Dragon Fly Cafe - CARSELDINE

Excellent food, excellent service and good value for money. I loved the outdoor surroundings, it was a wonderful lunch.

Used to be my favourite place to take my parents when I returned to Brisbane. After Dad passed I’d take make mum as it was a nice reminder of good times together. No longer. The service is slow- as I write this it has just clicked over an hour and ten minutes since we ordered lunch and no sign of it yet. Even our soft drinks took 30 minutes to arrive though ordered when there were only 6 customers in the venue. When our drinks order arrived it was wrong. Two drinks delivered for four of us, on informing them of this we were told to wait we weren’t the only customers in the restaurant! When the rudeness of the reply was not appreciated I asked to speak to the manager. Perhaps there had been a change. I was informed that she was the manager and had been there for over 20 years and I should retake my seat and let her get back to work. Perhaps herein lies the problem! I reminded her that food was a service industry. We had our overpriced, very average beef and chicken burgers (21$ each) and left! Who would consider staying for coffee and cake? I guess we could have ordered the “preprepared toastie and salad “for 20$! It may have been quicker but sadly even if the food was fabulous the manager was not. Judging from her attitude and manner I doubt it will improve. As my mother said when we left, “ that was just horrible. The food the service and the people” perhaps I should have just written that as it seems to sum up the experience totally! We won’t be back. Shame I love the plants and lizards.

This has been a long time favourite. Sitting overlooking the pond and watching the ducks, water dragons and blue wrens. Set in the Carseldine Garden Nursery it is a very relaxing place to meet friends, family or time out on your own. Food is good and generous

Had lunch on Sunday. We ordered a burger and Caesar salad. Both tasted fine but the price was about $22 for each plus about $5 for halomi or chicken to be added to the salad. Expensive. Nice outlook and the shop inside has gorgeous homewares

Unfortunately, the restaurant has undergone a change. It used to be very welcoming, but not anymore. The waitress who gave us our menus was unfriendly and not accommodating. She did not smile and was a bit rude. It's disappointing to see this shift in attitude.