Love this place, great staff and great value for money, authentic food and amazing breads. Highly recommend.
Excellent burgers some of the best Ive had and a great value breakfast. Staff are friendly and eveerything ive tasted has been excellent.
So French is the closest French restaurant I have visited whilst living in New Zealand for 6 years. Very authentic, amazing food, coffee, friendly staff and warm environment! So impressed with this place. We went twice in two days!! My new favourite restaurant by far!! Please visit and see for yourself!
I love So French. The food is reliably wonderful. The coffee is excellent. The ambiance is easy-going, very French and very food-focused. Staff are always pleasant and service is always good. And it's charming to always be greeted by a welcoming "bonjour!"
Melissa Crockett-Joyoue
+5
It's fantastic - the best cafe in the Matakana / Warkworth region, and the only one we bother go to in Warkworth. We go there for the food and coffee first, then the friendly professional staff.
Good food&good service. Very nice place to stop relax.
Will be making this a regular stop. Lovely food, staff, and atmosphere
Great food! Need to say more?
Beautiful Cafe devine food and coffee. Will make sure I call in next time I am heading north.
It was a lovey atmosphere with lovely staff. I ordered the Florentine (mushrooms, sun-dried tomatoes, boiled egg and mozzarella with baguette) and my friend ordered something from the breakfast menu and he got to choose which jam he would like, having different choices such as orange marmalade, plum, strawberry and he also got a drink with a cute design. Overall, really good place with a cute theme and low prices!
Had an amazing chicken and leek pie beautiful French pastry and onion relish, good coffee and clean toilets and loved listening to the French accents ... a great big thank you we had a well deserved break from the bumper to bumper traffic heading north
Such a nice cafe! Lovely owners. Whenever I go up north I try to stop at so french for real authentic delicious french pastry. Highly recommended.
Could have more tables but great service and the beef bourguignon would have to be one of my favourite winter foods in warkworth.......sooooo good, worth a visit!
Melissa Crockett-Joyoue
+5
My wife and I love this cafe - finally a decent one in Warkworth! It is better than any in Matakana either, with great coffee, traditional style French pastries and lovely salads etc. My wife is from the Caribbean and grew up on french pastries and she really rates the ones at So French.
We met Kristell when she managed Pyrenees in Mt Albert and thought she was a lovely hostess there - so were excited to see her face when So French opened in Warkworth.
We live at Leigh but go in to this cafe every time we go to Warkworth.
As for the other lady having issues with the crumbs - we haven't found any cleanliness issues (and are really fussy), but I definitely notice I drop a lot of crumbs if I eat a crumbly danish - it kinda comes with the territory...I'd hate to see the streets in Paris!
I've been to "So French" twice since they opened and had great coffee and excellent pastries on both occasions. The second visit we picked up some salami, bread, cheese and pickles on our way to Tawharanui and the delicacies made an excellent picnic lunch. Great to see quality, French deli food available this far north of the city!
OK, I live near Warkworth and frequent the cafes very often (a little too often according to the Mrs!) principally for coffee, though I have been known to have the odd slice or muffin. My old favorite is Ginger Cafe as the coffee is excellent and the nibbles are very good as well.
Unfortunately, since the French Deli-Cafe has opened, I have changed allegiances, not because Ginger has dropped its standards, but the coffee at the French cafe is just that bit better, though only marginally (yes, I know, coffee snob).
I shall still go back to Ginger as I do rather like to sit outside, something not offered by the French cafe, but for perhaps the best coffee in the area, it now has to be the French cafe.
Vive la France!
We went there for breakfast as it was the only one opened at the time.
The menu offers a lot of dishes cooked French style, which is quite different compared to the ordinary cafes.
There are also jams, croissant and other baked goods for sale, both fresh and frozen.
Very nice seating as well.
I had big breakfast $30. Very filling and tasty. Not completely sold on the egg ramekin..... but it was OK. Wife had croissant $12. Very tasty, top notch. Coffee is good too. Lovely staff. Recommended.
😋 Beautiful cafe , creamy mushrooms were very delicious and also the coffee
Best French cuisine and coffee in Auckland 👍 staff are very friendly and attentive.
On top of that, the ambience is beautiful and inviting with comfortable seating arrangements and perfect for enjoying a quiet lunch out.
Highly recommend:)
♿🚻I enjoyed the environment of this wonderful cafe.. table settings are nicely set out.
The food looks delicious in the cabinet for your bakery 🧁 choice's.(check out my photos)
I ordered the big breakfast as I was feeling hungry.
Portions were small compared to the price from other cafés.
But tasty and delicious 😋
Nice service with a 😊
Outdoor seating
It wasn't very busy when we visited on Sunday, with plenty of staff available 👍. Our two drinks were very good and brought to our table in a timely manner. Unfortunately, our French breakfast (a croissant and French stick, heating only required) took a long time to come out of the kitchen.
We went for lunch this afternoon with my family and we had such a good time there. The food is incredible and we all ordered something different. I ordered the Croque Monsieur, which is a ham sandwich which has a white sauce and cheese grated over the top, which is then baked in the oven, accompanied with a green salad with seeds and dressing. The glorious amount of creamy sauce and stringy cheese is so so yummy! I think my meal was like $15 which is very good value considerating how MASSIVE my meal was. I also ordered an iced chocolate with a huge dollop of ice-cream in it. It wasn't hugely sweet which I liked but the ice-cream made it so delectable. The staff are very friendly and seem to want to make us feel very welcomed. Highly recommend for lunch or breakfast.
Early bird meals end at 11am but the breakfasts and lunches run till they close. Here are some pictures :3
2019 Friendly service w good food and coffee. 2021 Back for more at a favourite stop and an upgrade from 4 to 5 stars after finding out the pastries are brought in from France. Try the Pain au Chocolat. Exactly as it should be!
Love a So French breakfast. Good coffee and tasty patisseries. Croissants crispy and buttery, still warm out of the oven.
The pastry (ham and cheese croissant 🥐 was quite delicious despite quite a high price tag. Could be better with more seating
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