Terre Cafe & Bar - WILLUNGA

This great little café is becoming our favourite place to catch up with friends. The staff are always smiling and helpful and the fire very welcoming on cold days. There is good variety on the menu and the specials board is mouth watering. A good selection of local wines compliments the menu and the coffee is sensational.

Bec the owner has started to do monthly themed nights on the last Friday of the month in the evening. On Friday the 30th of July it was English night which 4 of us attended, the restaurant was full and the food was really good starting of with a plowman's lunch (cheese ham etc) then an alternate drop of either fish and chips or beef wellington and bread and butter pudding to finish, all for only $35 each. This month the theme is Christmas in July.Book early because most of the people we spoke to raved over this place.

I had a great time with friends at this restaurant for lunch on a cold, rainy Sunday. The service was friendly, the food was delicious, and the cozy fire made me want to come back again.

We found this place on High Street in Willunga and it was charming from the outside and when we entered there were weathered polished floorboards and original ceilings and an exposed stone wall. We were greeted by Bec and were acquainted with the all day breakfast menu and the lunch menu.We decided we would have the tapas platter for two. While we waited we had a nice conversation with Bec and she told us the history of the building. It was a general store and there are still marks from this service. The walls on one side have these curious indentations (see the photo with Bec pointing at them). These were the marks of cans being pushed back into the shelves and making their marks over the decades in the actual walls.The tapas arrived on a square platter (see the photo). The first thing that caught my eye were the deep fried wedges of camembert cheese. Usually you see these with an entire camembert and you have to cut them into wedges. This approach allowed you to get more of that yummy coating on each piece. Once you select it you have to decide which sauce is best, the sweet chilli sauce? the Aoli? the tomato salsa? The chicken was nice big tasty pieces. The prawns had what seemed to be a cajun seasoning, very nice. Unusually the calamari was allowed to shine on it's own without having any alterations and it was good quality calamari. The chorizo were good too.The wine list was limited but had good stuff on it and I chose a Vermentino for that region which went very well. Bec is proud of her coffee and I found it to be quite good with a nice velvety texture and good aroma. The cup I had was fresh and I enjoyed it.I wish I lived closer, I would happily make this a weekend visit every weekend.

Good service and location, but that's about it.Please change your coffee, tastes like supermarket beans, very stale coffee.Lipstick on water glass.Sautéed spinach on the menu was raw on plate (benedict)Poached eggs were very strange, not good, 90% yolk 10% white.Bad bread.Veggie breakfast inedible (from my wife trying to look for a positive).Small touches are lacking, laminated menu's, discount signs around the place ($5glass of wine), service good but obviously not from hospitality background. Really need to sharpen up your act, or sell out before you loose all your money, a long way off the old LaTerre unfortunately.