Urbis

The Urbanists

The Morningside Precinct is an unabashedly bold new dining development built around the relics of a bygone curtain factory. Since it opened only last year in mid-November, of late, it has been a food and drink cache for those who know where to find it: behind the train tracks of Morningside’s purlieus industrial area, on the fringe of Auckland city.

In this trove, the coffee and food are excellent. It’s also dripping with a much-touted cool factor – something that quickly grew with the help of the Precinct’s first tenant, Crave café . For the local coffee cognoscenti, this was of little surprise. The eatery’s previous haunt,

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