Robert Harris Cafe

Amazing place to go have coffee and great food staff freindly and lovely such a lovely cafe

Fabulous venue to stop & rest, catch up with friends, my favourite . Indoor & outdoor seating that also catches the sun on those good days.Super friendly service from all the ladies, great coffee too, recommended to all

It's been awhile since we enjoyed our breakfast this much!! Great coffee and great food! Thanks to the morning staff!!!

Good cafe and probably one of the best in the Hub shopping mall. It will be even better if it had some vegan friendly food options. Almost nothing vegetarian/ vegan to chose from. I don’t know what is about this country that everything has to be around eggs and dairy, but Robert Harris is a chain with locations over town/ South Island so try for corporate to wake up and follow trends in the rest of the world. Coffee is quite good at least there are alternative milk options to chose, service is also very professional and friendly. If you are yea lover there is a selection of few options and it’s a real tea! Must try! Place is order yourself but they bring to your table. It Can get very crowded lunch time but there are some outdoor seats. Overall much better alternative than American cafe on the other side and first choice for coffee / tea in Hub.

Worst experience I've ever had at a cafe. If you're into paying to be abused by staff members probably a great place to visit otherwise I'd give their very average coffee a miss and go elsewhere

Yummy food freshly prepared,Quick and swift service.Relaxing place

Yesterday we had an quick, early lunch at the cafe. Walking in it was obvious to see many of the tables had not been cleared from the diners before. As bar stools and tables do not work for us we had no choice but to sit at a table that had been vacated but not cleared, expecting someone would come over and clean it for us. My food arrived with the table still not cleared and as the waitress turned to walk away we had to ask if she would mind clearing the dishes which we had pushed to the front to enable our food to be put in front of us. She took the plates from my side with no expression or apology, we expected her to come back for the rest and wipe the table at the same time, but she didn't. My husbands food arrived and then she cleared the table, but didn't wipe it down.I apologised to her for asking for the table be cleared as I thought maybe the cafe was short staffed, but she said no.The people next to us left 5 minutes after we started to eat and the table sat with all their dishes on it for almost the whole time we were there. We observed the odd table being cleared but not wiped. People were coming in and looking around to see where they could sit. One lady even cleared her table and got a cloth and wiped down the table herself. All the while we sat and observed the disinterest of the staff walking straight past vacated tables covered with dishes and not clearing them away. They looked like they had tunnel vision to where they were serving and no interest in anything else. We were disgusted watching one staff member spending most of her time talking and laughing with the the Barista. We were wondering who was in charge as there didn't seem to be anyone who was in the remote bit interested in the place.The Owner of this Cafe needs to give his/her staff proper training in the etiquette of running front of house. Staff contribute to any cafe/restaurant experience. They are often the reason people will come back. However, in this instance we will definitely not be frequenting this cafe again. The food was luke warm, the coffee and hot chocolate were quite good.I have read the owners answers to other reviews and suggest the owner take responsibility and interest of his/her cafe and staff. The Robert Harris brand does not want reviews like mine and many others who have written complaint reviews bringing their name down. Don't make excuses for this, fix it. There is nothing worse than placing an order in hope that a clean table will come free by the time you are ready to sit down to find you are in the predicament we found ourselves in yesterday. Grubby cafe, disorganised, disinterested staff all falls back on the person who owns the cafe not paying attention to detail. No photo's, we don't use our phones at the table.

Noisy and expensive. Waitress bumped our table shopping coffee and didn't even apologise. The pastie was lovely.

There are varieties of cooked food in the window, I ordered chicken cheese cranberries bagel, the first bite was very tasty, but it’s a little bit cloying as there are too much cream cheese.

Ordered two large hot chocolates for takeaway thinking I was treating myself and my partner and they tasted like straight warm milk. I’m not even properly barista trained and I could do better. Not worth the price at all.