Reviews by peterm66

This review is for Caffe Moretti, Leichhardt NSW

verified email - 10 Apr 2016

Moretti is fairly new in Norton Street and is always full. Very nice little place next to the cinema where the bookshop used to be. I miss the bookshop. My daughter did work experience there and recommends it. I recommend it too. Whatever you order it is excellent. The service is fast and good quality. My only negative thing is that it is quite expensive. Steak on its own is $36 and most pizzas over $20. The pasta dishes are big and reasonably priced at $20. A very pleasant experience.

Approximate cost: $20

This review is for 14 Manning, Kiama NSW

verified email - 29 Jan 2016

Excellent coffee, excellent food, excellent service and they provide umbrellas on a wet day if you need to walk home! This place is always busy so go early or later in the day. The service and conversations about food and coffee are excellent. Well worth the visit and sitting inside or outside just watching the world go buy.

Approximate cost: $4

This review is for My Chocolate Shoppe, Kiama NSW

verified email - 29 Jan 2016

A very nice place to drop in and have a coffee especially in the morning when it's not too busy. Excellent coffee and service and the chocolate is out of this world!

Approximate cost: $4

This review is for Centrepoint Pizza, Kiama NSW

verified email - 29 Jan 2016

The only down side to this wonderful pizza place is that it is very popular and, therefore, you wait a long time. However, on a rainy Friday night in January I had no issue sitting, waiting and watching the action in the kitchen and the production of so many pizzas! They deliver, do takeaway and have a restaurant there too. Apart from Domino's, i think this is the only place that does pizzas in Kiama. In future, I think I would "plan" my evening around the waiting time. Forty minutes was long to wait but entertaining and the pizza was quite good.

Approximate cost: $14

This review is for Arome Living, Petersham NSW

verified email - 24 Dec 2015

SAD DAY! This most fantastic business closed today at 4PM for ever. Maria and Maria and Helen have given us a community place to meet, eat and have coffee stress free. There is nowhere else like it. After eight years they are going. SAD DAY!

Approximate cost: $3.50

This review is for The Little Marionette, Annandale NSW

verified email - 30 Oct 2015

This is the place to come for a really good coffee, excellent service, simple tasty food AND if it's not busy: sit and relax on the couch in the small book/library room. You have to go there to understand it. Open 'till 4 when the prices are reduced on the more sugary items! It is hidden away in Annandal so you need to look hard to find it.

Approximate cost: $3.50

This review is for The Pig And Pastry, Petersham NSW

verified email - 29 Jun 2015

Excellent food, pastries in particular, plus excellent coffee and despite being packed out, the service is still fast and with a smile! My daughter and friend went there ar 9.40AM yesterday (Sunday) and were in a hurry. The place was full so they opted for two takeaways. They were served and outside by 9.55! How's that for service. Bacon and egg, vegetable pancakes and a coffee for less than $25. First class. However, you are not discouraged from sitting inside or outside to pass the time away even if they are busy. They are never in a hurry.

Approximate cost: $15

This review is for BIG4 EASTS BEACH HOLIDAY PARK, Kiama NSW

verified email - 09 Mar 2015

East Beach is a most fantastic place to stay be it in a cabin, caravan, motor home, tent or whatever. Fantastic facilities, pool, small cafe, the sea and Kiama is not far away. PARADISE. Until my wife arrived on Friday 6th.March. She was refused her booking as the voucher was not in her name! Our neighbour, Allan, is oldish and doesn;t camp. The voucher was of no use to him and he kindly gave it to us. No problem or issue when the booking was made. My wife rang me in Sydney at 8PM on Friday to explain they needed to speak to Allan. I had to wake him and his wife up. They are oldish and go to bed early. They were not too happy and it appears the lady at East Beach was not very professional over the 'phone to Allan. Yes, all was well but this is not the way to treat people.We suspect they wanted not to honour the voucher so they could keep the $200!!! Not a good start to a fantastic weekend. I went down on Saturday and we had the most wonderful weekend possible despite the bad start. Beware when booking.

Approximate cost: $200

This review is for AMIGOS, Wollongong NSW

verified email - 04 Feb 2015

I thought it was strange to be invited to this rstaurant on a Tuesday evening rather than a Friday or Saturday. It appears that you must book weeks in advance even for a Tuesday night! That also explained why the table wasn't ready at 8PM as they do two sittings.
When the table was ready I had the most stupidest of arguments with the waitress over a chair. We were a chair short on the table and she wouldn;t give us a chair or let me get one. She said there were enough chairs for the table as we'd booked for nineteen and were only getting nineteen chairs. She was right but it did not put me in the right mood for dining.
Beware of the smokers and the smoke. They smoke everywhere!
Apart from a bad beginning and the smokers the food was excellent and good value and served fairly quickly. We were nineteen at table and it was difficult to serve everybody at the same time. They did their best and we were very happy. The tacos were large and full of good things, the natchos exceptionally large and all the other dishes looked really good. Natchos $25, Tacos $3 each on a Tuesday otherwise $7. All very reasonable plus child portions as well.
The evening was very enjoyable and had to finish with another discussion with the waitress. We had the bill but needed to check everything with a menu. She gave me the menu but pointed out that we didn't need a menu as all the prices were quoted on the bill. Sure! That's what we wanted to check on!
Yes, I loved the place and the evening and would go again.

Approximate cost: $10-$30

This review is for Brighton The Corner, Petersham NSW

verified email - 02 Feb 2015

This has very good reviews on various GOOGLE sites. We visited when it first opened and were delighted despite teething problems and no EFPOS. Weeks later everything seems to be on track.
It is not the regular cafe food and is very reasonably priced. We had a very nice dish with huge mushrooms, kale and lots of other things with bacon. Exceptionally different and pleasantly successful. Just about all their food is made there particularly the pastries. Don't go during peak times! Go early or late but be careful as they close as soon as everybody has gone! On Saturday we were the last in and they cooked especially for us and re-ignited the coffee machine to make us their excellent coffee. Service was fast, food quality excellent.

Approximate cost: $18