel to it. it seems to breed content and happiness amongst it's customers. the owners are so meticulous in the way they run the cafe. and the results are simply magnificent.

for a couple of years now, i've been bringing my two young children to the cafe to catch up with my family and friends alike. unlike anywhere else in bendigo, the cornerstore offers an extremely child-friendly dining experience. creative play is encouraged with a sandpit and chalkboard, nestled within the inviting garden out back. the kids menu is full of quirky, interesting and healthy organic food options. as the owners have young children themselves, it is obvious they know how kids think. and they bend over backwards to cater for them.


-----07 oct, 2014-----

for a couple of years now, i've been bringing my two young children to the cornerstore cafe to catch up with my family and friends alike. unlike anywhere else in bendigo, the cornerstore offers an extremely child-friendly dining experience. creative play is encouraged with a sandpit and chalkboard, nestled within the inviting garden out back. the kids menu is full of quirky, interesting and healthy organic food options. as the owners have young children themselves, it is obvious they know how kids think. as a result, they bend over backwards to cater for them. thank you!

awful service. rip off.. i could not believe how terrible the customer service is here! i am left feeling just mad.

my juice was hard to drink - the ginger was in gross little clumps floating around my drink.

my porridge was just a big bowl of uncle toby's oats with a little bit of stewed fruit on top. the banana tasted like fake banana topping. $13.50 for something that i could have made at home for $1.

when asked how my meal was, i explained politely what i thought. the waitress was lovely and said she would pass it on. then when i went to pay, i was slugged $9 for the juice - $4 above the menu price. why? because i had a mixed juice so i was charged 50c for each seperate thing. what! ridiculous. i tried to reason with the waitress explaining that i wasn't made aware. she then escalated it to the manager who after rudely dismissing me told her to charge $9. i asked him, do you really think i should pay $9 for a small juice to which he responded abruptly, yes. so i paid it and left.

that was such an unreasonable price for such a substandard juice that i had even complained about. daylight robbery.

my mum and sister said their coffee sucked too. don't bother with this place, guys.


-----05 oct, 2014-----

worst cafe ever. i could not believe how terrible the customer service is here! i am left feeling just mad.

my juice was hard to drink - the ginger was in gross little clumps floating around my drink.

my porridge was just a big bowl of uncle toby's oats with a little bit of stewed fruit on top. the banana tasted like fake banana topping. $13.50 for something that i could have made at home for $1.

when asked how my meal was, i explained politely what i thought. the waitress was lovely and said she would pass it on. then when i went to pay, i was slugged $9 for the juice - $4 above the menu price. why? because i had a mixed juice so i was charged 50c for each seperate thing. what! ridiculous. i tried to reason with the waitress explaining that i wasn't made aware. she then escalated it to the manager who after rudely dismissing me told her to charge $9. i asked him, do you really think i should pay $9 for a small juice to which he responded abruptly, yes. so i paid it and left.

that was such an unreasonable price for such a substandard juice that i had even complained about. daylight robbery.

my mum and sister said their coffee sucked too. don't bother with this place, guys.

you'll leave starving. this cafe looks lovely and quaint. but that's the only positive thing i can say about it. my first visit i ordered a coffee and it was terrible - something just not right about it. second visit i ordered a $16.50 salad and was dismayed to see the size of it when it was put in front of me. very tasty but i reckon it was gone in 8 mouthfuls max, that's more than $2 a bite! you get more value in sydney & melbourne, that's not right. and because i was still hungry i ordered a toasted sourdough sandwich thinking that should be more filling. alas no, the bread was the size of a small piece of toast with very little filling. i mentioned when ordering the sandwich the salad was smaller than i expected and just got a 'yep' 'yep'... ie. hurry up and tell me what you want. we stayed around the corner and i wanted this place to be our regular but decided it was just too much of a rip-off and found somewhere else.

thank you!. i was never going to be one to jump on the coffee bandwagon until i felt the peer pressure from friends and succumbed to the ritual of chat over a hot coffee. soon enough, what started as a visit there on a weekly basis soon became a daily treat.
it is not just the coffee that takes me to the corner store, though. i've slowly began to meet each of the front of staff team members and they all have a quirky but professional attitude. there is something really great about going in to your favourite store and having them remember your order and even better when you pop a phone order through and you just have to quote "the usual" and your coffee is ready and waiting for you to pick up on the go.
i digress. i am not what you would call a "coffee expert" but what i do know is that my coffee comes out to the most perfect temperature, with just the right amount of froth and the perfect taste every time.
on weekends our family heads to the corner store for brunch. we have the fussiest 10 year old boy on the planet. i couldn't resist the opportunity to tell him that the "delicious bun" that encases his favourite chicken schnitzel burger is actually made from pumpkin sourdough.

with tasteful decor that seems to freshen regularly, it is very easy to forget that we are not in our own dining room at home. we love that the corner store has side-stepped the popular metal stools that frequent cafes these days and opted instead for an eclectic yet coherent mix of practical furniture.

with their amazing coffee, delicious food, enthusiastic staff and comfortable dining, there is so much to love about the bendigo corner store café.

consistently terrible.... i have been back a few times, just hoping that my 'ordinary to downright bad' experiences at this cafe were just a one-off. however, i can stay silent no longer. this cafe is terrible. there seems to be no system in place for the waiting staff to follow which results in them being extremely stressed (although to their credit they try to put on a brave smile) and getting orders mixed up etc. i arrived to our group a little later and asked for gluten free chocolate cake, but with ice-cream no cream, and a strong soy latte. the coffee arrived quickly but was weak and watery. i waited another 30 minutes, and asked several times, and finally my cake arrived but with cream. i pointed out that i had wanted ice-cream and the waitress visibly slouched with stress (the body language tells me these staff are pushed to the limit) but to her credit she changed the cream for ice-cream. then a different waitress brought me another coffee. i said i had already had one, but i would have another (again watery)..also, i seem to have had a coeliac reaction to the cake and have been feeling sick..i don't just eat gluten for the health benefits it is essential .. and now i doubt that the cake was actually gluten-free. this cafe is not worth the trouble.

inconsistent food, (sometimes lovely, sometimes inedible) also very understaffed, stressed staff.
ordered poached eggs- beans, etc, etc. got one egg, told other (didnt work.?) then got second placed in front of me when i had finished. undercooked, in water, on saucer-noice-not!! oh, and the creche at back
of cafe. no prob, but not if mums sit for 4 hrs on two lattes while others wait for a table. no thanks! again, management-move them on.

really really average and a touch overpriced. i came here for breakfast today for the first time, after having wanted to try this place for ages, but unfortunately i was very disappointed. while there was nothing particularly wrong with this cafe, there was nothing particularly good either. my friend ordered the bacon and egg toastie and noted that the bread was incredibly dry, while my green tomato and quinoa fritters were rather flavourless and the heirloom tomatoes were cold. if it the fritters were around $13 i wouldn't have been as disappointed, but at $18.50, i was hoping for a little more. the coffee was also a little weak and watery for my liking. while i wouldn't complain if i had to return to bendigo corner store, i certainly won't be hiking across town to come as there are many other better places in bendigo.

i came into this little gem of a cafe today, i'm so glad i found it. i honestly could not fault anything. when my partner and i came through the door, a girl behind the coffee machine made insist eye contact with the biggest smile i have ever seen, told us to grab a seat and she will be straight over. she dropped what she was doing straight away just to seat us, asked her what was the best thing on the menu was, she looked straight at the specials board (you have trained her well haha) her reply was "anything on that board will never let you down". i mentioned to my hubby how confident that girl was, as i said it my hubby looked over at her and she was singing and dancing while making coffees which i could not stop laughing at. the first thing that we noticed was how busy it was and how every single staff member was actually happy to be at work (you don't see that often in hospitality) you must create such a positive work place for them. we ended up having meals off the specials board and they were amazing, we even had coffee and cake, the selection of cakes were incredible and i have never had coffee so perfect. we were in a complete food coma when we left, i can't wait to keep coming back to this place and try different things. i asked the girl on the coffee machine if i could talk to the owner because i wanted to share my experience, she said you weren't in, she gave me your business card. i would recommend this place to everyone.

wow! possibly the worst cafe that i have ever been to. took 45m to get eggs, bread looked as though it had been dipped in water, needed a magnifying glass to see the side of avocado and eggs were not even as ordered! (requested well done and delivered basically raw)! horrible!!! absolutely horrible, the service and lack of love and care for their food and cliental demonstrate a need for a change of staff- chef and waitresses. if you want a relaxing and enjoyable meal do not go here.

tried this place out last week. a group of girls were working and they had us in fits of laughter, such a young happy group of young girls. you guys must be doing something right.