Review: Cafe Sopra, Walsh Bay (The Rocks)

After a healthy dinner we were itching for an indulgent dessert. My friends were salivating when i told them about jazz city diners american desserts. Unfortunately when reaching Jazz city, there was a notice on the door saying closed for private event. Craving a piece of pie, we found ourselves at Cafe Sopra at Walsh Bay.

It was a bit of a trek to get there, right across from Sydney dance company. I really don't know how they stay in business with no passing traffic. There were quite a few diners but no people lining up outside. We could see a group of girls having dessert. The strawberry meringue caught my eye.

We were greeted by a flustered waitress, no smile but non-chalant. She asked if we were having dinner (well we didn't come to buy groceries at this time of the evening) so we replied, we wanted dessert, she then with a look of disappointment pointed at the bar saying "you will have to sit at th bar as we only seat diners at the tables". Isn't eating dessert still classified as dining?? There were clearly 4 vacant tables, but we had already come all this way we decided to give it a chance instead of leaving.

Sitting for a good 5mins before being asked by the waiter at the bar what were were after, we said dessert, he joked " we were out of the pie" that was a bit of fun, put us in a little bit of spirits in this cold concrete ambiance. Until we had to wait another 5 mins before we had to summon a waitress to take ou order. Once again no sense of service, simply wanted to take our order. We ordered the pie, strawberry meringue and tiramisu.

It was a good mix of flavours as we shared amongst each other. The pie was subtle decadent creamy with a thick base that reminded somewhat of digstive biscuits, the tirimasu was strong in the tia maria, and the meringue was very crunchy with a refreshing strawberry. The least favourite was the meringue, it was too crunchy, and lacked enough cream to merry it together, I was thinking a pavolova would be better as there would be some soft mallow to break the monotony of the sugary meringue.

We left when we realised they were starting the close up bringing in the signs etc, we had to get in line behind a couple who looked very dissatisfied that they were still waiting for the bill. We finally got our bill, put our money down and left, there was no thank you or come again , it was almost like they don't need your patronage.

I would not bother to go back there, there are more pretentious places with better service.