Chapples Tea Hut in East Devon

We were very pleased with our panini from Chapples on Beer beach. . It was served with attractive garnish and tasted amazing. The weather wasn’t brilliant for our visit so a good cup of fresh tea went down rather well too.

We enjoyed a jacket potato and toasted sandwich together with tea and coffee. How fantastic to have tables right on the beach. It was a warm and sunny day so the cafe was busy but we weren't kept waiting. Friendly staff and reasonable prices, would definitely recommend.

Cold tea and coffees, plastic in my crab sandwich, all for £41 for the 3 of us. Never again! Stay away. The only thing going for this place is the location.

This boy in an arsenal shirt was really kind doing the ice creams and made my visit a pleasure and I’m sure to be coming back .

Two black teas £4. Not even a new teabag just an old pot reheated with the milk steamer and the cups topped up with another teapot which was left o the side.

We enjoyed a delicious breakfast here with lovely friendly service, we’d thoroughly recommend a visit if you’re in Beer!

Fantastic location, always a table available when we visited. All tables have brollys so you can shelter from the sun. The coffee is excellent. Had their lovely toasted teacake which is served with 3 butter pats, appreciated by a butter lover. Service is friendly, but on two occasions we had to queue, once for 25 mins! Service speed could be improved, maybe by offering instant coffee as an option. I did notice some kids buying ice-cream in cones, but thought the ball of ice-cream was quite small but didn't notice the price so may have been a kids portion.

Had drinks on their deck chairs on the beach. Hot day & very busy but really friendly helpful staff. Food looked good & great selection

Cheap food thats straight out of Iceland. Had a pasty, which cost a fiver, it was horrible and did not resemble a good old Devon or Cornish pasty one might expect. You will get parted from your money here for poor food thats at a premium price. So sad been going here since my children were young a legend of a place has gone totally down hill

What a lovely little spot to spend an hour! Friendly, attentive service and the nicest coffee we have had all holiday. Spotlessly clean and with those views what isn’t there to like. Would highly recommend. Thank you.

We popped to Beer to see the last of the summer sun but found that our usual cafe was closed, not to worry we'll try a different breakfast instead. Unfortunately Chapples was the next breakfast available, after queueing for 20+ minutes we were informed that there were no chips available, bearing in mind that this was less than 45 minutes after they'd opened for the day. We were then informed that our breakfasts were the last breakfasts that they were serving today. Again, within 45 minutes of opening. Once ordered the breakfasts (and substitutes) were very quick to arrive and pretty decent, however the difference between a large and a small breakfast seemed nonexistent in all but price. It didn't affect our meals but the 20+ minute queue quickly dissipated once news of no breakfasts spread. As a business they must've lost some serious business today.

Everything at the beach was fine, beautiful water, nice and quiet, until me and my sister forgot a fork! So bad right?! And so, me, despite having severe issues talking in public decide to ask this store for 2 forks, I said: “Sorry for asking, but do you have forks?” And this old-looking man rudely looked at me up and down like I should question what I said before replying ‘yes’, nothing else. “Can I please borrow 2? Me and my sister forgot some, sorry for asking if you can not” And he replied “for your own food? You did not buy any food from us, and you ask me to give you a fork?” In such a rude and humiliating way, just for me asking for a bloody wooden fork, and also judging I brought my own food, as last time, we brought 2 ice creams that were terribly scooped once that it could fall off the cone if you licked it, and an around 10cm cup of coffee for £11.50?? So I’m sorry that I prefer to save money then spend it on a shop with rude and terrible staff. Only nice one was the young-lady.

Came here for snacks and drinks followed by ice creams. Service for snacks and drinks were excellent. I then returned to purchase ice creams where a very pleasant blonde girl with glasses was serving and doing a lovely job, a short older man came in and complained that her ice creams were to big so that customers could hear. She obviously knew the young lads she was serving and was immediately embarrassed by the comment that was made. He was obviously the owner but he needs to polish up his management skills as you shouldn’t speak to staff like that especially in front of customers. It was in very poor taste and if it had been a child of mine i wouldn’t let them return to work there. It’s tantamount to bullying.

We we attracted by the really good signs leading us to them. Often a ‘sign’ of a good business. We had two crab sandwiches and cans of drink. Mine was on white bread - standard supermarket sliced stuff, which was disappointing. My crab also had four crunchy bits that I couldn’t eat. The service was good, the setting (clearly) was wonderful but the sandwich was not.

The smallest, meanest Ice Cream I have ever had. £2.70 for a tub in which the old man, who I presume is the owner spread out the least amount of Ice Cream he could get away with. It was as light as a feather and when I pushed it back together from its spread out shape it was about the size of a golf ball. Won’t be returning in a hurry, lots of other better places to take my custom, and I’m local.

Incredibly slow service. There were only 2 of us and we just ordered a panini and toastie. We waited over an hour. Each time we asked they just said it would be a long wait. They were totally disinterested in serving their customers.

I I visited in June ,This spot is a lovely place I was served by a lovely grey haired lady who was polite, smiley and professional but was spoilt by a man and a woman bickering/arguing not very discreetly. The food was good value for money and my crab sandwich was amazing! Shame about the atmosphere.

Visited for breakfast this morning and was served by a lovely lady and younger man making drinks all very pleasant and professional, when a short older man came in and spoke in a condescending way to the two servers for which I thought there was no need. They were doing a marvellous job making sure everyone was served quickly and efficiently and the queue kept to a minimum. The food was lovely, the drinks were perfect. In fact everything was brilliant except for the unpleasant man who obviously suffered from small man syndrome 🤣

Stopped here before lovely food However this time it wasn’t a busy day waited for well over half an hour for a sandwich when it came it tasted nothing but bland. I wouldn’t mind but order put on wrong bread too!

We have just come home from an evening at chapels beach hut. What can we say an absolute delight. The good was hot plentiful and very tasty, we had beef and coleslaw, salad in a baguette along with chips. Sat on the beach with all other families enjoying the summer sun, lovely evening. We don’t usually go for this type of venture as usually go to the pub. I had the chef what was in next Sunday. I would say this beach hut is the best in the beach by far and a lovely couple

Chappell’s tea hut has very friendly, efficient and helpful staff and the breakfast is excellent, delicious toast and excellent coffee, I totally recommend a visit!

Staying for a few days and decided to try this for breakfast as it was a lovely sunny day and it’s right on the beach. Cooked breakfast and a breakfast sandwich were orders and we took a seat. We both had tea to drink as the coffee didn’t look up to much. The breakfast was delicious. Quality ingredients and packed with flavour. Nice runny eggs and hash brown were a lovely bonus. Highly recommend for breakfast.

Friendly chap served us on a drizzly day but we braved it and enjoyed a cuppa and scone on the beach 🏖️

Took my wife for our first midweek lunch on the beach since moving back to the village, bagels with salad very tasty with plenty of salad, back again soon

Fab friendly service! We too have had the crab sandwich, beautiful fresh farmhouse bread laden with fresh crab absolutely tasty. Halloumi on toasted bagels also good. We had a great experience at this beach cafe.

Called in here for what 'used to be' a great crab sandwich, what I got was disgusting, two slices of Budget supermarket bread cut into 4 triangles with a tiny bit of crab 'sprayed on' £10 never again.

Sitting on Beer beach, Chapples is ideal for food and drink, sat on their picnic benches. Great coffee and homemade cake.

Lovely panini today plenty of filling, had Brie cranberry and bacon the filling was falling out as so much of it, Wendy and Dave are a lovely couple and her food is lush.

We came by today and ordered x2 flat whites What was served was - an under poured espresso - ruined milk Which resulted in what tasted like a poor instant americano We’d recommend barista training Also why offer flat whites, lattes when you don’t even...

Lovey breakfast all fresh ingredients not the ping ping of a microwave to be heard. Lovely sausages not the cheap ones. Would definitely come here again

We only had a “latte”…..NOT a latte it was instant coffee with over boiled milk ☹️ And to charge £2.60!!! I get that they may want to offer a latte but you should really tell people it’s a milky coffee and it’s instant and then...

Always a great experience. Lovely food, great service and such a view If you like a large coffee, then have a “bucket” (not actually a bucket)

Very pleasant beach cafe in the village, extensive snack menus, light meals, cakes etc. My wife had a cream tea which she said was value for money and good, with lots of cream, I had a very nice Cornish pastie. Tea served in mugs but...

Amazing staff great service and even better food. I came down on holiday with some family and decided to go to Chapples Tea Hut and I could not have asked for anything to be better. Wether was perfect staff were friendly and kind and the...

I am visiting Beer this weekend and bought a crab sandwich around 4 pm today for £6.80 from Chapple’s on the beach to eat after my swim. Bad idea … it was the worst . Cheap, soggy brown bread , hardly any white crab meat...

My wife asked about paying full whack for a deckchair for an hour towards the end of the afternoon and the response from what I can only guess was the owner was horribly rude. We paid for the chairs but decided not to buy anything...

We sat on the beach and has a cheese and ham toastie and a bacon and Brie panini. Brilliant friendly service, quick and cooked to perfection. The lady who served us gave us a great talk on local mining bees and was lovely. A great...

Wow, what a treat. The perfect spot to get a drink/snack and to sit watching the waves. What a wonderful lady; always had a smile on her face, so warm and welcoming, greeting everyone with the same kindness - no-one is a stranger at Chapples.

Friendly lady, very accommodating. Great cup of tea. Nice toasties too! Even had doggy ice cream. We uses this cafe every day of our holidays. Seemed clean and tables on the beach to eat there

Food awful. Worst crab sandwiches I’ve ever tasted. Gave benefit of doubt by coming back for 2nd time 12 months later. Staff attitude, on pointing this out, matched the care of rubbish being served in the first place. Give this prime spot to a business...

Crab sandwiches on brown bread reasonably presented but could have had a little more crab . Coffee was just ok - but the mug was stained. Earl Grey tea was fine but the mug likewise stained. No spoon provided - initially served without the option...

We had to order from here as they accept card payments and Duckey’s do not (which was our preferred option). Ordered 5 x Ham & Cheese toasties (numerous other things and it came to near £50) for the children and asked if they could possibly...

Read good reviews but our breakfasts were a it of a let down. Lower quality ingredients than we had expected. Staff are great and the position worth another vis...

I have been coming to Chapells cafe on Beer Beach for over 30 years and always enjoyed the lovely food. Today we visited and ordered food. When it came the cheese sandwich was tasteless cheap cheese and dry bread no garnish and came as with...

Have been coming here for years, the staff are always very friendly and welcoming but the food wasn't very good at all. The crab sandwich was very poor along with the baked potato. Sorry, but improvement needed.

That was the only redeeming factor!! Breakfat for a tenner was deep fried really cheap sausages. Thin slice toast brown and white not either or. Really poor quality but not at spoons prices. At least invest in heinz ketchup not red vinegar. Oh and a...

We visit beer nearly every weekend during summer we have a sited caravan in Seaton.. we tried this place for the first time today.. we left very disappointed.. we had 2 medium breakfasts and a very very small portion of chips.. bacon was really thick...

Wonderful friendly staff! Fantastic cakes and lots of choice on menu. Always piping hot and very tasty. Always go here!

We visited Chapples on a lovely sunny day in Beer. We ordered coffee and bacon baguettes. Coffee was served but unfortunately we had to wait 25 minutes for our baguettes. Coffee which was ok, was long since gone when baguettes arrived. Baguettes were the ones...

Love their cheese and onion toasties, but am sure all of their food is of similar standard. Delicious. Right smack on Beer beach, with picnic tables looking out to sea. Perfect!

We visited on a dull August day. Ordered crab sandwiches, a child's cheese sandwich, bagel with smoked salmon/cream cheese, cheese and ham baguette and a slice of carrot cake, 4 mugs of tea! Total £27.60. The presentation is basic, no side salad or trimmings but...

Absolutely amazing, the cheesy beanie chips took my breath away. My friend had a crab sandwich, and it was full to the brim! Could not recommend enough. All of the staff were so friendly!

Best spot on the beach, loveliest people.Lots of choice, made to order. Deck chairs and beach huts for hire, too.

Went to Chappells this afternoon, the only kiosk open on the beach: the usual cheery welcome, and no hassles, no silly delays, queue handled efficiently. Everybody observing distancing in queue.

Very good lunch and coffee. Great location on Beer beach overlooking the sea. Dog friendly on this side of the beach.

Just returned from a beautiful week in Beer. Chapples is perfect in every way for spending long lazy/action packed days on the beach. We were a large family/friends group from Yorkshire,and chapples had something for everyone including our children who are missing chapples already and...

During our recent visit to Beer we stopped here for lunch, the food prices were higher than I would normally pay but for convenience we still ate here, food was not particularly outstanding and staff were quite grumpy. Not a place I will go back...

Tried this for the first time today. Good and effective service. Good coffee and extensive menu. Tables and chairs on the beach.

bit disappointed to be charged 30p for a hot water top up for my herb tea bag, especially after buying lunch , I understand why , but it put us off buying an ice cream and so I would probably try the other huts next...

Booked a beach hut for our last day and treated ourselves to breakfast to start the day. The ladies in Chapples are very friendly and happy to chat. Clean tidy and even arranged for the sun to shine all day!