The Green Olive

Went for a Sunday breakfast and needed to wait over an hour for our food to arrive. Other customers who ordered after us asked where their food was and the worker would respond with “it’s being plated now”. They also appeared to be working with the cafe next door Bath Lane Cafe as they would be walking food out of the kitchen across to their seats and visa versa. Perhaps not enough kitchen staff working today? Once the food arrived it was quite good, and shout out to the female barista who was clearly very stressed and was still producing great coffees.

The Green Olive quickly became our go to place for awesome coffee, delicious breakfasts and the staff are wonderfully friendly and personable - one of the pleasures of visiting a good cafe is great staff. The almond milk coffee's are smooth and full flavoured and very moreish, highly recommended. Inside, the space is light and airy, pretty in shades of green and white with sparkly fairy lights with big picture windows to sit in and watch people go by. Breakfasts are great from the heart shaped pancakes to chia pudding bowls and bacon and eggs, well worth a visit. Thank you so much!

We got bad service and our chips weren't cooked properly, my bagel was absolutely smothered in tomato relish so I couldn't eat the bottom half, the bagel bun wasn't toasted enough and the roast veggies were luke warm. The topdeck hot chocolate was the only decent thing. Definitely will NOT be coming back, it ruined my Sunday morning.

Service was nice and friendly. Coffee was nice and enjoyed it. Was freezing inside the cafe so we sat outside. I ordered the salmon bagel with scrambled eggs the dish was served cold, it was meant to come with avocado and they didnt remember to put it on. I asked for it and they bought it out. Disappointing dish was basically tasteless. The hollandaise served with it was nice. I asked for it on the side which they did but, it was still all through layered in the bagel which i didnt want. They dont have proper pepper grinders its pre cracked pepper which is tasteless. The dish needed proper seasoning ot just some dill and the bagel needed to be buttered. My partner enjoyed the pulled pork benedict.

I rarely give 1 star but Olive Green in Bendigo deserves one star. The worst potato and leek soup I ever tasted (if u can call it a soup at all) which I had a spoon and turned it back to the kitchen. Came with two halved piece of supermarket standard white bread which was described as sourdough on the menu. What really upset me was that no one came to apologise though the serving staff acknowledged that it looked way too watery to be potato and leek soup. the experience really ruined my precious Sunday morning and time in Bendigo.