Aunt Ginger's Kitchen is a cafe at 52 High St North in Carterton, holding a 4.7 rating on Google and a spot on the town's main street. A good small-town cafe usually does two jobs at once: it pours the coffee and serves as the district's unofficial meeting room, which makes timing everything. The cabinet — the display counter of pies, slices and filled rolls — is at its fullest in the morning, and the pick of it tends to be gone by early afternoon. Coffee varies more between cafes than anything else on the menu, so it pays to try a flat white before ordering anything fancier. Regulars arrive ahead of the mid-morning rush, when the seats are easy and nobody hurries anyone. On High Street North, Aunt Ginger's Kitchen gives Carterton the kind of main-street cafe every small town wants, and its 4.7 rating suggests plenty agree.