Malcolm Barnecutt in Cornwall, Isles of Scilly

Visited with +3 whilst cycling The Camel Trail. A brief detour, if you are doing the same. Good options for lunch - and great for recharging the energy bar. Photo is of the Builder’s Bap. Wow. Extra kilo to carry in the afternoon. LOL. Worth a stop.

The worst teacake I have ever had. Came here with husband as we needed a pitstop. Sat in a booth, the seats and table were soaking wet, nice and clean but wet! Husband's rocky road and canned drink were fine. My toasted teacake hadn't seen much of a toaster so I took it back. It returned nicely browned. I ate one half which was delicious but the other half just fell apart in flakes and was stale and crunchy, I suspect it was toasted from frozen. I took the remaining half back to the counter and explained what was wrong with it , chap behind the counter didnt want to know, no apology. Coffee was awful really bitter. Awful experience.

Been here a few times usually love the food but sadly recently I ordered food to take away and when I got home the wrong item had been given to me which was very annoying.

Called in here for some brunch after a morning of walking around the town. We were surprised at how big the cafe to the back of the bakery was! We thought the menu selection was limited for the size of the place but the quality of what we received was fabulous and arrived within minutes as well! My poached eggs were slightly undercooked (raw egg white still visible). Just be aware sauce cost extra!

Terrible cappuccino today!!! Boiling hot Flat milk No froth Obviously these staff have never been trained Give them a miss There are better places to get coffee!

We went here for my Dad's birthday and we all enjoyed the food and drinks in the cafe. There were nine of us in our party but the staff were very friendly and helpful. I highly recommend the coffee flat white here - excellent. Bravo to all in this great cafe.

So disappointing. I had the worst bacon,brie and cranberry panini i've ever had here. The "panini" just a seeded roll. The bacon was undercooked 1 cm squares of bacon sprinkled inside and no cranberry? when i asked where the cranberry was i was told that the rolls came in already done? The unhappy women behind the counter eventually managed to find me some cranberry sauce but the roll was cold by then. The roll was tasteless and soggy My friend ordered double egg and chips which arrived 10 minutes after my panini and consisted of lukewarm chips, one hard egg and one undercooked egg. The building is lovely but the surly counter staff and badly cooked food means that we won't be back.

Popped in for a early breakfast as no one else was open. Inside was a lovely room with lots of caricature and history. We had a full breakfast as well as a vegetarian breakfast. Both were lovely along with a nice coffee and good service. Thumbs up.

Tea was fine but toasted tea cakes were stale and hard. Expect the outside to be toasted and inside soft, I suspect they were a couple of days old

Really lovely cafe with lots of options of pasties, cakes, breakfast and lunch. We had the make your own breakfast with all the items and a hash brown. The mushrooms very really tasty aswell as the rest of the breakfast. Good value for money and nice customer service. The only downfall is they forgot my partners beans but that's OK.

This branch of family company and Bodmin based bakers Malcolm Barnecutt just so happens to be the former Bodmin Guildhall, which they purchased in the mid eighties after the Bodmin town council moved out. The bakers have kept the building's original features, with the former council chamber being turned into a coffee lounge extension of their colourful café. After hearing opinions on possibly being the best pasties in Cornwall, I popped in on a Monday afternoon for lunch after visiting Bodmin Jail with two colleagues. Two of us had a Cornish pasty each whilst the other had a pepperoni pizza slice. We both ordered a side of loaded chips, which surprised both of us, because they looked and tasted like chips that you would find in a reputable chip shop. We all enjoyed our portions. After immediately walking into the bakery, I was struck by Barnecutt's wide range of pasty variations, including a traditional steak and two "curry" variations. I decided to try a cheese and bean pasty which was nice and very well filled,with very tasty pastry and a well presented crimp, but was not quite warm enough, and then purchased a traditional steak and beef curry pasty to consume at a later date. We then all had a slice of their exceptional heavy cake, another Cornish delicacy. A very nice lunch from the "Greggs of Cornwall"(although other local chains Rowe's and Warren's might have something to say about that). Malcolm Barnecutt is a "craft bakery" which do not rush their pasty making, and still do so by hand and then freshly baked every morning in their shops,They (like so many others) call themselves "the quality baker", I certainly agree with their motto. In fact they have been baking for over ninety years. Our waitress was very friendly and served us faultlessly. We will be looking into ordering from their pasties by post service when their website is back online. Very well done Barnecutt's!

Stunning bakers with great food and stunning pasty,s, an absolute must if in the area, always busy, which is good, and the staff are great.

This place is warm, spotless and the staff welcoming, friendly and helpful. I enjoyed a lovely coffee and breakfast bap, such good value and delicious. What a gem still after all of these years

Popped into the Bodmin Walkerlines café with our small cycle group earlier today made to feel very welcome. Order taken promptly, with a smile and drinks/cakes/ butties arrived sooo quickly! Thank you 😊

Such friendly service, great prices and delious cakes. We picked up some treats for our journey home and gifts for family who also loved the cakes.

Always friendly with simple honest food and a good price to match. Love the veggie breakfast and take out cakes when you head off!

Popped in here for lunch, as you walk through the takeaway bakery at the front there is a cafe at the back. A good size and the seats are spaced out. There were plenty of things to choose from on the menu. I ordered the ham, cheese and red onion panini and my partner ordered the breakfast panini. They were of a good size and both were delicious! If I could have fit another one in, I would have ordered another. The staff were friendly and the place was clean. We enjoyed our paninis and cakes here so much that on our last day in Cornwall we drove back to eat here one more time.. unfortunately it was closed as it was Easter Monday. When we are back in Cornwall again, we will definitely be visiting for another lunch.

Popped in to get a snack and it was delicious. Thank you also for putting a poster up for our theatre production of Ben Hur at St Petrocs

Been here on a couple of occasions during my visit to Bodmin recently. The sit-in cafe has also gone through a refurbishment. I had a breakfast roll and I have to say was very generously filled with decent quality ingredients too, I had a bacon bab and it was well done as requested and didn't taste overly greasy or salty. On another occasion to this cafe I tried a selection of pastries and sweet goods. This place does both short crust and puff pastry sausage rolls which is a very uncommon but welcome choice. I selected the short crust and tasted delicious. There is a good selection of pasties too. Had a couple of sweet treats as well. For me this was a little let down. For me for fresh the doughnuts (jam and cream) felt quite dry and a little stale and that was from visiting the shop at 9am! So were they previous day doughnuts or just not great quality in the first pace. Malcolm Barnecutt is quite expensive compared to what I'm used to from the midlands where really Greggs is the only "bakery", however with the exception of the doughnuts from my experience is a very good quality offering. If you are in Bodmin please check this place out!

Always visit here when on holiday in Cornwall. Friendly staff and the best Cornish pasties you can buy! Definitely a must go.

I know that I have not tasted every last pasty in Cornwall, however I did get through a fair few during our stay. These particular pasty's were beyond delicious. The shop was about to close for the day and the lovely lady in there was...

Very friendly service really lovely attentive ladies. The best Cornish pasties we have had all holiday and the coffee was delicious.

Unfortunately I had to come back to Bodmin for a funeral.:( My family are all Cornish but my parents moved to Devon when we were kids . My mother used to make pasties all the time. My brother and I bought Maurice Barnecutts pasties for...

First time in Bodmin and ended up here as chain cafe up the road had run out of sandwiches. Fantastic friendly service, lovely kids lunch boxes and super yummy sausage rolls. Cosy little booths to sit in and all very covid secure.

We were seated by a very nice lady who was very efficient with taking our info for COVID tracking. We waited a while and had to ask for a menu to be told there isn't one?! Eventually someone came to take our order. A few...

Tried them all and Barnecutts pasties are by far the best available in Bodmin. Proper traditional steak pasties the way they should be

This is a lovely place with all products made locally; I had the Turkey and Cranberry sandwich which was delicious as was the flat white. Service was good and staff friendly and efficient.

I had my second delivery from Barnecutts yesterday. Their steak/Cornish pasties are absolutely delicious and the very best. The pasties are packed full of veg and steak and the pastry is perfect. Pasties from other shops tend to have thick, doughy pastry but with Barnecutts...

Our order was quite simple for a lunchime - two lattés, some soft drinks, a tap water and a few pastries. We were waiting over 20 minutes for our order. The coffee machine never even fired up whilst we waited! They forgot the tap water...

What an amazing little cafe, that is so great for families with kids of all ages, such a great atmosphere and the food is just delicious and great for value, big portions for little prices. Staff are so welcoming. Wish they had something like this...

Nipped in on way through Bodmin. I really enjoyed my Steak and Stilton Pasty. Plenty of meat and tasty cheese. My Partner had the large traditional which she found lacked flavour and found quite bland, needed some pepper. My Son enjoyed his egg custard. Just...

Staff were very helpful when we placed our order for some pasties and Saffron cakes to bring home. Had a lovely cup of hot chocolate and latte coffee in the coffee shop too before what turned out to be an long epic journey home from...

Really pleasent surroundings to have coffee or lunch. Can recommend the cheese and bacon jacket potato.

The pasties here are as good as ever. First recommended to me by my relative who lives locally. They never fail to please and it is incredible that the high standard is maintained year in, year out

One of the best English breakfasts I’ve had for ages. Lovely place, and an amazing selection of cakes etc.

Popped in for lunch with my wife. I had a bacon and Brie panini, the Brie was very thin and there wasn’t a lot of Bacon. My wife had a baked potato with tuna mayo and a rather sad little salad. The potato was poorly cooked and was so hard that she left about a third of it and she had to add a couple of sachets of mayonnaise to moisten the tuna. This used to be my favourite restaurant in Bodmin but no longer. The only good thing was that the staff were cheerful and polite.

Whilst on holiday, we stopped for lunch and looked for somewhere that sold light snacks and we could get a drink. My wife asked for a variation on what was on the menu and the staff were only too happy to oblige which was very refreshing.

I recently visited this restaurant and unfortunately will not be returning. It was disappointing to have ‘lost’ the appeal as the table service has gone. But not as disappointing as the food (baked potato was ordered) but what arrived had been microwaved and was hard and dry. With the few decent places to eat in the Town you would think they would create and deliver a better quality service, as there is little competition. Next time I’ll go to Wadebridge to do my shopping and hopefully a better lunch.

On our way through Bodmin and stopped here for lunch. Lovely cafe, clean, nicely decorated, efficient and friendly staff. Proper pasties! No mass produced rubbish! Lovely coffee too. Bought bread and pasties to take with us on our holiday, delicious! If anywhere is an advertisement for shopping locally, this has to be it

Baked potatoes beautifully cooked and presented will defo be back on next visit. Friendly and proffesional outfit

We was walking around Bodmin looking for a coffee house. Lots of coffee houses about but the Malcolm Barnecutt cafe looked different. We walked through the shop upstairs to the cafe and noticed how clean and modern this was. I ordered a flat white which so many coffee houses get wrong. It was a double expresso with warm milk on top. It was strong how I like it, my partner loved her latte. This is a great coffee house 10/10 result.

Really impressed with this tea room Great food friendly service good atmosphere delicious food Would have been a five but not sure why this lovely place feels the need for a big screen tv Apart from that highly recommend

Had to try Cornish pastie while in Newquay. Malcolm's was by far and away the best one we tasted. A unanimous decision by the whole family. It is a little way out of Newquay but well worth the visit, even has forecourt parking. Sausage rolls are pretty good too.

While visiting thus interesting and once capital town of Cornwall, Bodmin, don't miss the chance to sample either a quick snack or full lunch, the staff are friendly, with good old fashion table service, my first choice when I'm in town.

It’s a shame that were no vegan options apart from the usual chips or jackets. I think it’s quite poor when the demand is clearly there. Also 2 ketchups for 4 bowls of chips!? Lovely building and setting. Would return if the options were here.

We dropped in on the cafe after visiting the Bodmin and Sanford railway.

We followed reviews in TripAdvisor.....chocolate,coffee and cakes were excellent value served quickly in a lovely atmosphere with everything looking clean and efficient. Looks like best value for buns,meals and coffee in lovely Bodmin. Worth a stop when visiting......

Went here today with family and was niely surprised. The pasties were lovely and come in 3 different sizes so catered for all the family and I had a jacket potato which was also good. The staff were very polite and the place is nice inside. Everything in the bakery downstairs also looks delicious

Good quality bakery, Allways happy with products, kids love too. Allways have to stop here a very popular place, highly recommend

Pleasant cafe mainly specialising in sandwiches, pastries & paninis. I had a salad & the other half sausage & chips. Nice friendly staff, clean & affordable.

We visited after doing some touristy things and the girl behind the cafe counter was lovely even though it was close to closing. Excellent Cornish Pasty and cakes. Well worth a visit.

One of the best places to eat in Bodmin at a reasionable price. Good food, clean with pleasant staff, nice surroundings Parking in Bodmin is expensive which puts people off going to the town.

Popped in here for hot drink. Cafe is at back of bakery and very clean and light. Panini and sarnies are made to order plus usual bakery selection. Staff are friendly and helpful. Hot choc was just right, not to sweet but warm and comforting on cold day!

Was greeted at counter by a friendly face whom was polite kind and smiling great service lovely food great coffee, clean nice cafe Anne Marie served us I asked for her name as she really was welcoming I would highly recommend.

I love the setting, in the old town hall. Staff are helpful and, above all empowered! Good food and excellent coffee.

Stopped here on recommendation after a business visit to Bodmin. Good choice of pasties and if you want , cakes. There appeared to be a cafe upstairs at the back , looked nice and welcoming. The steak pasty was really good full of meat and a very distinct pepper flavour , really enjoyed it .

Excellent bakery with restaurant at the rear. Food very good quality and reasonable price - we had quiche and salad. Ideal place for lunch break on way to Cornwall.

Called in for fish and chips one lunchtime while we were away. Service was quick and chips were OK, not...

Malcolm Barnecutt is rightly famous through North Cornwall, and Cornwall at large for the quality, range and taste of his...

Good coffee. Yummy cakes. Friendly staff. Good service and a nice clean place to eat. It is on the Main...

Came here while visiting Bodmin for brunch. good choice of main courses and cakes. Good service and nice rooms. Would...

Nice little cafe this one. Good food, good prices and interesting building! Looking at some of the photos, they must have recently redecorated as it's very smart and modern looking now. Good service too!

I am pleased to announce that one can now have a pot of tea, rather than a bag in a cup. This is a traditional cafe, (with wonderful pasties). Having suggested that a tea pot would give a better experience when drinking tea, I have been contacted and told that tea

delicious pasties, very friendly , good value, a relaxed setting where you werent rushed. we had fabulous pasties just before visiting the courtroom experience, a great couples of hours in Bodmin.

Having seen the rest of Bodmin I wasn't expecting much. I can say this as I was born there! Excellent quiche and salad and good coffee. Superb value.

Fantastic place to eat, not obvious from the high street what gem awaits hidden behind the shop. If your in Bodmin check it out.

We stopped here for a quick pasty pit stop - all three pasties were piping hot and tasted fresh and flavoursome. The cafe is quite funky - if you pass the high st counter at the front then you enter into as a former guild hall with stain glass window - and beyond the guild hall is another room which was former council chambers (right at the back of the cafe) - wood panelled this room has a very calm feeling about it.... The staff were friendly too!

Looking for somewhere for a snack on a wet day, we discovered this delightful place. Clean and spacious and a great find. We had cheese and ham panini which was great and filling and reasonably priced too. Highly recommended much better than the usual bakery places and I noticed they have one in every town we went to.

The beef pasties here never cease to please. Always a good taste, plenty of meat and good pastry. My cousin, who lives locally, always rates them - praise indeed

Had our longed for Cornish Pasties and we were not disappointed. Although this is all we had the bread and cakes on offer looked wonderful and there is a small area in front of the bakery to sit and eat you pasty.

called in for bread rolls and cakes,ended up having lunch in cafe at rear.cafe clean light and airysituated in the old guild hallwith a comfortable coffee loung to the rear of building.decor kept in period { check out the stained glass window above counter area }menu nrelatively simple but with prices to match,scrambled free range eggs on toast £2.90,my ham eggs and chips plus 2 hot drinks totalled £10.75 not bad for 2 slices of boiled ham the thickness of a piece of rump steakand cooked like mam used to make { yum yum ! } also the roast of the day looked tasty,with vrg I like { peas and carrots } not half raw veg you get in some fancy eating houses { i.e. vegetables that you need a hammer and chisel to cut up !! } we shall definitely bee adding barnecutt bakery/cafe bodmin to our highly recommended list. I wish to clear any confusion over location of this establishment,it is at 20 fore st bodmin and not as my previous review stated at 3 fore st liskeard,afraid got a bit carried away there ha ha !! never mind happy eating .

Quick stop in Bodmin. Found MB as the closest cafe to the car park. Mostly stopped to use the toilets on our journey into Cornwall. Nice coffee and strawberry muffin. A bit busy with two seating areas. We were in the old council chamber all nicely wood paneled.Had a decent menu for food selection

This is the place to go for the best pasty! Variety of flavours and other bakery items! Would recommend the steak and Stilton pasty - you can taste the quality! No wonder there is sometimes a queue!

We must be paying for the refurbishment, very poor no garnish with sandwiches,a pathetic garnish with an overdone half filled jacket potato. Been going for years won't bother again .

Have been going to this restaurant for years and have always been very pleased with everything. However since reopening after refurbishment we are very disappointed that the food is now just like any other cafe or restaurant. The only reason we visited here was the variety of food which was very good. The most popular food is no longer on the menu. I ordered a panini as the meals I usually have, were not there and had no choice. The panini was brought on a small plate with no garnish. I have never been in a cafe where the sandwiches, panini, pasties etc are on the plate with no garnish. We were all very disappointed and will be looking for somewhere else to have a meal in future.

This branch of Barnecutts has just been refurbished. Beyond the usual excellent food counter are steps up into the old Town Council Hall, now a bright and airy space with lots of the original architectural features retained. I think the best seating is beyond the kitchen in the panelled Council Chamber, with some charming stained glass. There are plenty of staff and service is pleasant. The soup was especially good, and the coffee was tasty.

We ordered a special 70th birthday cake over the phone. The pale blue and white icing and decorations were excellent and exactly as requested but sadly the sponge was very dry. We had been recommended to use this bakery but will not be doing so again.

Hands down the freshest and tastiest fresh cream doughnuts I have ever had in my life so far. I have also tried few other of their baked goods and quality is very very high. It's a must try.

Basic but tasty food for a good price in a clean and friendly environment. Super architecture as it is held in a renovated town hall.

Scrumpy bakery from quiche to cream cakes to pasties to fresh bread they have it all. Cafes at both barnies either in town or the industrial estate. Plenty of free parking

This place is lovely for coffe, cakes and light lunches. Staff friendly and service good. Coffee excellent. Well worth a visit if you're shopping in Bodmin.

Just popped in for a quick coffee. Really grand location and the coffee was great and at a reasonable price.

These are the best pasties in Cornwall and, therefore, the world! The staff are great too and come around the counter to serve me as I'm in a wheelchair.

I used to love the pork and swede pasty but it is no longer is produced so I tried the pork and apple which was delicious! The steak pasty is a classic though and I would only go to Barnecutts for my pasties.

Bodmin being my adopted home town (I moved here when I was 6) has a constant Cornish charm. To emphasise this a visit to barnecutts wouldn't be full. Whenever we have guests from abroad we always take them and every time they are impressed. Possibly the best pasty place around.

This is one of our favourites when we visit Bodmin. The staff are always very friendly and the menu is great. Always have a specials board offering some lovely tempting meals as well as their normal menu which also offers a large choice. Had a lovely fish pie from the specials board which I hope will be on again when we visit in future.

Malcolm Barnecutt is in the middle of Bodmin easy to find, and plenty of car parks to choose from on the outskirts of the Main Street. We eat here often as the atmosphere here is very comfortable and friendly. The Service is always good and the food is always cooked to order, very flavoursome tasty, hot food is hot and cold food is always fresh too. The Staff are very friendly and always helpful and efficient. We all Eat here quite often. Have had a variety of different food here. Breakfast here is plentiful with a large selection of different breakfast foods. They do light lunches, and more substantial lunches. The children love eating here too. We take our visitors here too and all have enjoyed the plentiful food and service.

Went for lunch mid week and still quite busy which says something. I had the meal deal - £6 for 2 course small portion meal, great value and ideal for those with a smaller appetite. Staff were very friendly and seemed to know quite a few of the other customers by name. They took particular care over one elderly lady which was lovely to see; the service in general was very good too. My husband had the roast followed by a cheese scone, said the cheese scone was excellent, which is high praise indeed!

Try any pasty shop that sells Barnecutts pasties and you won't be disappointed. My dad used to travel from New Zealand for them. Friends from Fareham Hants take back trays of them. We have been enjoying them for years and despite trying others, always end up thinking these are the best. Keep up the good work Barnecutts.

Very nice place, use to come here when I was younger and loved it. Toasted tea cakes are amazing and so is there delicious cakes. Lovely place and staff

The cafe at this premise is clean has a good menu with food for all ages, friendly staff who greet you with a smile. Good service and not overpriced. What else could you possibly want. This is the only cafe I visited in the town and there maybe better ones but to be better than this they must be exceptional.

Great place for lunch, service was fast and friendly, food was delicious and very inexpensive.We tried pizza, pasty, baked potato and toasted sandwich and every dish was great, milks shakes are lovely and the hot chocolate is to die for!Would definitely recommend.

Well I heard about how good their pasty's were and wasn't disappointed - took a frozen bag of 6 home - we have already had 2 and they were incredible - still a mystery why pasties taste rubbish outside Cornwall

Fresh Pasties made all the time ,service is fast with great care we only had pasties but it hit the spot keep up the good work Cakes looked wonderful wish i could have fitted it in lol

Malcolm Barnecutt is one of the best Pasty Companies in the Bodmin area. The pasties (which come in a variety of sizes and flavours) are absolutely lovely, as is all the rest of the food and drinks on offer. My personal favourite is a large traditional steak pasty, which I highly recommend. The food is to take out or to eat in, since there is a cafe and restaurant area beyond the initial bakery. Very lovely- highly recommend it.

The best Bakery in Cornwall! Al the food is fresh and here is always plenty of choice...too much sometimes! A must try!

We visited Malcolm Barnecutt needing a quick bite to eat and a drink. What a lovely little place. The service was very good and it was clean and tidy. We only had coffee and pasties which were very nice. I would visit again.

From the moment we entered the dining area we were spoken to and made welcome. The place was very busy and buzzing. We plumped for a special, roast pork, apple sauce and all the trimmings and cherry pie and clotted cream. £5.95, the meal was plentiful, hot and delicious! The waitresses were lovely and could not do enough for us. What a fantastic experience. Wonderful....

Met zijn vieren koffie gaan drinken met wat lekkers erbij. De cappuccino is matig en de bediening kan een stuk beter. De chocolade brownie met custard, tonijn sandwich en cream tea zijn echter wel goed.

Decided to go for lunch and visit one of our regular places. Have eaten here many times in the past as they have a good choice of meals plus a specials board. Very competitively priced. The only slight problem this time was that the chips were very pale and could have done with another few minutes cooking time but they were ok and it's bound to happen occasionally. Will definitely be back soon. Staff are very hardworking and friendly and offer a very good service.