Café Parisien

a slow weekend in the new forest doesn't demand much of you, and lyndhurst's high street is exactly the kind of place where you can let the morning go long. café parisien at 64 high st has built the sort of reputation that takes real consistency to maintain, the kind where locals keep coming back not out of habit but out of preference. it's independently run, it's specialty-focused, and it doesn't feel like a compromise for being in a small market town. you get what you'd expect from a place that clearly takes its coffee seriously, without the performance that sometimes comes with that in bigger venues. the high street itself is unhurried on a sunday, and that pace suits the place well. start with a cortado.