Kin

Kin is a café on Macquarie Street in Teneriffe serving matcha, coffee and seasonal breakfast food. Its offering covers familiar café fare with distinctive touches, including mushroom toast with mushroom pâté and tarragon, dippy eggs with aged Parmigiano Reggiano, and a pad kra pao jaffle made with Thai-style pork, chilli and basil. There are also options such as avocado, pancakes, rice pudding and an acai bowl, along with baked treats including blueberry loaf and a miso chocolate chip cookie.

Matcha is a clear focus, with an Uji ceremonial blend available hot or iced alongside more elaborate drinks such as pistachio matcha, vanilla bean matcha, miso caramel matcha and a strawberry matcha. The monthly feature changes, while the current Campfire Matcha combines lapsang souchong-infused maple, salted maple cream and black cardamom. Coffee comes from Almanac Coffee Roasters and includes milk coffee, cold brew, batch brew and a Mont Blanc made with cold brew and kinako cream. House-made masala chai and hojicha round out the drinks list.

Kin’s menu is seasonal, and the website describes the published selection as a snapshot of its current offering, so the in-store range may vary. The kitchen serves breakfast through the morning, with drinks continuing later; weekend service has an earlier finish. The site also notes outdoor seating only on weekends. With its focused drinks list, all-day-feeling breakfast selection and smaller baked offerings, Kin suits a solo coffee stop, a casual breakfast or a catch-up over something more considered than standard café fare.