CambridgeRestaurants

Restaurants in Cambridge

  1. Red Cherry

    With happy staff and a cherry-red espresso machine working overtime, barn-like Red Cherry offers coffee roasted on-site, delicious counter food and impressive cooked breakfasts (perhaps oat hotcakes or a breakfast risotto). It’s Cambridge’s best cafe by a country mile (it’s actually a country 4km out of Cambridge on the way to Hamilton). There are a couple of tables outside, too, if you feel like sniffing the bucolic splendour.

    reviewed

  2. Boatshed Cafe

    The Boatshed Cafe on the lakeside (take Gorton Rd from SH1) sells mainly homemade food, some of which is gluten- and dairy-free. The rowing boat of Olympian Rob Waddell is part of the decor – he used to practise here. Basic kayaks can be hired for $20/40 per half-/full day or better ones for $25/50. You can paddle to a couple of waterfalls in around an hour.

    reviewed

  3. Onyx

    All-day Onyx occupies a lofty space, with onyx-black furnishings and a warm-toned timber floor. Wood-fired pizzas are the mainstay, plus salads, tortillas, sandwiches, steaks, cakes and good coffee. At night it’s almost urbane.

    reviewed

  4. Cafe Oasis

    It’s a strange combo – from the name you’d expect felafels but instead you get blaring FM radio and a menu that’s half authentic Thai, half classic European. Fusion be damned.

    reviewed

  5. Rata

    Sit in either the funky old shopfront or the courtyard garden for, as the local media described it, ‘robust food – nicely cooked and plenty of it’.

    reviewed