One of my favourite cafes in Hamilton. And once again they didn’t disappoint. Coffee is excellent. Food consistently delicious and their prices are fair. Service friendly and it’s exciting to see that they are expanding their premises. One of the things I like the best about Firepot is the wee shop they fill with quirky and interesting things to buy. I usually can’t escape without buying something. I will definately be back.

Like this place, coffee is good but iced chocolate is great. Tried the kumera and chicken salad – only thing is the salad ends up warm and wilted under the warm/hot chicken…Would go back to try something else.

Fantastic breakfast after dropping teenagers off to the Parachute Festival. Great friendly service and excellent food and coffee. Lots of parking space, lots of decor things to look at. Best quiche my mum has ever had (and she is fussy). Fantastic Eggs Benedict with Salmon.

Went there today with the flatmates for a Waitangi Day outting.
Right from the start the staff were friendly, efficient and useful.
Good coffees came out not long after ordering.
Food came out very fast also & was delicious!!
There was a lot of table envy amongst us every different dish we ordered looked good.
Decor was very nice also.

Definitely will be back! Thanks Firepot!

I held my mum’s 50th birthday dinner here. The food was amazing!! Big portions which was fantastic. The staff were amazing and so helpful.Reasonable prices. When the food came to the tables it was hot,fresh and so tasty.I can’t not say enough on Fire Pot cafe,I will diffidently be returning. So thank you Fire Pot cafe for the enjoyable evening is was great. A++++++

Went here about a month ago when my mum was up from Wellington. Looking to book again and found this web page – nice to be able to review!

We descended with family from Cambridge & Hamilton and had a great night. The age range was from 82 – 3 yrs old and as a mum, with children, it was a lovely meal for me (Salmon) and the children were ecstatic with the goodie bag with activities and treats that came with their meals! Adults were eyeing up the kids desserts.

Staff were attentive without being in our face and they handled the mix of payment options with ease (vouchers, split bill etc)

Will be heading there again in a few weeks so may write it up again! Have popped in for coffee often and they are always lovely and awesome food – this review is about their dinner which apparently is only avail on Fridays…

The Firepot clearly has aspirations and is trying hard, but doesn’t quite meet the mark. The main problem is that the dishes don’t quite match up to the descriptions. Presentation of the dishes is a secondary problem, and given that the prices are right up there for the Waikato region I would expect that the plates would look quite a bit more appetizing.

For example: the crispy-skinned salmon doesn’t have crispy skin. The meat of the salmon is great and cooked just right, but no crispy skin–so why put that in the description? The mushroom fettuccine tasted ok, but the pasta was not fettuccine (and the presentation really let this dish down as well, tasted fine but looked like brown sludge). The tapas platter turned out to consist entirely of deep fried items and everything looked the same (not exactly a feast for the eyes). The Thai Salad looked and tasted more like a Kiwi’s attempt at an Asian-tasting coleslaw, and had tinned fried noodles mixed in–how 1980s!

As I say, everything tasted ok, just not what was expected and most of it didn’t have eye appeal. Very average and at the price, we were expecting something above average (or at the least, that the dishes should match the descriptions).

I deducted a star because of a bad experience in attempting to use a 2-for-1 voucher. I phoned to make a reservation, they stated that I could book a table for the evening, then when I added that I had a voucher they stated that we couldn’t eat there that night after all! Very, very bad form for the Firepot to decide not to honor the conditions of their own vouchers; if they’d wanted to limit the number of vouchers used in a given evening then they should have added that to the conditions when I purchased the thing.

So final verdict: average food, poor presentation, extremely poor customer relations.

This Cafe is a delight, not only do they serve excellent food with a smile but when I left my wallet behind in the little gift shop a staff member had it returned to me intact via courier. Thanks to her and the person who found it.
We had stopped for breakfast enroute to Napier, it turned out to be delicious and well worth our stop, coffee is excellent too. We will return without a doubt.

The best lemon muffins ever! and very good coffee, i always stop when passing through.

Went there for the first time on the weekend,found the food very good,staff friendly,even next to the busy main road was no problem, keep up the great work guys, atmosphere was great too.