Miss Mostyn on Llandudno cafes, from breakfast refuges to coffee stops when the weather becomes personal.

Llandudno is a cafe town because walking gives people excuses. One comes down from the Orme, in from the promenade, out of a shop or away from the rain, and suddenly coffee becomes a medical necessity.

The town has traditional tea rooms, breakfast places, independent coffee shops and more modern cafe menus. The independent sector has grown over the past decade, supplementing the traditional seaside-town tea room with places that take their coffee, sourdough and oat-based alternatives seriously.

The best cafes are specific. They do a good breakfast, a proper cake, decent coffee or a simple lunch without behaving as if they have personally reinvented civilisation.

A traditional tea room can be exactly right after a damp walk, especially if one is with someone who thinks a scone solves emotional weather. Sometimes it does.

Mostyn Street and the parallel streets hold most of the central cafe offer. The promenade has a few options facing the bay, which provide the full seaside tableau with your flat white, if the wind is polite enough to allow an outdoor table.

Modern cafes are useful too, particularly for those who require stronger coffee, lighter food and somewhere to sit with a phone while pretending to be productive.

Craig y Don has neighbourhood cafes that serve the local community as much as visitors, which generally means more reliable quality and less menu engineering in the direction of tourist expectation.

The Great Orme summit complex has a cafe, which is useful after the climb and predictably priced for a captive audience. Take it for the convenience and the view rather than expecting an experience that would trouble the memory.

The cafe is one of Llandudno’s essential social instruments. It shelters the cold, revives the over-walked and gives everyone somewhere to discuss the rain as though it were a family dispute.

For the best cafe experience in the town, find places operating for locals as well as visitors, with menus that reflect a kitchen with a point of view rather than a laminated sheet assembled during a slow planning meeting.