You eat at tashas Melrose Arch for breakfast through dinner, with a menu that runs from eggs and French toast to salads, sandwiches and pasta. The café sits in Melrose Arch, a mixed-use precinct in Johannesburg where offices and shops share the sidewalks. Tables fill for breakfast — eggs come fried, scrambled or poached, with bacon, sausage and toast — and stay busy through lunch into evening service.

The kitchen makes café standards: omelettes, French toast, salads with chicken or halloumi, and sandwiches on ciabatta or baguette. Pasta choices include bolognese and pesto cream. The menu is the same at all tashas locations, though each café adds its own dishes. Coffee runs from espresso to rooibos cappuccino, and the wine list leans South African with Stellenbosch and Franschhoek bottles.

What defines the place is the rhythm: breakfast turns to lunch, lunch to afternoon coffee, and the tables reset for dinner without closing. The café opened in 2005 as part of a group that began in South Africa and has since expanded to the UAE and London. In Melrose Arch it fits into the neighborhood’s mix of shops and offices, serving meals from morning to night.