Things to do in Cambridge
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cambridge Museum
The quirky old Cambridge Museum, housed in the former courthouse, has plenty of pioneer relics, a military history room and a scale model of the local Te Totara Pa before it was wiped out.
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Cambridge Thoroughbred Lodge
Cambridge Thoroughbred Lodge, 6km south of town on SH1, is a top-notch horse stud. Book ahead for hour-long tours, or ‘NZ Horse Magic’ shows which take place several times a week.
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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.
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St Andrew’s Anglican Church
Don’t miss the impressive vaulted interior of the 1873 St Andrew’s Anglican Church, the oldest building in Cambridge (look for the Gallipoli window).
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Cambridge Raceway
The very verdant Cambridge Raceway is the venue for harness and greyhound racing three times a month. Check the website for dates and times.
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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’.
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