Slake Coffee House

Espresso, filter, and a brunch plate

The counter at Slake’s Jacobins shop handles both halves of a modern coffee house: espresso drinks pulled with care and manual filters brewed as their own job. Slake has been working in Lyon and Annecy since 2015, drawing on New Zealand café habits, and it treats the room as a daily place rather than a destination. Coffee anchors it. The house works with local roasters and traceable beans from small producers, and the baristas run V60, Chemex and Aeropress alongside espresso, americano, cappuccino, flat white and latte, the last of them finished with careful latte art. For anyone stepping away from coffee, Golden Milk and Green Tea Latte are the two named alternatives.

All-day brunch with the pastry made in house

Food is not a sideline here. Breakfast and brunch run all day, with Turkish Eggs the dish that comes up most often, scrambled eggs on the standing list and seasonal plates changing around them. Pancakes and granola bowls sit in the same structure. Vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and lactose-free options are available every day rather than arranged on request, which makes the kitchen easy to use for a mixed table. The pastry side is Anglo-Saxon in style and made in house daily: cookies, brownies, cheesecakes, carrot cakes and banana bread, with the cookies and the banana bread the two that regulars name first. Between the cake counter and the brunch plates, the café covers most of the daylight hours without changing character.

A daytime room in the city centre

The Jacobins room is built for use rather than for occasion. It is warm and unhurried, with music kept low, lighting that works for reading or a laptop, and both indoor and outdoor seating, so a quick espresso and a two-hour brunch fit the same space. The team is a visible part of the offer, and the service runs friendly rather than formal. For a first visit, order the way the house is built: a flat white or a cappuccino to see how the espresso is dialled in, or a V60 if there is time to sit with a filter. Then choose between the savoury side and the cake counter, which is where the Anglo-Saxon influence shows most clearly.