The Geographer in South Cambridgeshire

Great coffee and cake, friendly staff. Lovely cafe. Outside seating for nice days. No parking, limited on-street parking. No wifi.

Visit with my v old and frail aunt and she always enjoys the coffee and cake.

A lovely shop; what a shame it's closing down (to on-line only) soon!

Internationally with an emphasis on ecology

This is a great little cafe with a selection of deli type bits and pieces and a gifty section. Really nice

Great service and really friendly, happy staff. We tried a bit of everything, toasties, cakes, coffee's and their ice cream. The unicorn gelato was particularly tasty with cookies and cream and the sorbet was very refreshing. Love going to the community cafés over Costa and Starbucks, this one was 5's across the board. Thank you so much

The Geographer is not the typical cafe. They struggle to serve great coffee from organic or conscious coffee roasters in fully compostable bags and cups. The rocky road sweets are tremendous and the european bakery is awesome. They offer fresh bread from a local bread maker called Fitzbillies. The staff is great and accomodations in the outside are superb. Of course, mind the weather, since there is no rain cover available.

Lovely coffee and very friendly

Really great place to have a coffee, lovely eats and lots of gifts to look at. Good to be open for takeaway 😋🌈 good luck in the future

Great coffee, lovely ciabatta, helpful and friendly staff. A really good variety of cakes and pastries on offer too.

Very nice staff very well maintained

Great service, lovely coffee and food!

Delicious vegan apricot croissant and a lovely flat white along with a treasure trove of gear and low packaging ethical goods. Really super place and lovely staff. Good Covid provisions too.

Great place, good food, all safety measures in place.

Great shop/cafe they sell items without packaging (bring your own) and you can sit outside for a coffee and some cake.

Great local business with amazing food and gorgeous stuff available in their shop

Beautiful shop great products kind service!!!

So pleased to see the Geographer open again. Popped in for a birthday card, and came out with several nice gifts too.

Great coffee, good selection of food and great ambience.

Visited the cafe on a lovely warm day for a business meeting in their outdoor seating area. The staff were really friendly and allowed us to stay and drink our iced coffees even though they were shutting up for the day. Love that they sell loads of independent brands, both edible and inedible products. A nice place to find little gifts as well as stop for for a coffee and cake

Nice friendly staff. Can be difficult to get a table but just shows a well loved establishment. Very pleased they do basic amenitie refills. Very good for the planet and I will certainly use for soap and olive oil.

Apareció para tomar un café. . .¡El mejor café de la zona! ¡Y soy un experto en este campo! ¡Pasteles italianos encantadores para llevar también! ¡Y acabo de enterarme de que no estoy en las redes sociales, pero llenan botellas para el champú acondicionador para lavar líquidos y muchas otras partes interesantes! Tratando de ser más ecológico, ¡así que probándolos! ¡Enhorabuena a una pequeña empresa local que intenta marcar la diferencia!

Lovely and cosy place! the coffee and homemade cakes are the best there!!

Fab little cafe serving good food and a nice range of drinks. They have a good selection of food (pasta, etc) and gifts to buy at a reasonable price. If you are planning on visiting and have a buggy they ask that you leave it outside as there is not a lot of spare space inside.

A treasure to the village, cute gift shop and delicious coffee

Very nice atmosphere The coffee and cake selection was great. Staff were very friendly. I could do with a bit more comfortable seating though.

Ordered a business lunch from here for a meeting I was attending in the business park. Really high quality food great selection and friendly helpful staff. I am a real advocate of supporting local business but they really deserve it no wonder the cafe is always busy

Very cosy good food at reasonable price

Cakes are still excellent, as are tea and coffee. Staff are helpful.

Great coffee and hot chocolate with a good vibe and friendly staff

My husband and I had a coffee at this cafe this morning, and also purchased laundry detergent. 'Discrete' conversation and glances from the staff from the kitchen area made me feel uncomfortable. Indeed, I suspect that staff felt my cloth bag might have contained items I did not pay for....as one of the members of staff, perhaps the owner, was leaving the cafe this morning, I emptied the contents of said cloth bag onto the floor. Thus, it was clear there was nothing in there except my own belongings and the detergent I had purchased. Members of staff have no need to be on guard...I do not shoplift, and I will not ever visit this cafe again. It is clearly a cafe for British people only.Dr and Mrs D-H BSc MPhil (Cantab)

the geographer is my favourite cafe, lovely service ,especially Caroline! Best coffee and banana cake in the world!

Poky little place, couldnt look at products for sale because people were sat drinking coffee in front of the displays. What you could see was expensive. Cleanliness didn't appear to be a priority.

Home made cakes and unusual gifts, eco friendly with refills for products, this is worth going out of your way for!

Lovely coffee and cakes in a relaxed atmosphere.

Had tea and scones/cake here with some walking friends. Excellent friendly service and delicious food. The bonus was finding some unusual Christmas gifts.

Love it here! Great pot of tea, all sorts of cakes and pastries plus lots of lovely gifts and cards.

Love this place! Great coffee, great food, great wine and great staff!

Me metí en ella para atún / mayo / patata al horno con aceitunas negras para el almuerzo. La calidad de la comida era buena pero para 6. 25 Hubiera sido más feliz con una papa que estaba caliente en lugar de tibia y más grande que la pequeña porción que me dieron. ¿Es solo el hecho de mi mediana edad lo que me hace preocuparme de que la papa se sirvió en un tazón en lugar de en un plato? Las papas al horno se deben comer de un plato imo.Servicio amable y rápido. Los pasteles y sándwiches se veían bien. Un montón de stock para navegar.

Always friendly staff and great coffee

Stopped by for lunch and a coffee with my wife, we went for two jacket potatoes and two coffees, nothing fancy nor out of the ordinary, As expected. The young lady server was very friendly.

Quirky little place with great coffee!

A great place for lunch and coffees, and while your there a chance to shop for planet saving goods.

Very pleasant and intriguing coffee pit stop. The cup cakes are very good also.

First visit at The Geographer, but is going to be the enjoyable first of many visits. Friendly, helpful cheerful staff:. Good food and drinks and very reasonable price. As a disabled customer, I was very pleased with the helpfulness by staff without feeling patronised. Great place to meet and eat.

Nice little cafe set in back from the road. Didnt expect to see the massive range inside. Staff are polite and the food looks amazing. Wish I lived closer to visit more often.

Love this gorgeous little cafe ❤️❤️ Have met with friends in here a few times for a cuppa and a tasty cake, or lunch. The staff are always very friendly and the food is really good, and I haven’t even mentioned all the beautiful gifts that you can buy! I never come out without having bought something as the gifts and cards are really lovely. It’s a super little place.

Such a treasure trove! Jam packed with so many lovely items, I could be rumaging around in there for ages. Cosy feel & lovely atmosphere. Yummy food & friendly staff! Highly recommend.

Really lovely cafe with a nice relaxed atmosphere and lovely staff. Great coffee even had a beautiful fern leaf pattern in it! Would highly recommend. And lovely things to buy.

As a regular visitor to The Geographer I am appalled by the way a colleague has been treated today. The owner of The Geographer approached my colleague trying to enforce her to remove a bad tripadvisor review she previously wrote. I work in the area and regularly take clients to the cafe for business purposes. I won't be stepping foot back in the cafe and won't recommend them to anyone. The attitude and customer service of the owners is appalling and I personally think they should be embarrassed about the way they speak to clientele.

Cute for a coffee but running out of food when we got there and so not much choice.

Love it!! I want everything from inside 😅😅

Very nice café and shop on a quite road with an outside seating area and beautiful view, and also inside multiple tables, the shop sells a variety of gifts, cards, soaps and other useful items. The café serves drinks both hot and cold, food, ice-cream and cakes. I would definitely recommend this café to anyone who is visiting Histon or Impington, or even if you live nearby and have never visited!

Love The Geographer - full of tasty food and coffee. Also gifts and interesting food produce to tempt you sold here too. Noticed the refillable shampoos so the eco-friendly concepts are an added bonus.

Super friendly. Lovely toasties and coffee. All sorts of interesting things to buy

really cool little place, came mid morning mid week - great espresso based coffees, continental breakfast or super bacon/sausage sandwich that hit the spot for me. the cafe is indeed full of gifts/biscuits/jams/cakes and has a good wine selection too. great for the village!

Great little quirky cafe! Love thr vegan muffins. Lovely coffee alThough for the price they are tiny cups!! Only last a few mouthfulls. Apart from that its a nice place to stop by!

Map-themed café was really cool, food was good and the waiting staff were very nice. Would definitely go again!

Lovely coffee & cakes. Eclectic collection of items to shop from.

Lovely people and good selection of food and products

Very nice and cozy café in Histon. The owner is very nice and the French tarts from provider Corinne at Gourmandises are to die for. They also do special events, too, so watch this space.

Kind staff, delicious food and a shop with food and lots of fun items. Indoor and outdoor seating.

A lovely little cafe - the space is small so not ideal for large groups or more than 1 pram/stroller. We enjoyed pancakes with syrup (some fruit would be good with this) & the coffee was great.

Love this place! Friendly prompt service. Lovely cakes and good range of savoury snacks for lunch. Great decor and handy range of foodstuffs and things ideal for gifts. So great stop if you need a gift last minute. Will definitely be back again.

Lovely little place with yummy food and friendly staff

Lovely food and service. Great gifts for sale.

A lovely family-run restaurant! I was served by a fella called Patrick and he was simply charming. Great bang for your buck!

What can I say, great darling café, lovely produce always friendly, especially the good soups, and an excellent decaf with coconut milk cappuccino, what more could I want. There is outside seating and generally just a really good atmosphere.

We have gone passed many times. Inside is quite 'cosy' and I did wonder if I should take off my shoes and leave them outside. Mother had breakfast tea,fine, and I an Americano. My Americano had little flavour and must have been machine made using a sachet - not how I like it. We had a selection of cakes and they were all amazing 10/10. The raspberry franzipan was perfect - the polar opposite of a Mr Kipling. Definately worth visiting. The lunch menu looks basic but I am sure that it is very nice - maybe we'll try that next time.

Nice lunchtime food, and a great selection of Italian dry goods.

Would have loved to spend more time perusing in this lovely little deli

it is exactly what it looks, a sweet unpretentious little cafe that has lots to offer. The best coffee (fw) i've had in a while, with a simple but tasty lunch, which was a bigger choice of menu than i expected.

Very expensive (£12.65 for a jacket potato with coleslaw and salad, a large black coffee and a sausage roll). The large coffee came out as 8oz... Small in comparison to other outlets. Had to ask for more water and was told "it's quite a weak blend". Food arrived quickly during lunch time (microwaved potato, small side salad) and tasted reasonable. Coleslaw was good but did not justify the expense. Coffee was as weak as gnats pee. Just because you're a quaint little deli that sells expensive jams and pickles does not mean you can charge over the top for what was, essentially, a lacklustre meal. I won't be returning. Edit... Assuming that the response was to indicate I don't know coffee, as manager of an independent coffee shop with its own blend of beans, I'm very much aware. When you are trying to emulate Paul's Delicatessen, back it up. Obviously, still not returning...

a pleasant little cafe, with a lovely array of cakes,biscuits and Italian cream filled nibbles! staff friendly and make you feel welcomed. great for gifts and cards too. love to come here out of the city buzz and enjoy a nice coffee and a treat.

Decent coffee and a surprise to see proper Italian canolis..yum!

This place is a real treat to visit for a lunch or just café. May the theme continue for 2 more decades, shame it has taken me 5 years to find this little gem.

I wish that TA would institute a "good" rating here as that is how I would rate this place which is a lovely, slightly quirky place for lunch (or coffee/breakfast too I'm sure). We were here with family for a lunch to catch up, and we booked a table which gave us a nice table for 6 near the door.

Came in for lunch and was horrified with the prices. £7.50 for a jacket potato, 2 fillings. The potato was the size of an apple and we couldn’t find the cheese. They wanted £2 for a can of drink and a measly small pot of tea was given us for £3.75. I asked the staff if the sizing was normal and was told to give feedback if I didn’t like it! So here you have it. My friend had a couple of shavings of cheese on his potato, so I asked for some more and was told it had probably melted! No, it hadn’t. Unless it melted through the table. I found my butter portion in its wrapper wedged underneath my toppings and squished into my beans.

I always enjoy visiting the Geographer. The atmosphere is professional but somehow homey - the staff have a personal touch. The outside seating area caught the afternoon sun beautifully as I relaxed with my coffee.

Una tienda de delicatessen y té combinada en una casa residencial convertida. No esperaría encontrar un lugar como este fuera de un pueblo o una calle principal de un pueblo, por lo que es una agradable sorpresa para el desayuno o el almuerzo.

Recommended if you are in a rush but in the same time you want to enjoy the lunch. You can grab a fresh sandwich and an organic juice.

The World needs more places like this. Good coffee/ tea, friendly service, good selection of sandwiches, snacks and cakes. Eclectic surroundings with lots of things to buy that you might not normally think about. Definitely worth spending some down time in.

I'm here in the UK visiting my daughter and she wanted to stop in for a quick coffee and share the Geography with me. It was as she explained. A great little place with small bites and wonderful coffee as well as food, teas, wines and various gifts. The Chocolate Salted Caramel Tart we shared was perfect. Not overly sweet and perfectly complemented our Flat Whites. The only downside was we needed more coffee.

Really nice local cafe providing good quality food and drinks with great service. Also sells some great and interesting gifts.

Lovely cake and coffee. Can recommend the chocolate caramel and pecan. Even the decaffeinated coffee was good which is often not the case.

Food and drink treats from around the world - very fitting for a place that’s called The Geographer! Excellent coffee. Great choice of unique gifts and cards. Love this place!

Very busy cafe but food and drink very good as always.

Very interesting little cafe. Lots of things to buy or just browse. Prices medium to high, but good service, pleasant staff and lovely place to go.

Really nice cafe. Good food and coffee :)

Nice little cafe with good food in a handy location from the nearby Vision Park. Spotlessly clean and attentive staff. On sunny days the outdoor seating is nice. The only downside are the prices.

Cute but cluttered. No pushchairs allowed inside

I came here with a colleague who ordered a tuna salad and two hot choclates to have in and a banana and chocolate loaf. I asked at the til would it be possible to have a small plate and knife so I could have a small slice while we drink our hot chocolate and eat the salad.

Always good coffee here and food can be good if you get there early enough. Limited menu and cakes, they should work on this, and add more tables and reduce shopping area as rarely see anyone buying stuff.

An eclectic little shop and cafe very friendly staff and nice menu. Fast efficent and good quality not in the area a lot but certainly would recommend and not hesitate to go back.

Brilliant experience from start to finish. Helpful and friendly staff and a wonderful atmosphere.

Es una pequeña cafetería. Bastante bonito, 4 de nosotros pasamos 20 libras pero no nos permiten cargar un portátil por 20 minutos, ya que ocuparía mucho de electricidad! Ridículo. Especialmente con la marca de ups en café.

Clean, tidy, busy but nothing to much trouble still service with a smile. Drinks were hot enough and tasty, snacks looked great, smelt divine, well worth a visit. Will definitely visit again

Lovely cafe with delicious food and impeccable service.

Lovely quaint place for a cuppa and food.

Un grupo de 6 amigos visitamos para el desayuno. Llegamos a la apertura a las 9. 30, un montón de aparcamiento en la calle, y nos recibieron cálidamente.