The Great Cafe sits at Shop 8/120 Sunnynook Road in Sunnynook, on Auckland's North Shore, and carries a 4.6 rating from 225 Google reviews. Reviewers call it a standout for its clean, thoughtfully designed space and friendly service, with the Allpress coffee and the sausage rolls coming up often.
A suburban cafe lives or dies by its coffee, and in Auckland the name on the beans tells you a good deal — Allpress, roasting locally since the late eighties, has long been shorthand for an espresso taken seriously. The cabinet is the second test: sausage rolls and slices made in-house usually signal a kitchen that cares about more than the headline dishes. Regulars also learn a cafe's rhythm — the weekend brunch rush to dodge, the quiet mid-morning stretch when the flat white lands fastest.
For Sunnynook locals, this corner of Sunnynook Road has clearly found its regulars.