Emperor's New Clothes is a small café on Dyers Pass Road, high on Cashmere Hill, rated 4.5 from 194 reviews, with customers praising the views, roadside parking, warm staff and a cinnamon roll worth the drive up. A café perched on a hill lives or dies on more than the view — people only keep driving up if the coffee and cabinet earn it. The cheese scone is New Zealand's quiet benchmark: fresh, crumbly and generously cheesed means a kitchen that takes baking seriously. Hill cafés run to the weather, too — sunny mornings fill outdoor tables first, and the best cabinet items are often gone by early afternoon. A view earns the first visit; good baking earns the second. On Dyers Pass Road with the city spread below, Emperor's New Clothes manages both — reviewers keep returning to those scones and cinnamon rolls.