Drive Time Delights is a cafe on Dundas Road in the small Manawatu village of Sanson, and its 4.8 rating from 97 Google reviews suggests it has made a name with locals and passing travellers alike. Cafes on a state highway route live and die by a few simple things: coffee that arrives quickly, a cabinet kept well stocked through the day, and food generous enough to justify pulling off the road. Regulars on long drives tend to stop mid-morning or early afternoon, when the baking is freshest and the rush has passed, and they judge a place on whether the flat white and the pie both earn the detour. The best roadside cafes treat the pause as part of the journey rather than an interruption to it. For anyone crossing the lower North Island through Sanson, Drive Time Delights looks like exactly the kind of local stop worth making time for.