Ginger Bird Cafe is a country cafe on Taonui Road at Colyton in the Manawatu, holding a 4.6-star Google rating from 336 reviewers. A rural cafe tends to serve two crowds at once: locals who use it as the district's meeting place, and visitors for whom the drive out is half the point. The good ones are judged on the fundamentals — coffee made properly and baking fresh that morning — rather than anything fancy. Weekend brunch is typically the busiest spell, so a weekday visit is the quieter bet, and regulars learn to ask what came out of the oven that day. Out in the Manawatu countryside, Ginger Bird Cafe is a well-reviewed stop on Colyton's Taonui Road.