Patronized this restaurant for drinks and desserts...

Patronized this restaurant for drinks and desserts in a group of 5. It was 9.30pm by the time we reached after dinner at another establishment. We wanted to give our friend (the birthday girl) a surprise.

When the waitress saw that we had a cake, we were informed that there is a cake corkage fee of $40. Completely blew our minds. But as it was close to the 10.30pm curfew for alcoholic drinks. We settled to have the desserts and drinks WITHOUT cutting the cake and singing the birthday song. In the end we sang the song in our car instead
Minus one star.

The panacotta was good. Sorbet was meh and the beer was good too. But we felt the prices here were not justified so minus another star. Have a try and you'll know what I mean.

The pizzas do intrigue me but it'll be a long while before I come back after tonight's experience.

Prices like this, you'd probably want to consider being more accommodating to your customers. I don't mean you should let everyone do it since you're selling slices of cakes yourself but I mean come on, it's not like we're not ordering your items and it's already close to your closing time. But insisted on $40 cake "corkage" fee to have a birthday cake? Minus one star. To each their own, but if you don't want to have $40 (+GST I'm guessing?) added to the cost of your cake, then better to celebrate birthdays elsewhere unless you're celebrating with the slices on their menu :)