Pastry: Three layers of tightly baked but dry pastry 5.5/10
Presentation: Notably white and heavily dusted 5/10
Value for money: $6.90 - Medium portion size, Stupidly priced 5/10
Overall score: 5/10
I ordered two dairy free babyccinos, a latte and a vanilla slice for me and a caramel slice for Mrs B when she got home for $21 - steep. It didn’t occur to me to check the receipt until I got home, but I was charged $8 for two babyccinos which is daylight robbery. To compound things further, the milk was heated far too hot and my daughter burnt herself.
To review the vanilla slice is quite straight forward. Cream and cardboard pastry. The filling turned out to be nothing more than sweetened sticky cream slopped between three tight layers of pastry which though was fresh, lacked flavour, richness and flake. Consuming with a cake fork was the only sensible method, but even the fork struggled to break down the concrete sheets. I feel that for the price and the promise of homemade components all baked on site the end product was rather unrefined and lacking in quality. As a footnote, Mrs B evaluated the caramel slice as one of the best she’s had.