Cafe 37

Head down to Cathays and you'll find Cafe 37 tucked away on Salisbury Road, the kind of spot that locals have quietly adopted without needing Instagram to tell them it's good. The vibe is genuinely unpretentious—exposed brick, mismatched furniture, the sort of place where you'll see students hunched over laptops next to retirees reading the paper. They're doing solid coffee (the kind that doesn't taste like it's been through three filters), proper cooked breakfasts that won't mess about with microgreens, and sandwiches that actually taste like food. It's the sort of cafe that feels like it's been there forever, even if you've only just discovered it.