Editor Pick
Paekakariki Cafe
- May 1, 2006
- Rated 5 of 5 by
stomps from Houston, Texas
I arrived in Paekakariki in the morning, and proceeded to hike on the paths surrounding the town; I didn't arrive back to the little main street until 3:30 in the afternoon. I hadn't even remembered about lunch until I walked past the Paekakariki Cafe and smelled the wonderful food!
While I was on a budget, and it was tempting to just grab a bag of chips from the one corner store and keep moving, there was too much allure to the Paekakariki Cafe to pass it up. It had the highest density of people I saw in the entire town; this still wasn't a huge number of people, but it had a great atmosphere. It felt like a place that I could sit down and read a book in all day.
The food was absolutely delicious. I had a difficult time choosing between all the pastries and the like on display; I finally decided on a focaccia pizza (I don't remember the exact price, but it was probably around $7NZ—it seemed that everything in the cafe was reasonably priced, with actual meals coming in around $10 to 15NZ). that was incredibly tasty and better than most other concoctions I had ever tried on a slice of focaccia bread. I was tempted to take another one for the road, but decided it might not transport back to Welly so well.
The only bad thing I could find about this cafe was the fact that it was in Paekakariki rather than Wellington itself, so I couldn't come back to it again; then again, one of the good things about it was the fact that it was the cafe of Paekakariki, rather than just another cafe on a strip of Wellington street.
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