Mash Cafe

6.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  7     

Have always really enjoyed Mash, good food, good service and a beautiful surrounds.

Recently told that you are not allowed to bring any food for your kids from home, we had given our kids some cut fruit for morning tea while we had breakfast with family. We had also ordered them some toast from the kids menu. If this is the case then Mash need to work on their kids menu to include small appropriate snacks, they also need to bring back the kids milkshake.

I will go back for sure as it is a great cafe.

Apr 22, 2012 

7.5 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  5      Service  9      Value  7     

Went here for a group dinner last night. Ordered a few mezze plates ($16 @) to share for an entree. Very tasty crumbed and fried olives, the artichoke was a little disappointing, little flavour.

The main meals were reportedly all delicious. I had the beef cheek ($32) and it was a taste sensation. The meat almost dissolved in my mouth, it was so tender. The beef was served with a rich jus that was delightful. It was accompanied by chat potatoes and asparagus also very tasty.

The dessert menu was varied and appealing. I decided to try the chocolate and strawberry samosas ($11). The waiter's description of chocolate bursting forth in the mouth, sadly, didn't come to fruition. The samosas were slightly overlooked making the chocolate dry and the strawberries may have benefitted by being sweetened. The Mille feuille chosen by another diner was sublime. I'll be back to try that!

The cafe is BYO ($7 a bottle) strictly wine only. The downside of the evening was the mozzies. We sat at an outside table and weather wise, it was very pleasant. Unfortunately, the mosquitoes were ferocious and our requests for a citronella candle or Aeroguard were declined.

Eventually, we asked and were moved to an inside table for coffee and sweets. The hanging prints inside provided an interested backdrop to the rest of our evening.

Overall it was a pleasant evening and worthy of a return visit, albeit with an hour's drive to get there.

Feb 26, 2012 

8 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  7     

I have been to this place many times even tho it is a 45 minutes drive I take the whole family especially love it on a sunny day to sit outside. Service is lovely the interior pictures on walls are great and would love one in my lounge.

Coffee is the best I've ever had definitely not dirty cheap beans. I'm glad they are helping the less fortunate by buying their beans and organic food. Desserts are great especially the lavender panna cotta. I can't imagine anyone being disappointed, but the best boss is the one that listens to complaints and fixes them. I'll be back.

Feb 17, 2012 

8.5 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  7     

I have been to Mash a number of lunch, breakfast, dinner. It ticks all the boxes, very relaxed village feel to the place, the mainly young staff are very pleasing and attentive. It is one of the small number of cafe's/restaurants that you can always get something different and not just a burger and chips on a plate. The tasting plates when they are on are worth a trip out.

Jan 15, 2012 

6.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  8      Service  7      Value  5     

This is one of Glenbrook's best cafes. Excellent coffee however, I usually come here for breakfast and have poached eggs on sourdough. It is delicious but the portion sizes are too small. Recommended to go to, nice to sit outside next to the grass on a Sunday. The lindt chocolate mini dome cakes they have are delicious!

Oct 20, 2011 

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  10      Service  9      Value  8     

We really love coming to mash, the staff here are always friendly and welcoming the food is different which is a breath of fresh air compared to the normal man sized steak and chips offerings around the penrith region! The dinner portions are a perfect size so you can fit in 3 courses, Mash just also won the Savour australia award for best cafe/restaurant in the blue mountains region - so they must be doing something right!

The coffee is great. Breakfasts here are to die for also. We find the prices reasonable when you consider a meal at a pub these days can be in the high $20`s, so for a few more bucks you get some nice food prepared with more care that isn't subsidised by pokie machines and you get some service to boot. I would suggest Mash is not for kids at night, they are best off here at breakfast or lunch as the dinner menu is a bit different and probably not for young palates!

Oh and I love the quirky fun artworks on the walls also!

Sep 26, 2011 

1.8 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  4      Service  1      Value  1     

This place is seriously overrated. I've been there twice now. The first time I got a chicken burger which was so dry. It came with fat chips that weren't cooked properly and still raw in the middle. I still went back again and had another bad meal - this time the pancakes. They come with sauce on the top pancake but after that you're eating plain pancakes with nothing on them. The service was bad too. I just wanted yoghurt and fruit and despite both these two items being on the menu for some reason the waitress did not think they could do it. She said she would ask the Chef but never got back to me after that. They actually couldn't even swap fried eggs for poached (?). We also ordered hot drinks but both came out luke warm at best. Won't be going back a third time.

Sep 25, 2011 

3.3 Below Average

Food  5      Ambience  4      Service  3      Value  1     

Meals are incredibly tiny and expensive ($30+ with no sides, you have to pay extra $10 for vegetables or salad), not the greatest food either. We left hungry! The wait staff were inexperienced and the restaurant was unwilling to cater for food for our children. It was plainly obvious they only wanted to make money from us.

As for ambience, the building is nice and enticing from the outside (that's what got us back there for our second bad experience) but inside it's not comfortable. Don't go there, for what you receive it's incredibly poor value.

Sep 18, 2011 

2.3 Not Recommended

Food  1      Ambience  2      Service  5      Value  1     

The restaurant was recommended, looking forward to an enjoyable night out but nothing on the entree menu was enticing, garlic bread was ok, main meal was tasteless, so didn't stay for dessert. Will not be back.

Jul 03, 2011 

7.8 Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  7     

Mash,My brother gave me a recommendation to this Restaurant,been there twice for dinner and once for lunch. Situated in the fantastic location of the beautiful Glenbrook village this Cafe/Restaurant is hot!

Every single time we have dined at Mash all three courses have been delish which we find very rare these days. Entrees,from the prawns in Dhakkuk,to the Sushi to the Stuffed Zucchini flowers all our 4 entrees were divine.

Mains-I had the Slow roasted corn fed chicken breasts with rosemary and garlic,very succulent and the rosemary complemented the chook perfectly,my fellow diners went for the Beef cheek which he said was perfect and looked every bit as nice and the ladies ordered the eggplant with herbs and pine nuts and they raved about it.
Desserts-Once again all were superb.

Mash has become our favourite local haunt,for 4 people eating 3 courses each,plus breads and coffee couple of cokes and lemon lime and bitters and we took our own wine the total cost for our table including corkage was $260.00 which we thought was good value for the service and the outstanding quality of food we were served.
Keep up, the great work ladies.

Scott

Feb 27, 2011