A neighbourhood café, with the lights on early.

Above the bookshop on King Street since 2018. Single-origin coffee from the third-wave roaster down the road, a five-dish breakfast menu rotated monthly, and the only neon-free room on the strip.

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06daysOpen Mon–Sat

06:30Doors open

~32Seats

Single-origin coffee Five dishes, rotated monthly Newtown since 2018 No neon, no Wi-Fi Single-origin coffee Five dishes, rotated monthly Newtown since 2018 No neon, no Wi-Fi

— Our story

One room, six days a week, since 2018.

Marigold opened in March 2018 above the bookshop on King Street. The room was a defunct manuscripts office. The original tin ceiling is still there. So is the original kettle.

We don't take walk-ins between 7:30 and 10:30 weekends. Bookings only. The five-dish menu rotates the first Monday of each month.

"The kettle is older than the lease. We've never replaced it. That's the rule we run the whole café by." — Greta & Tom, owners

— A fortnightly cross-section