High Life feels like the perfect meeting of old and new Byron. There’s polish in the shelves stacked with boutique speakers, natural wines, and jars of artisanal gear ranging from magnesium-enriched salt to bottled pickles and olives. But then there’s purpose, too, marked by the tagline on the menu: coffee, herbs, snake oils. That’s the reason your organic cold brew might come blended with MCT and lion’s mane mushroom, and why you’ll spy shots of organic ginger, turmeric and lemon coming off the pass.

But then, apart from the sunny verandah, High Life’s biggest appeal is that it’s just a very good cafe: one where you’ve got the option to top sourdough slathered with grass-fed butter and piled with medicinal mushrooms with a duck egg, pair it with a cup of bone broth, then come pick up an empanada off the counter for lunch.

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