This is a popular, traditional cafe / tea-shop on the High Street, in the pretty Worcestershire town of Pershore. The cafe has an informal seating area at the front, with a sofa and a few tables and chairs, and then a larger seating area at the rear, with the main counter and servery (to view cakes etc - they have table service). There is also a garden seating area at the very rear, for when the weather is good. They serve a wide range of snacks and light lunches, erring on the traditional side - so think cooked breakfasts, soup, salads, omelettes, baked potatoes, baguettes and sandwiches, scones, tea-cakes - and of course scones and cakes. My friends each had a soup and roll with a sausage roll, and I had a baked potato with cheese and beans. With tea/coffee, this came to £33.70 including service. Service was pleasant and reasonably speedy, though for first time visitors the "take a table, read the menu and wait to be served" protocol isn't quite clear, and the till at the front is only staffed when people go up to pay. (Most of the customers were clearly locals, and it was very busy on the Saturday lunchtime we were there!) Overall, then, a good find and recommended if a traditional cafe is your thing.
Tony Brislin
Nice local coffee shop and restaurantParking: Car park has maximum of 3 hours except Abbey which is upto 24 hours
Richard Allen
It is a lovely quaint cafe to eat and drink in. A great menu is offered serving very reasonablely priced food and drinks. Staff are very friendly. We ate at lunchtime, the food we chose, came quickly and well
Teresa Ford
What a lovely place. The staff wait on you . Its lovely. I had a luxury hot chocolate. It was lovely. Will visit
Sheila Joynes
Nice old fashioned tea shop offering simple, traditional British food at a reasonable price. Staff are always helpful and pleasant.
Wendy T
Have to say we had a good full breakfast but expensive. However the coffee cups are small and at over £3 per cup this not good value. There is plenty of competition in the High Street
Hazel064
Popped in for a quick lunch with a friend. Ordered one minestrone soup and one leek and potato soup with a sourdough roll and butter. These were offered as ‘soup of the day’ at £6.50 a go. I was a bit surprised when the so- called minestrone was set before me. It was a brown liquid with what looked like bits of rehydrated onion floating about in it. I queried this as I was expecting a bowl of real minestrone. The waitress argued with me and let slip that it had “ said on the box that it was minestrone”. I asked her to confirm what she said - that it was reconstituted powder and not made from fresh ingredients on the premises. My friend commented that her leek and potato soup had no recognisable taste - that was made from reconstituted powder as well. Then came all the excuses about the kitchen being very small and they could not make a pot of real soup. Also the bread rolls were not sourdough at all - just basic rolls that had been heated in a microwave - the characteristic rubbery texture was a giveaway there. We were very unhappy that this otherwise perfectly nice cafe on Pershore High Street would even think of offering such a miserable lunch on a cold winter day and having the cheek to charge such a high price.
Katie Hewitt-Brake
A little sad and depressing on entry. We sat on the tired sofa with a low table. Cushions are all very flat. Behind us was a wall divder hiding something, but the cafe feels in need of love and attention.The menu is basic but I'm happy with that. All printed on paper on your table with specials too.It's not clear but table service is offered. Service was so slow I went to the kiosk and was promptly told to sit back down.Not only was the waiter service very slow, when the person took our order, which was coffee and a fryup x2, she never asked how we wanted our eggs cooked or whether we wanted a large coffee. She did offer a choice of bread.Filter coffee is £3.05 and cappuccino is about £3.25. Coffee is not great, very dull. And very small cups.The food arrived quickly and on large oval plates but all looked extremely sad. The beans were like sludge in a container, x2 sausages very dark, x2 crispy bacon, black pudding, one poached egg, a teaspoon of (boiled?) mushrooms and teaspoon of semi-cooked, oily potatoes and a slice of granary bread which had already been buttered (again, not offered unbuttered)The bacon, bread and black pudding were the only tasty things on the plate. The sausages were left because they were cheap, tasteless and overcooked. The mushrooms were soggy, the potatoes greasy, egg over cooked. All in all, for £10.50 you get a far nicer experience elsewhere I'm saddened to say. No waiter asked us if everything was ok, and I think I would have been honest had they have asked.I asked for brown sauce and it must have been the cheapest decanted bottle of sauce available from the wholesalers. It tasted as nasty as it looked. Think gloopy cinnamon.The ambience is sad, with very little on the shelves of this once thriving farm shop cafe, it makes me angry that I wasted nearly £30 and countless calories on this food. I wanted to love it, but I know so many better places to eat on Pershore high street with better quality coffee and food for the same price. Very disappointed.
Scott Hannaford
A lovely pot of tea and very nice fruit cake. Reasonably priced.
Hoobs
A little sad and depressing on entry. We sat on the tired sofa with a low table. Cushions are all very flat. Behind us was a wall divder hiding something, but the cafe feels in need of love and attention. The menu is basic but I'm happy with that. All printed on paper on your table with specials too. It's not clear but table service is offered. Service was so slow I went to the kiosk and was promptly told to sit back down. Not only was the waiter service very slow, when the person took our order, which was coffee and a fryup x2, she never asked how we wanted our eggs cooked or whether we wanted a large coffee. She did offer a choice of bread. Filter coffee is £3.05 and cappuccino is about £3.25. Coffee is not great, very dull. And very small cups. The food arrived quickly and on large oval plates but all looked extremely sad. The beans were like sludge in a container, x2 sausages very dark, x2 crispy bacon, black pudding, one poached egg, a teaspoon of (boiled?) mushrooms and teaspoon of semi-cooked, oily potatoes and a slice of granary bread which had already been buttered (again, not offered unbuttered) The bacon, bread and black pudding were the only tasty things on the plate. The sausages were left because they were cheap, tasteless and overcooked. The mushrooms were soggy, the potatoes greasy, egg over cooked. All in all, for £10.50 you get a far nicer experience elsewhere I'm saddened to say. No waiter asked us if everything was ok, and I think I would have been honest had they have asked. I asked for brown sauce and it must have been the cheapest decanted bottle of sauce available from the wholesalers. It tasted as nasty as it looked. Think gloopy cinnamon. The ambience is sad, with very little on the shelves of this once thriving farm shop cafe, it makes me angry that I wasted nearly £30 and countless calories on this food. I wanted to love it, but I know so many better places to eat on Pershore high street with better quality coffee and food for the same price. Very disappointed.
Have used this cafe before for a coffee. In the past it was marginally ok but my friends liked to meet there so I went too. It’s definitely getting worse. Food poor quality and therefore overpriced for what you get. A toasted sandwich was £8.95 and essentially 2 beige slices of processed bread, a bit of bagged salad chucked on the side with sweaty tasteless bacon and Brie on the inside. Nothing like a nice crisp toastie should be. The outdoor seating area is tired and furniture in need of some tlc. The service wasn’t great, food slammed down and no glasses brought with the bottles of cold drinks. Overall there are far nicer places to eat and have a decent coffee in Pershore, so this has been my final visit to sugar and spice.
E Malin
Have always come for breakfast or lunch. I think it’s great value for money. The tea room is very old fashioned but don’t let it put you off. It’s lovely.
Lucy Heslop
Fab little cafe with good food options and dairy free milk. Lovely staff. Great value. Lots of tables.
carole s
We enjoyed a lunch of toasties and crumpets with cheese. All food was excellent, and teas served with tea pot and pot of hot water too. We sat in a cosy section of the cafe which was intimate and suitable for chatting.
Leah K
All three of us had a full English and it was great and a generous portion ! Coffees were also lovely and came included in the price of the meal. We sat outside and had a lovely time as the umbrellas sheltered us from the downpour!! - staff were accommodating and all very kind :)
This is a popular, traditional cafe / tea-shop on the High Street, in the pretty Worcestershire town of Pershore. The cafe has an informal seating area at the front, with a sofa and a few tables and chairs, and then a larger seating area at the rear, with the main counter and servery (to view cakes etc - they have table service). There is also a garden seating area at the very rear, for when the weather is good. They serve a wide range of snacks and light lunches, erring on the traditional side - so think cooked breakfasts, soup, salads, omelettes, baked potatoes, baguettes and sandwiches, scones, tea-cakes - and of course scones and cakes. My friends each had a soup and roll with a sausage roll, and I had a baked potato with cheese and beans. With tea/coffee, this came to £33.70 including service. Service was pleasant and reasonably speedy, though for first time visitors the "take a table, read the menu and wait to be served" protocol isn't quite clear, and the till at the front is only staffed when people go up to pay. (Most of the customers were clearly locals, and it was very busy on the Saturday lunchtime we were there!) Overall, then, a good find and recommended if a traditional cafe is your thing.
Nice local coffee shop and restaurantParking: Car park has maximum of 3 hours except Abbey which is upto 24 hours
It is a lovely quaint cafe to eat and drink in. A great menu is offered serving very reasonablely priced food and drinks. Staff are very friendly. We ate at lunchtime, the food we chose, came quickly and well
What a lovely place. The staff wait on you . Its lovely. I had a luxury hot chocolate. It was lovely. Will visit
Nice old fashioned tea shop offering simple, traditional British food at a reasonable price. Staff are always helpful and pleasant.
Have to say we had a good full breakfast but expensive. However the coffee cups are small and at over £3 per cup this not good value. There is plenty of competition in the High Street
Popped in for a quick lunch with a friend. Ordered one minestrone soup and one leek and potato soup with a sourdough roll and butter. These were offered as ‘soup of the day’ at £6.50 a go. I was a bit surprised when the so- called minestrone was set before me. It was a brown liquid with what looked like bits of rehydrated onion floating about in it. I queried this as I was expecting a bowl of real minestrone. The waitress argued with me and let slip that it had “ said on the box that it was minestrone”. I asked her to confirm what she said - that it was reconstituted powder and not made from fresh ingredients on the premises. My friend commented that her leek and potato soup had no recognisable taste - that was made from reconstituted powder as well. Then came all the excuses about the kitchen being very small and they could not make a pot of real soup. Also the bread rolls were not sourdough at all - just basic rolls that had been heated in a microwave - the characteristic rubbery texture was a giveaway there. We were very unhappy that this otherwise perfectly nice cafe on Pershore High Street would even think of offering such a miserable lunch on a cold winter day and having the cheek to charge such a high price.
A little sad and depressing on entry. We sat on the tired sofa with a low table. Cushions are all very flat. Behind us was a wall divder hiding something, but the cafe feels in need of love and attention.The menu is basic but I'm happy with that. All printed on paper on your table with specials too.It's not clear but table service is offered. Service was so slow I went to the kiosk and was promptly told to sit back down.Not only was the waiter service very slow, when the person took our order, which was coffee and a fryup x2, she never asked how we wanted our eggs cooked or whether we wanted a large coffee. She did offer a choice of bread.Filter coffee is £3.05 and cappuccino is about £3.25. Coffee is not great, very dull. And very small cups.The food arrived quickly and on large oval plates but all looked extremely sad. The beans were like sludge in a container, x2 sausages very dark, x2 crispy bacon, black pudding, one poached egg, a teaspoon of (boiled?) mushrooms and teaspoon of semi-cooked, oily potatoes and a slice of granary bread which had already been buttered (again, not offered unbuttered)The bacon, bread and black pudding were the only tasty things on the plate. The sausages were left because they were cheap, tasteless and overcooked. The mushrooms were soggy, the potatoes greasy, egg over cooked. All in all, for £10.50 you get a far nicer experience elsewhere I'm saddened to say. No waiter asked us if everything was ok, and I think I would have been honest had they have asked.I asked for brown sauce and it must have been the cheapest decanted bottle of sauce available from the wholesalers. It tasted as nasty as it looked. Think gloopy cinnamon.The ambience is sad, with very little on the shelves of this once thriving farm shop cafe, it makes me angry that I wasted nearly £30 and countless calories on this food. I wanted to love it, but I know so many better places to eat on Pershore high street with better quality coffee and food for the same price. Very disappointed.
A lovely pot of tea and very nice fruit cake. Reasonably priced.
A little sad and depressing on entry. We sat on the tired sofa with a low table. Cushions are all very flat. Behind us was a wall divder hiding something, but the cafe feels in need of love and attention. The menu is basic but I'm happy with that. All printed on paper on your table with specials too. It's not clear but table service is offered. Service was so slow I went to the kiosk and was promptly told to sit back down. Not only was the waiter service very slow, when the person took our order, which was coffee and a fryup x2, she never asked how we wanted our eggs cooked or whether we wanted a large coffee. She did offer a choice of bread. Filter coffee is £3.05 and cappuccino is about £3.25. Coffee is not great, very dull. And very small cups. The food arrived quickly and on large oval plates but all looked extremely sad. The beans were like sludge in a container, x2 sausages very dark, x2 crispy bacon, black pudding, one poached egg, a teaspoon of (boiled?) mushrooms and teaspoon of semi-cooked, oily potatoes and a slice of granary bread which had already been buttered (again, not offered unbuttered) The bacon, bread and black pudding were the only tasty things on the plate. The sausages were left because they were cheap, tasteless and overcooked. The mushrooms were soggy, the potatoes greasy, egg over cooked. All in all, for £10.50 you get a far nicer experience elsewhere I'm saddened to say. No waiter asked us if everything was ok, and I think I would have been honest had they have asked. I asked for brown sauce and it must have been the cheapest decanted bottle of sauce available from the wholesalers. It tasted as nasty as it looked. Think gloopy cinnamon. The ambience is sad, with very little on the shelves of this once thriving farm shop cafe, it makes me angry that I wasted nearly £30 and countless calories on this food. I wanted to love it, but I know so many better places to eat on Pershore high street with better quality coffee and food for the same price. Very disappointed.
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Have used this cafe before for a coffee. In the past it was marginally ok but my friends liked to meet there so I went too. It’s definitely getting worse. Food poor quality and therefore overpriced for what you get. A toasted sandwich was £8.95 and essentially 2 beige slices of processed bread, a bit of bagged salad chucked on the side with sweaty tasteless bacon and Brie on the inside. Nothing like a nice crisp toastie should be. The outdoor seating area is tired and furniture in need of some tlc. The service wasn’t great, food slammed down and no glasses brought with the bottles of cold drinks. Overall there are far nicer places to eat and have a decent coffee in Pershore, so this has been my final visit to sugar and spice.
Have always come for breakfast or lunch. I think it’s great value for money. The tea room is very old fashioned but don’t let it put you off. It’s lovely.
Fab little cafe with good food options and dairy free milk. Lovely staff. Great value. Lots of tables.
We enjoyed a lunch of toasties and crumpets with cheese. All food was excellent, and teas served with tea pot and pot of hot water too. We sat in a cosy section of the cafe which was intimate and suitable for chatting.
All three of us had a full English and it was great and a generous portion ! Coffees were also lovely and came included in the price of the meal. We sat outside and had a lovely time as the umbrellas sheltered us from the downpour!! - staff were accommodating and all very kind :)