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Italian-Japanese at Kissa Tanto
Cozy & Intimate
Slow Coffee at Crescent Coffee House
A beach-village cafe a block from the sand where the smoked-salmon bagel has a cult following and the patio is dog-friendly.
Cozy & Intimate
A beach-village cafe a block from the sand where the smoked-salmon bagel has a cult following and the patio is dog-friendly.
Crescent Beach feels like a seaside town that wandered into Surrey by accident and decided to stay, and Crescent Coffee House is its warm, slightly creaky heart. Everything is baked in-house all day, so the glass case is always worth a look. The smoked-salmon bagel has developed the kind of quiet, evangelical fanbase normally reserved for cult TV shows. Order it, get a dark-chocolate mocha, and take the corner table or the dog-friendly patio. Then walk the whole thing off on the beach one block away, which is either a romantic stroll or a brisk rethinking of the bagel decision. It is the low-stakes morning date that somehow, inexplicably, ends up being the one you both remember months later.
