Cove Cafe

Cove Café has a prime spot overlooking Terrigal beach and of course you will pay a premium for this luxury which is reasonable to expect.
My family and i arrived for an early lunch. The waitress was friendly, we ordered drinks and we’re off to a great start. Then along comes another waitress «Can i get you some drinks?» she asks. A bit of a double up, no worries! Minutes later, another waitress, «Have you ordered drinks yet?» OK so they’re keen to work the tables.
After drinks, the waitress relay gets underway again with the first, then second, then third asking us if we’re ready to order our meal, within a 10min span. Since we weren’t in any hurry we kindly replied each time ‘Not just yet, while mentioning to the third that we’ve been asked the same question by 2 others already. Don’t waiters get assigned a section of the restaurant/​café to serve to? This gets quite annoying quite quickly.
I ordered the grilled Bream which is served with Ratatouille, baby octopus and a rocket salad and another ordered the special Thai beef salad.
Meals were served in a fair time but i was surprised to find my main course to be a little bigger than an entrée especially at $ 23. The dish had good flavors, well presented but was too small a portion to be considered a main.
The verdict on the Thai beef salad was that there was nothing Thai about it. Sliced beef on a standard looking green salad can be called Thai apparently!
This is one of those cafes that expect you to order an entrée, main and dessert to ensure that you feel you’ve had a sufficient sized lunch. For those who don’t want to go through a 3 course lunch you may end up walking out with your stomach growling at you for not spending up.
It was comical to watch the waiters running around helter skelter, aimlessly darting from table to table to kitchen and everywhere else. If there is a manager perhaps take a seat at a table over lunch and take note that your dancers need a choreographer.