The Daily Café in Te Puke has been named Cafe of the Year.
Meadow Fresh New Zealand Cafe of the Year Awards is in its sixth year.
The Daily Café is owned by The Search Party Charitable Trust, a registered charity.
The cafe's not-for-profit ethos, focuses on giving back, with all profits going to the local Te Puke community through community and crisis meals, lending a helping hand and training.
Four local trustees Marty and Chrissi Robinson, Richard Crawford and Andrew Reid, said the focus was on making the local community better than it is now, serving Te Puke and promoting goodness to grow there.
