This eatery was recommended highly for breakfast.
So my partner and I chose this place over the holidays to enjoy breakfast minus the teenagers.
My scrambled eggs with a hash cake on the side was served tepid. Areas of the eggs was still raw and jelly like, I ate maybe a third of it. The toast was like concrete and obviously pre-toasted and left sitting around for quite some time. Hash cake was a small circle of mashed potato with cumin seeds at I think $4. No garnish in site. Husbands Eggs and toast with bacon was a rather small serving and much the same. Coffee very average. The place was not busy, the service was ok.
For all the wonderful breakfast places we have in our area we will definitely not be going back here.

I used to visit this place quite regularly as it was an excellent reliable cafe under previous ownership. However I visited again this week with a friend for coffee and cake and was disappointed at the service. On entering the cafe, a woman staff member stopped us inside the door and told us to take a seat. I told her i wanted to look at the cabinet food/cake, but she said “no sit down there isn’t any”. She said someone would come and serve us shortly. So we duly sat down at an outdoor table. And waited, and waited and waited. About 10 to 15 minutes later a waitress came to us, handed us menus and went to walk away. I asked her if we could order coffee, and she took our coffee order. I would have thought people who had arrived at a cafe and had been seated might like coffee first up? The coffee arrived and it was great coffee. My friend ordered the salami sandwich. About half an hour later a waitress finally re appeared to take our cups and upon enquiring where the sandwich was went back inside. About another 5-10 mins later the sandwich finally arrived. It wasn’t toasted, and nothing was cooked so why it took about 40 minutes is beyond me. Another coffee by this time was desired, so i finally flagged down our disinterested waitress. The service here has taken an appalling dive, on a day where there weren’t an abundance of customers the wait for both service and the sandwich were painfully slow. I was happy to order from the counter (which would have been ten times quicker) but the waitress wasn’t having a bar of it and insisted we would be served at the table. Seriously if you insist that, then serve your customers! Disappointing their cabinet food hadn’t arrived for sale that day but i guess on the 3rd January you can’t expect everything. Serving customers is a super important part of the business. And here its severely lacking. Maybe it was just the day we were here the staff were in holiday mode and not too keen on working, who knows, but i’m not racing back there to find out if this is just a glitch or the way things are at Jafa now. There are too many other good cafes out there in competition that I can go to

One of my top places to go for breakfast or lunch. The menu gives you options as to what one needs. I frequently visit this place, and always, great food. The coffee is great, the portions are generous. One can not notice the effort that goes into presentation and cooking the food to perfection. The staff are attentive and efficient. Great atmosphere.

Great food, Ive been coming here since I moved to the area – have never ever been let down with the meals. The only gripe is that its a large place and sometimes you can really wait a bit too long on a Saturday.
Great service, great coffee and theres always a paper to read whilst you wait.
My favourite meals are the feta & cumin potato cakes with hollandaise or the stick black rice with fruit salad. Both amazing!

Brilliant service. Amazing food and coffee. Great atmosphere. Ideal for inner city weekend brunches off the Ponsonby strip. AWESOME.

Have eaten at Jaffa at least 10 times in the past year – recommend the Espresso milk shake – it’s to die for.

Fun, close by and my girlfriends love it as a “Pearl” the fashion shop is just next door

It looks small from the outside, but it’s a nice roomy place with a small outdoor deck area and I do mean SMALL! Inside the cafe is really nicely decorated and clean with art decorating the walls and a large slap table in a lower section.

The breakfast was great, all very nice. The bacon incredibly so. Coffee was good, but we had to remind the waiter that we had ordered coffee – although in their defence, they gave our drinks for free. Eggs were perfectly well done and the plate nicely presented.

Staff very friendly and its a busy and vibrant place. Highly recommended.