Horizen Cafe

Great view, disappointing breakfast. Great friendly staff, nice confortable clean venue. Targets mid-budget travellers with reasonably priced breakfast. The Eggs Benedict well priced but basic, could do with a little more garnish or extra different sauce. Spinach mushroom muffin served hospital style. Coffee: order the take away version, the hotel regular is smaller in size. Remember this is a mid-budget breakfast. Free Wi-Fi, great harbour views.

Based on the photos on Google, I assume this was a buffet joined with the hotel prior to covid. It is now a café. Unfortunately, the food provided at this "café" is quite clearly pre-made and then reheated upon order. The luke-warm pancakes with bacon are served on a small plate with bacon on the side and airplane style butter packets and maple syrup. You have to assemble it yourself. There is no table service provided. All food is ordered and paid at the counter, with a buzzer for collection. Plates must be returned to a drop off point before leaving. This means the tables are rarely cleaned between customers. The quality of food at other restaurants within the Darwin CBD is far superior and is also cheaper.

The Cafe has set menus, priced at $18. They seem unable to change from what is advertised, asked for the Zen Big Breakfast with scrambled eggs told I can't do this as comes with poached eggs but if I want scrambled eggs with bacon and sausage (which comes with the Zen big breakfast) I have to order the $18 scrambled eggs and add the additional extra, it seems rather strange that in order to get the breakfast I want have to pay almost double just for scrambled eggs...

Excellent staff and service !!! Happy friendly greeting from Lily every morning was a great start to our day, her infectious positive attitude made us feel like vip's !!! Great food with plenty of options. The young female chef cooked our eggs to order every day , and they were PERFECT ! Obviously staff love what they do !!

It's a buffet breakfast, with eggs done in those steamer dishes that look like flying saucers. .instead of poached eggs.Cook yr own toast. ..Not a cafe breakfast. And they weren't expecting non hotel guests. ..Wanted us to pay cash before we ate-we had to come in from our outdoorsears to pay. . Nice view.