Matheson Café is a café at the gateway to the Lake Matheson walk, at 1 Lake Matheson Road near Fox Glacier on the West Coast of the South Island. The café serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, with a menu built on local ingredients, and it has a gift shop, ReflectioNZ, next door with Kiwiana souvenirs, merino clothing and West Coast greenstone jewellery.
The café is a short walk from the lake and its mirror reflections, and the website says the three viewing platforms along the walk look out over Fox Glacier and Mount Cook. Its coffee is described as barista-made, and the café says it has a warm and comfortable setting. The lake has long been a traditional food-gathering place for Māori, and the walk is a common visit for people staying in Fox Glacier and Franz Josef. Our view is that it is a good place to stop for a coffee before or after the walk to the lake.