Cafes in your area (North Island)

[1/32 man]

Not one for reviews but like to make recommendations...please add yours.

As I am in Hawkes Bay here are a few that I have had good eperiences at.

Cafe Norsewood....Norsewood
Hatuma Cafe...Waipukarau
Paper Mulberry....Te Aute
RedBridge Coffee container...Havelock North
Adoro....Ahuriri Napier
Cafe 5 Tarawera....Tarawera State Highway 5

[Laava]

Brown Sugar, Taihape
Helena Bay cafe, Helena bay hill
utopia Cafe , Kaiwaka
The Office cafe, maungatapere
Old Parakao Store, parakao-twin bridges
marina Cafe, Baffin St, Opua
The Deck, Mcleods bay-whangarei heads

[R650R]

Couple of my fav locals are already busy enough so not sharing lol but others of note in last couple years of travel:
Nth Island
Hui hut Mangakino great coffee and awesome choc brownie
Ernesto’s in Wellington killling time before ferry.

South Island
Picton village bakery - an affordable non glitzy cafe on outskirts of CBD, limited seating as it’s more your tradie lunch bar type place but good food.
Courthouse Cafe Collingwood
Stone Oven Bakery Hokitika - good sit down coffee and meal in town centre
Beechwood’s Murchison big new place good value feed. Stopped here because the awesome Commercial Hotel and Cafe that was across road has been demolished due to quake stuff.

A couple of outstanding mentions due to quality of coffee
Tees st cafe Oamaru
Oasis cafe Omarama

[Burnie]

Franks Cafe - Ohakune

[pritch]

This is more difficult than it should be. My favourite cafe recently changed owners - and the beans they use. Their coffee, formerly excellent, is now crap.

My main source of coffee now is a pub, Stumble Inn. Their coffee is not a ten out of ten but it's acceptable. You do need to know where to park, it'll cost sixty bucks if you get it wrong.

Similarly there are several cafes in Oakura but they are all closed by mid afternoon. The pub, Butler's Reef, isn't and last time I had a coffee there it was good enough.
There is a glazed seating area overlooking the road, pleasant if it's not too hot.

A club I have cause to visit regularly used to have an urn of hot water and some Nescafe. They have a new machine and the bar staff have received barista training. Their coffee seems fine. Following the AGM Saturday there was a free drink to all attendees. There were probably more coffees served than beers.

Just a thought, don't overlook the pubs.

[Vinz0r]

If you're in Hamilton, Brown Brothers Raglan Roast, on Te Rapa Straight.
Consistently fantastic coffee at a good price, and the cafe is an old drilling workshop.

[1/32 man]

Thanks gentlemen...keep your recommendations coming.

There were probably more coffees served than beers.

This makes me think NZ men might be changing/have changed.
I visited the Blackdog in Matamau before it closed after the sad death of its owner and an old biker mate was there. He looked up and down the table and said, "Nobody drinking?" as he clutched his beer. We were all on Bundaberg ginger beer.
Maybe the idea that alcohol and riding motorcycles isnt a great mix is settling in?

[neels]

Stopped here because the awesome Commercial Hotel and Cafe that was across road has been demolished due to quake stuff.

That's a bit sad, but explains why last time I was there hunting out some dinner it looked very permanently closed.

My main source of coffee now is a pub, Stumble Inn. Their coffee is not a ten out of ten but it's acceptable. You do need to know where to park, it'll cost sixty bucks if you get it wrong.

Seems this is not a unique problem, although after a bit of negative publicity it's likely the problem will solve itself.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plent...ng-two-coffees

Just a thought, don't overlook the pubs.

I suspect most pubs that are open early hours would make more from coffee than anything else these days.

My only recent outing for a coffee up north, Papamoa bakery did a presentable coffee to go with an equally presentable sausage roll. Otherwise I'll give anything a go that looks reasonable and isn't a starbucks/coffee club/other equally faceless corporate franchise.

[frogfeaturesFZR]

DD’s cafe in Waitoki, and The Ginger Crunch in the old railway station in Helensville are worth the stop.

[speedpro]

Cafe Norsewood....Norsewood

I can second Cafe Norsewood. Very good

[pritch]

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Seems this is not a unique problem, although after a bit of negative publicity it's likely the problem will solve itself.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/bay-of-plent...ng-two-coffees

That is savage.

[BikeLED]

Not one for reviews but like to make recommendations...please add yours.

As I am in Hawkes Bay here are a few that I have had good eperiences at.

Cafe Norsewood....Norsewood
Hatuma Cafe...Waipukarau
Paper Mulberry....Te Aute
RedBridge Coffee container...Havelock North
Adoro....Ahuriri Napier
Cafe 5 Tarawera....Tarawera State Highway 5

The Figgery at Te Mata is bloody good. 205 Napier Road. Great coffee and if you're peckish, have a look at their antipasto platter - a great selection of comestibles. https://tematafigs.co.nz/pages/cafe

The Craft and Social in Hastings is good too. Good coffee, and a pint if you need it: https://craftandsocial.co.nz

[Moise]

Where do I start…. I won’t mention any Auckland cafes as no one comes here unless they have to.

The ones that come to mind immediately are:

Whatawhata cafe. Decent coffee and food and it’s just the right distance from home for a break if I’m heading south-west.

Te Uku Roast Office. If you ride from Auckland to Raglan the back way (was SH22), this is the first place you can get a coffee after leaving Tuakau. There are any number of decent places in Raglan, but sometimes you just need a coffee now, and it is very good.

The coffee cart at the pub in National Park. If it’s a nice day, you can enjoy the view with your coffee, and if the weather is shit, as usual, you can go inside the pub and warm up by the fire. (The cafe round the corner from the GAS has gone, unfortunately.)


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[wetanz]

i drink an unsweetened long black and find it difficult to get a decent one, roasters and baristas here tend to burn their coffee - i carry a box of JEDS #5 coffee bags and a tin-mug, just get a fill of boiling water - also usually carry a small primus-can make a coffee pretty much anywhere

-have found a couple of surprises tho - somewhere between Kaukapakapa and Silverdale i found a coffee cart sitting in the middle of an empty paddock - was ok
-in the basement, entry from the road at the back, Shetland rd?-Glen Eden-Akld, sozo coffee house was a pleasant find
-beside the barn, opposite Tomarata rugby club (Wellsford), was a decent coffee and sausage roll
-sh10 roundabout to Paihia (Pie-here) at Puketona is actually not a bad pie
-the red bakery bottom of Kaikohe does an ok pie too, just watch the chinese girl, she deliberately steals your change
-sh10 Awanui, Big River Cafe, coffee wasnt bad either, the bloke seems to enjoy cooking too
-if youre waiting for the ferry at Rawene, the Boatshed does a lovely burnt coffee, but its nice sitting on the deck out the back over the water

JEDS #5 keeping you alive

[pete376403]

i drink an unsweetened long black and find it difficult to get a decent one, roasters and baristas here tend to burn their coffee - i carry a box of JEDS #5 coffee bags and a tin-mug, just get a fill of boiling water - also usually carry a small primus-can make a coffee pretty much anywhere

Not a cafe but a bean roaster to try - CoffeelaLa from Coromandel, their La Bomb roast I find is perfect for an unsweetened black. (Long or otherwise) I have tried the Jeds bags but found it rather bitter.
https://www.coffeelala.com/