A thick piece of brûléed fruit toast cooked in butter ($25 as at 2026) sets the tone for this Grey Lynn cafe, where breakfast and lunch drift easily into afternoon drinks. The kitchen leans into punchy, savoury combinations across plates and sandwiches, turning out folded eggs with ’nduja and Aleppo chilli butter on house seeded toast ($18 as at 2026), raw tuna on hash browns with smoked red pepper ($25 as at 2026), and Ortiz anchovies with taramasalata, soft egg, and salsa verde ($24 as at 2026). Substantial counter-style choices include a bacon, cheese, lettuce, and tomato pesto butty ($19 as at 2026), cured ham with herbed egg salad and pickled zucchini ($24 as at 2026), and smoked kahawai with pickled green tomato and capers ($24 as at 2026), alongside baked pasta in mozzarella and tomato vodka sauce ($32 as at 2026).
Drinks cater just as comfortably to daytime work or unwinding, spanning an oat matcha ($8.50 as at 2026), iced rhubarb and ginger shrub ($8.50 as at 2026), iced pu’er peach tea ($8 as at 2026), a hot, iced, or tipsy Vienna coffee ($11 as at 2026), through to craft beers, chilled reds, Bordeaux, and Champagne. You will find it along Williamson Avenue on the border of Grey Lynn and Ponsonby.