Sometimes it’s worth joining the queue. This one flows around communal tables of families with chicken parmi or pastrami sandwiches, beside displays of loaded focaccia and viennoiserie, before arriving at the main attraction: still-warm cookies in flavours such as red velvet and dark cocoa macadamia, served with swirls of vanilla soft-serve. Everything at Happy Alley – which relocated from its tiny, first shop earlier this year – is baked on site. The cinnamon-dusted iced matcha is a must.

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