Stooge Coffee

hastings has a coffee scene that rewards the curious, a handful of spots scattered across the old town and the seafront where independent thinking tends to win out over formula. stooge coffee on trinity street sits inside that smaller, quieter end of town, and it has built a reputation that locals clearly take seriously. you won't find it making noise about itself, which is probably why the people who go once tend to keep going back. the standing it holds among its regulars isn't the result of marketing, it's the result of consistency, and in specialty coffee that gap between the two matters more than most places admit. if you're in hastings and wondering where to start, trinity street on a weekday morning is a reasonable answer.