meshino

love meshino. love eggs on toast with bacon. love the kids play area. love the friendly staff that care about the customers. love the fact it has been opened for over 10 years. 5 star all the way.

i ordered a full breakfast, wasn't bad but everything was very oily. while my friend ordered waffles with strawberries cream and chocolate sauce, sounds nice right? $18.50 for 4 of these things that look and taste as if they've been through a deep fryer a couple times. cream from a can. very disappointing, coffees alright. service is lovely.

the food here is alway super yummy! the service is great here aswell :) the only thing i dislike is when they get busy there's not enough seating.

not really sure why there's so many negative reviews? came here with my mum, as she really likes the place and suggested we go in.

i had a spinach & cashew pinwheel and a white choc, nut & berry brownie. my mum had a salmon frittata and a date crumble. i've read negative comments on the food here and we thought the food was amazing! the date crumble was so good!

service was nice and it was quite busy but everyone who served us was really lovely. coming from a hospitality background i enjoy good service and the girls working there were great! unfortunately they forgot our coffees and i had to chase them up, the girl at the counter was very apologetic and they were made right away for us.

i would definitely go back here, i don't understand all the hate!

we went on a saturday evening 3 weeks ago. the food we were served was very good however the restaurant was very busy. we knew that would be so because they told us on thursday when we booked. what we didn't know was they would run the place short staffed and we would wait for ages for everything. my wife visited a few days later to discuss our disappointment and the owner was defensive and indifferent to my wife's polite comments

we went here this morning for breakfast and it was the pits ... we ordered fried eggs and bacon and scrabbled eggs and bacon ... the fried eggs were all gristly and over fried coated in oil , the toast wasn't properly toasted and the bacon looked raw .. sent it back ... then my scrambled eggs arrived on burnt toast looking anaemic with raw looking bacon .. how hard is to do eggs and bacon ?? we complained about the scrambled eggs too and the waitress looked disinterested , in fact all the staff looker very unhappy and disinterested, we decided we'd cut our loses and leave. we were refunded our meals with no apology or explanation of why we were even served such atrocious food. we left vowing never ever to return to this so called restaurant ... who's cooking the food there, perhaps the dishwasher, who knows, certainly not a chef ? !

despite the negative reviews here we still went with a group of friends for an evening meal. this was a mistake. several of us had the same meal but it eventually arrived it came in a range of very different portion sizes for each of us. also why charge extra for a few vegetables - what a rip off!

i don't understand why this cafe has had such crap reviews. i actually found it very pleasant. i went there twice in one day as i had an appointment nearby.

i had a decaf mocha and gluten free choc treat first. the coffee was good and the gf treat was excellent, moist, rich with a molten choc centre. i was intending to share some with my son but ate it all while he was playing :/

came back later and had a delicious kumara, cream cheese and caramelised onion tart with a nice green salad which was piping hot (i am pregnant and it is always annoying to have to send something back to be reheated because it comes out luke warm and isn't safe to eat). summer lunch menu was very appealing and reasonably priced - all mains were $25 including the steak meal.

the environment was lovely, light and airy with heaps of windows, but enough exposed wood, funky artworks and black accents to avoid being washed out. nice outside table area with plenty of seating. staff were friendly and service quick.

it was really child-friendly. there was a sofa area with a box of toys, two good quality high chairs and a gated outside area with a mini table and chairs and small plastic fort.

the only bum note, which was a major one unfortunately, was that the environs needed a thorough clean. my son went for a 30 second crawl inside and when i picked him up afterwards the tops of his feet had gone from pasty white to charcoal!! there were a few too many deceased flies on the windowsill, the toys were very grubby (with soil in some, even though they were inside toys??) and both high chairs needed a clean, even when we first came in at before 8am, so it was unlikely they had been used that day. after feeding my son i gave the chair a thorough wipe with wet wipes and it was visibly cleaner than when we started the feed - not usually the way that goes!

apart from the cleaning, this is a great cafe and i would be keen to try a meal there.

this cafe/restaurant has garnered some exceptionally negative reviews. so it goes. those most aggrieved are often very few, but readily, vociferously proffer scathing words. its so easy to do so whether justified or not. the odd negative experience loudly voiced readily assumes a weight over and above many unvoiced positive experiences. on the other hand, kiwis don't habitually complain even when more than justified and whilst remaining silent after a bad experience simply won't return. so what to make of this place? its hard to say but its not as if meshino looks like it is going out of business any time soon.

from my experience meshino is ok. the service is good and responsive, at least, and very importantly, once one gets how it works and engages appropriately. appropriate engagement absent you will likely find it wonting.

overall, the food is entirely average. being generous its more average in some instances than others when price is considered, meaning some dishes are relatively reasonably priced whereas others are egregiously overpriced considering the ingredients and quality. not to be unduly unkind to this establishment alone, this is par for the course, more or less. the gargantuan bowls used to serve some dishes made to make some dishes appear larger than they are should be dispensed with.

a fine local cafe or bistro this would make if only it could make up its mind. i cannot but be left with the impression that this is an establishment trying to do too much all at once (especially during lunch service) but not doing as well as it might with anything in particular as a result.

dined here for dinner with a group of friends, we dine out regularly and enjoy discovering new restaurants and an opportunity to catch up with each other over a meal. five of us were satisfied with our meal, but one member of our party was not. she ordered the blanquette of rose veal, disappointingly what she received did not reflect the description on the menu. the potatoes were not the small gourmet potatoes as expected, the croutons were not croutons, they were hard melba toast, the onions were missing, the mushrooms were overly firm and the sauce was bland. she said the veal was nice, however the plate was returned with the 'toast' and potatoes untouched. she was offered a free hot drink or dessert by way of compromise after querying the meal. she was informed that the onions had 'disintegrated', no explanation for the 'toast'. in my opinion this entire dish should be taken off the menu, it earns this restaurant no kudos. one very disappointed diner at our table, and that is not acceptable. i was quite taken aback at the total lack of interest on the part of the chef, as to why the meal was returned virtually untouched. not good enough meshino, i certainly had high expectations as i was the one who recommended we dine with you. you need to be consistent, all your dishes should be of the same high standard and quality and the menu reflect what the diner receives.

we went today for lunch and it was awful. my husband had the seafood chowder which was oily and quite bland. but the worst thing was my risotto. there was cream then far too much cheese then covered in oil. it said truffle oil in the menu but i didn't realize it meant half the bottle. by the time i got home i felt so sick i thought i would throw up and that's only after eating a fifth of my meal. unfortunately, we won't be back.

had a dinner here at 6pm on a saturday night. service was very good, waitress was very friendly and attentive, in fact quite switched on. we shared an entree of terrain which was excellent, toast was slightly too crispy and hard. husband had rabbit risotto which he said was good, rabbit could have been a little larger but it tasted great. i had the salmon and it was delicious. all in all, it was very good and any criticisms we had were very small and did not impact on our whole experience. certainly was good value for money considering the meals we had. will be back.

i took a friend for dinner one night this week and the meal was excellent. beautifully cooked monkfish and apricot crumble. so when some other friends wanted to catch up for dinner later that week i thought we would support our local and went again to meschino. most of the meal was again lovely but my veal was very tough. when the waitress asked if our meals were ok i told her the meat was tasty but very tough. she didn't respond so when we paid the bill we asked if she had done anything about my comment. her reply was that she had told the chef who said the menu didn't say how the meat was cooked. i never realised that if a menu doesn't say the meat will be cooked tender it can be tough?????? pity because everything else was lovely.

somewhat disappointed. my wife and i went there on saturday for brunch/lunch. my wife's granola and fruit was delicious. however, i opted for the lamb's liver, crispy bacon and caramelised onions on wholemeal toast. unfortunately, the bacon was limp and certainly not 'crispy'. the liver, on the other hand, was grey (no hint of pinkness), grainy, and definitely overcooked - to the extent that the thinner edges of the liver slices were actually quite hard. the sauce, whilst flavoursome, had soaked into the toast so that the latter had taken on the texture of porridge or wet weetbix. it might be better to serve the toast on the side, so the diner can use it as a base for the dish but avoid this unpleasant sogginess? we also did not see any sign at the counter when we first arrived that we had to go up to the counter to order. as a result, we remained seated at our table for nearly 20 minutes, with no wait-staff enquiry, before i headed to the counter to see if we could place our order. this could have been my oversight, but, once at the counter, i still could not see any information relating to ordering. i had heard good reports of meshino and we have friends in the area who have enjoyed their experience there. maybe this was an off-day. we shall probably give it another try, but i hope the chef does a much better job on the liver and bacon - not overcooking one and undercooking the other!

we had lunch here last week and what a disappointment. we both had the chicken something. (chicken thighs wrapped in bacon and served with mash and asparagus) the mash was fine - nothing special - just mashed potato. the asparagus was fine - nothing special - just boiled within an inch of its life. but the chicken, that was something else. definitely precooked - probably microwaved. the texture was something i have never tasted before and i cook with chicken thighs a lot. the bacon was soggy and fatty - no thanks to the microwaving. for $18.50 for lunch i would have been better off with a big mac and getting change. never again. one star for the service.