The Wholefood Cafe in Tendring

A great asset to Manningtree. Refreshing to see a store with such a sustainable ethos offering healthy alternative to the junk that big conglomerates are feeding to us! Also offers you the opportunity to take containers to refill your staple foods (oats, museli, pasta etc).

Great food friendly service and great value

Wonderful health food shop. Friendly & helpful staff. Great selection of dried goods. They Have multiple options for healthy non-rolled oats, including Pinhead Oats (aka Irish Oats, or Steel-Cut Oats) for making delicious porridge. They also have fancy nuts in the bulk bins at the back....The Almonds coated in Cinnamon-Sugar-Maple are devine ! Lots of good yummy stuff in this store.

Lovely local store. I find the staff friendly, approachable and knowledgeable. I have appreciated helpful suggestions and recommendations on products.

Good variety and stock, lots of tempting products.

Just had a hot takeaway lunch! It was amazing... authentic Indian food in a flash. Tasty, healthy delicious. Perfectly delicate.

Great shop with a great array of healthy food options. Staff friendly and products nearly arranged and competitively priced

I have recently moved to the area and adopted a plant based diet last year... All I can say is - what a gem this shop is!!! I have just eaten an Indian Pancake with a pot of Dhal and it was absolutely beautiful. A wonderfully talented lady making such authentic food... 10 times better than the over priced take away Indian restaurants in Manningtree. I can't fault it... Food is well worth the wait. The portion sizes are spot on for what you pay... Unlike Café Rio 👎 I've tried lots of local businesses in Manningtree, Lawford and Mistley, but this one is the best. Their shop of food, gifts, and staples are fab, stuff I can't even get in Tesco or co-op I can always find here ❤️ I love that this shop has survived the pandemic. If your thinking of going to The WholeFood Store, you won't be disappointed. 5*

Just a great place for whole foods. There's a great selection of Biona products along with some fresh produce too. Pricing is really competitive considering they are up against online beasts like Amazon. I'm definitely using them for all my healthy groceries going forward. PS, they also have some really nice chocolates...

This is such a great shop. So glad we have it on our high street. Has a very good range of good quality organic foods, stounground flours, pulses, spices, vegetables, sourdough bread, home made houmus (absolutely delicious), takeaway dhal from Lakshmi and lots more. Such a shame that the Cafe isn't opened currently due to Covid. I loved the home made salads and vegan dishes. I very much hope it will be back once the pandemic is over!

I have been using the shop occasionally for several years, but 2 years ago I started a vegan diet, so now go more regularly. They are friendly, have great products and will order stuff in if requested. They have been great during the Covid-19 lockdown, their prices are very good and it is a pleasure to shop there.

Great place to spend your morning coffee. Love it

Best coffee in Manningtree! 'nuff said!

Very nice cute coffee shop in the town centre of Manningtree. They offer delicious healthy meals and it is cozy and relaxing environment.

Such delicious tasty vegan food, served by lovely people, in such a cute beautiful place. My new favourite place. Definitely recommend!

My mum and I were visiting Manningtree on Saturday and decided to try out the coffee shop in the Health Food store. The initial reception was not friendly, in fact we were greeted with a member of staff saying “I’m just doing the menu” as if it was an inconvenience that we had just walked in. We ordered 2 coffees and 2 almond croissants, the staff seemed very disorganised, the iPad they used to order was on charge and they didn’t seem to know who was doing what as in who was taking the orders, who was making the coffee etc. When the drinks/food arrived the coffee was fine but my croissant was cold, when I told the staff they said that the wrong one had been taken from the oven, and did replace it with a hot croissant, but barely apologised. All in all a disappointing and expensive experience and we will not be going back. Especially as there are several better alternatives in Manningtree.

What a charming, interesting little place!A few tables outside too, if the weather is good! Several healthy food choices. Wonderful dishes made with whole grains and home made soup. Pakoras and many other interesting things. Great coffee too! There’s a little shop selling a variety of healthy foods, including veg, fruit and grains and breads etcVery friendly staff. Highly recommended.

Wonderful food. Great outdoor seating area.

Amazing GF salads - so fresh, beautiful ingredients and oh so tasty. Definitely recommend The Wholefood Cafe for lunch and friendly service.

Had an exquisite, many flavoured south Indian thali in the cafe made by the South Indian lady who served it.

Absolutely love this cafe! The food is always really imaginative and creative, presented well and freshly made on the day. It’s always a chilled place to eat and I like to do my shopping in their lovely health shop. I went again at the weekend and had the tastiest Indian thali. It was so filling! I had coconut rice, daal, Chana masala, cabbage, a chapati AND a popadom, AND a sweet thing! You definitely get your monies worth! There were gorgeous salads too that I can’t wait to try next week. Can’t wait to go back!

Great coffee & lovely tasty food and 😊

Delicious food every time I've been, lovely atmosphere, very calming and overall a, lovely place!

Delicious and great products in the store.

Great coffee. Wonderful mural behind the till. Baby changing unit is awesome!

I'm not usually into "health food" but I have to say, hummus on toast is a really lovely lite-bite and the coffee is excellent too!

Great coffee, and I really recommend the Hummos on toast - this little gem is hidden away at the back of the wholefood shop - but it's a great little place, the staff are great and the prices are fair too. Well done!

Visited today for lunch (first time) and was thoroughly impressed! I had the Sri Lankan veg curry (delicious!) and my friend had the toasted sourdough with avocado, tomato and balsamic vinegar. Food great but service a little slow but would definitely recommend 😀

I'm a regular visitor since it opened, having shopped at the adjoining Wholefood Store for many years. Good quality produce used to make excellent healthy lunch meals, cakes and coffee.

I have visited The Wholefood Cafe fairly regularly since it opened and I'm never disappointed! I'm not vegetarian but the food is so fresh, nutritious and flavoursome I really don't miss the meat. My favourite is the Golden Dahl. Would recommend this place to anyone.

We were looking for lunch and found this cafe, we're not vegetarian but found the food to be excellent, pumpkin soup and roast veg lasagne. Very helpful staff.

I went here with my friend and we had a lovely time. We are both vegetarian and it was great to have a menu which suited both of us so well. We had chilli which was absolutely delicious. Can’t wait to return.

Great find in Manningtree. Very tasty wholesome food. Well worth making a detour for. The curry was particularly good. Who needs meat!

Lovely friendly cafe serving tasty vegetarian and vegan meals. A few tables inside and a little courtyard outside which is quite a suntrap. If in Manningtree, make sure you go here for lunch or a drink and a cake. The decaff coffee is also excellent.

Really great food good service in a pretty little cafe also love the fact that it has a pretty courtyard garden.

Lovely little cafe with friendly staff and the food was delicious and even better being vegan xxx

Lots of care and love has gone into this cafe, whic is inside Manningtree's excellent health food shop. Nice table area and very sweet garden courtyard, home made lunches and fantastic cakes. Worth visiting just for the coffee.

Such a lovely cafe. Wonderful choice of vegan and vegetarian goodies. My latte was oat milk was yummy. Lovely, light and airy with friendly staff.

Delicious aubergine curry. Fast, friendly service. Very relaxing atmosphere sitting outside in the sun. Very reasonable prices for excellent food. Will definitely recommend to family and friends.

Couldn’t recommend this place more, everything was delicious and the owner is cute! Golden Dahl was a Goddamn Delight

Really comfy, fresh and bright space. Serves super delicious, ample dishes,and cakes for a really fair price. Great service too!

lovely food - as my son said, the tastes and freshness felt like it had taken us away to somewhere (Tibet/India/South France/etc...). really good food

We had an really lovely lunch, in a relaxed setting. The food and service were both excellent and our lunch was incredibly reasonably priced.

Lovely styled cafe serving homemade vegetarian and vegan food as well as various hot coffee and teas. Will definitely be back 😊 Open Wednesday to Saturday.

Absolutely the best health food store I have been to in this area. Felt the prices were affordable and reasonable and great fun to discover lots of things available that have been searching for such as tapioca flour, vegan jelly, pumpkin and sunflower seeds in sensible size packets. Also spices in packets to refill jars. Excellent shop.

The best place around this area for natural foods. Decent selection of local/organic produce. Fresh breads delivered weekly from London, & prices are totally reasonable.

I truly do love this store, an amazing selection of produce and competitively priced. Very lovely helpful staff too.

So much to see it's great the store in London

Meh - it's got a pretty basic range which is quite pricey. It's ok if you want commerical health food products like gluten free pasta or nut milks - although you can get these in the supermarket much cheaper these days. Their range of pulses, grains, dried fruits etc is ok but not great and again cheaper in the world food section of local Tesco. They don't stock a lot of alternative products such as detox clays, aluminium free baking soda, colloidal silver or other useful products that people genuinely interested in alternative health supplies might need. Supplements ranges are also limited. They are not particularly friendly either - not rude by any means but service doesn't compensate for their limited selection. Lots of shelf space for expensive 'organic' beauty ranges though and I get the impression their market is really 'health food lite'. Disappointing.

right on the button. they so often have the ingredients for the novel recipe

I have only recently started using The Wholefood Store since discovering I am now allergic to wheat and gluten. I have never suffered with this before and so I didn't have a clue where to start - so I took a trip to my local health shop to ask their advice, and they were absolutely wonderful. They were so helpful, they really took the time to talk to me about what I could and could not have to help me get used to it all - and they have a great range of gluten free products to suit my new dietary needs. I couldn't do without them now! Would thoroughly recommend.

The Wholefood Store in Manningtree is a wonderful shop crammed with the specialist products and excellent food stuffs that complement the healthy and ethical ethos of the owners Sarah and Jon. The staff are friendly, helpful and really knowledgeable. You won't get service like this in Tesco! Shopping here is a lovely experience with many customers travelling a long way to get to some of the unique, and well priced, products. Try it, I guarantee you'll come back for more.