Beauty & THE FEAST

First opened in 2001, Eutopia Café had fallen into disrepair when Marijke Valkenburg and her husband Robert terVeer bought it in 2014. They imagined eighteen months of solid slog should do the trick to upgrade the funky coffeehouse, but it was five years before they opened in April 2019. Now Eutopia serves breakfast, lunch and coffees, with as much organic food as possible, in an environment that sparks the imagination and draws in ever more curious visitors and day-trippers.

FEAST YOUR EYES

It’s listed on the Snap Happy Travel Blog as one of ten cafés with the best views in the North Island – but the difference is that Eutopia’s ‘views’ are all about the premises themselves.

The Mirror Dome, for example, is one of the small eating nooks. The domed ceiling is