The Cookhouse Café

You'll find The Cookhouse Café wedged into Queens Road in the heart of town, where it's been quietly earning its stripes with the breakfast-and-lunch crowd. This is the kind of place where they're not trying to reinvent the wheel—they're just executing the basics properly: proper eggs, decent coffee, toast that doesn't apologise for itself. The vibe is deliberately unfussy; you're sitting next to someone reading the paper and a couple of mates catching up over tea, and that's exactly the point. It's the sort of café that works because nobody's overthinking it.