Laneway Espresso is a café at 329 Durham Street North in the Christchurch CBD, serving Allpress coffee. The menu leans on breakfast and brunch: free-range eggs poached, fried or scrambled on country sourdough toast, house-made potato hash topped with poached eggs and hollandaise, and house pancakes with mixed berries and freeze-dried mandarin. Oats come slow cooked with house-made berry jam, or toasted with Greek yoghurt and bush honey. Lunch includes a Pure Angus beef burger with Laneway chips and a Caesar salad with a soft poached egg. Add-ons include bacon, cold smoked salmon and extra eggs.
Open Locally lists 22 other cafés within a kilometre, so this is a busy part of town for coffee. The Apron, 0.2 kilometres away, is rated 5.0 from one review. Foundation Cafe, 0.4 kilometres away, is rated 4.4 from 806 reviews. Gloucester Street Deli and Pomeroys Old Brewery Inn are both nearby and have no rating on Open Locally. Our view is that it is a good spot in the city for a quick bite or a long brunch.