Home Cafe @ Tanjung Bungah, Penang

Co-sharing the same space with Sunflower Bakery at Tanjung Bungah, Home Cafe is a relatively new cafe within the neighbourhood offering a small Western inspired menu. Contrary to the regular cafe in Penang that offers indoor seating, Home Cafe only has outdoor seat in a well decorated environment. This place offers aplenty of places to get a decent Instagram shot albeit with limited tables and the crew service was fantastic. If you are coming here, do take note the kitchen only runs for certain hours. Interestingly, Home Cafe features a "drive-through" windows to cater for those in a hurry. There ain't much to cheer about the food though.

The menu is pretty limited so we resorted to some unconventional choices for our lunch - Smoked Salmon Bagel (RM 14). While the bagel texture was done alright and there was a generous portion of salmon, the entire dish just did not feel great, probably due to cream cheese spread cup was being used instead of self prepared cream cheese. Though the crew reminded us additional cream cheese can be requested but we felt it was more of the quality and not quantity of the cream cheese that calls for all the differences. Moreover, the expected aroma from sesame on top of bagel was absence.

Pesto Spaghetti (RM 14) did not impress us neither. The pasta noodles were a tad dry for us to enjoy, and the entire bowl of dish tasted quite bland, perhaps we should go for the option to add chicken slices for RM 4. Pesto sauce was alright but not impressive, and it was insufficient to salvage the dry pasta noodles.

Cappuccino (RM 10) was a little too bitter to enjoy for our day. We were given a card to collect 10 cups of coffee order to enjoy a cup of free coffee.

Overall, the cafe concept is interesting and the crews' friendliness is an extra point but the food quality certainly need a buckle up.