Cafe Dawny in Carlsbad Village is a New Zealand-inspired cafe on Roosevelt Street founded by Rich Barton, specializing in handcrafted NZ-style meat pies, sausage rolls, and house-made quiches. Each pie uses short-crust pastry on the bottom and flaky puff pastry on top — the layered construction that defines New Zealand pies versus their Australian counterparts — with slow-cooked premium-meat fillings prepared without preservatives, a from-scratch baking ethos shared by Prager Brothers Artisan Breads in the Village. The cafe serves Ripple Specialty Coffee, a California-roasted brand with New Zealand roots whose small-batch production is inspired by the flat-white culture that defines Kiwi cafe life. A portion of every Ripple bag sold supports The Jonah Project, a New Zealand organization dedicated to rescuing pilot whales stranded along Farewell Spit on the South Island. The Roosevelt Street location sits one block from Grand Avenue in Carlsbad Village, joining a walkable corridor of independent eateries that includes Fresco Cocina on Carlsbad Boulevard. The signature steak-and-cheese pie fills a butter-laminated shell with braised beef and melted cheddar, baked at high heat to caramelize the puff-pastry lid while the short-crust base holds the filling without softening.