Lid & Jar - Chatswood

Great spot for breakfast or a quick lunch. Great variety and large portions. Flavourful food. Fast service and excellent coffee. Nice spot if you're eating solo or with a group.

Usually just go for their coffee as it's one of the best, after we've tried several other coffee places around and still ended up coming back to here every time.

Arrived on a Sunday morning expecting to have to wait as it looked very busy but 3 friends and I were seated within minutes. Great menu with lots of good options - hard to decide. French toast was yum, well seasoned and bacon was done well. Only feedback was that toast was too thick for my liking. I would have preferred two thinner pieces. Friends were very happy with their choices of eggs bendict and breakfast bruschetta. Milkshake was highlight for me - honeycrumb - think the crunchie chocolate bar! Yum!

One extreme to the other here - I feel sorry for the kitchen staff. Front of house are completely letting them down. Came for dinner on a Thurs night - food was awesome. Organisation and management was non-existent. Checked out the menu online, looked good so we booked. Firstly, the hours - all over the place. Arrived 5:40pm, told kitchen doesn't open til 6. Website says 9am-9:30pm. Menu says Dinner 5:30-9pm. Kitchen closed by 7pm?! Ordered a bottle of wine - the cab sav on the menu they don't have so got something else. Food menu - completely different to the one online so if you're looking forward to something you see there - don't be. (Actual menu much smaller) went to order a pasta dish to be told sorry not available and they kindly added there was another dish not available. We discussed the menu and made specific reference to desert because it sounded so good and the waitress acknowledged it was awesome (and available!!). Food came out - shared squid for entree, confit duck, burger and zucchini spaghetti dish. Nothing but praise for the food, honestly all dishes were very tasty, fresh and generous. Finished up dinner, looking forward to ordering desert. Took forever to get someone's attention to be told sorry, they've closed the kitchen. It was 7:10pm?! In surprise I said the lady who took our order knew we wanted desert. The waitress couldn't have cared less. She agreed to do it take away after we requested but returned with the cost of the desert and said they couldn't do it. Seriously - service was terrible and on that basis, hard to give a decent rating. I'll stick to coffee from this place - they're nowhere near cut out for cafe/restaurant service based on what we experienced.

One extreme to the other here - I feel sorry for the kitchen staff. Front of house are completely letting them down. Came for dinner on a Thurs night - food was awesome. Organisation and management was non-existent. Checked out the menu online, looked good so we booked. Firstly, the hours - all over the place. Arrived 5:40pm, told kitchen doesn't open til 6. Website says 9am-9:30pm. Menu says Dinner 5:30-9pm. Kitchen closed by 7pm?! Ordered a bottle of wine - the cab sav on the menu they don't have so got something else. Food menu - completely different to the one online so if you're looking forward to something you see there - don't be. (Actual menu much smaller) went to order a pasta dish to be told sorry not available and they kindly added there was another dish not available. We discussed the menu and made specific reference to desert because it sounded so good and the waitress acknowledged it was awesome (and available!!). Food came out - shared squid for... read more