Spiga Restaurant - Reservoir

Popped into here for a quick break. Next to Melbourne Central. Lots of seats, good coffees, a range of cakes pastries at a reasonable price, and good service. I'll happily go there again.

This is a vey good place for a coffee and a quick breakfast try the egg wrap) near Melbourne Central Station this is the place to stop before getting lost in town

We had a great coffee (Genovese) and breakfast special here whilst in Melbourne. The food, coffee, service and value were all very good.

I work near Spiga so after a late finish I went to Spiga for dinner. I ordered a prawn pasta that was ok but pretty much tasteless. My partner ordered porterhouse steak strips that came with potatoes and veg the steak was ok, the brocc and cauli were ok, but there was no potato, (we forgot that it was supposed to have potato until we grabbed the menu to check the prices when we were going to pay the bill), it was also served with some lettuce leaves with no dressing on it. It was a bland meal that I could have made so much nicer at home. It looked ordinary and the taste matched. I told the staff member that my partner got no potato and he said yes . That was it. We paid the bill and it hurt me to do it because I could not believe how ordinary the food was (approx $26 for each dish). There are so many great restaurants in Melbourne so I just cannot believe this place thinks it can charge these prices for the **** they dish up in fact the steak dish looked so ordinary I would not have taken it out to a customer in the first place. They have lost my business (buy a lot of coffee there) and I certainly will not be recommending them to my workmates. I think this restaurant really needs to review whatever is going wrong whether it be the food,cooks,prices etc.

Perhaps the usual chef was on holiday but our post Christmas lunch was bizarrely awful. The seared tuna salad contained tuna pieces so dehyrated, tough and tasteless it was as if they 'd been cooked the day before, frozen then microwaved. I would have taken canned tuna any day to this rubber. The salad upon which they sat was basically undressed leaves with many starting to blacken and thinly sliced tomatoes (quaintly old fashioned! . I dont like to make a fuss and I never send back meals, but this time there was no way I couldn 't. It was my civic duty. My partners bruschetta was equally amatuer like grandma trying to do something 'fancy ' and messing it up cometely (thin, dry 'grain ' bread, microscopic sized basil sprinklings, zero taste . Also sent back. Coffees were good though and the service was polite and sympathetic and not all that surprised. I hope the real chef enjoyed their holiday, they 've now got their work cut out for them.