Clifton Cafe

good coffee in rugby tends to sneak up on you. clifton road isn't a destination street, it's the kind of route you take because it gets you where you're going, which makes finding something genuinely considered at number 33 feel like a small piece of luck. the café has built the kind of local following that takes consistent work to hold onto, not the fleeting attention of a good opening week. if you're the sort of person who notices when a flat white has been thought about rather than just assembled, this is worth the detour off the town centre. regulars come back, which is the least complicated measure of whether a place is doing something right. clifton road on a weekday morning, flat white in hand, is a reasonable argument for slowing down.