Roy’s On Melville

One of my favorite places to go in Brunswick good coffee and food and they are open late which is good for that late arvo coffee fix Roy himself is a top bloke and very welcoming love it!!!

We popped in here when hungry and craving a lasagne (nothing else would hit the spot) — so we got a takeaway lasagna and greek salad. The lasagna was the nicest Ive ever eaten and the greek salad was huge!!! It was as big as a dinner plate (and this is in a takeaway container).
The other thing I really liked was the cakes they had at the front — there was one called a «Flourless cake» yet it had a flower on top of it! Someone else pointed out that it was a «Flower — less cake» (ie less cake than flower/​flour). The lady who served me was lovely and very friendly. I bought 3 cakes — the flourless, the vanilla slice and the caramal slice — all of which were very nice!
All in all a great takeaway meal — and I would certainly eat here!
A while ago I had tried their hot chocolate and it was good too!

This is the third time I’ve tried Roys and this is the third time I’ve been disappointed.
I kept giving them chances, thinking ‘it’ll be different this time’, ‘they didn’t mean to be so hopeless’, and ‘damn I’m hungry, this’ll do’. Well, this will not do.
Between the very sluggish service (10 mins thumb twiddling, while one waitress walked around looking out windows and actively avoided our table when we mad ourselves clear), the repeated seating mix ups (we had to move seats twice as they seated us in reserved seats, not that it had a reserve sign on it) and the fact that they seem to constantly be out of every ingredient (we tried to order meals every time and they came back saying they had no ingredients for it, after 15 minutes naturally).
To add to this, the most recent time we have been there, we had the first friendly, helpful waitress that I’ve seen at this place. When we were informed that they had run out of beans, she mentioned that we could possibly use something else instead of beans in the meal, to which her manager talked over her, insisted there will be no beany meal and generally shut her down, in what I can only assume is the natural order of this hoge poge, unprofessional café.
Don’t go, its no good.