LB & Co is a modern, warm suburban cafe bar on Creyke Road in Ilam, Christchurch, serving breakfast, brunch and lunch. It opens at 7am on weekdays and 8am at weekends, and closes at 4pm every day. Inside there is seating for 50 to 60 people and outside for about 30, so it suits a long breakfast with friends as well as a quick coffee. The food menu is available on the website for anyone who wants to look before they go.
Ilam has a close cluster of cafes, and Open Locally counts seven other cafe listings within a kilometre of this one. Cafe Elia and Nuts and Bolts Cafe are both about 100 metres away, and The Coffee Hut is about 700 metres off. Cafe Elia and The Coffee Hut are rated 4.8 and 4.9 on Google, so LB & Co sits in the middle of the nearby group, with a rating close to Nuts and Bolts Cafe. In a suburb with this many cafes so close together, a bar-style room has to win its regulars every morning, and this one is built for a lingering breakfast in the middle of Ilam. Our pick in Ilam for a slow breakfast with a coffee and a seat outside.