Helena Bay Cafe

Me and my wife had food and coffee yesterday at helena bay cafe and I must say, it was a great experience. Keep up the great work guys. Highly recommend

We stopped for Brunch on 27th Dec.
They were short staffed, the poor girl on the checkout, was also the waitress. She was amazing. It was busy and she managed the best she could. Thank you.

Great food with an outstanding view of the ocean. The gallery is amazing and varied. Not bad prices too. This is a must see if you're in the area.

What a lovely Cafe at the end of a very windy road well worth the drive. Staff in cafe very helpful and recommended the bacon and egg pie. Yum! Is all I cam say.
Keep up the amazing place.

Gallery, garden and coffee was great but Cafe was let down by limited selection of preprepared items, no menu and staff attitude.

Great location. Beautiful view from the outdoor down the gully to the sea. Well presented and arty since it's attached to a cool art gallery. Beautiful garden. Food is average though. It was only cabinet food available. We ordered a pie and ham&cheese croissant and it's wasn't great. Staff could be more friendly and engaging. However if you are traveling around it's worth stopping by.

Very disappointed. Visited for my birthday lunch at the end of Feb after having visited many times in the past. Views spectacular as always but we were greeted by a virtually empty display cabinet at 12.30pm and a menu that I thought was a breakfast menu. Very basic and the food was not great when it came. The menu was full of breakfast items with lots of eggs and to top it off the “special” was poached eggs on toast!

Beautiful place to be. The Ocean views are spectacular, the Gallery is full of incredible Original Art and Craft work from Contemporary to Cultural to refreshingly Modern. The Cafe Menu allows for choices across a lovely mix of food and beverages which are Yummyliscious and the service is friendly and casual yet efficient. The beautiful garden walks are an added bonus as is the Outdoor Chessboard and the lovely little places on the walk to sit and chat while relaxing in the bushlike surroundings. We love being in this place.it's a 'have to visit' place for us when we're in Whangarei - AND it's just a 32 km drive away.

Wonderful food. Great view. Friendly staff. Only issue, is the dog poo lying around the parking. We stepped in so many piles of dog poo. Disappointed in the fact there are signs no dogs allowed, yet there is poo lying around. Other than that beautiful place.

We stopped as the kitchen had closed but the lovely staff still whipped up great loaded wedges for the kids. Super-friendly, the kids had fun exploring the sculptures and what a great gallery. Highly recommend!

$23.50 for each of these meals. Extremely disappointed with portion sizes. We were told they were running low on wedges. Unsure how that’s our problem. Apricot Chicken burger and wedges were both tasteless. Tomato sauce? Vegetable Salad (Dairy free) came missing halloumi and Chorizo, which are typically non-dairy. No attempt to replace these items if they were dairy. Staff were grumpy and tired and brought us the table next to ours drinks. Beautiful view, nice art. Very disappointing visit. Left hungry. Will not be coming back.

It's a beautiful spot to stop for lunch on a motorcycle ride from Kerikeri. The food is always good & they do great coffee.
They also have a fantastic gallery

Today we had a late lunch at the Helena Bay cafe. We were served by a delightful waiter. (TE). She asked about my need to be gluten free and clarified if this was a preference or a medical condition. She was friendly, knowledgeably and very helpful. The service from her was above and beyond! The food was well presented and very tasty and timely for all the meals for the 6 of us. We will definitely come again.

What a f… stunning view. The tea and coffee have been good, the browny was tasty and not too sweet and the staff is very friendly.
Overall I’ll make a stop here every time I pass through.

We stopped in here on our way home from Russell for a cold drink, lovely friendly place with an amazing view.
Will be coming back next time for a meal.

Beautiful area with friendly and capable staff members, willing to go the extra mile for your comfort. BLT bagel absolutely delicious. Rings at the gallery for sale just beautiful too. A must do cafe trip.

Such an amazing little piece of paradise, great food, service & views. Highlight was meeting Leonardo the huge St Bernard dog. Kids loved him.

Whist the service was friendly and we enjoyed the vege stack, our experience was ruined by the huge Newfoundland dog who came to our table and drooled over my 86 yr olds mothers water glass, she is scared of dogs and was quite shaken. The cafe manager had quite a job to drag him away. Another customer stepped in, wiped the slobber off our table. As we were leaving we saw the owner of the dog who I think lives there and when we mentioned how inappropriate it was to have the dog come right onto our table he told us “leave, we don’t want you here and to F.k off”. No problem we will not return. The dog, who seems very good natured, and the cafe manager (who gave us a discount on our bill) were not offensive but the dogs owner was extremely rude. Yes a nice drive, nice cafe, nice gift shop but ruined by the dog owner.

Lovely atmosphere, beautiful views, good prices and great food. Friendly staff. The parking was really full and the same on/out drivway was something to be aware of, but other than that, a great experience.

The view was incredible and the staff lovely, but the food was so below average I was genuinely shocked. For the bread and dip platter the breads were all the same. And the dips tasted like the long life pesto from the pasta isle in the supermarket. The balsamic with the oil wasn’t even a reduction it was just vinegar. So strange. I also saw a couple opposite me order the loaded wedges, and it was the smallest portion I have ever seen. The coffee was very very average. Unfortunately ver disappointed and will not be back.