Element Cafe & Bistro
Cuisine: Cafe, A La Carte, Bistro, New Zealand
Wanganui Central
Wanganui District 06-345 7028
Hours:
- Mon – Sun
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Facilities/Features:
- Wedding Functions
- Price Range: Spendy, $25 - $35
Element Cafe & Restaurant offers modern cuisine, delicious coffee and stylist surroundings.
Our efficient friendly staff, combined with our experienced chefs will go that extra mile to see that you and your family have a day they can truly treasure.
We have individual spaces to cater for groups from 10 to 200, with menus custom-designed to fit your specific requirements. Buffet or set menu options are available. We also create wedding cakes for your special day.
KP said: "Fantastic venue with food and service to match. Extremely well priced with a great selection. A credit to the owners and the team . …" read more »
19 Reviews for Element Cafe & Bistro
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It always delivers and excellent standard, the Staff are friendly, helpful and trained well in Hospitality.
I can say it is the only place, where I have not had a single Coffee that I have not enjoyed. The Food is imaginative, beautifully presented, they have an excellent Menu, a Brilliant Breakfast Menu, this is why I recommend Tourists to Elements. I would like to add that I have had my own Cafe, also worked for many others, I was trained as a Barista, so feel confident that my Review, is one that can be taken seriously.
There simply isn’t anything as good.
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Have just finished the best slice of lime cheesecake I have ever had!
Keep it up elements – you deserve to do well.
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We were offered 2 cold meat plates – ham and another meat. A selection of 6 – 8 cold and one or two luke warm salads – including some half cooked and near raw vegetables. Desert consisted of a selection of cut pieces of fruit (melon, apple, strawberries, pineapple, orange – along with small squares of cheescake and one or two other similar squares.
Coffee was an addition charge at the end of the meal. I found the selection of food for such an occasion to be totally inappropiate. Older people as well as the very young can not cope with near raw vegetables. Perhaps the days of a “buffet” meal where various hot roast meats, hot roast veges greens etc plus casseroles of varying meats with rice (for entrees) plus a salad bar are gone?? Along with desserts including pavlova, trifle, jelly, icecream, brandy snaps etc etc are gone?? I hope not.
Value for money at “Elements” 1/10. Ask what you will get for your money before committing to a booking.
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The atmosphere was cold and uninviting also.But I will say we all enjoyed the coffee.
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Round of applause firstly for the excellent building and location, the building screams to onlookers a modern and sophisticated cafe/restaurant, a supreme location for shops and other sight seeing in wanganui.
Walking into Element the georgous decor, lighting, smell of freshly cooking food and minor hustle of people enjoying a lovely meal greets you. A very positive atmosphere for all to enjoy.
Food is immaculately presented inside well lit easy to see cabinets with very reasonable prices compared to the size of the meal! Staff are full of smiles, enthusiastic about their job and very well presented. As for food service, amazing. Fast and efficient, food is brought to the table just after you’ve ordered it. Cooked to PERFECTION and immaculately presented, it is delivered to your table by friendly, well mannered waitressing staff.
10/10 in all areas for such an amazing restaurant/cafe, ELEMENT is definately the place to go.
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Cabinet food looked pretty good and prices were reasonable for these days, however it was rather bland and tasteless, I think I poured half the salt shaker into the rabbit dish I had. This was after I sent it back from being stone cold in the centre – still not hot upon it’s return, but lets face it the unfriendly service didn’t make it easy for a second return, so luke warm it was! The only good thing about my friends Chicken roll – also very under seasoned – was the accompanying chutney.
Decor is austre and cold, as was the ambient temperature. Unclean loos also certainly left a lot to be desired!
Will try it again and see how it goes.
Fingers crossed it’s improved!!!
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Highly recommended!
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it was all down hill from there. The standard of the our set menu left a lot to be desired. What the menu described was certainly not served to the majority of diners. An unacceptable long wait for our main meal and a hideous length of time to get all diners main meals too them. It was embarrassing for those who had received their meals and simply couldn’t wait for all to do served at the table as their meals would be more ruin.
People who had the steak were very happy apart from the 2 sauces seeming to be absent or very scantily served.
The duck, veal, lamb and pork dishes were very disappointing.
The duck dish was very, very small, tough and uninteresting.
One person who had the veal sent it back as it was undercooked and cold.
The lamb was engulfed in a huge amount of pastry which was undercooked on the bottom and did not appear be accompanied with veges or even was given an option of veges. One big blob of pastry and very little in the middle and pastry bottom undercooked, presentation just awful.
The pork curry which I had myself, consisted of huge, thick chunks of pork swimming in a very thin sauce with a few pieces of vegetables and the rice was soggy, cold. I found it inedible and sent it back.
The gnocchi my stepson ordered one could only describe as an appetizer size meal consisted of six small pieces. One person asked for more to be added to the plate. He was still hungry after his meal.
The chocolate pudding was very tasteless, it was stated that my Better Crocker chocolate cake was far better. A very small, strange shaped desert which appeared to have been microwaved. My husband sent it back. Along with the young man opposite him passed his to his mother.
We went back to our motel and I made a up beautiful cheese board at 2330hrs which thank goodness I had brought at a local deli as our stomachs were certainly not happy. A long night. Not again.
Please note, the organiser of our function wrote expressed our issues and complaints with the owners (who weren’t on site on the evening) of Elements . They expressed their regret however felt the needed to defend their chefing team on some issues. I acknowledging their loyalty to their staff, but what about patron satisfaction. Ummmm