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Atomic Roastery
420C New North Rd, Kingsland
It’s our favourite place to go in Kingsland, and not only when the sun’s out and you can nab a table on the street. Inside, it’s all industrial and modern, with the roastery off to the side. Although Atomic has a well-formed yet small menu and a sprawling counter of food, it’s coffee that rules here. Have it a multitude of ways — it’s all excellent.
Must-try: Almond, date and cinnamon bircher with poached fruit.
Atomic Coffee
Black & Gold Coffee/Eatery
1/33 Triton Drive, Albany
It may be the most surprisingly situated cafe in Auckland, a recycled-wood-and-vintage-knick-knack haven of cool in a nondescript business park on the outskirts of Albany. Owned by a couple of former champion baristas, Black & Gold is dedicated to excellent coffee, creative eating and eco-friendly values. Now, if only they’d start opening on weekends.
Must-try: Twice-baked French toast with cinnamon banana smash.
Coffee Supreme
Bolaven
597 Mt Eden Rd, Mt Eden
Classic egg breakfasts meet the punchy, bright flavours of Laos at Bolaven, where the efficient staff look dapper in their handmade grey plaid shirts, and oversize jars of pickles and dry goods make a neat feature wall.
Must-try: Free-range chicken with Asian herbs and larb dressing.
Eighthirty Coffee
The Botanist
City Works Depot, 90 Wellesley St, central city
Chef Sara Simpson has worked at The Tasting Shed, TriBeCa and Clooney and her culinary background shows in the inventive, vege-focused menu at this all-day cafe/bar/florist. We love the salads (her roast Brussels sprouts will make a believer of the most passionate sprout-hater), the coffee — and the exceptionally friendly service.
Must-try: Meatballs in a spicy tomato sauce.
Three Beans Coffee
Bread & Butter
34 Westmoreland St, Grey Lynn
This cafe revolves around its bakery, so an array of traditional European baked goods greets you. Tucked in off Richmond Rd, the space is light and bright, and the staff are always friendly. As well as a decent menu featuring omelettes on beautiful bread, Bread & Butter’s croissants are some of the best in the city. Good coffee, too.
Must-try: A croissant from the counter.
Five Elements Espresso
Cafe on Kohi
2/237 Tamaki Drive, Kohimarama
It’s ripe for a spruce-up but there’s a good reason why, almost a decade after opening, Cafe on Kohi is still crammed at the weekend: it does the cafe job extremely well. Service is calm and helpful, the food comes out surprisingly quickly, and out on the pavement is the perfect spot for a Champagne brunch.
Must-try: Truffled potato galette with garden greens and smoked fish/asparagus/bacon.
Allpress Coffee
Catroux
29 West End Rd, Westmere
This little gem in the Westmere shops serves up arguably the best coffee in the strip, with a menu to match. The salads are loaded with seasonal vegetables, and the cakes are worth making room for. It is clean and modern and incredibly welcoming. It’s recently changed its coffee to the excellent eighthirty, too.
Must-try: Homemade lamingtons with cream.
Eighthirty Coffee
Charlie & George
38-60 Stonefields Ave, Mt Wellington
As part of a big residential development that’s very much ongoing, Charlie & George is a beacon, a community cafe that feels welcoming: a big bright space, and service that is notably friendly. Hopscotch out the front is a nice family touch.
Must-try: Stack of corn wafers, spicy chicken, watercress and crème fraîche.
Kokako Coffee
Chuffed
43 High St, central city
At a time when excellent cafes are popping up in the most far-flung suburbs, there’s still a surprising lack of ambitious cafes in the CBD. An honourable exception is new-ish High St eatery Chuffed. Chef James Kenny has worked in Melbourne, Paris and London and his lunch dishes wouldn’t look out of place on the menu of a smart city bistro. Other things to like include the enormous courtyard and the fact they’re now open Saturdays.
Must-try: Wild boar ragu with lentils, tomato, smoked feta and baked egg.
Chuffed Coffee
Craft Kitchen
2 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby
We’d say every cafe on our list cares about what you eat, but few take it to the hand-crafted, ethically produced, healthy and artisanal level of Ponsonby newbie Craft Kitchen. They mill their flour, they’ve got paleo, the bacon is Harmony free range, the coffee is ethically sourced Millers, the milk is organic Green Valley… and while none of that would matter much if it didn’t taste great, we can happily report that it does.
Must-try: Haloumi and mushrooms on toast with tomato.
Miller’s Coffee
Dear Jervois
234 Jervois Rd, Herne Bay
David Lee, owner of Milford’s Little King, opened Dear Jervois earlier this year, marking the biggest shake-up of Herne Bay’s cafe scene in years. We’re so impressed by the menu, with its vegan and gluten-free saintliness and plenty of opportunities to sinfully indulge, and the stylishly grungy room is pretty great, too.
Must-try: Banana and nut gluten-free waffles with manuka honey gelato.
Coffee Supreme
Federal & Wolfe
10 Federal St, central city
Just a short walk from the city tower blocks and chain cafes, Federal & Wolfe feels like a different world. It’s an appealingly ragtag room — all mismatched furniture, pot plants and painted slogans — from which to watch the world go by. As at its sister cafe, Domain & Ayr, organic, free-range and ethically sourced ingredients are the order of the day.
Must-try: Smoked-fish kedgeree with poached egg.
Kokako Coffee
Federal Delicatessen
86 Federal St, central city
There’s so much to admire about the Fed — that fantastic reuben sandwich, for one, and those unfailingly friendly servers, for another — but perhaps the very best thing about Al Brown’s NY-style deli are the booths: private, comfortable and cosy, they’re one of our favourite places in the CBD to while away an hour.
Must-try: Chicken salad sandwich with chicken skin “crackling” and dipping gravy.
Coffee Supreme (no espresso)
Fred’s
181 Ponsonby Rd, Ponsonby
There’s always a smile to greet you behind the bright orange door tucked away at the top of Franklin Rd just off the Ponsonby Rd strip. Fred’s has a small but well-thought-out menu, with regulars all morning getting their daily Supreme fix. The black-doris-plum milkshakes are a dream, too.
Must-try: Breakfast bruschetta with avocado, basil, ricotta and a boiled egg.
Coffee Supreme
Good One
42 Douglas St, Ponsonby
We’ve always loved the achingly cool Good One, and last year’s expansion and facelift (featuring sunny yellow accents inspired by their huge collection of National Geographics — around 4500 and counting) provided a most delightful makeover. The coffee is exceptional, and the baking is delivered fresh from Little & Friday throughout the day.
Must-try: Cream doughnut and an espresso.
Coffee Supreme
Heaven Scent
St Patrick’s Square, Wyndham St, central city
Why do we have so few good upstairs eateries? It’s a delight to sit in the window of this large, airy room, watching the world slow down in the graceful piazza below. Heaven Scent was opened by the Heavenly Pies people from Hobsonville Point market so they could bring their wares to town, and we bless them for it.
Must-try: Slow-roasted pork belly pie.
Eighthirty Coffee
Ima Cuisine
57 Fort St, central city
Ima’s founder-chef, Yael Shochat, is famous for her hot-cross buns and her family-style dinners. But her all-day restaurant also boasts some of the best brunches in town. Ima’s shakshuka is infamous, and rightly so. Shochat is opening an authentic deli just down the road; she wants to make Israeli breakfasts a thing here. We can’t wait. Editors note 17.11.14: Once Ima Deli is open (due late November), breakfast and lunch service at Ima Cuisine will cease.
Must-try: Shakshuka baked eggs.
Be.Specialty Coffee
Imperial Lane
7 Fort Lane, central city
What might be black marks in others’ hands — the gloom, the sloping floor — contrive only to make Imperial Lane more appealing. There’s a surprisingly extensive brunch menu and light meals available throughout the day.
Must-try: Sardine rillettes.
Caffe L’affare Coffee
Jam Organic Cafe
33-45 Hurstmere Rd, Takapuna
The Takapuna Beach Cafe may get the headlines, but locals in the know continue to flock to Jam. Why? It must be the tasty, ethically sourced menu, charming service and that wonderful site on the edge of Hurstmere Green.
Must-try: Mahy Farms beef burger.
Velvet Coffee
Kokako
537 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn
You might overlook that it’s a vegetarian cafe when perusing the menu here — everything sounds so good, and it tastes that way too. The cafe is the hub of this ethical coffee brand and sits in a beautifully converted post office in the Grey Lynn shops.
Must-try: Buckwheat flour pancakes, with changing seasonal accompaniments.
Kokako Coffee
