Cafe Malaahi is a cafe at 87 Broadway in Kaikohe, in the Far North, holding a 4.6 Google rating and keeping its Facebook page for updates. In a town like Kaikohe, a good cafe is part kitchen, part meeting place: somewhere locals catch up over flat whites while travellers off the Twin Coast Cycle Trail or bound for the Hokianga refuel. Expect counter service, a cabinet of fresh-made food and coffee that has to hold its own against the regulars' standards, since country-town cafes live on repeat visits. A useful habit is to ask what was made that morning — the good ones will tell you straight. On Kaikohe's main street, Cafe Malaahi sits right where those locals and travellers cross paths.