Porthgwarra Cove Cafe in Cornwall, Isles of Scilly

Great spot along the coastal path, overlooking tiny beach. Serving a good selection of pasties, ice cream, drinks and cakes and really helpful staff.

Delicious cornish pasties from this remote little cafe with outdoor seating in a wonderful location at Porthgwarra Cove. We were quite surprised to find the cafe open in early march, but we're glad is was. We had delicious hot cornish pastie and teas whilst sitting outside at the picnic tables and watching a tame robin eating the crumbs.

Wonderfull cafe with outside seating only. Right on the coastal path, a great find and place to rest your weary feet. Open all year round. Highly recommend the Lemon and Lime cake which was also one of their gluten free options. Staff also excellent and knowledgeable about the area.

Amazing lil place what seems to be nowhere,Amazing staff

Great Pasty, super nice, amazing views

What a pleasant surprise to find a cafe at Porthgwarra, while walking a circular walk along the coast from Poligigga. Coffee was excellent. Pasties were very good (but not as good as Philips's). But you won't find a better location to have coffee and pastie.

Before or after your walk along the coastline have a cuppa and a cornish pastie . Easy parking and not expensive with wonderful views and excellent places to watch the wildlife.

The staff are really friendly. They also serve fantastic pasties and top notch coffee.

Lovely welcoming staff today,with a good selection of food and drink at reasonable prices..another wonderful Cornish area to visit and the cafe was just what was needed at this remote cove...

Great pasty and drinks, lots of choice. Lovely garden seating

Schönes Selbstbedienungs Café mit Kuchen Auswahl. Kleine warme Snacks gab es auch, um sich zu stärken.

Sehr enge Strassen, 2,5 m breit. Wenige, enge Ausweichstellen. Aber grandiose Landschaft

Love it here, the mid point on our walk. Does a lovely pasty!

We always walk here from Treen along the coastal path via Porthcurno and the Minack. The walk and the café are wonderful. Lovely staff. Good coffee and cakes and snack lunches. Worth several miles of walking for this. Fantastic location.

It was incredible, affordable and delicious but unfortunately the toilets were disgusting and that really let it down. Parking was OK but I didn’t mind. Would happily visit again. Stunning views.

Dropped just managed to park up. Only went for the views and a coffee not disappointed views are spectacular

Nice little shack serving decent grub with a smile, toilets were awful though

So surprising to find this really lovely cafe which felt like middle of nowhere! Staff were friendly and helpful! Really pleased with vegan options available! Our children really enjoyed their ice creams!

Very friendly staff and a real gem to have this cafe - especially after a long hike along the coast back to Porthgwarra. Plenty of benches to sit at too.

HI, great place worth your time and attention. Entrepreneurial youth serves great meals on site.

Good food and nice and peaceful location. Plan to spend half an hour here and recover. Loved it

Had the brownie and orange cake. Was absolutely amazing! Staff were super friendly too. Would recommend it as a stop if you’re hiking the coastal path.

Been here before about 3 years ago but the cream teas are just as awesome. Beautiful scenery and amazing tunnel down to the small beach below.

Porthgwarra is definitely worth a visit but you will find limited parking. There is a good garden to eat and drink in. I ordered a dirty chai latte - it wasn’t on the menu but they said they could make it. The problem was when they came to charge for it. Usually an extra shot of coffee is charged at roughly £0.50 and on their menu a double espresso is charged at £0.20 more than a single espresso. I could not believe it when they charged £6.20 on the basis that the it was an espresso at £2.60 plus a chai latte at £3.60. There was no room for movement as “I don’t set the prices - I only work here unfortunately”

Très joli endroit permet de faire une pause sur la randonnée avec une petite crique à côté. Cependant ne pas prendre de scone cream plus de 6,50€ pour deux pauvres brioches de la confiture et de la cornish cream sans goût c est un peu exagéré

Not open despite website saying it. Please correct

Lovely little stop off point for refreshments and a bite.

Great seating in the garden on a warm sunny day

Stunning beach. Tiny car park. Staff in the cafe (last year) were quite hostile when I asked them what time they opened. The one member of staff in a vw camper was especially hostile and tailgate us all the way down to the car park.

One of the Duchy's hidden gems but remote to get to. Just as good 2023.

Al fresco eating on a gloriously sunny day... good pasties... OK coffee... what's not to like?

Very nice stop off on coast path walk

Nice little café to rest from the lovely coastal walks and a great little beach too

Beautiful spot, and tasty pasties and cakes!

Very idyllic spot, lovely building and if you are lucky not to have rain behind the cafe they have lots of open air seating. Simple menu, but the turnover was tasty. Flatwhite.....very weak so not sure it had the required double shot, and I watched three people make it!!! Very slow service.

Cafe was good. However, access to the cove was very steep. Not suitable for wheelchair users or elderly.

A welcome stopping place along the SW coastal path, offering simple food and drinks at reasonable prices with plenty of outdoor seating and toilets

Delicious soup with a lovely toasted roll. Friendly staff and a very cute seating area too. Carparking close by and easy access to the beach and coast path.

Delicious pasties and cakes served by friendly staffs.

Kleines gemütliches Kaffee mit Tischen im grünen Innenhof und kostenlosen Toiletten. Kostenpflichtiger Parkplatz direkt daneben. Natürlich auch am Coast Path gelegen und zum Zwischenhalt geeignet.

We stumbled across this little cafe hut while walking the coastal path and it’s a hidden gem. We had a brownie and flapjack which were both lovely and stopped to watch the birds and have a rest in the garden.

Nice and friendly stop on a coast path

Lovely cafe, great pasties, but tricky to find a parking spot in summer. Very narrow access road with rude drivers hogging valuable passing places.

Amazing little find whilst walking the south west coastal path. Veggie pasty is one of the best I've ever had. Perfectly placed, with a lovely eating area to recharge before heading back along the coast.

Amazing cream tea with plenty cream and jam with home made scones

Lovely place to visit & have a cuppa. Cakes & pasties (after 11am) are fresh & tasty. Good variety. Ice creams too. Then go watch the birds & seals

I arrived after walking from Porthcurno at 2 mins past 4 pm last Sunday, dying for a coffee or any hot drink to be told hot drinks and food were only served until 4 pm and only cold drinks or ice cream We’re available . I asked if even a cup of tea but they were adamant and I left feeling disgusted by their unkindness and inflexibility. I will never go there again . I walked up the lane and back to Porthcurno over the fields feeling very upset.

Great selection of cake and savoury items. Includes gluten free cakes. Hot pasty was a winner.

Charming little place perfectly placed to offer sustenance and respite to those walking the South West coast. A great selection of drinks and snacks with friendly staff. No indoor sitting.

Such beautiful spot but tight road so do not think to go down there with a big vehicle , we grabbed a take away and went down to be greeted by a couple of funny seals xx

Beautiful little spot to explore. Views are good as you'd expect in Cornwall. Little cafe does a banging pasty and sausage roll.

Iced coffee was amazing and so were the pasties. So much so no pictures… Drive over is a a narrow road but that is part of the experience. Fantastic place, you won’t be disappointed.

Great little stop off for a snack around breakfast/lunch for coffee, tea, bacon rolls, pasties, baguettes, cakes etc. Remember it shuts quite early, often around 3-4pm

Excellent, cake and coffee served by friendly staff in a wonderful oasis, Cove is at end of typical very narrow Cornish lane, but it’s idyllic.

Kleines aber feines Café auf dem S/W Path auf dem Weg von Lands End nach Mousehole. Freundliche Bedienung An dem Cafe kann man am Wasserhahn seine Wasserflasche füllen. Angrenzend ein Rastplatz mit schattigen Sitzgelegenheiten

I don't know if there was just a massive misunderstanding, but having asked where I can bin my coffee cup that I bought maybe 45 mins previously, they were really wierdly rude. Telling me they can't take back everyone's rubbish. Bemused, I pointed out it came from here, only for the women to aggressively say 'you still going on love?' She then demanded my name which was also super aggressive and wierd. Looking at other recent reviews, perhaps they have had a change of ownership. Unpleasant experience.

Take away that came Just in time. The Porthgwarra hot Chocolate was an absolute treat.

Life changing BLT. I think I dream about it most nights. Almost drove an 1.5 hrs back the next day to have another. The egg salad sandwich was also great, but that BLT will haunt me forever.

Toller Platz für Rast während Wanderung, kleiner Strand direkt anbei, entspannte Atmosphäre.

Nice spot for a stop. Steep slope to sea with little sand. Lots of potential walks available but there is a cost for parking. Cafe itself has excellent variety of snacks and drinks.

Pastie was only lukewarm and was undercooked, had a slightly raw dough taste. The scones were the opposite, overcooked and dry. Coffee was okay. Nice location though.

Great coffee and hot chocolate, very helpful staff who kindly arranged a taxi for a member of our party that was taken ill, thank you ladies

Great coffee and hot chocolate and very helpful staff who kindly sorted out transport for an unwell member of our walking party, thank you Ladies

This was an oasis - a wonderful welcome and a great range of pastries, drinks and cake, in the beautiful garden - thank you.

In the past this has been a nice cafe but today it sorely disappointed. Arrived just after 10am and had a cream tea. Scones were dry and like rocks and judging by the date on the box they came out i believe they were yesterdays scones. A shame.

Absolute jewel of place! Middle of no man’s land. Awesome find after long coastal path walk with family. We stopped to have some snacks(Cake, Sausage roll and crisps) also had some drinks, highly recommend stopping here. Lovely garden seating area. Dog’s are welcome also

Lovely cottage Café close to the coastal path. We through the path from theatre to Land End, it might be the 1/3 point of whole path. Nice lady served us, with creamy latte and Cornish pastry, beef and onion 🧅, very tasty!!!

We had pasties, iced coffee and scones and it was all delicious! Prices are reasonable and there is plenty of sitting available. The location is beautiful and is a great way to start/finish a hiked in the surrounding area.

I always find everyone very friendly and accommodating. Good locally sourced coffee and food. Highly recommended x

found this great little cafe by accident while exploring the area and so glad we did ,prompt service with a smile ,good coffee and probably the best BLT sandwich I have ever had

Kleines Café mit seeehr leckerem lokalen Eis, aber auch anderen Sachen. Nur Verzehr draußen.

What a find!!! Walking from Lands End to Minack we came across this hidden gem. Fancied a little something to keep us going and got the scrambled egg and bacon bap…OMG…best ever!!! Decided to come back for lunch after Minack and shared the BLT and a tuna melt. Truly magnificent. This girl is cooking off the scale. Lovely setting, really friendly staff and top top quality. Worth the walk for this alone.

Had the vegan pastie and coffee. Lovely sitting watching the sea whilst having lunch.

Disappointed at 1557 we were told we couldn't have a cup of tea, only cold drinks and ice cream because the hot drink machine was being cleaned. Missed opportunity on a beautiful afternoon to make people feel welcome in such a lovely spot and we know we weren't the only ones turned away. When will cafes and tea rooms realise that 4pm is optimum time to be serving tea and cake!

Small take away with outside tables by the cove. Coffee was fine, although in paper cups & the cakes were good.

Great banana and peanut butter cake, hot chocolate and spotted some choughs nearby.

Great Flat White with Oatmeal milk! Guests also had a lush looming breakfast bap!! Be back again on Sunday!

It seems amazing that such a modest building can produce such great food. We were there on a sunny Sunday and many of the dishes were sold out as the cafe is so popular -deservedly so. In spite of being run off their feet, the two women in the cafe were friendly and welcoming, and served up marvellous fresh pollack and a BLT to beat all others. Good coffee and outdoor seating in this beautiful spot made for a perfect lunch. This place is a real gem, not least because of the menu and the people cooking and serving.

Very friendly and helpful staff, a.nd a good range of food.

Lovely and quiet in the evening, well worth a visit

Very nice little cafe, a hidden gem!. Friendly staff. Made friends with a robin whilst eating

Lovely setting, parking available

The cafe at Porthgwarra cove was one of our favourite spots on the Penwith Peninsula! The veggie breakfast was definitely in our top three favourite breakfasts ever…highly recommend.

Best scrambled eggs I’ve ever had. A must visit in you’re in west Cornwall.

Great food, worth a visit to this beautiful beach and cafe. Probably best cinnamon swirl.

An amazing breakfast in an equally amazing location. Such a great start to a weekend with young children, finished off with a play on Porthgwarra beach. Highly recommended!

Pastys and coffee lovely, such a beautiful place

Absolutely delighted to find this cafe on the Cornwall coast path. Really friendly welcome and delicious ice cream Thank you

It was fantastic to find this lovely cafe when walking over the cliffs to Porthgwarra from Porthcurno! To find a great cafe open in February was a surprise. We had coffees and cakes but their hot food menu looked very appetising too. Very friendly service and I really wish this cafe well for the future!

Lovely coffee and cake, perfect start for walk, thanks !!

We visited Porthgwarra and Gwennap for the day and enjoyed their lovely coffee and cake. The team clearly care about the food they serve and looking after their customers. A welcome stop on a cold windy day!

Such a lovely friendly atmosphere! Always visit here when in the area. Today we had the fabulous mince pies and they were absolutely delicious… Worth the 5 stars alone, keep up the good work ladies. See you next year!

Great food, and incredibly friendly staff! Will definitely be coming back

Splendid coffee and tremendous pasties! Very friendly service. Excellent short but varied menu. Right on the SW Coast Path.

A hidden gem. I visit often to head off on the coast path then return to enjoy the offerings the small but perfect Café by the car park has.

A warm and friendly welcome, because of my restricted diet Tracey cooked me a special egg meal, it was just what I needed.

Disappointed with cream tea, not as good as previous visit, lot smaller scones and expensive for 6.75. Coffee expensive and 40p extra for plant milks

Hidden gem! A must-visit cafe with tasty coffee and delicious cakes, sandwiches and more. Add to that, the friendly service and it’s a winner. This year it is opening in the winter from Sunday to Weds 10am to 3pm. Will definitely visit again.

Visited today and ordered a cream tea. Previous to this we had visited a couple of years ago so was surprised when for £6.75 I was presented with two small scones , adequate jam and cream . But trying to put the jam and cream...

Tiny little fishing hamlet at the end of a long narrow road. Worth the effort though as it is very pretty and has a interesting tunnel to get to the shoreline. Cafe has a good selection and the staff are very friendly.