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Cafe Uno
Editorial ReviewAddress
Shop 4, 4/69 Mitchell Street, Darwin, NT, 800
Contact Details
Phone:
Work (08) 8942 2500
Restaurant Summary
Venue Type:
Restaurant
Cuisine:
Italian
Speciality:
Disabled Facilities, Outdoor Seating, Function Rooms, Licenced, Breakfast
Price:
$4.50
, Main: $4.5 - $28.9
Hours:
Daily 7am-10pm
Editorial Review
Here's one of the biggest and most popular restaurants in the always-lively Mitchell Street cafe strip. It has all the ingredients needed to make an eatery in this competitive precinct a success. It's cosy, friendly and just a little eccentric: brightly coloured with technicolour splashes of paint about the walls, purple dining chairs and red couches. Among the somewhat curious decorations are oak barrels, miniature Romanesque statues and a few romantic paintings of scenes from old Europe. What the service lacks in timeliness it makes up for in friendliness: kids are very welcome here and the place is often full with families and then the pre-drinking crowd a little later on.A large menu covers breakfast standards, sandwiches and a wide range of Italian dishes. There are no surprises here but the food is fresh and generous. If pizza and pasta don't whet your appetite, look to the seafood section for Tuscan-style barramundi on garlic crusted potatoes, roast veges and garlic and seeded mustard sauce, or a steak dish such as the grain-fed Scotch fillet with tomato, roasted capsicum, zucchini, onion and sun-dried tomato and olive sauce. There are several restaurants in the CBD now offering similar menus but Cafe Uno's enduring popularity is a testament to the quality of its food and the warmth of its ambience.
Fiona Davies, August 2006
Tell us what you think
4 comments
Dawn: At Cafe Uno, pancakes were dry, thick and so dense they would not absorb any of the maple syrup. I saw a black piece of something on one. I thought it was a critter so told a waitress, who said that it would have been residue from the hotplate the pancakes were cooked on, and there was nothing wrong with the pancakes. I wasn't so sure, so didn't eat the pancakes. I repeated my concerns to 2nd waitress who cleared the table. She threw out the pancakes, then returned to say the cook said the batter had been made the day before, so was therefore not old. I paid the bill (including the cost of the pancakes), to the first waitress who was by now stroppy. I then went to Salvatores on the corner of Knuckey and Smith Sts, had 3 wonderful light, fresh pancakes topped with warm blueberries, with icecream. The service was friendly, and the pancakes cost two dollars less that at Uno!! (23 September 2008)
Les: Poor service, terrible food , expensive....send in Ramsay! (13 May 2008)
Kate: Terrible!! They say that staff make the difference... well all I can say about the manager and owner (assumed) is arrogant and rude!! When we politely said that we were unhappy with our (deep-fried) $85 seafood platter he rudely and aggressively told us "Bad luck, you should have ordered something else"!! We love Darwin but greatly disappointed with thses people. What a shame! (23 April 2008)
WorldWideGirl: Cafe Uno is dreadful. An embarrassment to Darwin. I've been going for 3.5 years. The food is consistently bad; small portions & extremely overpriced. The coffee is foul and tastes like they don't clean the machine; the cocktails are watery. The service consists of rudeness or being ignored. Our order was (finally) taken by a waiter unwilling to look at us; my meal was incorrect with dirty salad leaves & very small. When paying we were ignored by the maitre de for 1.5 mins whom we stood in front of to pay. $29 for a soup bowl of salad, 1 serve garlic bread & 1 glass soda water. We went next door for our coffee. There we met friends who'd "Uno'ed" on the weekend with their 3 children but left after waiting 2 hours for meals that never came. Every local I spoke to today states their Uno experience is horrible food, rubbish service & a total rip off. (10 April 2008)
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