Mado Cafe Auburn, Sydney

User Reviews of Mado Cafe, Auburn

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3.5 Below Average

Food 3 Ambience 4 Service 4 Value 3

Went for dinner in Ramadan, it was awful. You can't give me cold food after I haven't eaten all day. Sorry! doesn't cut it. Ice cream was good.

Dec 02, 2011

foodie54321
12

6 Average

Food 5 Ambience 7 Service 5 Value 7

Read much about the supposed "chewy ice cream" on Grab Your Fork... there is no such thing. The ice cream is ice cream with very little to distinguish it from your supermarket offerings. Maybe it was meant to have a social texture or ingredient... but it's just vanilla and... nothing. Staff were pleasant and the store much cleaner than the apparently comfortable standard in Auburn.

Jul 30, 2011

Oliando
9

2.3 Not Recommended

Food 3 Ambience 3 Service 2 Value 1

Would have been a more pleasant experience if management knew what customer service actually meant Customer always right! Next time maybe you should communicate with your customers rather than letting your waiters deal with the problem. Disappointed.

May 15, 2011

Farah
1

1 Not Recommended

Food 1 Ambience 1 Service 1 Value 1

Being Turkish and having the taste buds trained to be a critic on turkish cuisine, I have to say that it was a very bad experience for the third time.
Unfortunately, the new owners have dropped the quality and the service to below zero. When I complained about the food I was made out to be the guilty one. The sweets are not fresh as they do not make them in Australia, service is made buy young kids they do not even know how to speak to people.

Will never go there or take my friends. It is an embarrassment to introduce the turkish cuisine to foreigners. Try the local kebab houses at least the sweets are locally made and fresh.

May 01, 2011

Kaan ozer
1

7.5 Recommended

Food 7 Value 8

Just popped in for some icecream, the boy serving was very helpful and informed us about the different types. I got the sticky vanilla icecream. Thought it would be a tad stickier but still enjoyed it. An interesting texture indeed.

Jan 02, 2011

bogg_trotter
13

7 Recommended

Food 7 Ambience 7 Service 7 Value 7

Have been coming to Mado on and off for a few years but we only ever come here for breakfast. The last visit in Dec 2010 was our best yet. I'm not sure if it was because there was a food safari going on at the back, but the lentil and yoghurt soups (the yoghurt in particular) were the best they've been. On other past visits, they've only had only one of the two available, and usually a little watered down.

On our latest visit, both were available and were the best we'd had here. The pastries we usually order were tasty and fresh and we left there feeling full and satisfied. We also spotted Maeve O'Meara who popped in to wish the properietor and food safari presenters a merry xmas!

Jan 01, 2011

Rovin99
22

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 10 Service 7 Value 9

Great food, and great and authentic Turkish ambience. Kazan dibi (baked pudding), Marash Kebab and home made ice-cream are top quality. Highly recommended if planning on going out with family, friends or even having a business lunch/dinner or meeting that special someone for the first time! Service could be better, many staff struggle with English and are a little bit slow, you do occasionally hear the dishes being accidentally dropped somewhere in the background.

Dec 15, 2010

Dzenita
3

7.5 Recommended

Food 9 Ambience 7 Service 6 Value 8

Great place for lunch. A group of us returned after experiencing this wonderful cafe on a Food Safari. We ordered the multi dip plate, excellent, variety and fabulous flavours. We selected 3 mains to share. Two chicken and one meatball and all were great. The cafe was busy so service was a bit slow but friendly.
Definitely return.

Jul 08, 2010

gritpig
65

8.3 Highly Recommended

Food 7 Ambience 9 Service 8 Value 9

New management since May 2010. The 2 brothers have really stepped things up, with snappy service, cleanliness and new dishes such as char shish kebab, pide and gozleme. Now very busy on weekends which shows how things are getting better. Desserts and turkish tea is as before, excellent with some new baklavas. They are also planning to fly some authentic turkish-made stuff in too.

Jun 26, 2010

Gourmand123
1

7 Recommended

Food 4 Ambience 9 Service 8 Value 7

We hadn't been to Mado in ages. Usually just get take-away desserts and icecream, though went on a Monday night for dad's birthday. The food was actually quite shocking! I remember going years ago and the Maras Kebab was beautiful. We ordered it this time and recommended it to my dad, though I wish I hadn't! It has since been changed from diced lamb pieces to pieces of kofte and the turkish pide bits at the bottom are hard rock croutons!

My husband ordered the Guvec and there was about 5 pieces of meat, the rest was all eggplant! It didn't even seem like Guvec, more like a re-heated casserole dish. It was so disappointing and I felt extremely bad being my dad's birthday and all. However, they still have the best baklava and ice-cream. We didn't even stay there for the dessert, we took it home! From now on, I will just stick to dessert from this place.

Mar 15, 2010