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User Reviews on Simmone Logue Fine Food
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Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 comments
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Food 9 |
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I would not regard Simmone Logue as a cafe more a place to get "takeaway homestyle cooking" when you don't have time to cook. I go to Simmone Logue if I have an uplanned business lunch or dinner arise. I know that I can always select from a range of appetisers ( great Vietnamese spring rolls with excellent dipping sauce) or goats cheese tarts and smoked salmon mini quiches to mains that may be braised beef casserole, lasagne and chicken with Asian salads. They make the best cous cous I have ever tasted.
I usually will get a cake both for its taste and beautiful presentation, my favourite is the fig and brandy cheesecake. It is served with a fresh gerebra on top and usually a toffee coloured organza ribbon wrapped around it. It looks understated and chic. Everytime I present it people say Öooohhh!!" I have thought about putting flour on my face and saying I have been cooking all day but this cake is very well known in Balmain making culinary plagiarism difficult. I do sometimes serve this cake with SL's Butterscotch sauce for my friends who love sweet things.
One thing I will say it is expensive. Although I prefer to pay $30 for a beautiful cake than $25 for a mass marketed piece of cardboard. If you do want to feed four people with appetisers, main and dessert it will cost you but I look at the opportunity cost of the time it will take (which most do not have) you to do it yourself. I'd rather get it home, heat it up and spend my time thinking of ways to garnish a love fuss home cooked meal.
The staff are ok sometimes they are exceptional and other times they get that glazed ''Ï'm so bored I can't believe it's only 2.00pm" look that 16 years old get when working in a dull part time job. There is never a lot of enthusiasm happening there so the ambience is like being in an awkward conversation, I would not eat there. This is the challenge when businesses try and reduce costs. Also if you see them as they are rarer than unicorns you must try a SL meringue. I have only seen them once there but I still think about them sometimes with great love.
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Ashleigh -
See my reviews 13 , 18 April 2008
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Food 3 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 5 |
Value 2 |
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I just purchased a take away meal of meatballs and mash at a cost of $18 (the only other main meal option this evening was a huge chicken parma and roast potatoes for $22). The meatballs are flavourless and the mash is lumpy with many of the lumps raw potatoes Will never buy there again.
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Silbs -
See my reviews 1, 31 March 2008
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Food 7 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 6 |
Value 6 |
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I'm reviewing Simmone Logue in the context of what they do, ie. sell pre-cooked foods rather than being a true cafe. Over time I've tried many of the savoury foods, and suffice to say some are better than others but nothing is substandard. I agree with Anonymous that the menu could change more often and it's slightly pricey. However, I will say that Simmone Logue's chocolate brownies will be included as part of my final meal should I ever sit on death row. (Do they still sell them? They better or there will be trouble).
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schellack -
See my reviews 74, 10 November 2007
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Food 5 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 4 |
Value 4 |
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I am only giving my review on the cupcakes. I've bought cakes there for my mother's celebrations of various work friends' birthdays and always greedily eyed the pink cupcakes. They always looked so good, the pink fluffy frosting, the silver sugar balls, amply sized cupcake. But when I actually bought one, I was mightily disappointed. It was kept in a fridge, so the icing was hard and make the cupcake seem stale. But even if it wasn't placed in the fridge, I doubt the actual cupcake itself would have tasted even better.
The cake was like a moist, dense, sugarless piece of dough. I just licked the icing (a bit sickly), ate the sugar balls and threw the rest of the cupcake away. I'm a bit put off from buying anything else from there, how can anyone ruin a cupcake?
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likes_to_dine -
See my reviews 4, 13 August 2007
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Food 8 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 5 |
Value 6 |
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I've had their pies often and always enjoy them - jolly tasty but expensive. That is... if they have any left. More often than not they've run out and I end up leaving with nothing. Haven't tried anything else yet.
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kogvos -
See my reviews 47, 10 April 2007
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Food 5 |
Ambience 5 |
Service 5 |
Value 1 |
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Went to the one in Bondi Junction to buy cocktail pies for a party. They cost $2.90 each so i walked out with a small, half full cakebox for about $80. They tasted ok, nothing amazing, but were barely a mouthful! You would need about 6 each to have anywhere near enough, and I think you can do a lot better catering than that.
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boozlebee -
See my reviews 1, 26 July 2005
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Food 7 |
Ambience 7 |
Service 8 |
Value 7 |
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Good coffee and great cakes here.
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atse28 -
See my reviews 43, 03 December 2004
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Food 6 |
Ambience 6 |
Service 10 |
Value 5 |
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The wonderful service of the attractive waitresses is what saved this place!
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Anonymous, 01 October 2004
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Food 6 |
Ambience 2 |
Service 7 |
Value 5 |
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This is seriously overpriced, oily food and the menu never changes. The pies are the only item worth their price.
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Anonymous, 25 May 2004
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