Baklawa Cafe

Very tasty Labanese food. I did the buffet experience at last Saturday. Nice dine in environment with good services. I really like their desert and pasty items. But needs variety of other main dishes, also food was not hot enough, the kabab items are really cold. The staff should look into this matter. Recommended for family gathering.

Great place, we went there for their buffet which runs friday and saturday. Everything in the buffet was great, you can fill up as many times as you wish but when you get to the 2nd plate you will be so full it hard to fill up again. Certainly value for money. On normal days their manish and other food is also amazing. Pepporini pizza i would stay away from, did not have much pepporni topping. Drinks are a little expensive. Place can get busy during buffet but there was no shortage of food or people waiting for food it was always freshly filled up. Nice to see the quality and speed at which they ensure the plates are always filled with food. And ofcourse baklawa is great, don't leave with out trying some.

Their baklava is delicious but I can't get my head around the fact that it's a Lebanese restaurant that has space for days and serves buffet options for dinner but won't sell kebabs? No chips? What kind of non kebab selling non kebab place is this! Super clean, staff are very friendly and sweet options are super fresh

Great place for brunch. Prepared to order, so it can sometimes take 35 to 40 minutes. Fresh and reasonably priced. Excellent coffee from Lebanese to flat white. Lots of vegetarian options. The menu board next to the cash register where you order has more detailed descriptions than the laminated menus. An order of foul requires 2 to 3 bread. We shared 4 different types of manaish and they arrived beautifully cut in quarters on a tray. Staff very helpful. Do not leave without taking home a box of baklava- it is sublime!!

EDIT: I gave Shefco 4 stars 3 years ago because the food was tastier and the atmosphere was much more pleasant than it is today. Customer service is lacking and food quality has since gone down. Overall I am not impressed 😞 especially that this is probably the ONLY place in Auckland that does manaesh (sigh).