FortyFive Vinyl Café

You'll know FortyFive by the speakers spilling jazz or lo-fi hip-hop onto Micklegate—this isn't background music, it's the whole point. Walk in and you're immediately surrounded by vinyl, the kind of collection that takes actual curation, not just nostalgia shopping. The coffee's genuinely good (they're not just riding the records thing), the pastries rotate with intention, and there's always someone hunched over a table with a laptop or a paperback who looks like they've been there since opening. It's the sort of place where you can legitimately spend three hours and nobody minds.