Treetops
Treetops has closed, the apparent victim of capitalism. They have been replaced at their lovely location by Barristas, who shall be the subject of a review at some later time. In the mean time, take your desire for focaccia downtown.
Treetops is a small concern, hidden away in the heart of the University of the South Pacific Laucala Bay campus. Despite being right next door to the student dining hall, it has manages to remain the sort of place you can have a leisurely lunch.
This little restaurant is run by the USP Catering Services department, but is open to the public. The interior is cramped and somewhat dingy, but the balcony provides a very pleasant lunching environment, and on fine days one can make use of 4 out-door tables.
My main interest in Treetops is their grilled Focaccia sandwiches. These are offered with a pick-your-own-fillings approach. The Lunch In Suva team are pleased to report (after a bit of experimenting) that the combination of cheese, tomatoes, gherkins, sliced black olives and onion makes an excellent vegetarian focaccia. At $5.50 this makes a good-sized lunch.
The same focaccia bread is also on offer as a variety of mini-pizzas with pre-ordained toppings.
With the exception of the grilled vegetable platter, I am unable to recommend anything from the grill. Actually come to think of it, I can recommend that you stay as far away from it as possible.
Treetops offers one of the few salad bars in Suva. Sadly it is an annoying affair. The thrill of getting cheap ($2.50) salad soon wears off when the salad bowls are no bigger than those little space-savers airlines prefer, and the serving implements never seem suited to the various bits of greenery they are intended to transfer. I have dropped as much salad on the floor as I have ever managed to fit into those bowls.
The usual range of soft drinks, the odd fruit juice, and a very average espresso menu round out your meal options.
In Summary:
- Treetops
- USP, Laucala Bay Campus
- Opening hours
- 10am - 5pm Monday to Friday
- Spend
- $5 - $7 per person
- Verdict
- A big thumbs-up for anything with focaccia bread. Thumbs-down to the grill.
8 comments:
Cool bananas! Even cats pajamas! re- vegetarian focaccia!
Sounds very affordable and nice. wonder how big the serve is...
Have not been into the University for ages now! Have something to look forward to now. The gym is an excellent facility, but I would go there for food.
-Vegetarian
The focaccia is the size of a small dinner plate ... a goodly serve and it can be hard to get through if you're not running on empty.
vegetarian, i hav to agree with you! gym facility is just lovely! well i am planning on trying out treetop sometime very soon^^
...the staff are a little morbid... but the food is alright I reckon.
Had some chicken n chips with gravy n salad with a fren on the balcony n it was lovely!~for 5.50 a serve, its worth it! And ur drinks come in those lovely tropical punch glasses...add in two straws n voila! u hav an almost tropical-like getaway experience in the city ;) The tropical look is complemented with the FIJI Water umbrellas for the outdoor seats...
Only con is that the balcony table is so low(or is it my stool so high)that I feel like I have to squirm my eyes to look at my food...had some trouble navigating the distance from my plate to my mouth,plus my salad kept falling out due to the small dining plate..hehe but all in all, a great place to escape to-
This place is now closed for business and opened wit a new name. dont know how it is but someone can update the site.
Tree Tops is now a Barristas Coffee shop. Barristas specialise in pretty good coffee and wonderfully bland food in undersized proportions but charged at jumbo size. Their marketing boasts of a chef unfortunately he has had his creativity gland removed and has a morbid fear of flavour.
Wow, have times changed. I remember that was the best place in USP for a Milo (50c) and pikelet (spelling?) after classes. Used to hang around there a lot until Southern Cross opened, then we switched over because of the hot chocolate. Good times at SC coz you could basically scoop your own, and we'd scoop 3 heapfuls from the tin until they wised up and did the scooping for us. Then we discovered mixing their hot coffee with hot chocolate, yum! In the end I think it was a group of us that made them decide that offering hot chocolate wasn't worth it, lol.
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