Jaunty Goat Coffee in Cheshire West and Chester

WOW. Getting coffee here made me realise how incredibly simple it could and should be: I walked in and was immediately greeted by a lovely person who took my order without judgement. I ordered a Cortado, waited no more than 2 minutes and was then given the beverage by an equally lovely person. I tasted the drink and smiled because it was wonderful. The atmosphere, people and coffee was all too-notch. Why is it so hard for other coffee places to get this right?! Bonus * for playing Erykah Badu’s music in your fine establishment. Note to management: Please open a branch in Manchester!

Delicious and great service, Definitely a place I’ll be coming back to. Highly recommended!

Stopped at The Jaunty Goat two times and found the flat whites were delicious. Lovely atmosphere and friendly staff. The cakes looked amazing too.

Really nice coffee plus cookie & pastry, but way overpriced for the amount of coffee that you get, not even a full amount in a small cup.

Great casual coffee shop with a laid back vibe. The staff are lovely and attentive, and the décor is clean and bright but with a rustic feel. The menu includes several plant-based options including a wide selection of sweet dishes, and they offer a fantastic range of coffees and teas available. A perfect spot for an easygoing brunch. Totally recommended.

One of the best cafes in Chester. I really enjoyed visiting this place. I love their coffee and pastries. Strongly recommend.

Amazing café on Bridge Street in Chester. One of two in the city. Great service and really tasty foor. Lots of plant-based options as well. Recommended.

Can’t complain. Lovely service, coffee and treats. Best in Chester

A beautiful place with wonderful vegan baked goods and options. There is a fully vegan JG across the City but this one is great too.

Although they'd sold out of quite a lot of their lunch options on the Saturday we visited, the staff handled this with efficiency and grace. As a result, we opted for scrambled and poached eggs which were filling and delicious, topped off with the most amazing pistachio + raspberry cake. Proper tea leaves too. Would go again.

Stunning cafe, brilliant food and very knowledgeable barista. If you like coffee this is a must in the city.

Great place and fantastic staff. Outdoor seating available! Definitely recommend!

First time in Chester and needed a lovely breakfast to start the day! This place was a cute little coffee shop and the food and drinks were incredible!

Super cozy tea room, right in the center of Chester. The welcome is very friendly, and the tea and pastries are very good. Perfect for a break in the day.

Had a fantastic coffee here. Low lights give the place a wonderful sepia feel. The decor is simple and chic with gentle chill music to top it off.. Didn't eat, but the food did look good.

Organised chaos in the Bridge St cafe.

Very nice specialty coffee with some impressive latte art. Had a problem where I went to the other location which was vegan and decided I just wanted a regular coffee.. however there was no mention of their other branch so I was suprised to stumble across the second location. Easy to get the two mixed up. Service in the non vegan branch was okay, nothing to complain about nor compliment and the atmosphere was quiet but relaxed but felt quite empty.

I liked the atmosphere and the service was quick and friendly. The coffee tasted sour, and I didn't really like that. They have outlets, and I saw a few people with laptops in there.

Yummy cake, tasty iced coffee. Friendly staff.

Welcoming and friendly on entering. One small step into the cafe then it's all flat and there is a toilet on that level. We had tow Americano's, a chocolate croissant and morning bun (cinnamon) they could be warmed up if preferred. Very yummy. Chilled out and calm venue. A good cafe to re-fuel in.

Excellent coffee and pastries however sadly it's card only for payment!

Great coffee. My partner enjoyed her cheese toastie.

Mediocre but expensive coffee, which arrived in a not big cup. I won't be coming here again.

This is one of the best places we have ever visited. Young, attentive, staff were excellent and the unusual serving of the pots of tea was a lovely experience and the chocolate cookie was very enjoyable. The response to advice to find a specific place of interest was clearly and helpfully responded to

Stun flat white, went just before closing but didn’t feel rushed by staff. However £4 for a pain au chocolate is a bit silly.

Great food & even better coffee!

We were recommended it as a great place for a coffee. We had cake too and everything was very good. Our hot chocolates were hot which is not always the case and the cake was full of flavour. Service was good and we were able to relax and sit as long as we wanted. The Wifi was also very good.

Very friendly staff. The porridge was extremely creamy, which wasn't unpleasant. I would have liked it to be a little more grainy. Caramelized apples and goji berries were served as a fruit garnish. The portion was adequate to fill you up. My companion sent the pancakes with syrup Towards the back it gets darker in the café. The toilet was very clean.

Great place. Always very welcoming. The are dog friendly too.

What a wonderful little cafe! If you want something different to a full English, something fresh and a bit more exciting with amazing coffee then look no further

We went to the Jaunty Goat on Northgate Street. The staff were lovely, smiling and made us feel welcome. Food and drinks were good. Quick service even though It was busy. Highly recommended.

I'm not going to name them, but Jaunty Goat is so much better than the "standard" coffee houses. The staff are lovely and always welcoming, the drinks are excellent and the food is great. We've been customers since they opened and are happy to recommend to anyone looking for food and drink in Chester.

Love the Jaunty Goat! Favourite place for a coffee in Chester. Delicious food and drink and friendly staff! Couldn’t recommend more

I have frequented the Jaunty Goat for years and can say I have nothing but compliments for the food, staff and atmosphere. The meals are delicious and well priced. The range of coffee is excellent, with knowledgeable baristas. The staff are attentive and interested in looking after customers. The Jaunty Goat has recently introduced a Loyalty scheme which works well if you visit often, as the points do add up to an occasional free drink. I can highly recommend The Jaunty Goat.

Great coffee shop with delicious coffee, bakeries and carrot cake! Latte art is always on point as well! A staple in Chester for fresh coffee beans as well. Will definitely return.

Jaunty Goat is our favourite coffee stop in Chester... delicious choice of plant-based dishes on the menu, always greeted with a warm welcome by the team, and a great place to sit in the window and watch the world go by! 🙏💚☀️

Great place for a coffee, lovely atmosphere for a meeting with friends or to do some work on a laptop.

We love the Jaunty Goat - Saturdays wouldn’t be the same for us and our Afghan Hound without our early breakfast! Lovely staff - welcoming and friendly, good choice of seating and varied vegetarian menu. Perfect poached eggs, delicious cakes and pastries and a big thumbs up for the waffles and the banana oat pancakes. The dog recommends the toast and says paws up for being so dog friendly!

There are a lot of great coffee shops in Chester and somehow Jaunty Goat still stands out!

I have been frequently visiting the Jaunty Goat for many many years and it just keeps getting better. Staff are always friendly and remember my favourite treats which I don't normally have to ask for because within minutes my coffee and treats are served with a smile. Food variety is awesome especially the eggs on toast (my favourite). Keep up the great work. 🎉

It must be around ten years ago that we first visited the Jaunty Goat (shortly after they opened I think) and although the faces have changed in that time the consistency of quality food and drink has never wavered. The coffee is outstanding and the food always fresh and good value with a varied menu to suit all taste - their own bakery across the road produces excellent bread and pastries. The atmosphere is perfect and the staff attentive to customers. Goes without saying that this is the best coffee shop and cafe in Chester by a country mile. Keith

Food & coffee were both lovely although coffee wasn't as hot as I'd like. We'll definitely be back though.

Our go to place! Great coffee, great vibes, great staff, great food.

Lovely food, excellent friendly staff, and a great atmosphere

We stopped here for a late breakfast, as the coffee aficionados amongst us had heard that they serve excellent coffee. They enjoyed it - I had a chai latte which was a bit cooler than I like it, but nice and creamy. You can't go far wrong with poached and scrambled eggs, so that went down well. The banana and oat pancakes were tasty, however the 'served with seasonal fruit and coconut yoghurt' description is misleading: the pancakes were sprinkled with a tiny portion of diced apple and drizzled very sparingly indeed with the coconut yoghurt, which was disappointing. Service was friendly and efficient and I liked the vibe of the place.

Eggs were poached and seasoned to perfection and was served on some delightfully soft sourdough bread. Very welcoming staff, sat in the window watching the world go by. Great place to stop for a coffee and a bite to eat.

Awesome sourdough bread with avocado or eggs. Very very friendly service and nice Ambiente. Only the high chairs need a foot bar for small people :)

I never tire of this gem. No one understands coffee like the Baristas here! NO ONE! The vibe, the service, the food is just 👌! Thank you Jaunty Goat!

I recommend a place with delicious coffee and cookies. A cafe located practically in the center of Chester. Very nice service and atmosphere in the place. It's not expensive. Everyone will find something for himself. You can also easily recharge electronic equipment on site, e.g. a phone or a laptop.

Okay, Jaunty goat has the best cup of coffee in Chester, by a country mile. I’ve always thought that one cup of coffee should be much like another, they all come from a coffee machine after all and how much better can beans really be? Well don’t underestimate the competence and good practice of your barista and the difference in quality of the beans, it all conspires to make a superior cup of coffee. Jaunty goat clearly take pride in their work, the food & cakes are excellent and staff polite and friendly. There is a kind of hipster, trendiness to the whole place which should be irritating, like being mildly patronised when brought a cup of tea and asked… “have you had tea before?” While being shown how to remove the strainer and enjoy. But I found it quite sweet and innocently delivered by the server so I guess I’m just being a surly old so n so! Very good place, I don’t care that a small latte is relatively expensive because frankly, it’s worth it for the quality.

Excellent coffee shop and cafe, great veggie / vegan options nice vibe

It is probably one of the best places I have had coffee accompanied by a delicious carrot cake, perfect atmosphere, 10 service!

This cafe is one of the best in Chester - has it all - great coffee and food with a lovely atmosphere - today we're here enjoying Banana Cake and Pass the Pigs 🐖 - and this Easter 🐣 Sunday poached eggs on sourdough toast

Lovely cafe. We stopped for tea / coffee and cake before heading back to our hotel. Friendly staff, quick service, very nice decor. We didn’t feel, however, that we were getting value for money with regard to what we received for the cost. For example £8.40 for two pieces of cake, one of which was particularly small and seemed like an off-cut.

Love this place, the decor and the vibe are very on trend. Bench seating and plenty of it I had the seasonal porridge which was delicious and a huge portion that kept me full all day, The best oat flat white I’ve ever had, all the staff I interacted with were friendly and very good at their job. Didn’t have a cake, but they looked great, not sure if there were many gluten free cakes. The only thing I noticed that others might not like, if you’re not a regular you might not notice this place is entirely plant based, and something like a chicken club could be mis leading as it doesn’t say “chicken substitute or something on the menu”

Great coffee and brilliant coffee cake.

Only had an espresso here during my last visit, which was dialed in very nicely. I guess other coffee-based beverages would be good as well.

The store environment is very comfortable, making people feel relaxed and at ease. In terms of food and drinks, there is a wide variety of styles and options, satisfying various taste preferences. The taste is excellent, leaving people wanting more. Overall, this store has left a profound impression and is definitely worth visiting again.

A turbulent experience, the café was packed, Saturday morning 10 am, not surprised. I think they are a victim of their own success, service was slow and forgetful. Coffee was nice but lukewarm, not offered sugar, it arrived after I'd finished my coffee. Given a dirty knife with my toast, toast was excellent though. An over-microwaved croissant came next, I'm sure their bakery would be mortified......... Next up our porridge which arrived cold, I wonder if the staff are so busy that the timely service of food is suffering? 2nd attempt at the porridge was much better but still suffered from slow service across the pass. The porridge was excellent, goji, spiced apple and dates syrup...... delicious. Either put on more staff, send people over to the bakery or drop your covers by a few. What should have been an excellent breakfast was tarnished by poor attention to detail.

Chai latte was perfectly done. Aromatic and full of fragrance of some secret ingredients. No matter whether the hot version or the ice version is also highly recommended. 4 stars On the other hand, carrot cake was too sweet to my liking. The texture was too rough to my standard. 1 star

Wow, absolutely amazing place, me and my partner had breakfast here this morning, the service was the best I’ve seen in a long time, so attentive even though we had a wait for about 10 minutes for a table, several people came over to keep us updated on time to wait until the next table, all the servers were all really smiley and happy, great to see! The coffee was absolutely amazing, had an Oat Latte, silky smooth milk and perfect temperature, the food was amazing too, I had avocado on toast with poached eggs, all seasoned perfectly, just wow, best breakfast ever!! Will definitely be back soon

Perfect coffeeee! Ambiance is lovely, this café is definitely a more than one time spot 🥰

Lovely spot for lunch with delicious carrot and ginger soup and harrissa butter beans on toast.

Nice enough. Overpriced for what you get food wise. Staff friendly.

Felt the need to express how much I adore the food at Jaunty Goat. Avocado on sourdough with poached eggs is my new favourite on my lunch break. Staff are always lovely even when they are pushed to the extremes and the fact you can get take out in little boxes with cutlery. I just can’t fault the place. Can’t wait for my next lunch with them

Nice cafe in the town centre. Very yummy carrot cake and friendly staff!

Really nice cafe, loads of staff so you never feel you're forgotten. Had never been before but visited both mornings we were there.

Excellent coffee and service, nice latte art too. Light and airy surrounds with good space between the tables. Just personal preference but I would have liked a cake without any topping - it was late in the day though.

A really lovely cafe with bright n warm vibes alongside friendly staff. I’ve ordered banana and oat pancakes, very fresh, tasty and crispy. I’ve never had this kind of pancakes like this before. Highly recommend 😎😎

Delicious vgn pancakes and a lovely airy space. Friendly staff 👍🏻

Very good coffee and lovely food. I had the scrambled haha, which were done to perfection with good quality eggs. The baked goods were also very good.

Kala namak! Get the plant-based eggs. Kala namak will change your life. It's changed ours. As veggies trying to be more vegan, we know we'd miss scrambled eggs. Once you've tried theirs here as we did last month, you will immediately do as we did and hunt down kala namak (a big South Asian store will have it, it's also known as black salt) as it's the secret ingredient that finally transforms scrambled tofu (which I've had loads of times) into something that's genuinely better than scrambled eggs. I made it three times in 24 hours, it's so good. I returned today to the other branch (which is fully vegan) to try the original again, where they very helpfully gave me their recipe which was super similar to the one I've been using on the RainbowPlantLife website. Today I also had an excellent coconut mocha. Last time we had an incredible polenta cake. Service is sublime at both branches. Part of the reason I returned to Chester was to explore their menu further, which I'll be doing this week. It's rare that you find a place so consistently excellent. (later...) Loses a star however for cancelling my Too Good To Go order with no notice two days in a row. In four years of using TGTG this has happened to me once ever - with Jaunty Goat it's happened two days in a row. For heaven's sake don't put stuff on TGTG unless you have it available. It does tremendous damage to how your fans feel about your brand. Loses a further star for today's miserably soggy pancakes whose "seasonal fruit" consisted of rather sad-looking browned diced apple. Service today was far below other visits too. I guess it's time to leave Chester before it gets any worse. At least the vegan branch is still good.

Excellent Coffee shop. Very quaint and staff are excellent

I will always return to Jaunty Goat. Amazing staff, great for vegans, lovely cakes and coffee. Highly recommend and will continue recommending to friends and family!

Some of nicest tasting coffee I have had.

Great coffee and food was nice, however, portion sizes were really small, small slices of sourdough and we both left hungry.

Coffee, cake and chilled atmosphere. Ideal stop for a light bite or just a drink. Very dog friendly.

So neat and clean inside. Welcoming atmosphere. Me, my sister and my mum decided to try the iced chai latte and WOW it was incredible. So simple yet so delicious. Definitely coming back this week for more. It’s our new favourite spot.

We come here once a year as we start our Summer holiday in Chester. This is our third year and we can't recommend it highly enough. Great staff, shop, food and drinks! We had: Chai Latte, Flat White, Scrambled eggs on sourdough and Granola with yogurt and extras. Fantastic! See you, same time, next year😊

Great food and service, uncomfortable seats!

Good cup of coffee enjoyable scrambled egg. Friendly helpful wait staff. Try it.

Yet to try the food but what amazing service and great little coffee shop to work out of, would highly recommend.

A lovely coffee and cake stop. Good vibes!

Lovely wee eatery in the heart of Chester!

Good coffee and the staff is knowledgeable about it too. Wait time was pretty reasonable considering how busy it was

Overpriced and not loads of choice unless you're big on carbs. Most importantly though, active discrimination against people who can't use bank cards (cafe is 'cash only'). As a charity worker, I urge this cafe and other establishments to allow cash or card payments - there are people who can't use bank cards for a variety of reasons, older people who aren't confident paying by card, people who face financial abuse by their partners and can't have their own bank cards, people who are paid cash, tourists who face bank charges to pay by card... the list goes on and on. It may seem banal, but just let people have the choice.

Friendly and helpful staff, we visited today and we loved it.

Great pancakes, and amazing coffee. You won't be disappointed.

Lovely people very very welcoming and great products too... lovely place!

Super coffee, gorgeous cakes and friendly staff, great!

Top Drawer ! Memorably good..great service,friendly staff ,fantastic food and awesome coffee.I never mind waiting the extra minutes when food is made from scratch with attention to detail.We live in Derbyshire Dales but will def make a return visit.Ate there twice in two days.If you care about your food,don’t miss this little gem.

Lovely staff and delicious coffee, like really delicious. Me and boyfriend joked about there being a TON of hype around this place but after one cappuccino we we are hooked 😍

Came here with my husband and our baby for morning coffee after recommendations from family. We were seated quickly and orders taken. Staff very friendly and polite. My husband had black Americano and I had an oat milk latte - this was honestly the best latte I’ve ever had. To our pleasant surprise the drinks were complimentary as the staff apologised for the wait time - I didn’t feel we waited too long and I could see they were very busy but we appreciated the gesture. My husband bought a kilo of coffee beans (not many coffee houses sell kilo bags so we were very happy!) as a present for his dad as we were so impressed with the coffee. Would definitely love to come back and try breakfast!

Always like to eat at one of the Jaunty Goat restaurants when we visit Chester and it never disappoints. Lovely food and coffee and nice atmosphere. Definitely recommend

Popped in for coffee and a snack while visiting Chester for a couple of days. Staff were really helpful in recommending places for dinner. The coffee was good and I had the best avocado on sourdough I’ve had for a while. My wife said the carrot cake was as good as the one she makes and my daughter had an iced latte ‘as good as the ones she makes at home’. Praise indeed. We’d definitely go back…

My partner and I visited twice on our weekend visit to Chester. Both times the coffee was excellent. We also sampled pastries - croissant and pan au chocolat - which were so soft and tasty, then tried the lemon & poppyseed loaf - such a generous portion and delicious. Staff also very friendly. Highly recommend for a coffee and cake stop in Chester.

We visited last weekend, after our cake and coffee my mother in law took a turn and fainted, Elinor was very helpful and amazing with us! Thank you so much for your kindness, we look forward to returning again soon!

The staff at this cafe, both bridge street and northgate street are really friendly. there's always people sat in working on their laptops, laughing and subtle music playing. both locations are quire small, but tables are still socially distanced. the only downside, is that the cafe is fully vegan, so if you want a coffee it has to be with a vegan milk. they should offer an alternative for non-vegan guests.

Nice deco m, free WiFi and more importantly really good coffee what else can you ask for in a little cafe ?! Right next to the north gate as well.

We had a one night stay in Chester and had tea and cake on the first afternoon . It was so good we returned for coffee the next morning. Lovely surroundings , good quality drinks , nice cups etc and friendly staff . Wish it was closer to home and we could go there for breakfast , the poached eggs looked good.