Talland Bay Beach Cafe in Cornwall, Isles of Scilly

Great location and friendly helpful staff. Food delicious, but slightly overpriced. Cute chalet style huts and plenty of outside seating

This cafe is overpriced and the staff are miserable. I asked for a cream tea which costs £8.50 at 3.50pm. The lady told me it would have to be takeaway and we had to be off the premises at 4pm prompt. As I spent £22.50 in there, I thought the lady's attitude and mannerism stank. As we left at 4pm, the staff were still serving other customers. Would not recommend Stay away!!! Will not return.

We stopped by twice today as we walked the coastal path, firstly for an ice cream, then for cream tea - it was so good, we just had to go back. This cafe is in a fabulous location, and well run by a husband and wife team. With indoor (beach huts) and outdoor seating, with stunning views over the beach. It's clean, well run, and the cream tea (with Rhoddas of course) was to die for. If you're in the area, it's a must do!

Lovely small bay that dog friendly The cafe looks out over the beach and has some cozy beach huts to sit and eat or if you wish the benches are on the beach edge

Fantastic coffee!!!! Beautiful location - highly recommend 🤩

Great good coffee. Latte and Mocca....

Lovely cake with a view but I did not enjoy the ride down there or back up. The roads were very narrow and up/down a hill so next time I would park half way and walk the rest!

This is right on the coastal footpath and the weather was fantastic so it was glorious sitting outside overlooking the small beach. We visited this on the way from Looe to Polperro for brunch then enjoyed it so much we called in on the way back for cake - we deserved it given how far we had walked so it was entirely guilt free. Brunch was a hummus ciabatta roll - all very fresh and tasty. On our return we had scones and clotted cream. They were fabulous and really light with a good portion of clotted cream. They were also huge so I would suggest you would find that two that come as part of the cream tea would be too much for one person but are perfect for two!

What a beautiful spot. A great place to refresh on the SW Coast Path between Looe & Polperro. We also drove down (narrow winding lanes) this morning for a return visit. I would happily have a few hours or even the full day in this beautiful bay on a sunny day. Only issue to be aware of for the cafe is that the toilets are portaloos in the car park.

Fantastic coffee. Great flavour and nice and strong.

The Beach Cafe was just what we hoped it would be, served good coffee and a good selection of great cakes, (most of the 7 of us went for large buttered tea cakes) and an amazing view. The staff were great, very friendly and helpful. Plenty of spaces to sit outside and a few beach huts converted into places to eat. Suspect when the weather is less kind places inside to eat and admire the view.

An amazing little cafe with a world class location to sit and have a coffee, they don't come much better than this place. Lovely food and coffee and amazing view. We'll definitely be back.

Beautiful little bay with an excellent cafe. Great friendly staff. Kayak hire at a really good price. What's not to love?

Walk over every time we stay in Polperro just for crab baguette 🦀 😋 even better on a sunny day! 🏖 🌊 ☀ 👍🏻

A beautifully cute place, a lovely experience, pleasant and fun staff serving delightful coffee and cake! I'm making a jog down there tomorrow just for a coffee!

Awesome little gem 😎 Great coffee and cake plus delicious ice-cream, with a breathtaking amazing view. Clean loos and a lovely pit stop. Just lovely 😍 well worth a visit ❤️

Lovely food and a great place to stop for lunch when walking the coast path.

Amazing place lovely grub ..stunning views ....nightmare road from the east side down

Yummy cakes and bakes. Sells ice cream and other things too. Sited virtually on the beach. Has picnic benches overlooking Talland Bay and also more seating with some in converted beach huts. All very attractive. I had a cuppa and a tasty bake and had a Shirley Valentine moment sitting by the shore watching the waves. Blissful, lovely little cove. Car park with portaloos just by the side. £6.80 all day parking. Machine takes cash or card.

Lovely spot. It’s right on the beach and is just what we needed! It was a bit cloudy and cool so we used one of the beach huts to sit in. I was able to feed the baby out of the wind and we could still enjoy a view of the beach. I don’t believe there was seating indoors but there is a great selection of ice cream, food and drinks. There is also beach gear available to purchase if needed!

A gem beside the sea,the staff excellent all ways friendly with a smile,food brilliant, top marks for cleanliness, one of the best views on the coastal walk,a must place to visit.

Perfect Coastal Pitstop: Talland Bay Café While walking the stunning coastal path from Polperro to Looe, we came across the Talland Bay Café—a gem of a spot nestled by the beach. Although we only stopped for drinks, it was clear this café is perfectly set up to handle the steady stream of beachgoers and walkers alike. The efficient system in place meant even with a queue, service was smooth and quick, allowing us to enjoy our break without any hassle. What really makes this café stand out is the incredible view. Overlooking the beautiful bay, it’s the perfect place to sit back, sip a drink, and take in the picturesque surroundings. The staff, too, were friendly and welcoming. If you’re ever on the coastal path between Polperro and Looe, I highly recommend making a stop at Talland Bay Café.

Always very friendly, clean and delicious, we go down as much as we can! Talland Bay is a beautiful setting! Everything you need for a beach day too!

The beach cafe is a lovely place to have refreshments. The food and drinks were first class and the staff were very friendly and helpful.

It's great and nice for Family Beach ⛱️ outing.

Great food, fantastic service and friendly staff. Great location for a beach day out. Well worth the visit, however be careful and the last part driving(very narrow road).

Such an amazing location. With great food!

Lovely little cafe, the pasties are great, actually have meat in and a lovely crumbky pastry. Staff are really friendly and helpful and appreciate the indecision for the selection of cakes and ice creams!!

Lovely atmosphere. Clean waters.

Very good!! Good service, good 'beachfood', coffee top and local ice cream and pasties!!

A great little place. We’ll run, welcoming, clean, super friendly staff and great food - very high quality in every respect. Highly recommend the Cream Tea and Pasties!

Couldn't leave cornwall without scones and what a great choice. The most delicious cream tea and melt in your mouth scones. Well worth the walk up and down the hill.

Went there for the afternoon , nice staff

Great cafe to walk to from Polperro along the headland and to spend a few hours on the beach. Also great staff who are very accomodating (feeding the children) when your wife leaves and forgets the children. Makes you realise you need a plan in place for such occurances.

Great open crab sandwich. Just soak up the view.

Expensive, but worth it. Panini is a great choice 👍

I've reviewed it before and I stand by that review.

Fab views to chill and refuel from

Visited here primarily to rent sea kayaks with the kids. Spent a good hour exploring the local bay and even met the local seal. The cafe had a good selection of food, such as paninis, sandwiches, pastys and ice cream. According my fussy 13 yo the panini was one of the best they've had which is saying something. The staff were friendly and I would highly recommend it of you want to get away from the busy areas such as Looe and Polperro.

We love this cafe and the walk from here to Polperro. Also love that they serve an uncomplicated builders tea 😆

Love this place…always great food and service.

Lovely spot, just not a great menu range

With a captive market this place doesn’t need to try too hard - and they don’t. £14 for one panini and two hot drinks is quite steep too.

Regularly drive down to this cafe for a coffee, lovely spot with seating and quaint beach huts. Cream teas and cakes, plus sandwiches etc. Dog friendly. The staff are always welcoming on sunny or rainy days. Car park. Well worth a visit. Midday is busy but I have always found a space in the car park. Beautiful uninterrupted sea views. The main toilets remain closed but there are porta loos in the car park.

This is a wonderful little gem next to a stunning beach. Very friendly staff, visited a couple of times during our stay. Beautiful little beach huts to shelter in which were dog friendly too.

Surprisingly good cafe on Talland Bay, not far from the lovely Lekerock Cove. Great coffee and cakes.

We were intending to visit Polperro but reading the negative reviews on Google about the extortionate car parking cost there, we decided to park at Talland Bay and walk there instead. I'm so pleased we did otherwise we would not have come across this gem of a beach and cafe. Plus the full day parking fee was less than Polperro, a much nicer setting and the best beach shop we've seen in a long time. The staff were so friendly and the quality of the food and drink was very good. Beautiful landscaping outside made it feel very different from the usual beach side cafe. We were very impressed and it was a relaxed 30 min walk into Polperro. I'd definitely suggest parking here and eating at this great cafe.

Friendly staff, amazing views, great stop when walking from Looe to Polperro . We returned today and parked the car to the lane leading to the bay which is free, there is a carpark too (if need be) , local fees apply. Best fluffy warm scones (x2) with cream and jam, for £8.50 but only came with one mug of tea which I thought was odd, as enough to eat for two but only one drink 🤔 Our tray was cleared away promptly and the lady was very friendly and polite. A clean beach and litter pickers were available which kids seemed to enjoy using on the beach! Dogs were welcome and on the beach too. Wet suits, aqua shoes, bucket and spades all for sale too! Would definitely return! I can imagine it’s a heat trap in the summer as today was very warm with quite a few people in the sea but not crowded. A beautiful bay and definitely worth a visit 🏖️☀️🩳🩱🐚🏝️

The coffee was good and the beach nice. However it had two of the most miserable people in customer service working here. The atmosphere inside was terrible, very unwelcoming.

A welcome stop for ice cream and coffee

Much more peaceful than looe which is next door to this lovely cove

What a delightful place. Scones are amazing

We visited here for a lunch stop today on our way back home with our two young children. We went inside to order and found there was little inside seating - just some high stools at the windows which the children wouldn't have been able to sit at very easily. This wasn't a problem at all - we decided to sit in one of the 3 little beach huts outside which the children liked the look of. The lady who took our order was polite and friendly, and asked where we would be sitting. We told her in one of the huts and she said this was fine. We went out to the huts and as it had been raining, the seats and table were wet - again, not a problem, we quickly dried them off with some tissue. Our food was brought out quickly by the nice lady who took the order and was nice. It then got windy and started raining again, so we started getting wet as the doors to the hut were open. The nice lady came out and was apologetic that we were getting wet, gave us some tissue and tried to close the doors. We told her it was fine, not to worry, we didn't mind a bit of wind and rain. She closed the doors and left, but they blew open in the wind minutes later. My husband closed them again, but as there is no way to secure them from the inside, they blew open in the wind again. A blonde woman came out and was very arsey with us, saying 'you need to keep these doors closed! It's damaging the building!' I told her it was not deliberate, we were trying to keep them closed but they were blowing open in the wind. She replied 'well it's too windy to be out here! It's damaging the building!' I didn't appreciate being spoken to like that when it wasn't our fault the doors kept blowing open. It was not that windy or rainy when we arrived. Why not close the huts on wet days or tell customers that they cannot sit there? Why not provide some kind of catch for closing the doors on the inside for instances when the weather becomes bad and the doors need to be closed but customers are already inside? Why not come out and politely ask us to relocate inside due to the turn in the weather? At this point we left - one of the children hadn't finished eating but we got the remainder of her panini put in a bag to take out. Overall - nice location, lots of (pay and display) parking, nice food, just a shame about the one rude member of staff (again, the lady who took our order was welcoming and friendly).

Lovely welcome from Lisa, fantastic sandwiches and beautiful place. Cheerful and friendly service makes such a difference - it made our day. Thank you.

A small but efficient little cafe that serves both hot and cold food. Seating is mostly outside.. No toilets available, but there are some in the car park in the corner. The carrot cake is delicious.

Great selection of food and drinks, lovely decor and friendly service. Even let our big muddy dog in! Thank you very much!

Lovely friendly staff, good range on their menu and happy to say all sandwiches could be gluten free. Fabulous setting right by the sea. Parking is £1.50 per hr. We used one of the 3 beach huts which felt very holiday like and sheltered us from the wind!

We were happy to find this lovely little cafe open and fully stocked in March. Perfect place to sit and relax after a couple of hours climbing the rocks. Lovely fresh food menu, with outside and covered eating areas, depending on the weather! Wouldn't hesitate in returning if visiting this beach again.

Bliss, a little piece of heaven on earth. Great beach, a great cafe, and very calm. There is not a lot of parking spaces during busy periods, but it's gorgeous.

Lovely ladies selling freshly made sandwiches to order at the time. A nice cup of tea or coffee and soft drinks. Beware the car park is privately owned so please ensure you buy a ticket

Great food, friendly staff, we had cheddar, tuna and pesto panninis and coffee, lovely!

Great little cafe - does the best hot chocolate :)

Beautiful setting and respite on our walk from Looe to Polperro. Plenty of outside seating and a handful of bar stools if you wanted to sit indoors. Wonderful service, great coffee, and hot chocolate, the lemon drizzle cake was delicious as well 🥰

Gorgeous. The little beach huts keep you out of the sea breeze. Lovely food. Narrow road to get there, plenty of parking behind the cafe, pay and display and now portaloos in the car park which are easier to access than the now closed public loos. Very popular for lunch, dog friendly and on the Coastal path

Only had coffee but it was nice

Great little cafe on the coastal path between Looe and polpero .

What's the difference to a customer wanting a coffee and a customer wanting to hire two kayak's ? Well to Talland cafe its a lot. Made a special journey to Tallnd Bay with my daughter to hire two kayaks, was abruptly told by the lady serving that they were too busy to hire out Kayaks !! They need to change their website to Kayak's for hire ( but only when it suits ). Went to Looe Sea Safari instead. Just a side note, if your going to Talland Bay, take a picnic, you'll save an absolute fortune.

Arrived just before closing. Only had coffees.

My favorite place when I come down on hols. Fantastic views and a dog friendly beach. Drinks lovely. I would say get there early as the car park is small. But I think it's best to actually walk there if you stay close by, fantastic views from the coast path .

View is amazing. Watching the dogs have so much fun on the beach was an absolute pleasure

Had coffee and lunch and would recomend this place to anyone

One of the best food/drinks experiences I have had. Wife had cream tea, best scones dhes ever had. I had crab sandwich snd prosecco. Food, drink and venue added to a great time. If I was to be picky, could of had a touch more crab in sandwich, but didn't spoil the experience at all xxxx

Lovely settling, good food - but no chips!!

Brilliant place to grab some food and a drink. Nice and clean and great service 👍

We walk Looe to Polperro most years when in Cornwall. However this was our first visit to Talland Bay Cafe as the other cafe was closed. We took tea, cake and cold drinks towards the end of the day and everything was perfectly good. Cake sizes were great, the price was if not cheap, no more than you'd expect and certainly not OTT. If I could be picky I'd say the Tea wasn't prepared with the same love as coffee and it perhaps felt a bit canteeny at the counter. The man behind the counter and clearing tables in particular was great. The tables in huts are as welcome in the high sun as they are on the blustery days. Toilets are portaloos funded by the cafe, albeit perhaps spoiled by some grumpy notices about the council not refurbishing the public loos. Presumably so the cafe can get free loos.

Lovely secluded (though busy) café and beach. So peaceful.

Lovely little cafe even on a wet day . polite service . highly recommend

Food nice, but expensive £22.40 for 2 baguette and 2 coffee's

I had a wonderful freshly made crab sandwich. And such a warm friendly welcome, which is appreciated even more when you’re travelling solo. Wonderful setting too

Man kann herrlich aufs Meer sehen und ein leckeres Ale oder Lager genießen. Hunde wie immer sehr willkommen.

Hidden away down a narrow twisty road n there it is small sandy bay. with ample parking and a cafe/shop on site too. they have picnic tables and also beach huts to eat in if the weather isn't the best ! Staff great really friendly too.

This is a lovely little cafe tucked away in the bay. It was a most welcome stop off whilst walking the coastal path for refreshments.

Walked from holiday park at top of hill and would recommend taking the coastal park not the road as a lot less steep and easier on the legs. Fantastic little bay, beach was ok but ice cream was fab and rest of god look great. Trying for lunch next time we visit

Too busy for me. That's a good sign of a good cafe though

A really smart cafe at the small Talland Bay. Lovely service and plenty of outdoor seating with views over the beach. And a few huts just in case it's raining. There are toilets in the car park, which you need to pay for. The car park not the toilets.

We love it here. It’s our go to place for an ice cream treat and we wish they opened in the winter more. There is a problem with wasps this Summer and we haven’t seen any preventative measures in place which is disappointing but really this is such a friendly place on a super beach you can’t fault it! We wonder who owns the beach? It would be even better if they could clear the stinky seaweed so we don’t, as disabled visitors, slip over.

Nice little cafe, but holiday prices for food and drinks. Also fir the beach goods (towels, swimming stuff, etc). Dont expect to get a large cup for takeaway tea/coffee.

We visited Talland bay today and visited the cafe for some teas ,coffee and hot chocolates which where amazing after visiting the cafe we went down to the beach where my partner got stung by weaver fish as you can imagine we totally panicked and I asked the lady in the cafe what the best thing to do the lady behind the counter was super helpful and got my partner some hot water to put his foot in (to get the sting out ) the staff are really friendly and helpfull .

Great spot - only slight criticism is they need to move the bin away from the seating area as it attracts wasps

The ice cream tasted delicious better that anything else

Oasis for the walk from Looe to Polperro.

Vast improvement in cafe service and the beach

Absolute pig of a place to get to but it was worth it for the beach. The cafe prices were extortionate, we had a panini (came without any salad or crisps), 2 ham & cheese sarnies (again without any extras) brie & bacon sarnie as b4, 3 teas and a coke £42 The exit out of the car park was dangerous in as much as there is seating all along the front on the side - with today's big cars you had to be for your life not to get 'brushed' by a car. Nice vetch but next time we'll be taking a picnic

Great cafe, helpful and polite staff

Couldn't have a cafe more conveniently placed. Ample car parking with plenty of outside seating overlooking the bay

Been coming here for years and It never disappoints

Can't speak about the food as we only bought teas (and parking) - but it looked good!

Small beach but quaint, very rocky at first, very dog friendly, didn’t eat in cafe looked like a good menu but like everything it was pricey, not loads of parking either go early in the day or for a drink in the afternoon if you want to park on the car park, kids loved it, pram friendly as there’s a ramp down to the beach, lots of coastal walks around it.

so slow and the food didn’t even taste nice and over priced sauces 50p per sache waited 15 minutes for chips so disappointing.

It's ok but extortionate pricing. £5 (4.80) for a cheese sandwich for a child...literally 2 slices of bread and a slice of cheese...robbery...cost us £28 for 2 sandwiches 1 baguette 1 packet of crisps and 2 items from the bakery. Didn't even get drinks as I couldn't afford to. They also charged me an extra 50p for red onion for some reason because I swapped my chutney from apple cider to red onion....wasn't aware there was a charge I just expressed I was not keen on apple and they said they had red onion chutney instead.