Wild Fig Cafe, Scarborough/North Beach, 2 stars

Extra-ordinary location, ordinary cafe. 

This place reminds me of some of our first Perth experiences, the tables are far apart and when we arrive there is a big thing about about the fact that we have not booked resulting in us getting a table next to the kitchen while ocean side tables go unused for the hour+ we stayed.  Its hard to describe without resorting to profanity just how @#$@! this kind of behavior is.  The only thing that can be said is that it is almost certainty ignorance rather than malice.  It totally feels like they have the model wrong.  How about closer together tables, creating more of a buzz, cheaper prices, super fast sit down and eat service, smiling staff and first come first serviced. Revenues would probably double.

During the meal the spare chair at our table gets removed and replaced several times without so much as node. The waitress trips on my chair leg as she goes by twice, I move the chair and she still trips on it.  Really this is to much, just sloppy and inattentive to the job at hand and the customers

Joys

• The view
• Some imagination in the menu and very well presented food
• Pleasing architecture and decor, although a bit international

Woes

• Dirty table
• Inattentive service (Not really slow in the end, but 5 minutes to bring water is just to much)
• Poorly trained staff

Final Word

• A great location, kind of squandered.
• We won't go again, not for a while away, and we won't look forward to coming back particularly.
• You can't take visitors to Perth here because the service and attitude are just to embarrassing, a real shame. 

33 West Coast Dr
(08) 9246 9222