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Refresh Cafe

Checked 11 Oct 2026

Refresh Cafe is a café at 392 Moorhouse Ave, Central City, Sydenham, Christchurch, inside the Moorhouse Avenue commercial centre. The address’s own page keeps 19 council reports on file.

Based in NPD Service Station, Moorhouse Ave

392 Moorhouse Ave, Central City

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Unconfirmed lead. Listed only in the council’s Find Christchurch directory, a snapshot from about March 2024. No other source confirms it still trades, check before you go.
Nearest bus stop
15 m
Cafés in the suburb
29

Opening hours

No source lists its hours. If you know them, add them on OpenStreetMap →, the next bake picks them up.

Reviews

Getting there

Bus stop, Moorhouse near Manchester St 15 m · Route 140 · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Moorhouse Ave near Manchester St 60 m · Routes 27, 84, 85, 95, 140 · ECan bus stops
Bus stop, Moorhouse Ave near Madras St 207 m · Route 140 · ECan bus stops
Cycle lane Passes the door · in service · Council cycleway layer
Car park, Inpark parking 217 m · private · 37 spaces · Council parking data
The street, Moorhouse Ave Reports, crashes and the rest of the record along it Directions → Walking, cycling and driving routes, on Google Maps Street View → The kerb as Google photographed it: worth a look before a first visit

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Within a short walk

The nearest other cafés

All 29 cafés in Sydenham → · Every one in the city →

Also in Sydenham

Every kind of business in Sydenham →

What the record holds

Every fact with the source that states it, Sydenham (the suburb’s page) · record assembled 11 Oct 2026
FactWhat the source saysSource
Address392 Moorhouse Ave, Central CityFind Christchurch, 2024
KindCafésFind Christchurch, 2024

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How the council’s directory described it

Based in NPD Service Station, Moorhouse Ave

— Find Christchurch, 2024. The business’s own words from about 2024, repeated as a lead, not checked.

The ground it stands on

Facts about the spot the pin marks, the land, not the business. A consent may belong to the building, the landlord or a neighbour
FactWhat the source saysSource
District Plan zoneLarge format retail zoneDistrict Plan
Commercial centreMoorhouse Avenue, large format centreDistrict Plan

What stood on this ground → · Documents that name it →

The reports nearby

1,080 council reports pinned within 250 m of the premises, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 918 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

The 1,080 reports on file

Questions, answered briefly

What is Refresh Cafe?

A café in Sydenham, Christchurch.

Where is Refresh Cafe?

392 Moorhouse Ave, Central City, Sydenham, on Moorhouse Ave. On the map →

Is Refresh Cafe still trading?

Listed only in the council’s Find Christchurch directory, a snapshot from about March 2024. No other source confirms it still trades, check before you go.

What other cafés are near Refresh Cafe?

Cafe Colombia (77 m), New York Deli - Moorhouse Central (129 m), Perry's Cafe (247 m), every one in the city.

What’s near Refresh Cafe?

the address’s own record holds 19 reports; 6 other premises within a short walk, nearest Nissan (39 m); the Moorhouse near Manchester St bus stop is 15 m away: route 140; a cycle lane passes the door; nearest park: Science Alive Reserve (106 m).

What stood where Refresh Cafe is, before?

The heritage-register places nearest the pin →

The record behind this

This page is the union of what these public sources say, each fact above names the one it came from. A listing is a lead, not a promise the business still trades:

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