Cafe Botannix - Hillcrest New Zealand

Went for a late afternoon coffee with a friend. The cabinet food and cakes looked great. There was a good variety not the normal run of cakes and slices. We shared a piece of ginger, caramel and macadamia slice very yummy. The coffee was OK would of liked it hotter as I ordered it extra hot but well made.Nice surrounding, outdoor in the garden centre with the fire to keep it cosy.

My friend and I came here on a grab one voucher spending $15 for one voucher and in return having $30 to spend..I bought 2<br/ <br/ Our hot chocolates were nice only thing is they weren't hot enough<br/ <br/ I got the big breakfast pretty much the works and it was the best breakfast I've had from any cafe/restaurant<br/ Everything cooked perfectly and tasted absolutely beautiful!! 5stars for just my meal.<br/ <br/ My friend got the salmon and she enjoyed it thoroughly..we wanted to reverse time just to do eat again lol sadly that's a bit unrealistic!<br/ <br/ The service we received was delightful and felt looked after not hurried no one was rude to us everything you'd want when dining out.<br/ <br/ We also ordered the crepes this let my friend down as the mascarpone tasted off to her but to me it tasted alright. Different taste buds I suppose. We told our waiter and he talked to the chefs and came back saying it wasn't off or anything like that.<br/ <br/ We would never have had come here if we didn't have the grab one vouchers as it is not in our price range maybe for a special occasion though. My breakfast meal cost $20 and hers $18, the crepes $17, plus our hot chocolates $4.40 each..(I just paid the difference as this is over $60).<br/ <br/ Purely based on the breakfast (not including crepes) would have scored 5 but other factors to consider affected my scoring just as cost hot chocolates, my friends opinion etc.<br/ <br/

Good food and amazing coffee.. definitely great place to visit.. good improvisation since my last visit to this place.. i would recommend give it go.. <br/

We will definitely return again. Good atmosphere. And family friendly as we have a young boy. High chair was reasonably clean. I ordered their pasta salad and it was good. My husband ordered from the menu (I can't remember exactly what) it was good too. If we have to pick, the only thing would be the serving size seems to be quite small but to be fair we were quite hungry today, so could be that too. In saying that we would still go back again.

Celia is an amazing host, I had a wonderful time there.