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Plantation CAFE
Shop 3, International Business Gateway, 6th Rd, Midridge Park, Midrand, 1685, South Africa
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Pi
Review №1

Overall experience was below average.Our work team went out for a celebration and the booking was made however they were not prepared.The drinks was exceptional. The steelworks was the best I have ever had.The food and service however was below par. Our work team mostly ordered pizzas because of a pizza special only to be told there was not enough pizza bases.Everyone ordered pizzas containing 2 toppings pizzas as stipulated by special only to discover you had to order special with pineapple and ham instead of Hawaiian to get the special.Other than that a colleague returned the lamb burger because it tasted funny.My beef burger was good and chips was crispy.The special debacle however ruined the whole experience. Sadly we will not be returning to this venue for the next events.

Ca
Review №2

Every course cooked to absolute perfection. Cocktails were divine. Definitely going back for more.

An
Review №3

The worst service witnessed in my entire life.- Reservation wasn’t made as requested- Reservation details missed as a result- Was informed 10mins after order was madethat they don’t have enough pizza bases sosome had to change their order.- Those who got pizza had to pay full pricebecause no one said “we want the pizzaspecial” even though our pizza met the specialcriteria.- One of us that couldn’t order a pizza ordered alamb burger only to find that the patty wasorange in color, had a soy taste and raw.- They brought an extra pizza that no oneordered.- Some of us had extra drinks on their slip thatwas never ordered.- Staff is rudeThe best part is that we were the only customers. This place doesn’t deserve any business. An absolute circus!

We
Review №4

Convenient location for business meetings, or a quick lunch. Nicely placed in the middle of Sandton and Pretoria. Service is good and have a nice menu. There is a kiddies play area to keep the kids busy, with outdoor seating. The place is split into a coffee shop like area and a restaurant area. Think the toilets can get a refresh.

Ph
Review №5

If you are looking for somewhere where you can kick back, where you get almost all your orders wrong, where friendliness goes to die and where there is hidden clauses to the specials, then this is the place for you!!!Advice to anyone planning to go there. Rather ask you dead house plant to make you some food and you will give that a 5 stars rating compared to this excuse of a restaurant.

Th
Review №6

We got the best service, and all the covid 19 rules were followed, there were sanitizers every where n they. Made sure people maintain social distancing

An
Review №7

Fun place its good to chill the food Is nice

Kh
Review №8

Need more warmth, looks dull, idea is great though. Great location. I dont know really, I think its good for drinks . Outside is better. Food Im not sure

Gi
Review №9

Had a very wonderful time. Very professional waiters

Ti
Review №10

The restaurant has good potential and is a nice place to get a drink from the bar. However the staff was rude and the waitress was very confused. The food was also below par and the so called pizza special they had with 2 toppings is misleading because you have to say I want a pizza with bacon and pineapple and not a Hawaiian. Last time I checked a bacon and pineapple pizza is 2 toppings and is called a Hawaiian.

Nk
Review №11

Great atmosphere, especially with the live band on Sundays. Decent food and great hosts

DA
Review №12

It was great its a nice place to be

Sh
Review №13

Cool atmosphere, friendly staff

Si
Review №14

Avoid this place by ALL means necessary. Just bought 2 pizza and they gave me a base with cheese and NO Toppings. Iam so disappointed 😭😭😭. AVOID AVOID AVOID!!!!

Fe
Review №15

Best place for hosting any event. Great customer (staff) service, excellent work ethic. Food, is to die FOR... 😁

Le
Review №16

Very chilled place to hang out or do a special event. The food is okay and affordable, I love the comedy shows hosted by Tebogo N, makes the place blow

Mi
Review №17

Great traditional food...

Ce
Review №18

Good vibe Im looking forward to come back

Di
Review №19

The most horrific experience we have had. Service was bad, the waitor made us wait over an hour for our food which was not up to standard. As we left the staff members were sleeping on the couches - talk about bad etiquette

Am
Review №20

An awesome night out....and the food 💕

Ja
Review №21

Great coffee and nice food, just surprisingly quite.

Na
Review №22

Excellent atmosphere, great service and delicious food

Mu
Review №23

Good food. Lovely Happy Hour 😀

Je
Review №24

Amazing food, great venue for events but doesnt feel like a restaurant. Also better off sitting outside, inside feels old and dirty.

Ro
Review №25

Poor service as well as food served on plates that loses paint when you cut. I have never been this nervous eating pizza.

Ca
Review №26

Will definitely be returning. Awesome vibe, great service!

Ts
Review №27

Great place to host an event. You have various areas to choose from for your private event of any size. The staff is really friendly and attentive. Their platters where a little pricey and their juice as well (R120 for 1litre of juice).

Ch
Review №28

I order a freezo and a capri pizza today. It was terrible!! I found hair in both of my drinks and it was tasting like someone use something that wasnt cleaning to do the drinks. And do not let me start with the pizza. It was horrible. I am extremely disappointed

So
Review №29

Great service from Ralph

Kg
Review №30

Had an awesome experienceThe place is chilled, the food was good, the customer service even better!

So
Review №31

Beautiful Place For Events and Good Customers Care..

My
Review №32

DO NOT EAT THEIR FOOD... If i could SAY zero stars i would, the food gave me the runnies all night n borderline food poisoning which makes me question their food practices

Pu
Review №33

Only rating 1 because theres no zero rating. I had the worst experience ever. The owner watches you all the time to make sure you dont eat anything that you did not buy from the store. Thimey communicated that we cant eat our own cupcakes and stuff, were adults we understood that. But for them to keep checking up on us was creepy and made the whole experience uncomfortable.

Le
Review №34

Nice atmosphere and music. New staff need to be trained better otherwise staff is quite friendly. Food is average but well priced.

Ro
Review №35

Good music. Loved the vibe too. Its a great go to place for chilling

Od
Review №36

Great party spot. Small and good for group night outs. Great house music in the evening with the DJ playing vinyls sometimes. Dont drink and drive, cops just outside the venue.

Fr
Review №37

So nice food nice vibe. When the secure parking is full, rather choose another restaurant as the outside parking is not safe. Tried and tested. Now i have zero sound in my car.

De
Review №38

As a group of nine work friends we made a booking at Plantation Cafe. I dont know why there are so many bad reviews because the waiters were excellent during our lunchtime visit. Our food was on time and the drinks too. Our steaks were slightly more cooked than ordered but not by much. Most of us had the mushroom steak and loved it. Cant fault Plantation and will be back

Af
Review №39

Cool place

KA
Review №40

Excellent service 👍 great 60th birthday party we had😚#Kasistylerocked

Za
Review №41

Great place to have after work drinks on a Friday. Theres even some music to make it even more vibey. However it gets quite loud so not ideal if you like conversations with your mates. The food isnt that bad, had a wrap which wasnt good. But the chips and the platters are quite delicious 😋

Ty
Review №42

Not well organized, not friendly, not great service. And Manager was very rude. Also the food was not the best from a slow kitchen..

Pa
Review №43

Difficult to find any parking. We ordered a pizza amdawhen it came, most of the ingredients on it was still raw. We just very nicely asked if they could cook it a bit better. The manager then arrived and proceeded to argue with me on the ways one should cook a pizza. By that time we just wanted to leave.

Su
Review №44

Twas lit, waiters are very nice

ez
Review №45

If you looking for a quiet place to hang out with your friends This is a place to go. The music and food is good

aH
Review №46

Urg... the food is horrible. service is equally pathetic. If I could make this post with half a star, I would!! Dont waste your time or money here

Ma
Review №47

Good food and good service. But the barman can be unreliable especially with cocktails

Ba
Review №48

Great environment. A little small for events but nice for family lunches.

Ne
Review №49

The food was good but nothing worth what we paid to use the place. We hired this place for a baby shower and it wasnt as great as the pictures make it seem. The staff were good as we were the only ones there.

Ro
Review №50

First time at Plantation - we arrived at about 2:30pm. Very few patrons in the restaurant... it was definitely not during any lunch time rush. Our waiter was pleasant enough. The service from the kitchen was very slow. We were offered chopped chilli and parmesan cheese which came when there were 2 slices of pizza left. One staff member was serving a table next to us while talking on the phone - flabbergasted! The food was just ok. We in no hurry to go back.Lastly, some kind of uniform (branded t-shirts at least) for the staff would go a long way in creating a professional look.

Ro
Review №51

Nice hang out with music, drinks and traditional food in one place. Mature crowd too!

Th
Review №52

Very good hospitality.....

Re
Review №53

My very 1st time going there & wow, I had the best night ever. The music was loud but interesting, food was delish, the staff attended to us in a very satisfactory manner, the reception was warm & I was happy to security guard standby & ready for anything. I wish to go back there in the near future👌👌👌

sb
Review №54

The menu is good on paper

Kh
Review №55

It has very nice deco inside. The food is okay. The staff was nice. The prices were reasonable

Di
Review №56

A funtastic chilling place, had a wonderful time on my birthday despite reserving a table in the last minutes. Their platters are delicious

Vu
Review №57

That buy one get one free special did the most during our visit here. DJ played some nice tunes

Ci
Review №58

Good food, great prices and a nice atmosphere.

Ch
Review №59

Awesome food and cocktails. Friendly fast service.

Sa
Review №60

Cool vibe tho Im not sure that they actually manage their buy one get one free as well as they say that they do

Se
Review №61

Bread was hard, waitress didnt remember anybodys order... got 1 order wrong. Table wasnt clean... neither was the cutlery. I could so better all by myself

Pe
Review №62

Had a lovely time @plantationcafe. Great Pizzas and awesome vibe

Ma
Review №63

Attended a baby shower there and it seemed nice enough. I Just felt like there were too many parties going on at the same time very close to each other.

ro
Review №64

Great place to have birthday parties and such events.Its especially wonderful for saturday lunch

Od
Review №65

Our experience was not very pleasant. We had booked and paid (We were initially told the venue hire is free, then we were expected to pay) for our venue more than a month in advance and the venue lost all the information we had given them , twice, in respect of our menus, times and advertising on their website.They removed the furniture we had booked with the venue, lost our menus, bullied us out of our scheduled time and had another group interrupt our event to set up their props while we were still in the middle of our speakers presenting.We felt bullied and treated with great prejudice. We wont be using them again!!!! We have made the same recommendation to our network of 1000 consultants.

sh
Review №66

Loved it

Si
Review №67

The kids area was booked for a party my kids were not allowed go and play..... dissapointing. The food was delicious

mp
Review №68

Food is yeg, service is extremely poor. Waiters are boring and dont know what they doing, waitress extremely rude. Very poor service

Mz
Review №69

Food was amazing and the place is very welcoming and cosy. Definitely will go back

Je
Review №70

I gave them two stars just out of common courtesy, food was awful and they served us mouldy cheese..the service was fine but thats only due to their being only two tables in the whole restaurant to serve. Dont eat here!!!

An
Review №71

To pay R64 for a small flattened chicken breast and about 10 chips is pathetic!!!! Definately wont refer anyone here and definitely wont ever go back there.

Ci
Review №72

Great location and ambiance,but the food...

Fa
Review №73

Place seemed unkept... kids area had opened dirty bins which attracted flies and swings were broken. The place was empty, but the food took forever to arrive... The service was slow and disappointing.. will not go back there.

Re
Review №74

The food is amazing, all traditional food you can ever ask for you will get

De
Review №75

Great place very relaxing and good service also great place for business meetings

Jo
Review №76

Good Food, Great Service ... Amazing atmosphere ❤

Le
Review №77

Food was ok, theres room for improvement. Service was slow. Not happy with management where booking for a large group is concerned

Ot
Review №78

Nice chill out place.Waiters and manager are very friendly.Every Monday and Thursday theres a popup catering @ndashFoodConcepts which sells amazing African cuisine food.

Mb
Review №79

The service here was horrible. We came in on a Wednesday afternoon during our lunch hour. My friend ordered a steak and instead of letting us know that they don’t have steak, they made us wait for over 45 minutes before telling us. We ended up taking our food as takeaway and all they could do was apologize and offer an extra free drink and when I declined, charged me for the initial drinks I bought. The restaurant wasn’t busy at all, but it was still a rarity to see our waiter and we had to wait a long time to flag him down because he didn’t come around to our section after taking our orders. I paid for a restaurant experience and had to end up eating my food in the car. I’ll never go back (which is saying something since I work at the international business gateway). Save yourself time and go somewhere else.

Nk
Review №80

Great food, great atmosphere and central location

Jo
Review №81

This place has the slowest service Ive seen in a long time. The food is not bad but the plates are worn and I swear it looks like they spray painted it, because some of the paint came of when I cut into my dish.

Bl
Review №82

This is a great place to chill with friends, very relaxed, good crowed of people who understand themselves

Bo
Review №83

Lovely atmosphere and great food

Si
Review №84

They play great music, place has a chilled vibe and ample parking. There were flies all over our food and that was a major turnoff.

Kh
Review №85

The vibe is good but the place is congested inside.

Go
Review №86

Great hangout place, Radial MCC clubhouse, the food by Ndash food concepts is the best traditional food in Jozi

Co
Review №87

Good place to have some beers after work. Service could be better.

Ch
Review №88

Average. Beware their website has been hacked in case you need a menu. This has been reported but it hasnt been fixed.

Nu
Review №89

Tasty food and great staff

se
Review №90

You can have parties at this place and is in a convenient area as is next to the highway

Bo
Review №91

This place is a haven for thieves. The staff is involved in the syndicate that breaks into your car while their colleagues serve you inside.

Ke
Review №92

We had the worst service there. We were the only people in the restaurant and the staff didnt pay much attention to us, even street multiple requests to get their attention.Upon arrival we were told the kitchen would be closing shortly after having pre-booked and not told that the time we wanted was too late. Once our orders we placed we were then told it would take 40 minutes for our food to be ready, only it took 1 hour and 20 minutes.The waitress didnt even come check on us without us having to call her first!

Ti
Review №93

Not enough parking. Uncomfortable seats. But a good private venue.

Ki
Review №94

Tried the “African cuisine” - terrible food; complete waste of time and money!

Di
Review №95

I ordered my so Called Wood Fired Pizza, and I got a pizza that was cold ultra thin base with minimum toppings, Never going back there neither will I recommend this place for Pizza

Di
Review №96

Food and service was great on point plus play area for kids my son had a blast..

Ko
Review №97

The food was amazing 😋😋 the vibe was good the staff was friendly but need to be more active, the experience was great.

Mp
Review №98

Nice chill spot. The Thursday African Cuisine pop us is amazing as well.

mi
Review №99

Ppl have always been taking of news cafe,n bar 9...only because u`v never been to this place,trust me no place turns it up lyk this place plantation cafe aka komkokotlong ....it also includes our SA traditional meals e.g. muhodu,amangqina,amahutwana,udombolo,pap,lomqushu.....join us today n u`ll never feel lyk going home.

Si
Review №100

Awesome food and service

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  • Address:Shop 3, International Business Gateway, 6th Rd, Midridge Park, Midrand, 1685, South Africa
  • Site:http://www.plantationcafe.co.za/
  • Phone:+27 11 318 0401
Categories
  • Coffee shop
  • Cafe
Working hours
  • Monday:9AM–11PM
  • Tuesday:8AM–11PM
  • Wednesday:8AM–9PM
  • Thursday:8AM–9PM
  • Friday:8AM–9PM
  • Saturday:8AM–9PM
  • Sunday:8AM–11:30PM
From the business
  • Identifies as women-led:Yes
Service options
  • Outdoor seating:Yes
  • Delivery:Yes
  • Takeaway:Yes
  • Dine-in:Yes
Highlights
  • Live music:Yes
  • Live performances:Yes
  • Sport:Yes
Accessibility
  • Wheelchair-accessible entrance:Yes
  • Wheelchair-accessible seating:Yes
Offerings
  • Alcohol:Yes
  • Beer:Yes
  • Cocktails:Yes
  • Coffee:Yes
  • Happy-hour drinks:Yes
  • Happy-hour food:Yes
  • Kids' menu:Yes
  • Late-night food:Yes
  • Prepared foods:Yes
  • Spirits:Yes
  • Vegetarian options:Yes
  • Wine:Yes
Dining options
  • Breakfast:Yes
  • Lunch:Yes
  • Dinner:Yes
  • Catering:Yes
  • Dessert:Yes
  • Seating:Yes
Amenities
  • Bar on site:Yes
  • Good for kids:Yes
  • High chairs:Yes
  • Toilets:Yes
Atmosphere
  • Casual:Yes
  • Cosy:Yes
Crowd
  • Family friendly:Yes
  • Groups:Yes
Payments
  • Cash only:Yes
  • Debit cards:Yes
  • NFC mobile payments:Yes
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