The Loft

Walk up the stairs on Market Street and you've found the sort of place locals actually queue for—not because it's Instagram-friendly, but because the coffee's genuinely good. The Loft does that rare thing of feeling both unpretentious and proper; you'll see builders grabbing flat whites alongside students camped out with laptops. It's the kind of café where regulars have their order down to muscle memory, and the staff remember what you take in it. The vibe is relaxed without trying, and there's real attention paid to what goes in the cup—this isn't mass-market coffee nonsense.