Café Ahoy

You're walking along the Beach Boulevard stretch and the Inspire Building pulls you in with its glass frontage and sea views. Café Ahoy does that rare thing of being genuinely welcoming without trying too hard—the kind of place where your flat white arrives exactly how you like it, not how some manual says it should be made. The menu keeps things straightforward: good toasties, proper sandwiches, cakes that don't taste like they've been sat under heat lamps since breakfast. It's become the sort of spot where you'll bump into the same faces, whether they're grabbing a quick coffee before work or settling in for a longer sit-down with mates.