The Bach Alehouse & Cafe – https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bach-Ale-House-And-Cafe/136699546409049?fref=ts
Reviewed by Fi Fi – July 2015
The Place:
This cafe is in the domestic airport and cleverly positioned on the way to the gates. You can stop and have a bite to eat from the cabinet food or order pizza or a menu including Eggs Benedict. You can grab a coffee or beverages of every description. There is plenty of seating inside the cafe but if you want gourmet then this is not the place to dine.
The Service:
The service is way below average and I feel that some of our cafes including this one need to employ staff that actually want to work in customer service. I do hope that not too many of our tourists come to this cafe and think that the rest of NZ cafes have this lack of customer service.
The presentation:
The food was kind of slapped on the plate and did not look that appealing.
- The Montreal – this was not the best Montreal I have tasted.
- The eggs – were overdone and sadly not very runny.
- The salmon – was okay but not quite enough.
- The spinach – was soggy and watery.
- The hollandaise – was straight out of the bottle, bland and blah!
- The muffins – were okay.
- The hash brown – was okay, but it was a bit tasteless.
Would we go again?
If I was at the airport at breakfast time I would probably just go to the Mackers actually.
Scorecard:
Style: Classic 5/10.
Taste: 3/10. The meal was bland and tasteless.
Originality: 4/10 – Nothing special here.
Value: 7/10. Both the Benedict (bacon) and Montreal (salmon) came with a wee bit of spinach which was nice. They were both $15.50 which is reasonable. The sides were $3-$4.50 I believe but cannot confirm.
Eggs: (how good they were): 3/10.
Overall score: 4/10
Domestic Terminal, 2 Andrew Mckee Ave, Auckland Airport