The best coffee on Parnell Road (although Expresso Workshop around the corner is also vg). Gif and Tony are so delightful and consistent in their service and quality of coffee. A great team.
Scores highly on weekend brunch although is quite dear.

Mink is an interesting place, it looks like a trendy cafe – but then you realise they serve Gravity coffee and question how trendy can they be (if any staff from Mink read this – might I suggest buying Havana Coffee from Wellington).

So I had the Mink Breakfast Grill – their big breakfast. Most of the breakfast was ok, the poached eggs were overdone (which is a pet hate) and the spiced sausage was more odd than spiced, but overall it was a good although average feed.

I was avoiding the coffee so had a Chai Latte, yes I know its just flavoured milk – well at least it normally is, Mink just serve frothy milk with cinnamon on top.

Despite that, service was great. Our waitress was attentive and service was fast. Having to deal with snobby Parnell people, I can imagine being a waiter/waitress in that area would not be easy. So they deserve some credit – service is the only thing that differentiated this place from a 3 star rating and a 4 star rating.