Cafe Novella is a cafe at 7 Iver Trask Place in Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast, rated 4.5 from 126 Google reviews, with visitors praising the relaxed atmosphere, friendly staff and smooth coffee, and returning often to the cheese scones and fish pie. Any good New Zealand cafe lives or dies by its cabinet: food made fresh that morning, where a proper cheese scone — dense, generously cheesy, best eaten warm — says more than a menu ever could. Coffee is the other quiet test; a flat white consistent from one visit to the next is what turns a first visit into a habit. Regulars know to arrive before midday, as the pick of the cabinet rarely survives the lunch rush, and an outside table is worth claiming early on a fine day. With reviewers singling out its cheese scones and fish pie, Cafe Novella makes an easy, rewarding stop in Paraparaumu on the Kapiti Coast.