Cafe Alfresco

You'll find Cafe Alfresco tucked on Victoria Street, the kind of spot locals actually queue for rather than walk past. It's got that genuine Italian café energy—small, unfussy, the sort of place where the staff know what they're doing with a coffee machine. The sort of spot where you pop in for a quick cortado and somehow end up staying an extra twenty minutes because the pastries are genuinely good and nobody's trying too hard to Instagram it all. It's become a proper fixture in St Albans' café scene, the kind of place that proves you don't need craft nonsense or laboured branding to do breakfast and coffee properly.