The Broadway Tearooms & Bakery is a cafe and bakery at 31 Broadway, the main street of Reefton in the Buller district of the West Coast. It sits in a historic gold-mining town on the route over the Lewis Pass.
Country tearooms live by their morning bake. Bread, pies and pastries come out early, the best of them rarely see the afternoon, and the queue of high-vis vests and school bags by mid-morning is the surest sign you've found a good one. Just as important is the role these places play as the town's front room, where the coffee has to be as dependable as the baking and news changes hands across the tables.
On Reefton's Broadway, The Broadway Tearooms & Bakery sits where the town's history and the highway meet — a natural pause before the road carries on.