Mt Atkinson Coffee Shop — formerly known as The Tannery Café — sits on Portage Road in New Lynn, West Auckland, and is a place to enjoy, relax and be inspired. Open Monday to Friday from 6:00am to 2:30pm, it serves what the team proudly calls the best brew in the West, alongside tasty, good food for breakfast and lunch.
What makes it special is that the coffee is roasted right onsite. Peer through the window and watch the beans dropping out of the roaster, then grab a bag to take home. The drinks menu has something for everyone — flat white, batch brew or nitro cold brew — and the shelves are stocked with fresh roasted coffee, brew gear to up your coffee game, and goods made in Aotearoa. If you need a thoughtful, locally sourced gift, this is your place.
Behind the counter there's a bigger purpose: the company's mission is to connect your cup of coffee with real community change for coffee growers in Uganda, East Africa. When you visit, the team will happily tell you more about how the coffee you're drinking is transforming lives on the other side of the world. Nau mai, haere mai — all are welcome.
On Portage Road in New Lynn, in the heart of West Auckland, Mt Atkinson Coffee Shop — formerly known as The Tannery Café — is a place to enjoy, relax and be inspired. That's how the team describes it, and it fits: this is a café where the coffee is roasted just metres from your cup, breakfast and lunch are served with care, and every purchase is tied to a mission that reaches coffee-growing communities in Uganda, East Africa.
Doors open at 6:00am on weekdays, making it a natural first stop for early risers, commuters and locals starting their day. Service runs through until 2:30pm, so it's firmly a breakfast-and-lunch destination — plan your visit for the morning or midday rather than the after-work wind-down.
What sets Mt Atkinson apart from an ordinary neighbourhood café is that the coffee is roasted onsite. Peer through the window and you can watch the beans dropping out of the roaster — a little bit of theatre that ends with bags of fresh roasted coffee on the shelf, ready to take home. That freshness is what underpins the team's claim to serving the best brew in the West.
Because the shop doubles as the roastery's front door, the retail shelves are well worth a browse. They're stocked with fresh roasted coffee, brew gear to up your coffee game at home, and goods made in Aotearoa. If you need a thoughtful, locally sourced gift, this is the place to find it.
The drinks menu has something for every kind of coffee drinker. The flat white — New Zealand's classic — is the natural choice for many, poured from beans roasted in the same building. Prefer filter? The batch brew is brewed and ready to pour. On a warm day, the nitro cold brew brings a smooth, creamy chill. And it isn't just drinks: the kitchen serves tasty, good food for breakfast and lunch, whether you're settling in for a relaxed meal or grabbing something on the run between errands in New Lynn.
There's a deeper purpose behind every cup here. Mt Atkinson's mission as a company is to connect your cup of coffee with real community change for coffee growers in Uganda, East Africa. When you visit, the team will happily tell you more about how the coffee you're drinking is transforming lives on the other side of the world — the kind of conversation that turns a quick coffee stop into something a bit more meaningful.
Beyond your order at the counter, the shop works as a small, carefully stocked store. Fresh roasted coffee sits alongside brew gear and goods made in Aotearoa, with locally made items that make genuinely thoughtful gifts for friends, family or the coffee lover in your office. Whether you're topping up your own bean supply or picking up a present, you can do it while your coffee is still warm.
Mt Atkinson Coffee Shop is at 44b Portage Road, New Lynn, West Auckland, open Monday to Friday from 6:00am to 2:30pm. Come for an early flat white, stay for lunch, watch a roast through the window and ask the team about the Uganda story — it's all part of the visit. Nau mai, haere mai: welcome.
If you can't make it in person, Mt Atkinson also runs an online store offering beans and ground coffee, blends, single origins, bundles, subscriptions and limited releases, with free shipping on orders over $45. But the roastery window, the smell of fresh beans and the people behind the mission are best experienced in person — so put Portage Road on your map.