Coffee Cats

You'll find yourself on The Strait—that brilliant cobbled stretch between the Cathedral and the High Street—and Coffee Cats does exactly what it says. The coffee's genuinely good (they're not messing about with their espresso), but it's the resident cats that give the place its personality. It's not saccharine or overdone; they're just there, doing cat things while you're trying to concentrate on your cappuccino. The space itself feels lived-in and unpretentious, the kind of place where locals camp out with laptops or meet mates without feeling rushed. Staff know what they're doing, and there's proper attention paid to the actual coffee quality—which matters.