Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981
Eating out — Raquets Restaurant
Eating out
Raquets Restaurant
Located in the Squash Centre across Kelburn Parade, Raquets Restaurant is a comfortable and pleasant cafe with a great view, tasty food and open all day. Opening at 7.00am, the menu offers both a Continental breakfast and the traditional bacon and eggs. The basic menu continues all day with quick snacks and takeaways available also and the range covers steak and salad at $5.00, vegetarian, cheese or meat salads at $2.80, soup and garlic bread at $1.40, and coffee or tea at 50c.
The food is simple, fresh, well-prepared and wholesome. The salads are crisp and dotted with delicacies such as walnuts and raisins. The steak is well cooked and a respectable size. Although not gigantic, the helpings are enough to satisfy all but the most ravenous hunger, and the restricted variety is largely the result of low patronage, an easily solved problem.
The Restaurant is open until 7.00pm, but if there is sufficient demand these hours may be extended. As part of the recreational facilities the rest of which are open until 11.00pm, this cafe could easily become an evening facility for those sentenced to long hours in the library.
All in all a pleasant and unpretentious experience, well worth trying.