The Vogue Cafe, Macquarie Park

Hidden in a corner off the main shopping areas of Macquarie Centre, The Vogue Cafe can be identified by its long queue, tables overflowing into the pathway, and their eye-catching display of food and drinks:

Selection of Slices and Cakes

More Baked Goods *drools*

Assorted Cronuts ($6.50) - just look at that oil seeping onto the serving platter...

The Vogue Cafe is well-known for their funky-looking specialty drinks so I decided on the try one on offer:

Coffee ($3.50)

Salt Lake City ($9) - Smoothie using Salty Pretzels,
Organic Coconut Oil & White Chocolate,
finished with Awesome Surprises

The Salt Lake City looked amazing, as do most of their drinks, however its taste did not match the visual expectation. I'm not sure how much organic coconut oil was blended into the smoothie but it tasted like they mixed in thickened cream (and I'm not referring to the healthy dose of whipped cream at the top), making the entire experience off-putting. I didn't finish it. :(

Lemon (or was it Orange?) and Poppyseed Cake; Nutella Scroll

When you order cakes to eat in, they get served on a platter with a drizzle of choc and is decorated with lollies. I found the lemon/orange and poppyseed cake to be rather dry and the buttercream wasn't any good (too much butter, not enough icing). On the other hand, there was a general consensus at the table that the nutella scroll was good and definitely the better dessert of the two - this was potentially down to the generous amount of nutella in the scroll.

I'd be hesitant to try another of their specialty drinks - they're rather expensive for something that looks good but tastes meh. Maybe I just lucked out and got a dodgy one. However, I would recommend the nutella scroll - unfortunately The Vogue Cafe (and its sister cafe - The Missing Piece) make their desserts on rotation so these are not always available.