Avalon of Woodside

What a beautiful little café hidden in the hills. Set inside a beautiful old English home. Great coffee and cakes. Perfect for an afternoon tea with the girls. There is a little gift shop inside also. Definitely worth the stop on your way through.

This is a beautifully set up country café, filled with local arts and craft. The menu offers a small range of sandwiches, burgers, wraps, tarts, drinks, cakes and desserts. The dining area has a relaxing homey atmosphere. I will definitely return for lunch if I am happen to be in the area.

The formulaic insert country garden house, fill it with trinkets and provide a limited menu of coffee, cake and lunch doesn’t quite deliver at Avalon of Woodside.
If you were passing through town and felt like a coffee and a home made cake (get the passionfruit vanilla slice if available) then the sunny paved brick courtyard out back or patio out front under umbrellas is a beautiful setting. Inside is filled with large wooden clocks, plates, candles, silver ornaments, cushions and the usual candidates that occupy a country gift shop.
The lunch menu is fairly limited and for $ 35 for a pie and salad and a tomato bruschetta I felt it was a tad expensive. Tomato bruschetta literally was 2 pieces of bread with a pile of tomato and some shavings of basil and the curry pie, although lovely, came with a very simple lettuce and tomato salad. Coffee and tea was lovely though and I’d love to see more afternoon teas here to really twee up the Avalon Downton Abbey experience.
With a little tweaking of the formula and simplifying the lunch menu to high teas, with more of their home made cakes, scones and desserts this place can really ham up the out of town experience for us city folk in an enjoyable way.