The Stables Cafe in Tewkesbury

We agreed with the comment about their use of thick-cut bacon in the bacon and egg rolls. It's not that it's horrible just that they used to use very nice thin-cut.

Visited the Cafe twice while on holiday in the area. Brunch on one occasion and snacks on the other either before or after walking along the canal towpaths. Staff friendly and helpful., Large selection of cakes and reasonable selection of other foods from what we could see. Indoor seating area as well as outside. Dog friendly.

Great place for breakfast. Plenty of parking but it is paid for for parking which can only be done on an app. Go for a wonder along the channel after to work off that large breakfast

Incredibly slow service, be warned!

If you don't like thick-cut, chewy, rubbery, undercooked bacon don't order a bacon and egg roll here. Their bacon used to be thin-cut and tasty, but not now. Horrible.

A very nice cafe on 2 levels, with a small garden and outside seats and tables. It sells proper meals and snacks. It overlooks the canal port.

Very friendly, quick service. School holidays so nice mix of customers

Nice place to chill out for a coffee or excellent food I actually know the owner and the staff do a great job

Sausage rolls and pasties both terrible quality and very overpriced. Very slow service, despite being quiet. Kids ice creams looked like the freezer had been turned on and off a few times. Disappointing overall.

Great place to eat nice food friendly staff and you can see the boats go up and down

Fantastic little cafe. The girls are friendly, efficient and deal with everybody with a smile. They deserve everyone's patience if you have a short wait in the queue. Always a welcome stop on my bike ride...and the cakes are delicious.

Lovely canal side cafe. Lots of homemade cakes and meals. Had a hot choc with trimmings and it was hot and delicious. Favourite stopover for locals and tourists alike.

Popped in for a coffee, nice friendly staff. Reasonable priced

Lovely spot next to the canal, avoid buying the coffee as it’s awful, taste like burnt beans and all for £3.50! There large size is actually a regular. Feel ripped off, such a shame 😡

Nice little cafe by the water with a good amount of parking. Food is brilliant but service is quite slow. Expect a wait for your food. The food is very nice once it comes out though.

Lovely little café in a beautiful, quiet location.

Lovely small cafe right on the river bank,tea, coffee,sandwiches , carparking, great place to spend a hour . wheelchair friendly

Always a great ocation for breakfast or lunch. Always excellent service, quality food and a great atmosphere.

Always good but a long wait for food when they are busy. Brilliant location and great staff.

Nice but very busy even at 10am on a Sunday so, a long queue for drinks. Great for a walk and dog friendly.

Luvly spot and food looked ok but i just had a drink. Busy place

I have visited the Stables Cafe a few times now on my bike rides and despite the indifferent service and the expensive prices the cakes & snacks have been ok. However this time I chose a coffee and two sausage rolls which cost £11.50. Had to wait for the SR's to be warmed up. After about 15 minutes i went to counter again but when i asked if they were ready the lady at the counter went into the kitchen and after a couple of minutes appeared with the two SR's. With the plates still warm from the mico-wave and to my disgust two semi-warm SR's which had been reheated at least twice and were in no way fresh and they tasted awful so bad in fact i had to go to the toilet and throw up. Just awful........... I would suggest that customers avoid the SR's

Had a lovely full English.....Great location

Had the large breakfast , mushrooms,bacon and hashbrowns were excellent, however the offering was let down by the most awful sausages I've ever encountered in my life! Made Tesco value sausages a more meatier option! Shame as the other ingredients were of a good quality to be ruined by this. My partners toast ( it wasn't busy so unsure what went wrong) was bread with slightly toasted crust- maybe more than 5 seconds in the toaster? First breakfast there in a few years, probably my last.

Lovely little cafe, staff always very helpful and friendly

It's a nice cafe in a nice place convenient for local walks etc. The food is good, but you should expect a slow service... There is normally a que, and the wait for food can be long even when it's not that busy. Don't want to be too negative, as you do eventually get your food, just never had a speedy service. If you're going just for coffee and cake, then it's all good as that's served immediately.

Great cappuccino very friendly staff

Great stop along the canal if walking the tow path.

A nice place to get a coffee ☕ and watch the boats go by

Lovely cafe right alongside the sharpness canal. Go and enjoy

Great place and highly recommended They make sure you have a good day rain or shine

Lovely and welcoming, great place for a cuppa as you walk or cycle the canal towpath. Good selection of sweet and savoury delights to choose from that look very much homemade.

All good, quick service and great food in a great place overlooking the canal

Good food, fab service, and yummy food. It's always a nice finish after a walk along the canal.

Went walked up from Sellars Bridge to Saul Junction. We popped into The Stables Cafe. It was busy but served quickly and good menu. Walkers and dog friendly. Perfect pitstop.

Lovely cafe' / restaurant. Nice people, fair prices, overlooks the G&S canal.

Visit the cafe regularly for food takeaway. Quick service, lovely food and always hot.

Friendly and helpful staff. We visited, as a small group, on a midweek morning during torrential rain. We were made to feel welcome, and the staff were very understanding of some of the needs of our group. Thank you. The breakfasts being served looked absolutely delicious, and everyone was enjoying them. We had only popped in for a quick drink, which, along with most things on the menu, was reasonably priced.

Good food nice pint great service thanks

Two girls that are wonderful great food, you will love it. Thanks Alan

Possibly the slowest service I've ever encountered. Nice breakfast though as long as you've not died from hunger while you waited.

Great for a spot of lunch with a great view. Lauren our server was fabulous nothing to much trouble. Very polite and welcoming. Will definitely go again.

amazing service from the food being quick to come and tasted delicious. The dark haired girl was very nice always had a smile on her face even when it was busy. an amazing atmosphere would definitely recommend and come again

We had gone with managed expectations after reading other reviews but thought we’d give it a chance. Service was on the slow side but not as bad as indicated in other reviews so we thought we’d got lucky. Food was reasonable when it arrived. However, the Tea can only be described as dire. In my wife’s words ‘I’m sure they’ve scooped this out of the canal’ and ‘if that was all I could ever have to drink, I’d be dead pretty soon’ Take your own teabags/coffee and make sure you are comfy for the wait on food and you should be fine.

Very disappointing. Queued for 30 mins to have the order taken. I had a chicken sandwich. One white roll with chicken. No butter, no mayo or any other ingredients/contents in the sandwich. One of our group is vegan - only lunch choice - chips. Location rescues it.

Great little vegan sandwich and chips. Soy milk available as well as other alternatives. Outdoor seating and dog friendly.

Lovely cafe to while away time with good views

Nice, friendly, good place for a drink and to chill.

They didn’t seem to be a shortage of staff. The advert suggests a quick bite. There was nothing quick about it. 20 Minutes, I stood in the queue and only one person was served. They didn’t seem to be an exclamation as to what was taking so long. for 12:15 on a Sunday afternoon the predicted time for service was 45 minutes. This would suggest either don’t have enough staff or can’t cope with the level of service. Lots of empty tables so I suggested was the former. I wasn’t the only person who just gave up after waiting so long. The barges on the canal move quicker!!

Service without a smile, or any haste what-so-ever. I'm not sure just how big their kitchen is, but I do wonder whether they're kitted out to handle the amount of guests visiting; there's quite a few seats about the place, but it seems to take forever to actually get any food and there's practically always a very slow queue. For what it's worth, the food isn't bad, at least in terms of hot food and sandwiches; the cakes and tray bakes (for £3.50 each) are rather bland and look like they've been kicked about the floor somewhat, hardly enticing. Whilst I can also appreciate that young people would rather be doing other things than working, the staff here, all of which seem to be young just lack any sort of personality or mannerism. Who's doing the recruiting? Who's doing the customer service training? Is there any? It's a nice venue, right next to the canal/river, but based on the reviews here, and a few comments from other patrons I overheard on my visit, you can easily see why people don't rate this place very highly, which is a shame.

Lovely location, atrocious food

Great service. Friendly staff to serve you. Chose GF breakfast. Took time to explain the contents. Excellent brunch. Highly recommend.

Lovely breakfast - great quality and good portion size. Friendly service. Spotlessly clean. Great cafe - we will certainly be back

Really lovely spot, nice friendly staff and great coffee, however, I ordered a Cornish Pasty, it had been heated in the microwave which made it disgusting and soggy. It really surprised me as everything else on the menu looked lovely. I would have had it cold if I'd known it was going to be microwaved.

Slower than in any way acceptable. One hour wait for breakfast just after it opened so not even rush hour? It’s run by kids who have no sense of speed or professionalism. Absolutely not worth waiting a morning for very average food but a frustratingly long wait. Employ adults to oversee the kids and stop cost cutting!

Nice coffee and cake but a bit pricey. Covered seating in case it rains.

Lovely place next to the canal that serves great breakfasts and cakes, there's a garden and patio, dogs are welcome outside. Be prepared to wait for hot food, 30 minutes even when quiet, in busy periods after 11:00 allow 20 minutes to queue to be served and another 45 for food but it's a lovely to sit outside and watch the world go by.

Lovely lunch in the garden under the shade of a huge umbrella. Jacket potatoes were large, hot and well-filled. The filling (sweet chilli chicken and cheese) was delicious and came with a salad garnish that was fresh and cold. San Pellegrino orange and lemon available which was very refreshing. We were going to have a piece of cake as well but had no room, so settled for an ice cream walking down the canal. I can't wait to come back. Also, they have dog-friendly ice cream on sale in the freezer next to the cash desk 😁😁

Very nice cafe,food is freshly cooked,had 2 cooked meals, was served within 15 mins.there is inside and outside tables,nice view of the canal.highly recommended

Amazing and kind and helpful and friendly 💯

Excellent location , menu and service. I like it here.

Friendly staff and great location for a delicious iced latte.

So slow. Have waited 1 hour 31 minutes for 2 bacon sandwiches. I should have walked away but I stupidly waited. Everything done with glacial slowness, Very badly set up - slow to order not even full either :(

Useless place, very very slow waited about an hour for food which was average to say the least, staff have no sense of time, why do the take your order and then serve beverages before putting the order through to kitchen. Completely bonkers! Do not go here if you want a quick snack.

Had a sausage sandwich. Bread was stale and sausage cold. Paid £10.30 for 2 with blackcurrant squash ( warm tap water ) Would not recommend eating at this venue. Very poor service.

Really good place for refreshments ... staff are brilliant and food is lovely .... had simple ham and salad sandwich and it was delicious .... its a 10 from me x

Nice location outdoors. Considering it was not very busy the food took forever to arrive and was cold when it did. It was swimming in oil and when asking for it to be taken back there wasn't even an apology. They also forgot the toast so at least that was hot when it arrived.

Seeing some other posts complaining, for £7:95 for a cooked breakfast and a mug of tea, I can see no reason to moan. Hash brown was maybe a little over done, but THAT IS IT. Great location and I can see in the summer will be very popular especially with the roof top balcony overlooking the canal.

Nice place, good location but a little pricey. But that's to be expected. Staff are very nice 👍🏽

Nice cafe on the canal, always good food, high cost for a cafe. Have to pay for parking. Is always busy. Nice to watch the narrowboats.

Easily the worst cake we’ve ever had, I had one that tasted of nothing but black treacle and salt was gluten free and supposed to be a brownie of some kind. There were four members of staff on and yet we waited a good tens mins for two miserably small hot chocolates and two slices of bad cake, we’d never stop there again.

I went on a sunny day with my partner and we got a couple of iced lattes, pleasant experience, nice staff and beautiful view.

Lovely position by the waters edge. Great menu. Reasonable prices.

My friends and I have been to The Stables Cafe several times for our regular monthly breakfast meet and I can honestly say, without fear of contradiction, that the breakfast today was, with doubt, the WORST ENGLISH BREAKFAST I HAVE EVER HAD. I chose the small breakfast consisting of two rashers of bacon, one sausage, one fried egg, fried bread and a Latte Coffee. To emphasise how bad it was, everything on the plate was cooked in a deep fat fryer, of this I am absolutely certain, the bacon was like leather, the sausage was nearly black, the egg looked like it had been dropped on the floor and the fried bread was oozing cooking oil onto the plate. And all this for the princely sum of £6.35 + Coffee. I did try to eat what I had paid for (£7+) but after one rasher of bacon, one bite of sausage, most of the eggy thing and a bite of rock hard fried bread I decided to return the remainder to the counter and tell them what I thought, did they show any concern? no, did they offer a refund? no, would I go to Stables Cafe at Saul Junction again NO, NO, NO. Would I recommend it to my worst enemy? NO. My conclusion is that the cafe is manned by what appeared to be teenagers, not an issue if they know what they are doing, but todays kitchen staff obviously don’t, even to the extent that they were very busy and rather than cook anything properly it was easier to throw everything in the deep fat fryer. DISGUSTING.

Extremely disappointed. Arrived at 11.10am for the breakfast that is served until 11.30am. Kitchen staff were stood on their phone, needed 2 people to make a drink, remarkably slow getting through the queue. We were stood waiting to order for 5 minutes, but took 2 people a long time to make a latte for the customers in front. Then we finally went to order at 11.32am, to be told they were no longer serving breakfast. I appreciate that the cut off is in place, however, it would've been decent to go down the queue and tell customers where the cut off was as to not waste our time. We ended up ordering some hot drinks and cakes, the hot chocolate was luke warm at best and the cakes were dry. Have had lovely breakfasts there before but very disappointed on this occasion. We did bring someone with us who had not been before, and likely won't go again.

This is a regular haunt for me as I enjoy walking along the canal. It's the perfect place to relax after or during a walk. There's an amazing selection of cakes and the ham, egg and chips I had a few weeks ago was delicious. I called in the other day with a friend and we both had a jacket potato. The service was quick, the staff were friendly and the food was nice. We sat upstairs and had a lovely view of the canal. I will definitely be back and would heartily recommend to others.

Stayed in the area over the weekend and came here for Sunday lunch. Queued 30 minutes to place order + a further 30 minutes for food to arrive. Not overly busy, but very slow service. £19.50 for 1 pasty (no accompanying salad), 1 egg sandwich (bread rather dry with 1 greasy fried egg - not egg mayo), 1 pot of tea, 1 coke + 2 bits of flapjack. I think that's a tad expensive for poorly presented food. Maybe some pre-prepared sandwiches could be available to save excess waiting. The sign showing current waiting time was blank. The toilets were not clean and there were no hand towels for drying hands. No sign on the wall to indicate the times when they were last cleaned. Outside there was a distinct whiff of something unpleasant from the grassed area (drains or ditch?) when the wind caught it. Next day discovered the Ship Inn at Framilode (only 10 minutes' walk from Saul Junction), where lunch was served quicker and was far better quality. The Black Shed at the Patch is also much better value. We won't be returning to the Stables, despite the sign on the door indicating 5 stars.

Brought my elderly father here for a breakfast treat as last time I came a couple of years ago it was fab. Sadly not the same. Both had full English, it was only just warm and poor ingredients. The sausage is probably the worst Ive...

we came across this whilst out walking the canals. It was very busy and very popular. We found a table , it was a really nice setting overlooking the canal. We ordered full English breakfasts and they were fantastic. Excellent quality produce and freshly made...

Busy lunchtime in lovely weather and the food was lovely. Great spot. Staff working hard and were helpful.

Nice cafe but waited over an hour for 2 cheese toasties - it wasn’t even busy when we ordered and no warning that the food would take that long - with 2 small children we won’t be back! The black shed at Slimbridge on the...

Order food, after half an hour wait went to ask when our food will be ready. Been told that in next 15min which we were going to accept. After a total of an hour wait we decided to cancel our order… the food wasn’t even...

We visited the cafe today and had a really good lunch. Whitebait with granary bread and salad without a huge pile of chips! It's a friendly place with a positive vibe. I believe it's the only place to eat next to the canal and it's...

My wife and I have been semi-regular visitors over the last year and on every occasion have been impressed with the quality of service and food. Our latest visit was for Brunch. The food was lovely and we sat upstairs so that we could see...

We stopped here, like most people having been walking along the canal. This is in a great location. Sitting on the upper verandah you get a lovely view and can sit and watch the world go by. The queue was long and wasn’t moving very...

Excellent light lunch - well prepared and very appetising. Lovely staff. Very nice comfortable place

Whilst not particularly busy, the service was quite slow, the prices seemed high and I had undeniably the worst piece of cake i have had in my 69 years! Fair enough, I got a refund for it and an unenthusiastic apology.

We’ve recently discovered this cafe and we’ve visited several times on our walks along the tow path. We’ve only had tea and cake so far, but we will return for breakfast or lunch one day soon. We really appreciate the outside space, which is covered...

We visit Stables a couple of times a month walking our dog along the canal. It’s a beautiful set up with a great menu. Every time we visit, service is incredibly slow, there seems to be no set system, one person on the till doing...

We come here several times a year. Seems to have gone down hill. Menu not as good as it used to be. Prices have increased. Less value for money now. I will strike this place of my list of places to visit.

FRY ME UP… literally. Disappointing visit this morning and first time visiting. Everything had been absconded into the deep fat fryer. Bacon tasted like the blue slate chipping a on my driveway, not edible and scared I would snap a tooth. As for the tone,...

This cafe used to be a very regular visit for us until the Covid struck. Unfortunately our return was a total disappointment. I ordered the Quiche& salad and my other half a Cheese and Chutney toasty. After 20 mins the waitress appeared and informed me...

Wonderful service, excellent choice of food and drinks and all in a wonderful setting. The staff were lovely and we highly recommend a visit!

I asked for latte and asked them to make sure it was not too hot. After my wife burnt her mouth on the first sip, I took it back. I got no apology. The girl (she told me she was 16 years old) offered me...

A lovely cuppa and cakes this afternoon. Despite clearly being incredibly busy we were served with a smile. Shame about the obnoxious customer who asked if they had a milk thermometer (Starbucks and Costa don’t). Ladies don’t let one customer spoil your day. We thought...

My partner had buck Welsh rarebit which apparently was delicious. My son had the only vegan filling option a d had a sandwich which he was very happy with. Two of us had quiche. It was not awfully flavoursome (not homemade!)accompanied with a garnish rather...

While the Stables is in a lovely location beside the canal and there is lots of seating available be warned - there is a notice apologising for the delays in food. Take heed - you will be waiting! We ordered two toasties and had a...

The quiche was tasteless, clearly frozen and reheated, served with a tiny side salad and a few drops of balsamic vinegar with a large chunk of bread. Chips were covered in what looked like black pepper but we’re bits of burnt food from the frier....

Visited with colleague supporting 2 residents. Setting is lovely, overlooking the canal. Covid measures in place. Food varies in price depending on snack or meal. Lots of choice on board at ordering shack. Plenty of room between tables. Quality of food is excellent. Good service....

Worst full English I have ever had the Bacon, sausage, mushrooms, fried Bread , black pudding and hash browns were all fried in the deep fat fryer and the Baked Beans were of it was inedible