Friend’s Cafe: A Tonga Institution!
By now, Friend’s Cafe is a Tongan institution. For visitors to the island it acts as a cafe, restaurant, travel agent and souvenir shop. Apart from the Vistor’s Bureau on Vuna Rd. Friends is one of the only sources of tourist information in Nuku’alofa. Apart from being a good place to suss out travel arrangements, Friends is a good place to grab some breakfast or lunch. The food is a little overpriced but is very good. We had bagels with cream cheese and jam served with good coffee here one day for breakfast and had a tasty lunch of fish cakes another day. The cafe opens out onto a nice outdoor patio area where you can sit back with a coffee and soak up the sun and atmosphere which, while not being distinctly Tongan, does have a nice vibe and is a great place to get chatting to other travellers and expats.











