Toast'D is a cafe at 167 Gordon Road in Mosgiel, on the Taieri Plain a short drive from Dunedin. It holds a 4.6 rating from 64 Google reviews, and its Facebook page stands in for a website.
A provincial cafe lives or dies on two things: the coffee and the cabinet. In a town where the flat white is the default order, regulars judge a place on properly textured milk and a cabinet that looks as fresh at ten as it did at eight. Timing helps too — early callers beat the weekday commuter rush and the Saturday brunch queue. And since small cafes often post their hours and specials only on Facebook, it pays to check before a special trip.
On Gordon Road, Mosgiel's main street, Toast'D sits handy for the town's daily coffee rounds and for travellers heading south.