Cafe Coco

Café Coco is one of Adelaide’s ‘unsung’ cafés. Unsung because while it may do everything well, it does nothing outstandingly well. But perhaps that in itself is worth a small song.
Tucked in an outside corner of the Port Mall, this eatery had on deck about five staff on a Friday lunchtime — a sure measure of value.
Indeed, the place was full of shoppers, children, blokes in hi viz gear and blow-​ins like us.
Well, the red plastic chairs were particularly comfortable. A good start. My gold standard for assessment (as well as service and taste) is how well a place does a double cut ham and cheese roll and a 600ml iced coffee. I’d had four coffees by this time on the day we visited Café Coco, so I apologise for not rating their coffee. I could feel the caffeine swirling in my bloodstream as it was!
Anyway, Coco delivered with ease. I was cheerfully served a fresh, soft roll, two layers of cheese and several, albeit thin slices of tasty ham. The iced coffee was pleasantly chilled, and after our lunch, I felt that I had dined well. I add that I am a man of simple tastes!
My partner washed down a toasted steak sandwich with a pot of tea. She commented that the tea made two generous cups, and that the steak sandwich, with egg, was well up to the mark.
Our meals cost us just over ten dollars apiece.
No wonder the place is busy.

Café Coco is a nice little café at the entrance to the mall that, while nice, doesn’t really offer anything revolutionary.
That’s not to say it’s a bad place. It’s a decent café, and I enjoy it. It’s just that I wouldn’t go out of my way to visit it.
If you’re in Port Adelaide you’ll get a nice feed, that much I can promise you. May I suggest the milkshakes? Not if you’re on a diet I suppose, but they do make a nice one here. That’s about the only thing I can think of that stands out.
I’m probably making this sound really bad, and I don’t mean to. It’s a good café, the food is good, the service is good. It’s all… good!
It’s just not great. Then again, I’m probably being too picky…