Jempson's Cafe in Rother

Great cafe with good sandwiches and pasties.

A big selection of cakes, pastries and savouries like pasties and sausage rolls plus sandwiches. Service is at the counter, which was prompt and efficient. Tea came in a pot, which is a plus. Plenty of tables. Retro decor going back to the sixties provides interest and conversation for people from that era. Toilets are OK but need an update.

We decided to buy some cake &sausage rolls the sausage rolls were great but the cakes were so stale we decided to throw them away , we were very disappointed

Lovely selection of food to eat in or take away. Great selection of drinks, staff always friendly and remember you

Ordered flat white. it was terrible. 😢 Did not like it at all. Ambience is very dull. Made a mistake. Will not ever come back.

Self serve here had a sandwiche and tea x

Fab little place this, decent coffee, great sausage rolls, and other pastries, lovely staff and in a nice easy place to get to from the station side of town.

Nice range of gluten free cakes and hot drinks to have in or to take away.

Very busy at times and a victim of its own success in this regard. Could do with a few more tables or more room between them especially for those with walking aids but space doesn't really allow that. Friendly service without exception. Drinks are ok, and a good range of nicely presented cakes. However it's quite pricey compared to other cafes in general, not so much compared to those in high touristy areas though. Bear in mind the cakes etc are baked by Jempson's locally and so are fresh as possible and are a decent size. Not somewhere for a quiet drink in high season but that's probably true of most eateries in Rye! If you are tempted by one of the cakes, and don't want to queue or pay extra to eat in, why not pop along to the Jempson's supermarket nearby close to the train station (same family owns it obviously) and buy one of the same cakes or cream buns there -prices from about 80p to take away.

Best coffee in tow if it works don't change it

They microwaved the Cornish pasties. Turned into one stoggy, tasteless, greasy mess. Basically the manager didn't care! The coffee was terrible. Decor poor. There are much nicer places to spend your money in Rye. Frankly this is just a poor quality cafe marketing themselves as something else because they are in Rye!

Great Little cafe service was great

Quaint family run coffee and cake shop offering various different cakes and baked goods. The coffee was really good and massive with very reasonable prices. We had a slice of carrot cake, a slice of the chocolate fudge. The cake was delicious! There's various other cakes and sweets available to buy to take away and plenty of seating inside. The two ladies who served us were friendly and helpful and we'd definitely go back.

Went in for tea and cake with my husband. The vast array of cakes looked impressive and being vegan we were encouraged by the sign to ‘ask us about our vegan range’. It turned out there was only one choice for vegans, a chocolate tart. We ordered one each nevertheless and some tea. On taking off the plastic wrappers on the cakes we were horrified to find they were both mouldy. They agreed to a refund on the cakes (as they should), but we felt we should actually get a refund on our whole order including the tea, since we would never have ordered the tea on its own, without the cake. Eventually they agreed to this but reluctantly. We handed the teas back and left. Very poor experience. I’d also like to point out that the place was freezing when we arrived as the front door was wedged wide open. I asked them to close it, which they said they would but then didn’t, so I had to do it myself.

Really busy when I went in,staff were lovely and food and drink was good

Well worth a visit before going into the town centre. Fabulous cream teas, recommend the pot of tea rather than a mug. A nice friendly atmosphere with a takeaway option, there is a small extra charge if you decide to eat in.

Great café! Wonderful selection of cakes, savouries, sweets, biscuits & more. Not very wheelchair friendly but room to leave the chair outside of you're able to walk a few steps.

Cheap, cheerful and charming. Nothing fancy.

lovely sausage rolls and coffees, very convenient location for the station and buses 👍

Coffee is nice and hot. A large range of lovely cakes. Always good service.

The ham and cheese Toasties were delicious and so were the hot chocolates. We came every morning we were in rye - Viola of Washington DC, United States of America

This is nice location and a nice venue. Our visit was a let down, because I bought some taje away items. I was charged for the four items, but only got three of them. I did not notice until I returned home, some distance away.

On a day trip to Rye and Hastings from Eastbourne the coach stopped in Rye and i came in for a coffee and sausage roll which i throughly enjoyed

Having grown up in a small town with three excellent bakers to choose from I know a good one when I see it. You can't go wrong with Jempsons bakery. Tons of delicious bread and cakes but being weekend visitors we always grab sandwiches and pastries from them on our way to the beach. What I love about their selection is they don't shy away from the classics, cheese and pickle rolls, cheese salad rolls, ham and cheese rolls. Sounds simple and boring but they are delicious. Savoury pastries and a must try as well and don't leave the shop without some jam donuts. All baked / made locally and daily. Delicious.

Nice tea and cakes, not swanky but we'll priced and perfect for the family. We left fully refreshed. Free postcards available. Toilets clean.

Good choice snacks, pies, cakes drinks but a shame tables not wiped down when being cleared. Both visits Lots of Crumbs and Sticky

We were looking for somewhere in Rye to sit down for a sandwich-type lunch. Everywhere seemed to be too fancy and/or expensive, or takeaway only. Then we found this place. It was just was we wanted. Tasty and good quality sandwiches and savoury pastries and a good cup of tea. The sweet treats looked good too, that just wasn’t what we fancied at the time. Available to take away or eat in at the comfortable and spacious tables. All very good value.

Very disappointed STILL no baby change their is a nappy bin in their cafe but it's pointless because you cannot change a baby in their. They made me change her on a dirty floor upstairs.

There was a friendly welcome. The cafe has a spacious seating area. There is a decent choice of sandwiches, pastries and cakes. We had the cream tea and the scones were huge. Prices are reasonable. You can also by bread and treats to take away. This is a decent cafe with friendly staff.

The food all looks and tastes amazing! The choice of cakes was huge and I loved the treacle tart. We had a relaxing morning tea.

Not so much a tourist spot but decent coffee. We didn't get to sample the food offering. Fairly basic facilities

This cafe has a good selection of sandwiches, cakes, coffees and teas. Great for eat in and for takeaway. Everything tasted well and the staff was lovely. Popular with locals.

Always a warm reception by the team in particular Sharon who knows my order and greets me each time with a friendly smile and has my drink and food ready as quick as possible as I’m normally on a quick lunch break. Keep it up team Jempson 😃

Nice cafe with convenient location. They have limited options but their bakery items were amazing. Best part is they open their cafe early so you can grab your breakfast here if planning to start your day early. Staff is really amazing and helpful. Definitely recommended.

Came ist time today. Amongst other things purchased an apple puff. For a hefty. 1.95 On arriving home. Found just pastry. No apple. None at all !!!!!!! If i were you. Id check the rest you have in store Someones having a laugh ! At customers expense Wouldnt go back if paid to do so ! Disgusting

Friendly staff doing good coffee and nice cakes and pastries.

Always love this place. Great food and service. Limited seating sometimes but a great little stop off for a savoury or sweat snack and a hot or cold drink

Popped in here with the wife as we rarely pass up the chance to drink some tea! We were not disappointed, and ordered a slice of cake between us too. Lovely place something between a cafe and tea room in terms of decor - more like tea rooms in what they offer to dink and eat. Staff seemed to be in the Christmas spirit and were having fun while giving efficient service. Thoroughly enjoyed our little visit.

Always go to Jempsons in Rye for the best pastries and cakes and it's very local also have a supermarket in Rye Foreign love Italian!

Foods fabulous so is the service well worth the effort

Good place to wait for a train and early morning ( opens early). Been coming for years BUT …espresso need to be served scalding. The heavy cups are to retain heat and the coffee machine has the facility to heat them first otherwise it is inevitably cool which is not how espresso is best served. Small point but worth noting. Overall still my favourite.

Semi warm pasty looked good in its glass cage but when bitten into lacked any flavour whatsoever. Carrots were discernible but the rest?

Good selection cakes,bread,pastries ...can sit in now for tea etc.

Tea and hot chocolate were good, but food disappointing. I had a cheese and tomato toastie, but the cheese was very gloomy and tasteless

Great little local cafe for take out and eat in food and drink options.

What a great rustic cafe, all local produce.

An extremely popular cafe in Rye, and for a reason. A superb collection of freshly baked goods and local produce. A full selection of hot and cold drinks from the counter plus various cold drinks from the chilled cabinet. Upstairs seating as well as downstairs. Disabled access from a little way up the street, but once in no disabled access to the counter.

My friends and I enjoyed a really great lunch here, after an exhausting but fun day walking around the beautiful streets of Rye.

Lovely choice of delicious snacks

Love this place. Friendly staff, good food, proper cafe.

Good cakes variety and good tea. Very popular with locals ans visitors. Can be very busy. Tables cleaned and sterilised.

It was ok but some staff had masks on some didn't they weren't very quick in serving talking together.other jempson coffee shops are better.but I do like the screens in side very good idea

Popped in here for a quick coffee and cake. Coffee was okay but the scone was pretty tasteless. My wife had the toasted teacake which also was very average at best.

Came here today with my family for some lunch and was very disappointed. The whole shop felt very unclean and we were uncomfortable whilst eating our food, it took a long time for our food to arrive (it was just a panini being heating in the oven), and the food itself was very lacklustre and was not at all enjoyable. We were not expecting this as we came there especially because the Bexhill cafe is so nice - real disappointment.

Pot of tea sausage rolls, reasonably priced

The most lovely cream doughnuts and the best steak bake I've ever had.

Day trip here and asked local for advice on nearest cafe as so few and good coffee and cake from friendly staff.

Food was good but drinks not big enough, nothing special but nice if you need a quick bite

Always a pleasure to visit, friendly staff and really good cakes

Very nice coffee and sticky bun.

Absolutely delicious food in the cafe,staff were super helpful and adapted my meal to suit my dietary requirements...the shop has a wide selection of gluten free products. Really impressed

Visited this cafes today and all I can say is it was very dirty, staff need to pay more attention to the cleaning. Thus cafe is living of past reputations, needs a revamp.

Really nice friendly old-skool type cafe. Great selection of good quality cakes. Very good COVID measures in place with screens and easy social distancing. All staff wearing face coverings. Only issue is the cutlery in one big tray so bring your own wipes to sanitise cutlery

Popped in Easter Monday. Good selection. Staff friendly and efficient. Sadly the food let it down. Stale Belgian buns, millionaires shortbread disappointing supermarket style, sandwich naff

Jempson's Cafe is a spin off from the original grocers that has grown to become the local supermarket. There are bakers and cake shops around but this looked like a good place to get lunch. We were originally going to eat outside but we decided that it was much more comfortable to sit at the tables and enjoy hot food!A good choice! We wish them all the best inn the current crisis!

Service and Coffee were great. Felt safe.

Walked out without buying anything today as I was ignored by staff who were too busy chatting with each other acknowledge or serve me. Not an acceptable treatment for a shop immediately opposite the train station where potential customers need quick service before boarding a train. The result is my money will be spent at Starbucks Ashford International instead, not my preferred choice but Jempsons bought this on itself. Better staff training needed.

More of a cakes shop with pre made sandwiches and hot savoury pies. Hot drinks available which are hot a frothy but not the best taste. Reasonable amount of COVID safe seating inside though the tables are were sticky. With the amount of staff behind the counter this establishment would do well making sandwiches and jacket potatoes to order with choice of fillings. Ok experience only but maybe check other establishments out. Please like if this helps.

Great little cafe across the road from rye station. Good selection of drinks and cakes. Assortment of things to buy.friendly staff and its nice and clean.

Food & drinks are great. Service very good. Clean & tidy

Excellent food and service considering the covid regulations. The staff are keeping themselves and us the customers safe too. Regarding the 'like greggs' comment it is very wrong. The food and drinks were lovely. My steak and kidney pie was great. The coffee cake and cheese straw were also good for my family.

Lovely cakes and ice cream, very friendly staff and an "eat out to help out" discount on top of it all! Hand gel was readily available and screens were in place at the tables to help with Covid.

Excellent one way system to keep everyone safe. Lovely cake and coffee

Not as busy as most of the other places in Rye so could get a table for us with no hassle food was lovely and fresh as always tea great flavour as we always have the tea pig teas now only down side of the visit was the amount of thick people who think a metre is a foot

I find this place very friendly . Food good . Clean. Lovely environment

Nice cup of tea, gluten free flapjack rather disappointing. I wasn't impressed with a certain member of staff. My partner left his Adidas jacket behind, and we didnt realise until about an hour later. My partner returned to Jempsons, and asked if he had left his jacket, he was told nothing had been found by a young lady, who had a cant be bothered attitude, he continued to search, re-visiting other shops in the pouring rain. I suggested we should go back to Jempsons, I was sure he had left it there. I asked the same lady if a Jacket had been found, again, same answer, and too busy cleaning up! I suggested she double checked, and ask another member of staff. Reluctantly she looked behind the counter, and handed over my partners Jacket! I get staff are busy, but come on Jempsons, it took 5 secs to look behind the counter, and the lady in question really needs to work on her customer service skills.

Good salad and delicious gluten free carrot cake 👍

Good friendly and fast service with nice cakes and sandwiches

I expect that small business will find it hard at these very uncertain time and with social distancing measures, now I visit a fair few cafe over the last few years and this is not a cafe but more like Gregg's and would have treated it like that. I found the staff unhelpful arrogant when ordering and when they seemed more bothered about being a convoy belt, if you are advertising as a cafe maybe have someone at the door to greet and offer support,, and if people want to eat in guide them to a table that's clean and with a menu. I would like to think that I've got food that hasn't had people touching it, but more so from the other side of the counter freshly made..

Friendly and fresh bakery with great selection of hot and cold pastries. Stopped here today and bought a picnic lunch from the huge selection of fresh bakery products. Also nice coffee and plenty of cold drinks. Fully Covid safe and really nice friendly service

Value for money. Staff very attentive. Also just love the fact they are closed on Sundays as Jempson's feel it should be time for family. So agree!

Not a cafe. More like a cake shop with chairs

Lovely seating and geat mug of tea.

Expensive and not nice coffee. Staff were the really nice, however.

Excellent great friendly service. Great choice of savoury food. Sandwiches and cakes

Always friendly staff and the service is really good

Jempson's Cafe was a bit disappointing. Service was ok, but the food was disappointing. A Panini is not two slices of toasted bread!...Did not meet expectations at all😞😒

It's ok but table was sticky and it was a last resort place for a average drink. Found the Sandwich dry and overpriced. The staff were nice if not a little rushed.

Normally busy but quiet when we visited. Ordered toast with the drinks. Quite a long delay before the toast arrived and it was not hot just luke warm. The toast was very thin and hard, it was more like a biscuit, not nice at all. The hot chocolate was also not very good but the tea was ok. the staff were friendly enough but how could toast be so bad ?.

Can't wait to go back here for a decent sausage roll and cake 😋

Excellent range of cakes and good coffee and tea. Friendly ad helpful staff. A nice place to rest and have a drink

Stopped with the family on walk around around Rye.Lovely selection of pastries and cakes and pies etc. Look all made in house and a traditional type tea/coffee shop.It did not disappoint it and the cakes and pastries were as good as they looked.It’s is quite busy and seating appears relatively limited.

Nice café serving good quality food and beverages,clean, airy,informed staff , excellent premises ⚓

Very good choice across the board as you might expect, given that they get all there stock from the mothership across the road. Sadly not the best coffee in the world and the staff could be a little more cheerful.

Love Jempson's. Great food, great prices and the staff are always so friendly. Will always stop in when we are in Rye.

Very expressive and doesn't open on weekends...

Great the food is amazing not to expensive polite staff

Friendly independent bakery with huge selection of cakes!

Lovely and clean , food delicious.

A pretty busy place if you catch it at the wrong time. Fairly prices for ok food but nothing to rave about. Tea coffee etc are fresh and warming but nit hot as is their hot food