Huffkins in Cotswold

Lovely place in great location Tables inside and out a very dog friendly! Coffees and food was delicious and I would definitely recommend it and would visit again Right in the centre of Stow on the Wold and lovely little place to eat for lunch.

Had Victoria sponge to take away 5 stars truly deserved great cake

I don't recommend it, really problematic staff.

Coffee and food ok environment not bad

Great coffee but a smile would have helped. Luckily we were taking away!!

Unfortunately we were 4 very disappointed Customers. Poor Reception with comment from Waiter who showed us to our reserved table saying everything was “all over the place”. We waited for 2 overpriced Cotswold Salads, one requesting the “hot chilli flakes” to be put “on the side” to find they were mixed into the salad…when the Waitress was asked about the carbs of the Huffkins Bun due to a Medical situation the response was that she didn’t know…when we offered to clear our plates off the table as we had finished lunch the next Waitress seemed put out that she had to take the plates away and when paying our bill Cash was refused…

They are misleading, they are writing dogs welcome but actually they are not, They didn't allow me to get in because of my dag

Great lunch out! Super quick and friendly service and food was lovely.

Great food and tea, but the environment was a bit hectic.

Delicious well presented afternoon tea. Friendly helpful staff. We used a Wowcher offer.

Great food and lovely friendly service

Can't believe no disabled toilet when most of the people are old and to get to the toilet up a very steep stairs. Should not be happing today

We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves at Huffkins! The staff were very accommodating with our group, not to mention our dog! We didn’t have anything to eat, but we won’t make that mistake again! It was our first visit to a Huffkins, but definitely will not be our last! Thank you.

We were visiting Stow and as we had an early start, we were feeling a bit hungry and thirsty, so popped into Huffkins. The staff were really friendly and showed us to a table and explained that good was ordered at the counter. We went for an English breakfast roll and sausages in a roll with drinks and cakes. Food was really high quality and tasted great. If we visit Stow again, will definitely come back here for food.

Heavenly experience here Their fresh scones were divine and the strawberry jam came in cute little jars for us to spread. Eclairs and many more desserts were pleasant, satisfying the sweet tooth exceptionally well Service was very helpful and the staff helped us understood the menu as it was out first time ordering at these types of establishments The curry sandwich was a bit weird though, the rest were great. COME HERE AGAIN DEFINITELY

Great service, decent coffee and the biscoff gateaux was ok but no real taste of biscoff. Very busy but the staff coped well, they forgot my cake but that was remedied.

It's not cheap but the products, baking, is superlative. However it's not a place where I would expect to have to queue up to order at the counter and remember your table number. Not right at all. And muzak to suit the young, certainly not for the age range in the place when we visited.

Our bus tour stops for lunch in Stow-on-the-Wold. The driver warns us about “Stow Time” and that we want to let people know we have a bus to catch or we might wait a long time. My sweetie stops in Huffton’s Stow to buy a pasty and then explore the town. I’m too tired, I just want to sit and enjoy food. So I find an empty outdoor table. Turns out you can scan a QR code and order straight from the table. I order the Afternoon Tea because it will have a collection of sweets and sandwiches. I specify that I want the House blend tea rather than my usual latte because I want a real English high tea. Within ten minutes (no worries about Stow time) a three level tray arrives with the teac cream and sugar, 2 scones, clotted cream, strawberry jam, plus four kinds of cakes and the equivalent of four different sandwiches, cut into little triangles. The young man who brings it to me smiles when I say it’s three times as much food as I expected. “Shall I go ahead and just bring you a box now then?” It’s all such a treat that my beloved changes her mind and joins me for a sit down meal. Even so, I wind up getting three meals out of all the goodies!

We came to Huffkins for a cup of tea and a nice cake. The selection of cakes were awful and not what we would have expected from this Bakery. The tea came to the table without the cakes, so we waited 10 minutes and then had to go back to the counter to ask where the cakes were. We both left part of our cakes as they were sickly and horrible. Won't come back until the standard of this Bakery/Cafe improves. We were not the only ones complaining on this day. Shame this used to be a lovely place.

We shared a lovely afternoon tea here. The tea and pastries were amazing, and the waitstaff were so friendly and helpful. There was also outdoor seating for the Covid-cautious.

We were greeted at the door (which is always a good thing) and shown to a table. We chose from the menu and ordered our food at the counter. Our meals came very quickly and we enjoyed them immensely. It's a very clean establishment, the staff are all polite and smiling. Highly recommended.

Great lardy buns but the coffee is not good and is super expensive (even more expensive than London!)

Ordered 2 teas and almond croissants. Took a long time for tea to arrive and even longer for the croissant one of which was burnt. Couldn't send it back for replacement as time running out at carpark

Friendly, polite and helpful staff.

A superb eatery in the heart of the Cotswolds.

Ottima Tearoom. Appena scesi dal bus che ci accompagnava nelle Cotswolds ce la siamo trovata avanti e che fai? Non ti fermi? Superba colazione con capuccino, io con un ottimo cornetto accompagnato da burro e marmellata, mia figlia degli Scones, mio marito dei Lardy Cakes. Tutto veramente buonissimo, servizio perfetto, la ragazza che si è dedicata a noi gentilissima e dolcissima. Abbiamo acquistato anche qualche prodotto dallo shop compresa una borsina in juta col loro marchio. Consiglio.

Terrible service the moment we arrived.. Slow service, literally threw down cutlery all over the table knives and forks spread all over the table…. Order breakfast for 4 and only three meals arrived, waitress absolutely clueless and asked if we had missed anything…. Even though she already knew when I asked where my breakfast was… and immediately said it was sent to wrong table… Asked how long it was going to take she had no idea, had to ask for manager for refund…. No apology to the situation As for the food that did arrived it was mediocre at best - tomato ketchup was horrific, tastes like watered down sweet chili sauce… Staff are highly undertrained…. Made a mistake to try this place over our usual in stow in the wold…. EDIT: I can confirm full refund has been received.

Driving through Stow on a short break, decided to stop here for afternoon tea as it looked lovely from outside. Shown to a table by one of the many waiting staff but then told we had to order at the counter or use the QR code at the table. Couldn't get the QR code to load the site so went to the counter, where I waited. And waited. And waited. One person taking orders from the queue, all the other staff seemed to be just standing about, a waitress could have taken our order in less than a minute. Eventually left and went elsewhere.

All was good amazing and lovely

Came here for a quick bite to eat on my way home, service was excellent and food and drink good as well especially the milkshake. A big shoutout to Aimee and Beth as it did get particularly busy at one point but their customer service didn’t faulted . I will definitely be popping in here again in the future.

No all day breakfast !! In fact no breakfast at all. Place is grubby.

Lovely Tearoom! We visited on day very busy day for lunch. The staff are to be commended for being friendly and efficient - especially Layla who was serving customers on the day.

A lovely afternoon tea, staff helpful and friendly

After going to this cafe for almost 30 years I was disappointed to go back after a good few years to find everything was awful!! The portion sizes are pathetic (I ordered the Brie, bacon and chilli jam open melt) I actually asked for more Brie (as there was hardly any on it) and was told that that was the portion size unless I wanted to pay extra (it was £13!!!). Had to ask twice for the dressing for my friends pasty which she had nearly finished by the time it eventually arrived. So sad that such a wonderful place is no longer wonderful. Plenty of other cafes to enjoy in the area, avoid this one at all costs

Great location in the center of town. They seated us right away and had such helpful staff. Scones were great, however the tuna sandwich was a bit sad. If it was a bit better my rating would’ve been a 5/5.

Awful!! Portion sizes were small - when I complained about the lack of Brie on my lunch I was told that was the portion size unless I wanted to pay more (£13 for a roll!!) service was poor, my friend had to ask twice for the dressing that accompanied her meal and had nearly finished when it eventually arrived. I have been going to Mrs Huffkins for over 30 years and was so disappointed to see that it had changed so much - won’t go again

I find an extortion having to pay £4 for a takeaway regular tea. 😣

Such a friendly warm service. Lovely food. Lovely people.

It's not a scone that you would normally eat in Japan, but something fluffy and bread-like. Coffee from another table came out by mistake. The charming store clerk desperately tried to explain things to me even though I didn't speak English (lol)

Great service on a very busy Summer day

Staff very friendly Scones very delicious A cafe with a nice atmosphere A restaurant that made me not regret getting off in Stowe, where there was nothing to see.

Lovely Full English Breakfast, including a great vegetarian version with vegetarian sausages. Great, calm, atmosphere with calm music. Central location. 10/10.

Lovely friendly helpful staff and great coffee

Thanks for warm hospitality from your staffs

Seated shortly by a polite female waiter, food and drinks ordered by QR code. Took ages to arrive, the "traditional" lemonade was canned sanpellegrino which is not what "traditional" lemonade is especially in England. Politely asked the male waiter about this, he was rude and indifferent giving no customer service experience and just said they only serve one type of lemonade and shook his head when I explained what a traditional lemonade is. Cakes small and average

Pretentious and cashless. One to avoid next time.

Lovely little cafe, the pasty I had was lovely, the pastry was lovely and "Flakey" - highly recommend, and lovely friendly staff.

Perfect for a small meal, great service

Friendly and pleasant staff. Great coffee and cake stop. Many thanks.👍

We were there for cream tea. I'm much more used to a bakery with service. What really disappointed me was packaged clotted cream and jam. Far too expensive for that. But I know it completely differently from Great Britain. A pity.

Lovely little place, great food, fab service will definitely be coming again

Popped in for tea and cakes mid morning. Ordered via the app which was fine, if a bit long winded. No confirmation of the table number in the order and the confirmation looked like a take out order so a tweaking of the confirmation could be in order. That said, it all arrived as ordered, staff were very friendly and we enjoyed our visit very much.

Disappointing visit today - we were left waiting to be taken to a seat for quite some time, despite multiple free tables within site, and despite telling staff that my mother was feeling unwell and needed to sit down quickly. We then saw multiple people being sent away who arrived after us, despite multiple free tables. We only ordered drinks, which were ok - but the bizarre events before we got a seat put us off the experience.

Fabulous afternoon tea as always.

Quick afternoon pit stop at Stow cafe. What a delight, staff were fully engaged and even introduced us to the new loyalty scheme including a complimentary cuppa😀.

Beautiful little cafe . Definitely worth a visit. Recommend the chocolate eclair

Came here with my parents for breakfast. (Group of 3) The place was empty and we asked to sit by the window for breakfast so would move a table to make a table for 4. We asked but was told this wouldn’t be possible as they would have to make room if others wanted to come in (in fairness the place did start to fill towards the end of our meal. We didn’t mind this. When it came to the food, for what it is, my God it’s overpriced. We got a couple of the breakfast baps. My poached egg had burst before arriving to the table, and the quality of the ingredients was sub par. The hash brown had clearly been microwaved, not crispy, instead soft. As well as this, the sausage was of poor quality. Bacon was fine, relatively crispy and bun fine - no issues there Overall the food was edible, nothing particularly wrong other than what’s been mentioned but just simply not worth the money.

Was a okay experience, my children liked the food they served us as it was fresh and flavourful. Staff were lovely

Positioned right alongside the Market Square, Huffkins is very accessible and easy to find. A nice interior design and tasty food awaits. Prices are a little expensive but service is good and friendly. Relaxing atmosphere. We enjoyed a break from walking around and didn't feel rushed.

Busy but pleasant. Friendly staff.

We popped in for lunch. Restaurant was very busy, but staff treated us with the very highest respect. They were very welcomimg the food was superb. Our lovely waitress was very polite and friendly. I wouldn't hesitate to sing their highest praise and will certainly visit again.

The staff and food were excellent!

It is the perfect place to have tea and scones. Delicious!!!

Lovely food and service with a smile

Awesome bakery cafe In a very pretty square The breakfast bap was delicious!

Much better places available: please avoid the obvious, overpriced and poor customer service of this place. It’s quaint I guess but much better local alternatives. Try “In the Mood” or The New England Coffee House “ or anywhere else. Huffkins: over priced £11.95 for a single breakfast tea and a milkshake. They can’t make scrambled or fried eggs = no proper kitchen or cooks! Worst part for me, there were loads of staff yet people are queueing out of the door! Why? As you enter the cafe up three steps, you are immediately halted by a sign that says “please wait to be seated” - fine. So you stand there and wait and are ignored for minutes (despite all the staff doing very little) they then greet you and ask you if you’d like a table for two (etc) to then be told “take any table” and “then come back and order at the counter” - what is the ###% point of that other than to create queues and make the customer do ALL the work? Add to that the queue also contains people who want take-away, makes the queue longer - especially for those waiting for a table (who are basically then told to find one themselves and then leave it again to order at the counter) total and utter idiocy!! Finally, I then observed the potential customers queuing in the very small area between the outside of the shop, steps, sign and counter - to kindly move out of the way as they block the staff leaving the kitchen to the tables via the counter! Unbelievable and time for a secret shopper visit methinks!! Avoid and go somewhere else Written by a local btw

Lovely food but no gluten free cream teas (they have low gluten instead). Gluten free brownies are excellent

Bare minimum of an experience.. the food, the service and the presentation.

Absolutely wonderful. Sandwiches were out of this world. Service was exceptional. They even gave us a box for the cakes because we could not eat it all.

Was given and afternoon tea voucher for Christmas and my friend and I came in on Saturday 18th may for afternoon tea and it didn't disappoint, the food was absolutely amazing and the service was brilliant polite and attentive, we will definitely be going back a perfect place ti relax and enjoy the food

Seems like it's a game in itself to even order inside this coffee shop

The breakfast bap was not worth the money

Great cafe. Lovely food. Super cakes baked on site.

lovely town lovely food and lovely waitress here

Very good locally sourced food. However, the tea being locally sourced is suspect. Nice location. Wifi is available. Restrooms are available.

Stopped off for a milk shake each, very disappointed. Not much milk shake, topped off with aerosol cream full of icicles

Dreadful service rude counter lady chose to ask the back of the queue what they would like before considering the two people waiting at the front of the queue. Cold food was served and no cutlery even after food was served we had to ask twice! Very disappointed before a 3 hour journey home!

We ate brunch and found the exceptional young lady who came to greet us to find us a table very polite and helpful, made our day.

We bought two raspberry eclairs today with the intention of taking them with us to enjoy as a snack later in the day. It took seconds for us to decide on these as they looked fabulous in the display cabinet. Service was friendly with eat in options available too but we were in a rush. I did at first think they were a little on the expensive side - but well worth every penny. We didn’t even make it back to the car before opening the box and enjoying these treats for an impromptu elevensies!

Excellent food. Great service. Lovely atmosphere. Great cakes to take out. Added bonus of being central to a number of Pokémon stops.

Takeaway, very tasty Almond quassoint :)

We called here for lunch when we visited Stow-on-the-Wold on our way home from our holiday. Compared to the tourist trap rip off catering establishments in Stow, Huffkins was okay so we ventured in. Staff were very friendly and helpful and we were cheered up by the delightful, if not a little eccentric, young lady - and I mean that in a nice way - who served us. We both had a beef pasty which were most enjoyable. That was the first pasty I had eaten for about ten years since suffering very badly from food poisoning from a chain pasty restaurant in Cambridge that has since closed down. After being suitably refreshed we had a walk round Stow before continuing our journey home.

It has been a long wait before seated even though there was no queues in front of us. Should spare some more man power to greet and help customers for seating.

Excellent cakes and coffee. The Belgian bun was delicious but best recommendation is the warmed lardy cake. It was lush!

We had a warm welcome when we arrived but it went downhill from there. We went up to the counter to order and soon after someone said they would be with us shortly. As we had waited for quite some time without further acknowledgement, I had turned to leave when a team member asked if they could help. It wasn't particularly busy so as our drinks and cakes hadn't arrived after 15 minutes, we asked a team member if they could check if they were on their way. 5 minutes later, they arrived and to be fair, the same team member we checked with earlier did apologise for the delay. The 2 cakes were OK. I then realised that on a nearby table a medium sized dog was sitting on one of the chairs. I actually love dogs but not sure they should be allowed to sit on chairs in a coffee shop. Overall a disappointing visit which was a shame as looked appealing when we walked by.

Overall we had an ok time here. The staff were very friendly and nice and the service was good. However, we felt it was extremely overpriced for what it is. Paying the best part of £10 for a tuna melt with some salad from a bag and some crisps is crazy. One member of our party paid £12.95 for the chicken and barley salad which said on the menu that it came with cucumber, kohlrabi, red onion, tomato and courgette. When it arrived it was one piece of chicken cut up on some lettuce from a bag - there was no courgette, tomato, red onion or kohlrabi and about 4 grains of barley. We would have sent it back if we weren’t so hungry. To charge £12.95 for that is just outrageous. We also were initially seated at a table where the table next to us had their dog on the chair. I don’t have a problem with dogs being on the floor in coffee shops but to have it on the seat next to us was a bit off putting

Really good had the tuna melt. My wife had the Brie and cranberry melt. Very good!!

Amazing breakfast in a small town .. brilliant vegetarian options as well ! Thank u so much.. a lovely morning to our day .

We booked afternoon tea for 8 at the Stow cafe as part of a hen weekend. It was very busy and the lady greeting us was visibly stressed and quite short with customers who were getting confused about whether or not to seat themselves, as it was taking such a long time for them to be greeted. It wasn’t very welcoming. The afternoon tea itself was really nice and good value. A couple of our party asked for modifications and they were all sorted with ease. Our server was also very friendly which was nice. Unfortunately it went downhill a bit again when we waited 25 minutes for the bill and to pay… I got the impression that the cafe has become far too big, staff clearly couldn’t keep up with the demand and it made the experience not as nice as it could have been. I think if they took less customers it would be far more special.

Visited huffkins in January for my birthday afternoon tea the staff really went out of there way to make me have a very lovely experience for my birthday have visited on many occasions and always been very impressed. Food is lovely and cakes amazing called in today for take away drink fab to see smiling faves again keep up good work.

Nice little tea room but service wasn't very good, forgot one of the orders, one had egg overcooked another under cooked.

The young lady serving us was amazing, polite and friendly. The building is nice but that's where it ends unfortunately. The two Mochas we had were small for the cost and didn't really taste very nice. Certainly not enough chocolate in them. Then when we left there were hardly any pastries on sale and what was there looked unappealing and costly.

Very nice cake and drinks, staff very friendly & polite, if slightly bonkers in places 🤣. Would happily visit again in the area.

My reason for writing this review, it to commend the wonderful waitress that served us, think it was Layla, She brightened our day with her gorgeous smile and friendly chat. Wishing her very well for her future xxx

Very nice but a little expensive 👌

Unfortunately overpriced and quite bland food. You also have to pay on order. Sausages £2.50 each of which tasted like someone nipped up to Tesco and purchased standard pack sausages. Should be locally sourced sausages from a farm not locally sourced from the nearest supermarket. Won’t be returning!

A great place to stop for a coffee and pastry, an excellent selection of delicious cakes

I had the "chicken Caesar salad sandwich", but unfortunately it had nothing to do with a Caesar salad. This was made up of a deep fried chicken escalope of mediocre quality (most likely frozen) in a bun with a side of mixed leaves topped with a french dressing (not even the dressing was Caesar). As an additional side, you get a bagful of salted crisps. It was a decent meal, but nothing to do with a chicken Caesar and grossly overpriced. The service was good and some of the other dishes, like the poached eggs with avocado looked great, so there is hope.

This café has been here since the end of the 18th century apparently, and has the beams to prove it. It's certainly not cheap, but the cakes and coffee are very good. I and most other people there were having lardy cake – a delicacy I remember from my Midlands childhood. Visiting the loo requires a considerable effort of mountaineering, as it's up a steep staircase that bends in the middle. Perhaps I should have asked whether there's a disabled loo. Staff are very polite and pleasant.

£11.95 for a breakfast bap you would expect top notch ingredients but no cheap sausage and cheap bacon. I wanted it to be good but no....