Dôme Café

Dome is amazing. In a market of fierce competition they manage to provide fresh decent food with lots of salad options and good prices that keep us coming back. Something for everyone on the menu, serves are very generous with all the right trimmings and quality ingredients and sufficient table service. The Hillarys Dome offers the best fresh breakfast options at the best price compared to every other café there.

I’ve never had a bad experience at any Dome that I’ve been to and Hillarys is no exception. Superb location, very friendly and helpful staff, perfect coffee and a fresh, delicious vegetarian wrap made for a great few hours while I waited for my cousins to come back from their whale watching trip.
Dome is one of the few chain cafés I’ll visit after consistently poor experiences at most of the chain cafés I’ve tried. It’s also WA owned and I love the earthy colours and simple décor. Very homely and relaxing.
The other reviewers must’ve got out of bed on the wrong side or just hate Dome for some reason!

A beautiful spot and a glorious morning with a healthy appetite to boot, but disappointment is soon felt when trying to crunch into unripened fruit, one then searches the bowl for what looks to be ripe and is forced to leave a third in the bowl.
Ok a sip of coffee eases the pain, now for the ham and eggs benedict, frustration level is now fairly high as my knife cuts through a solid egg, no lovely yoke oozing out, nothing. I labour through the rest as my hunger wants to eat the leg off the table.
A good place for a coffee

I’m not a big fan of coffee chains, for all the regular reasons. I have a less-​regular reason, too, and that’s the fact the way they try and convince me that they’re anything other than a chain. It’s amazing how people will fall for a bit of varnished wood and fake mahogany and other simulacra of old-​world charm. They can’t be falling for the coffee. Or can they?
They certainly can’t be at Dôme, which consistently turns out some of the weakest and worst-​tasting coffee around. I’m also not a huge fan of its menu, which I found overpriced on the page and dully pro forma on the plate. It is true that there is something pleasant about the design of the place – the high leather chairs, the small round tables, the general sense that the place has been done up to evoke the stereotypical Parisian or Viennese café – but the more Dômes one visits the more one realises that there is nothing unique or organic about any of this. At which point the design, like the coffee itself, begins to leave one with a bit of a foul taste in the mouth. Do yourself a favour and head over to Toscanini’s instead.