Crave Cafe

Wow. This is a surprising place. Very good no carb Thai salad. Nice décor and near the Courier Post depot !

Crave is a local delight situated right next to the Morningside Train Station with limited street parking out the front. With its vintage furniture and décor, Crave is warm, inviting and cozy. Perfect for a late breakfast, lunch or afternoon tea. They offer a full menu all day long (my favourite is the Beetnut — a vegetarian extravaganza ! Those candied walnuts blow my mind every time!) as well as a selection of sweets and salads in the cabinet — perfect if you’re in a rush and need something to take on the go.
I always appreciate a business with branded coffee cups — and Craves coffee not only looks the part — but smells and tastes just like perfection also. The barista will happily banter with you as you wait for your morning brew — customer service that can be lacking in a lot of Aucklands rush hour coffee spots.
Don’t forget to sign up to Crave Rewards. They have instructions on their website or in the café. You collect points with your eftpos card — $ 1= 1pt. I’ve had multiple free coffee and 2 for 1 vouchers sent to me already… Perfect for those days when your short on loose change, or better yet — you want to shout your bestie or loved one to a morning out… Have a meal on Crave !

Super busy little café! Great value for money! Our food arrived pretty quickly after ordering. I didn’t know what to get so ordered the full crave. Potato cake would be nicer if it was crispier, but the eggs were poaches perfectly :)

This place does the best coffee in town so be warned, it may ruin you! The brunch menu is diverse and everything sampled is delicious. The café has a really nice vibe with a good range of seating. Love the projected menu on the wall. Most amazing to us is the speed at which the food is served. Even as a group of 5 we’ve never waited more than 10 min for our brunch. Phenomenonal service, food and support for the local community.

Great café. Enormous serving size for the black bean quesadilla, and open chicken sandwich! Yum.

I love everything about this place.
The food and coffee are both excellent. I love the fact this place is a collective (it’s explained enough in the other reviews, I won’t go into it here)
I love the vibe of the place. It’s somewhere I could happily spend time just sipping a mocha and reading my morning emails (or Facebook news feed)
Really tucked in the middle of an industrial area, Crave is a real diamond in the rough.
As the slogan States, ‘doing some good in the hood’, Crave did some good in my belly.

Everything we had was amazing. Loved the creative dishes with excellent quality veggies and delicious sauces. Non– profit so all proceeds go to charity.

Crave is a great café located in a semi industrial area of Morningside near Kingsland. Crave is a collective café — it was created by a group of locals and was never designed to make anyone rich. Instead all the profits go straight to combating poverty, so every time you grab a coffee or some food from Crave you feel like you’re doing your bit to help.
While located in quite an industrial area, Crave itself is also quite industrial looking — concrete floors, beams, quite a lot of open space — it fits nicely with the location. The décor however is quite miss-​matched and eclectic; stainless steel stools, coffee sack tables, a blackboard menu, lots of bright orange decorations, retro couches and lamps — while pulling off the industrial look, this décor adds an element of comfort and familiarity that reflects the community based, friendly atmosphere of Crave café.
As well as having a great vibe and attitude, Crave also has great Supreme coffee. It’s all fair-​trade — and smells incredibly delicious. Whenever I walk past on my way to the gym I have to work very hard not to be lured inside!
Bonus: Crave also hosts little exhibitions that show local artists work. This café is all about the community and giving back — they’re even looking at hosting a street party sometime soon!
Tip: You can also hire Crave for private functions– my friend had her 21^st there and it was the perfect venue.

I love this place because it isn’t simply another café, it’s a collective set up by a group of neighbours who were all looking to create a better neighbourhood for them to live in. It’s a charity, they don’t keep any of the profits it all goes towards poverty. They also offer the walls of their café as a gallery space for local artists to display and sell their work. Now the café itself is super cool, really trendy with industrial style décor and the best part? Their tables are made out of old coffee sacks! Their coffee is great, they use supreme coffee beans which we all know taste uh-​mazing. I have always received such friendly service here, I’m not sure whether the people who started the collective actually work in the café but either way the staff are fab. Crave doesn’t just stop at coffee either, they offer smoothies and cabinet items, an all day breakfast menu and a lunch menu. With heaps of free parking outside on the street, it couldn’t be easier to visit this café… so do it.