The Best Cafes in Poundbury, Dorset, United Kingdom (2025)

Such a great play cafe, very clean and a lovely atmosphere. We love to visit, I highly recommend if you have an under 5 that has a lot of energy to burn!

Spotlessly clean, super friendly welcome and wonderfully situated. Such an ideal space for my 1 year old and almost 3 year old. Just wished we lived closer but always make a special trip as places this good are hard to find. Thank you so much

We recently hosted our daughter’s first birthday at 100 Giggles, after visiting many times before. Adriana and the team are so friendly and welcoming, and the place is always spotlessly clean! Our family and friends absolutely loved it. We would highly recommend ☺️

Lovely place for little ones. Pre booking system to help overcrowding/overstimulation. Safe and clean play area with a sensory corner. The food is delicious and staff are extremely friendly and helpful.

Today my friend and I found this little gem of a Bistro by accident, and oh my the food was perfection! The food is all local produce and it was just beautiful tasting. We had come from Bournemouth and we will defo be coming back! Totally recommend this place!

An absolutely brilliant restaurant offering a lovely range of delicious meals, with focus on local Dorset ingredients. The three course set menu is definitely worth the money, and I found each course to be very delicious! Even though this is described as a “bistro”, the dishes do come off as quite complex and the restaurant certainly offers fine dining. The drinks on offer were also very lovely, and the servers were helpful and friendly. Overall, our meal was an entirely positive experience and this restaurant is definitely worth a visit.

This can be recommended for its food, service and ambience. We went with two friends and we all enjoyed our starters, main courses and dessert. The wine was reasonably priced and pleasant. The serving staff were helpful and pleasant. The decor was good and there was a relaxed atmosphere. This is a real Poundbury asset- I hope, for many years to come!

We ate with friends and the food was exceptional. The service was “fine” but the inexperience of the young team came across as scripted and insincere. We’ve booked to go again at Christmas, it’s a great, intimate bistro with great food options.

excellent Cafe - Deli in Poundburry, perfect place to meet and eat, stunning sausage and beans with a Spanish twist

Wheelchair friendly. Epic food experience, Brisket Keftiko for £18 is amazing. I did not expect to eat such superior quality food next to a garden centre. I see a bright future after filling up my belly and hopefully for this place. Don’t lower your standards

What a wonderful find, friendly staff, fantastic breakfast and great prices! Will definitely be going back, highly recommend!

Welcoming atmosphere. Dog friendly which is great. The breakfast was one of the best I have had anywhere. Decent amount of food and perfectly cooked. And only £7.50 which included tea or coffee. Absolute bargain. Definitely recommended. Will be stopping in next time we’re passing.

We had the best sunday roast today for a very long time! I had beef and my husband had pork. The meat was plentiful tender and tasty. The cauliflower cheese was delightful and the roast potatoes were crisp and yummy, the red cabbage was super flavoursome. There was also plenty of gravey. What a find, we will definitely be heading back very soon. Thanks guys!

Absolutely divine Sunday roast at the Octagon cafe. Choice of 3 meats, lots of veg, cauliflower cheese, roast potatoes, yorkshire…too much to eat! Excuse the lack of gravy in photo, that was my choice as I have never liked gravy!! Thank you, I will be back!

Excellent coffee and delightful environment to enjoy food/beverage. Lots of smiling faces with the lovely customer service and happy customers. Highly recommended!

We like this place! Classy+so clean! Welcoming, warm, thoughtful staff whose aim to please is v apparent. Good food too. We have visited a few times+look forward to it. My only reason for only 4stars for food is because 3 of us dined there last week, all chose the bacon+egg dish. My plate looked as if it had been waiting a while, my bacon a bit dried up+leathery, egg overcooked, solid yolk and not piping hot. You might ask why I didn't speak up at the time, well its difficult when you're with friends. This occasion a vulnerable friend was with us. I couldn't ruin the moment+complain. Her plate+my husband's looked rather better. I ate mine anyway because I'm greedy+hate waste! To top it all my baked beans was nearly all sauce with v few beans. I did dare to mention that! We will go back because I know they can get it right+we like the place.

Amazing customer service, very reasonably priced. It's a cafe you come away thinking "that was amazing" rather than "that was ok" Thank you very much! Will come back ❤️❤️

Friendly and kind staff, they are really a pleasure to be around and the cafe is honestly a great place to have a snack or a drink in. Tasty hot chocolate!

A “rare find” as AirBnB often says! An old school cafe, with personal service at reasonable/fair prices. It’s not often that you can buy an Americano for £2.20 these days! And their menu has a wide range of sandwiches and/or toasties. Nothing fancy, but great value and a friendly welcome.

Stopped at this lovely cafe on the way to Cornwall and it was so good we stopped there again on the way back. Emily and John are friendly and the food tasty with generous portions. We thoroughly recommend. Keith and Serena.

This is easily becoming my favourite cafe in Weymouth. The location is great, just moments from the harbour side in the bustling brewers quay area. They have a sizeable outside seating area for those dry days and a cosy dining area inside. The staff are wonderfully accommodating and lovely with our children, they are always offered colouring books and numerous high chairs are available. Now the food...it is lovely. It is all vegetarian or vegan, but even as a meat lover I always find something to eat. A personal favourite is the poutine, fries with melted cheese covered in the most delicious mushroom gravy - it is gorgeous! The extensive waffle menu is a firm hit with all ages, with choices to suit all. From waffles doused in chocolate to lovely fruit toppings. If you are in the area, I would wholeheartedly suggest you pop by for lunch.

Busy lunchtime. Had a delicious soup and amazing pink grapefruit tea. Very good value. Will be back for the plant based croissants! Thanks so much, it’s so important to have options like this.

We tried 3 kinds of pizzas and all were superb! Great vegetarian options too! We are going to be frequent visitors as there’s lots more on the menu that we want to try!

Delicious food and tasty coffee with friendly service! Really nice hidden gem.

Great Italian deli food, loved the sandwich in a croissant, the pistachio cannoli was delicious, but the biggest winner that I've now had twice is the arancini! That cacio e pepe one is heaven, get it warmed up in their oven and it melts and is goey with parmesan.

I’ve just been to the coloured pasta cookery course; wow what a fantastic evening we had. As someone who’s never made pasta before we made the dough and fillings from scratch before rolling the dough and making some impressive pasta. All under the expert guidance of Angelo. We then had the joy of eating our pasta expertly cooked for us by Angelo and washed down with a welcome glass of Prosecco . I can’t wait for the next course. Thank you

This was a heaven sent find when everything else is shut on Monday. The coffee is top notch and so are the pasties.

Fantastic to have air con for our Silver Clay Workshop on Saturday 9th September. Lovely service in the cafe for lunch (ham salad) and tea n cake in the afternoon. Our lunch orders were taken when we arrived. The cook prepared our food whilst we were in the workshop so that we could eat without queuing at lunchtime. This was really appreciated. The food was fresh and tasty. Very enjoyable day in a great venue.

A nice watering hole if you are visiting the Great Field at Poundbury. A café on the green that serve your normal café refreshments. I've been a few times, so can't be too bad in the grand scheme of things!!

The Coeliac Blogger: I've eaten in this cosy cafe before and as a Coeliac they can provide a good range of gluten free options, sadly like many places have no proper gluten free cakes available unless it's in a tiny packet, selling the usual chocolate options which I don't like, they need to have a couple of gluten free sliced cakes available. It's worth going and nice coffee on offer. Definitely room for improvement,

I must say, for a quick travel-home lunch, this was fantastic. You can clearly see why for such a little spot why they're so busy! For £15.95, a simple roast dinner with ample flavour. Homemade treats and lovely coffee. What a pleasure to have popped in on a whim. The staff were very attentive, despite being ridiculously busy, they made such an effort to be kind and helpful to all. Especially the older gent who was doing front of house, clearing tables and welcoming guests... rushed off his feet but was SOOO friendly which was lovely.

Great range of food from snacks to full meals, my wife had the club sandwich and that was really good as well as my bun, and even better the bacon was not smoked - I cannot understand why some places use smoked bacon as it puts off half the possible consumers! The staff were attentive and polite, fixed our rocking table before we asked, loads of space and good value. There is also a covered outside area but you need sun!