Review Cahoots Cafe - Greytown

Very funky cute café. Shame it was a cold wet Monday. Coffee was very well made.

Very cosy. They let us keep our elderly small dog with us in the covered area just outside main cafe. Staff all stopped to acknowledge our dog and made us feel so welcome. Muffins are old school huge and delicious.

Enjoyed a quiet coffee and a nice pie here. The quality of the food was great. There was a good range of cabinet food and warm offerings. Coffee was good and the prices were reasonable. Would definitely come here again.

Coffee is great and cheapest that I've come across at the time of this post. Thoroughly enjoyed the bacon eggs Benedict with home made hollandaise sauce. Bacon was yummy.

Fantastic breakfast! Scrambled eggs and bread were really great. People very friendly and helpful. Highly recommend!

Lovely people, good food. Thoroughly enjoyed our visit and will go again

Another visit to Cahoots cafe in Greytown, as they have the best pies around. Great coffee, great staff. Blackboard menu and cabinet food. Right on the Main Street with parking at the door. Inside/outside seating. Hats not to like?.

Lovely little place to stop for lunch. Not really suited for large families/groups but great selection of food and good coffees! We've stopped by a few times now without the kids! Definitely recommend!

Beautiful breakfast, the food was delicious and the staff really welcoming and friendly. We had Parkvale mushrooms and bacon, Eggs Benedict and two cups of tea $42

I visited Cahoots on behalf of a friend who had passed away, Cahoots was her favourite cafe. As always the BEST and funny service by Kerry 😀 and best yummy scones! Just right coffee. And fab banter👍👍

Very great friendly service, kindly made me a vegan gluten free toasted sandwich with no snarky remarks which i highly appreciate haha. Good coffee too!

Been to this place twice would not mind going there again. Have just had a coffee so not much to say but yes it does have toys if your little one is keen on playing.

Dropped by for a coffee passing through and the service was amazing! Such lovely people with genuine interest and a homely feel to them. My boyfriend and I were on the look out for opshops in the Wairarapa and staff were kind enough to let us know of all the ones around along with directions. Coffees were great too, coming from being picky baristas ourselves, props to these guys! Definitely gonna make this our go-to spot on trips through and try out the food next time round for sure!

Great food and big portions at a very reasonable cost. I love their pâté. It's a great place to hang out and take you time to read the newspaper <br/>

Cahoots is a special little place. I've come here with my partner for two things. The coffee is never a let down and the Paté is AMAZING! <br/>Highly recommend the place for break-lunch!

Poor service , man on till chewing gum/food. Coffee taste like water, poorly extracted . Very unclean and obviously no customer service skills, was being quite rude to people in front of us. Wouldnt give half sized milk shake to a child. Would not go back !!

You possibly have to be a local to really appreciate cahoots. It's like an old pair of slippers - pretty well used but you'd never want it to change. All of the staff are characters and although at times you might feel intimidated - don't be - they are priceless. The barista is quiet, the guy who runs the place can look grumpy, his missus is lovely, and they had, unfortunately (and I mean that) now gone, one of the most abusive waiting staff I've ever known - but everyone has a good sense of humour. <br/>There are a couple of eating spaces - the main one by the counter and a very basic addition that keeps the weather off and through that, a small outside seating area. However its worth sitting by the counter just to listen to the banter between locals and staff.<br/>The coffee is always good - the quiet one knows how to make good coffee and the food never fails to please. My go to is a takeaway coffee and the bacon butty (they'll usually make a fresh one if run out) - the big breakfast is a good solid start to the day. <br/><br/>Although the michelin inspector isn't likely to call anytime soon, I'd rate this place very highly - the individual components of service and ambience may not score highly if you took them out of context, but, the atmosphere together with the food, as a complete package is priceless.<br/>Yes some of the plants are terminal, yes it's chaotic, but hopefully it won't change one bit (and hopefully not a spring clean) for a long time. <br/><br/>A Wairarapa classic

We have been wanting to try this place for a while – since seeing the Rob Pfeffer review here. I remember in about 2003 the place had awesome sandwiches but I cannot recall if it was the same owners or name. I suspect not. <br/><br/>My first impression of the place is that it needs a damn good spring clean – it’s not unsanitary but could be a lot tidier (especially the outdoor smoker’s area at the back). We sat there because it seemed quieter, not to actually smoke, and there was no one else out there. There were random cardboard boxes on the ground and the door to the loos kept flying open. Kitchen noise was prominent. There were a lot of dead pot plants that should have been thrown out ages ago. <br/><br/>The staff were very pleasant but there was quite a wait for our meals – I had the Cahoots mixed grill & a pot of tea, hubby had the eggs benny & a banana milkshake. The portion fitted the pricing and everything was cooked satisfactorily. It was all very bog standard - neither terrible nor outstanding. Might go back, might not.<br/><br/>My husband’s point of view is as follows:<br/><br/>Yesterday we drove from Lower Hutt with the specific intentions of brunch at Cahoots, and getting out into some sun.<br/><br/>Service at the counter was good, if a little flustered. Orders were placed for an Eggs Bennie with sides of bacon and hash browns with a banana milkshake, and a ‘Cahoots’ big breakfast with English breakfast tea. $42.00 all-up which seemed reasonable and a nice change from the ‘big city’ prices.<br/><br/>Finding somewhere to sit was an adventure as the tables were a mish-mash of sizes and the seats ranged from those that you would be happy to have in your home to a $9.99 for a pack-of-six plastic seats that you buy for a New Year’s Eve party that don’t matter if they get broken. We moved to the outside smoking area (as indicated by the still-full ashtrays) to a more comfortable table in a quieter area.<br/>The environment here was not that good. There’s ‘neglected’ in a certain clean, arty way and there’s ‘neglected’ in a can’t-be-bothered-cleaning-this week way, and this appeared to be the latter. The wooden structures were dirty and cobwebs abounded, cardboard boxes lying around that should have been in a bin and as mentioned the ashtrays were still full from presumably the day before. But it was quieter than inside so we sucked it up.<br/>Eventually the food arrived, and it was ok. One of my two eggs was overcooked and hard, which is a cardinal sin on an Eggs Bennie, though the rest of it was ok. The missus was reasonably happy with hers; she said the mushrooms were excellent though the sausages were ‘dry and wizzened’. She was happy with the quality and quantity of her tea, and my ‘shake was pretty good too.<br/><br/>We ate and left straight after. Not really an environment for a relaxing wind-down after eating.

This Cafe looks nice from the outside , don't be fooled.<br/>The staff there have a terrible attitude and the coffee is pretty average.<br/>There are plenty of alternatives in Greytown.

Yuck! We tried Cahoots last Sunday and will NEVER be going back. It was mid afternoon so it wasn't unexpected that the kitchen was closed, but I do wish we had taken that as a sign and left. We ordered toasted sandwiches, which for $6 each I expected something reasonably tasty. After waiting around 20 minutes what we received were two soggy toasted sandwiches made with sandwich bread (again for $6 you would expect something slightly better). Along with our food was a knife wrapped in a napkin, but whoever had been responsible for doing the cutlery must have had dirty hands as there was food smeared into both napkins at the seal. Yuck. The whole place had a grubby feel and the table we sat at was dirty also. I wish we had gone down the road to the White Swan!

Driven past this place many times but won't do that again. Excellent breakfast and service very friendly. Happy to accommodate changes to menu items and from a very fussy coffee drinker the flat white was superb. This is our new Wairarapa breakfast stop which we found because our usual Greytown stop has gone so far backwards we won't go there any more.

My husband and I went to Cahoots for a couple of coffees. There were two women doing a crossword together at one of the tables. After we had been standing for a while at the counter, one of the women got up, came around behind the counter and took our order. She then stuck the order on the coffee machine without saying a word, and went and sat down to continue her crossword. After a minute had passed and no one had done anything more, I asked her to get someone to make the coffee. She reluctantly got up, went to the kitchen, then sat down again. <br/><br/>A guy came out, and made the coffees quickly. I thanked her for getting someone and she ignored me completely.<br/><br/>We found this all very odd. I guess this is a "locals only" place? Average coffee and decent service do not have to be mutually exclusive.

Best pies I have ever tasted - so fresh and full of flavour