Daily Latte & Tea Room is a cafe at 2/249 Stanmore Road in Richmond, Christchurch, rated 4.8 by 136 Google reviewers.
The hardest trick in the cafe trade is serving both coffee and tea properly. Most cafes treat tea as an afterthought — a teabag in a cup — while a proper tea room cares about the pot, the brewing time and a cabinet of home-style baking to match. Somewhere that sets out to do both is worth judging on the tea as much as the flat white: ask what leaf teas are on offer, and whether the pot gets a fair chance to steep. Regulars also know the cabinet rewards an early arrival; the best slices and filled rolls are usually gone well before lunch.
On Stanmore Road in Richmond, Daily Latte & Tea Room looks well placed for exactly that kind of unhurried visit.