About
Secret Recipe Dataran Larkin is a cafe known for its wide selection of cakes and standard menu offerings. While some guests appreciate it as a quiet space for relaxing, recent reviews report significant concerns regarding slow service, unprofessional staff attitude, and inconsistencies in food quality compared to other branches. Customers have also reported dissatisfaction regarding the handling of delivery orders and promotional information.
Due to these recurring issues with service efficiency and communication, guests are encouraged to clarify promotional terms with management upon arrival and manage expectations regarding wait times. We have marked this as needing review due to persistent reports of poor service standards.
Getting There from Singapore
- About 4.5 km from CIQ checkpoint
- Grab or taxi recommended (approx. 5-10 min ride)
- Alternatively, take a local bus from JB Sentral
Details
Phone
+60 7-232 8367
Address
Ground Floor, 25, Jalan Dataran Larkin 3, Taman Dataran Larkin, 80350 Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Ta'zim, Malaysia
From JB CIQ
4.5 km
Opening Hours
Monday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Visitor Reviews & Tips
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Recent Google Reviews
R2
The food is standard, but the service is slow—perhaps due to a lack of staff in the restaurant. Still, it's a nice and quiet place to grab a bite and relax.
Nor F. M.
Foods are served hot, but one of the meals is too hard(rice) but the staff willing to exchange with new rice. The service is too slow despite only 3 customers in the shop. Nice cafe for celebrating birthday or instagram purpose. But the staff need to be more efficient I guess.
jayden
Cake nice as usual, dine in a few times in this and other outlet but had a bad experience this time during delivery(first time ordering grab delivery from this outlet). My cheesecake was smashed on the sides and the biscoff biscuit was also crushed...was meant to order for my friend as a gift, lucky i had open up to check each individual box before giving it to my friend so as not to give this damaged slice... On a sidenote, i do appreciate and like how secret recipe packs each individual slice of cake in each individual box which is also easy to eat or bring out as its one slice per box.
Nourhan Lang
We arrived at 9:15 pm. The waitress was cleaning and wiping the table and asked us to change seats. The other waiters pretended not to see us and the cleaning lady come served us with gloves and wrapped our cake with the cleaning gloves in her hands. This was very unprofessional. Bad attitude from one of the leading outlets in Malaysia. The food is not as tasty as other branches of Secret Recipe. And I don't know why the ingredients are not like the name of the food. It tastes sour like the face of a waitress dressed in a black color and cappuccino too sweet.
David Leong
Would give 0 stars if I need to. Z - E - R - 0 Absolutely misleading customer information. We informed the waitress/cashier in advance that we wanted to qualify for the complimentary cake and drink promotion using the credit card. Secret Recipe (SR) should at least mention that their complimentary cake and drink promo is specifically any cake below rm8.80 and their drink is ONLY iced lemon tea for using a Maybank Card. No mention whatsoever. Ended up ordering a cake above rm8.80. Fine, so I agreed, and asked for an RM 8.80 cake and iced lemon tea. Guess what the store manager says? "Oh, we've already given you a gift voucher, so that's the promo. So the promo is either a voucher OR the complimentary cake/drink." WHAT?! Where in this reputable establishment was it stated that a promo of SR's choosing can easily replace any promo that they so vividly display on the customer's dining table? Absolutely poor customer service. Here it is, in point form: 1. Slow, nonchalant and indifferent attitude. 2. When we complained about the misinformation, the store manager just turned his/her eyes elsewhere. Don't try anything kuey teow here. The noodles were tangy (kenyal), they'd be mistaken as rubber noodles.
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