Curnows Cafe

coffee here leans toward the kind that actually rewards attention, so if you're deciding what to order, start with the espresso-based drinks rather than defaulting to whatever's easiest to point at. curnows sits on elliott road in prince rock, a residential stretch of plymouth that doesn't see much passing tourist traffic, which means the people coming in are mostly locals who know what they want. that tends to shape a place. you get somewhere that doesn't need to perform for strangers, and there's a certain ease to that. the standing it's built up in plymouth hasn't come from visibility alone, prince rock isn't a high-footfall postcode. a flat white on a weekday morning, when the street outside is quiet, is probably the move.