"Serendipity" means making pleasant discoveries by accident " Serendipity" Sippers are a group of Christchurch people who enjoy the art of good conversation, the ambience, service, food & company of each other at selected cafes around Christchurch & sometimes Canterbury.

We are looking forward to an exchange of ideas and information on Cafes across the paradise we call Christchurch and especially too new ones you have just sampled or heard of. Carpe Diem.

Has anyone been to Portstone Garden Cafe at 465 Ferry Rd Woolston or to The Good Life Cafe cnr Strickland and Somerfield Sts.nearly at Colombo st cnr. or The Coffee Worx cnr Grange St/Opawa Expressway owned by people who had the Harbourmasters Cafe on Norwich Quay Lyttelton.

OH DL you are putting on so much info that affects my tastebuds ( Can smell the Coffee)and the waistline but all the info is great.

Christchurch surely sounds like it has heaps of interesting Places to Walk with friends on Gups etc, and also to sample the wares..and The Cafe Culture is alive and well ..

Hope you enjoy the serene places

Cheers Kai

There is a nice cafe on Normans Rd as well, I am not sure what the call it.
A walk around this nexk of the woods as well is good. we do have a couple of parks close by

winelover Hallo, There is a little cafe on Normans Rd called French Blue where I met a mutual friend recently It has a lovely little garden area for 6 approx.Not a lot of food choice but good coffee and nice interior.It sits inside a Merivale type Giftshop.

We should all meet at the cafe on Strickland St tomorrow before decending on fellow GUPs

Has anyone one tried the new cafe in Harris Crescent off Blanch Street.. I will be checking it out soon as I am planning a walk in that area.

Just found this thread, Did you try the Good Life Cafe? Have been wondering about it, seeing as it is so close.

We were supposed to meet Winelover there for a quick cuppa on our way to the pot luck, but I was running so late we didn't make it. We have heard good reports...might be worth a try.

Morning all
Yes to the Cafe at Harris Cres and they have awesome bread, made on the premisis, The not open Mon orTues .
And yes the Good Life Cafe was a nice place, as well

At short notice I met Silverfern and her sister around the corner from there accomodation this morning at Grenadier Cafe & Bar 271 Madras St.at 10am We talked about what Gups had done for our lives and our common interest in Family History.
The coffee was OK. It is a pleasant cafe which could be very noisy but as there wernt many in at 10am OK. too.On a 1 2 10 a four.

I am updating a resource list of 110 cafes I did last year by placing the updated list into suburbs so when someone asks for ie a cafe in Linwood I can give them several in a radius of a km or two. Any new ones anyone? Dr. L.