Part of The Coffee Club's New Zealand family, the Bayfair café sits inside Bayfair Shopping Centre at the corner of Maunganui and Girven Roads in Tauranga. The proposition is a simple, familiar one: good coffee, wholesome all-day breakfasts and café favourites, served in a relaxed setting that works just as well for a solo coffee stop as it does for a family table.
The menu runs from All Day Breakfast and Classics through Burgers, Sandwiches, Tacos & Nachos and Fresh Salads, with a dedicated Kids' Meal menu and full hot and cold beverage lists. Standouts include the Brioche French Toast loaded with banana, caramel, mascarpone and Oreo crumble, the Loaded Fried Chicken & Bacon Croissant — a fan favourite that earned a permanent spot on the menu — and the plant-based Vegan Crispy Chicken Noodle Salad. As the brand puts it, the menu is "designed to satisfy every craving. Pair it with your favourite coffee and make yourself at home."
Beyond the counter there's a VIP Club with exclusive member perks, The Coffee Club gift cards that can be bought and balance-checked online, ordering ahead through the brand's Order Now platform, and a rotation of limited-time specials — including a collaboration with Cookie Time that brought the new CookieBake Slice into stores for a limited run.
Tucked inside Bayfair Shopping Centre at the corner of Maunganui and Girven Roads, The Coffee Club Bayfair is the Tauranga branch of one of New Zealand's most familiar café names. It is built around a simple idea: a good café should work at any hour, whether that's the first coffee of the morning, a long weekend breakfast, or a proper lunch in the middle of a shopping trip.
The menu follows that idea faithfully. "From wholesome breakfasts and café favourites to indulgent treats and refreshing drinks," the brand explains, the menu is "designed to satisfy every craving. Pair it with your favourite coffee and make yourself at home." It's an unpretentious promise, and it's exactly what regulars come back for — familiar food, done well, in a relaxed setting.
The backbone of the offering is the All Day Breakfast range — breakfast is not a morning-only event here. Alongside it sit the café Classics, a line-up of Burgers, Sandwiches, Tacos & Nachos, and Fresh Salads, with a dedicated Kids' Meal menu for younger guests and a full range of Hot and Cold Beverages to round things out.
Some plates have built a following of their own. The Brioche French Toast is the indulgent one, loaded with banana, caramel, mascarpone and Oreo crumble — the kind of dish that gets photographed before it gets eaten. The Loaded Fried Chicken & Bacon Croissant proved so popular it earned a permanent spot on the menu. And the Hot Honey Chicken Burger plays heat off sweet, served with crispy chips because, as the brand says, one craving deserves another.
The kitchen keeps up with how people eat now, too. The Vegan Crispy Chicken Noodle Salad brings "all the crunch, all the flavour, and none of the compromises," as the brand puts it — a genuinely plant-based plate rather than an afterthought. Families are looked after as well: the Kids' Meal menu means smaller appetites get a proper option, and the breadth of the main menu means a group with very different cravings can still order together.
Coffee remains the heart of it. The Coffee Club built its name on coffee, and the Bayfair café pairs its food with a full hot beverage list plus a cold lineup for warm Bay of Plenty days. Recent seasons have brought playful additions like the Banana Bread range, which takes the classic loaf flavour and turns it into a frappe, a cold foam or a latte. For something on the side, keep an eye out for limited-time treats — a collaboration with Cookie Time brought the new CookieBake Slice into stores from late August through October.
There's more to the brand than the counter. The VIP Club unlocks exclusive perks for members, and The Coffee Club gift cards — easy to buy and balance-check online — make a simple gift for the coffee lover in your life. If you'd rather skip the queue, online ordering is available through the brand's Order Now platform, and new dishes and seasonal specials tend to appear first on the brand's Instagram.
Being inside Bayfair Shopping Centre makes this an easy stop to fold into the day: shops, parking and the café are all in one place, whether you're meeting a friend, fuelling up the kids, or taking five between errands. If timing matters for your visit, it's worth confirming opening hours with the café before a special trip.
Whether it's a slow breakfast that stretches toward lunch, a quick flat white between shops, or a burger-and-chips kind of day, The Coffee Club Bayfair does the simple things a café should — and does them every day.