I am a sucker for mince on toast for breakfast (Rudy Red’s has an egg on top). That along with good service and coffee is 4 stars.

Hunt this place out if you want to have a Sunday breakfast in a different location.

Real local feel, great food and great coffee (if perhaps a little pricey). Recommend the French Brioche.

Great coffee, cute place, obliging staff and very, very nice food. The quality is just great, and they use top grade, fresh ingredients. I skip Onehunga/Royal Oak completely to come here and it’s worth it every time. Getting a bit busy now though, so maybe I shouldn’t rate it so highly..hmmm. At the end of the day, there’s a reason as to why it’s rated as one of Auckland’s Best Suburban Cafes.

Really enjoyed the food and service, would quite happily go back again and recommend it to friends!

Well worth going too!

I love this cafe … the food, the kids area out the back, the staff are awesome and really helpful and the food is quality and not expensive. Recommend!!!

After reading a very positive review decided to try Ruby Red cafe for breakfast with friends. Service was good, person at the front very friendly and welcoming. Not much variety to choose from on the breakfast menu.

I ordered Eggs Benedict. Very nice, quite steep in price – $17. Big breakfast is $18 – have had better at a cafe further down, and it was cheaper too.

Our friends do not eat bread or meat, so asked for an omelet instead. Unfortunately they don’t do omelets here. So scrambled eggs, mushrooms and tomatoes it was. A busy morning so the wait was understandably long. Our friends received their scrambled eggs with toast. Instead of taking the toast away, they took both plates away again, and after another 15min wait scrambled eggs appeared and were burnt (there were black pieces on their plates) and was very watery. Very disappointing.

Thanks for the experience Ruby Red Cafe, but we most definitely won’t be coming back again if we want value for money.

Mangere Bridge is an excellent place to wander down for breakfast; a couple of weeks ago I saw ‘Ruby Red’ and with a friend, tried scrambled egg, I wanted light scrambled egg and the chef knew exactly how I would like them; I have been back three times for the same. Coffee is a bonus too as is the service; In my view Ruby Red Cafe is about quality and not quantity. Guess what, heading back tomorrow with another friend! will I try something different? watch this space

At last a decent cafe in Mangere Bridge with an obvious appreciation and understanding of what good food should taste like!

I wandered in there this morning after having my usual cheap n cheerful eggs on toast at a cafe next door, just to have a look as ‘Ruby Red’ has only been open for two weeks.
The food looked delicious and I could not resist taking away a Lemon Slice, and a couple of Melting Moments and Belgian Biscuits.
(for my workmates of course!)

I ate the Lemon Slice as I drove (I’m pretty sure that’s not illegal yet)
It tasted like REAL food. It was buttery and lemony, the texture was perfect.
The girls I work with just sampled the other treats and declared them very yummy.
“Totally worth the calorie content!”

I’ll be going back there to try out their breakfast menu.