nectar cafe & restaurant

wonderfulbreakfastat nectar on saturday. despite being very busy they found us a table and as always the food was wonderful. they have a unique take on french toast and their lemon curd is divine. can't wait to go again.

yummybreakfastyesterday at nectar cafe with house smoked salmon and free range eggs. delicious coffee too!
another visit very soon is a must, to try something else off the healthy creative menu.

wow! so glad to have found this little treasure in whangarei. had saturdaybreakfasthere and was most impressed with the quality of the food, the flavours and generous portion sizes. had the mushrooms on toast which was cooked perfectly while the others on the table had berry - coconut porridge and corn fritters. the porridge was delicious with generous quantities of macadamia nuts. overall it was a great experience and will surely go back to nectar cafe again.

enjoyed our brunch here. my bigbreakfastwas tasty and the mushrooms were some of the best i've tasted. eggs benedict were reported as being excellent.

also had a highchair and change table which is helpful!

great view from the back tables over the park. excellent service and friendly.

we atebreakfasthere on a saturday while having a long weekend in whangarei. we eatbreakfastout every sat and sun in auckland and enjoy trying different cafes, so when we heard nectar was northland cafe of the year we were expecting something special.
the menu was interesting and our eggs, bacon and kransky was so delicious we tracked down the butcher who supplied the bacon and kransky and took home a supply for the freezer! the large bowl of porridge was very good and something few cafes offer. coffee was good but would have been better if it was hot instead of lukewarm.
as mentioned by other reviewers, we had issues with the length of time it took to get our coffee and meals. they were short staffed and one waitress for a full dining room was just not acceptable. other diners arriving after us were told that the kitchen was behind with orders and there would be a 20 minute wait, which was actually over 30. credit to whoever decided that those diners could have coffees free of charge while they waited. a pity we waited 20 mins and weren't offered anything.
overall, a very good meal, but you may have to wait a while, drinking warm coffee.

went in mid-november last year to try outbreakfastin this award-winning cafe in mid-november. lovely modern setting, lots of morning sunlight and pleasant views over a park. unfortunately, there were issues with the service. having given our order to the pleasant waitress we were approached some time later to re-check our order. this we did although we thought it strange given that we were the only people in the restaurant. we had an interminable wait for our meals and had to ask several times to check how they were coming along. unfortunately, when the meals did come my meal was not the one i had ordered and wasn't one that i really could get by on. the correct meal was eventually provided although my wife had to watch each other eat our respective meal which took away any gloss about us having a specialbreakfastto start off my wife's birthday on a really positive note. instead from start to finish ourbreakfasttook one and a half hours. the food was fine, tasty and well-presented. the person who appeared to be in charge significantly reduced the bill and we got an apology from the waitress. judging by other comments on the website our experience may just have been "a bad day at the office". we will probably give this cafe another try, but the eating out experience is not just about the quality of the food.