Shingle Inn Eastgardens

My wife child and i always get a pot of tea with two cups. This is a wording we use after being served an array of variations on tea.
One day I asked for three green teas and got three large pots of green tea for the three of us. Extremely excessive. We got through one.
So when i asked for a pot of tea with two cups i really didnt expect the dialoge we got.
Words to the effect of
Cafe: No we dont give two cups
patron: you serve tea in a cup or in a pot?
Cafe: in a pot
Patron: then i want a pot of tea in two cups
Cafe: we dont do that. You can have a glass not a cup
Patron: just give me one tea then.

So the tea comes out and i ask the individual waiter for an extra cup. The 'manager' hears this and slams an extra cup on the table.

Apart from the congregation of food outlets on the one side of the centre, there are clusters of cafes and outlets all around Westfield Eastgardens that gives different angles of enjoyment in this classic-feeling shopping centre.

Shingle Inn is one of those, setting itself in a smallish shop with seats overflowing to the centre's atrium walkway right across the store. I personally don't like this type of seating arrangement, as you feel like sitting right in the middle of people walking about their ...read more

Another cafe in the cluttered array of cafe chains that litter the Australian landscape. So I ventured into Shingle Inn and when I walked out, I almost got the Shingles due to lack of creativity, no u.s.p underwhelming staff and really did the right thing and gave them a go, but now that I have I won't be back. Coffee was creamy in texture rather than strong or flavoursome. Cafe was noisy with staff attitude rather than buzzing with the next great novel or a muso writing their next hit. Cake tasted old and dry and if I could be bothered it should have been returned, but I feel the staff was more interested in going home for the day vs worrying about quality and food service.



It's still not the worse cafe in Eastgardens. But try any of the other franchises for a cheaper, better coffee and entire cafe experience.