T.H.Roberts in Gwynedd

Friday 22 November 2024 So I took my own advice and a group of us went back to TH Roberts for a scrumptious lunch today. Some of us had a secret recipe "Welsh Rabbit" which was amazing and I had a large piece of Lemon Cheesecake to follow ( there's a massive choice of alternatives) .....what we all had was a great welcome from all the staff, an amusing banter and Welsh hospitality at its finest. Take my advice....just go or you'll miss a real treat Tuesday 19th November 2024 You have to go to TH Roberts when you're in Dolgellau...... The atmosphere is fabulous...it's very quirky stepping back into an older worlde pharmacy shop ....but the coffee and homemade cakes ( I had a massive piece of Rocky Road) are amazing. We then had a soup and cheese scone meal deal which was" unbelievably delicious"

Was ok,coffee was good but food ok only,had a sausage roll which was heated in a microwave so was soggy, and tough,tasted ok though and a piece of apple pie that looked as though it had been tossed around a bit,big splodge in the bowl... Service wasnt the best,young lad on the till was nice but other staff not so. Place wasn't very clean,table was grubby and floor was very dirty,and two very sad and nervous looking dogs locked in a large crated wasn't nice to see,disappointing.

Great Breakfast in a great historic place.

Had the Lobscouse for lunch. An excellent meal to feed a scouser. Great food and great service.

Really cozy, oldy world place. Dog friendly, helpful and polite staff, great comfort and food and cakes are exquisite ❤️

A great find in Dolgellau! T H Roberts was formerly an old Victorian Ironmongery shop that still retains all of the original shop fittings. Now it’s a quirky coffee shop with bags of character. Well worth a visit. Tip: there’s lots of extra seating upstairs.

An eclectic place which I don't don't fully get but the staff were lovely, the cheesecake was epic and the coffee was spot on. Perfect for a post mountain treat. The cheesecake here is so good, always a few choices and the other cakes are just as fabulous. Savory food is also available from lighter snacks to hearty portions for lunch. The coffee here is also really good. Very smooth and served nice and hot

Wonderful little café that we stumbled upon, extremely friendly and accommodating, great atmosphere, who defo recommend a visit

Such a beautiful, quirky little cafe. The full breakfast was absolutely delicious, and we loved the fruit smoothies too!

Best coffee and cake ive had anywhere in a great surrounding.

Great spot to get a coffee and cake. Had the coffee and walnut cake and it was delicious 😋. And lovely friendly staff. Definitely a place to drop in.

A quick call in for some food to get out of the rain. Dogs welcomed (thank you very much!) Meals were tomato soup (one of the best the wife's ever had apparently) which was served with cheese scone and I had a fantastic steak baguette. Would definitely visit again!

Incredibly quant cafe and very happy for dogs to sit inside. Ciabatta sandwiches lovely and cakes are immense. Doesn't look like a cafe from outside so definitely need to go in to appreciate

Wow what a find great place and staff. Like sitting inside a shop from 40's

Unique old drapery location with loads of cool fixtures and fittings to nose at while you await your tea, cake, or proper Welsh Rarebit! (Loads of other good stuff but that's what I had)

Lovely eggs...on toast wished I could get them as nice

Excellent service, fantastic coffee and delicious cake selection! Highly recommend!

Wonderful breakfast and a nice relaxed vibe

The food was excellent, the best cheese cake I've had in a long time.

Very nice place! Аnd most importantly, dog-friendly 🐕 (dogs are allowed upstairs)

Fantastic café. Lovely food - try the Bakewell slice. Really friendly family atmosphere. If the busy downstairs area is full there is a large room upstairs which is usually much quieter and has a lot of comfortable sofas. One slight disappointment to note was that the pastry base on the quiches was rather soggy.

Can't fault the food here. Infact it's delicious but £19.60 for 4 pieces of cake/cheesecake is expensive for us as a family . We go everytime we visit dolgellau but put us off multiple visits to the cafe.

Going to be dreaming of that Welsh rarebit for some time! Lovely atmosphere and prompt service. Well worth a trip if you're passing by

A place of calm exudes a standstill time for tea time

Junkie restaurant, i ordered the food and it came after an hour, mess, the waitresses are moldy. I do not recommend this junkie restaurant

Absolutely awesome cafe. Firstly it was was open when others locally were not, but... The staff were amazing and super polite and engaging. The tea was huge bit that paled into insignificance next to the size of the cake portion! Some might say a wi-fi password of bestcafeintown is cocky or arrogant. It absolutely isn't. If it's not an official title it should be! Sadly, we live 5 hours away, but we will be back!

This place looked amazing on Google reviews, and after a lovely drive into this beautiful town, we were very optimistic. Our visit started well with a lovely entrance and appealing food display. However, we were disappointed to find no tables downstairs. In hindsight, we should have left at this point. We were directed upstairs, where we began to notice the quaint charm giving way to a much dirtier atmosphere. It started with a kennel cage at the back and wall-to-wall dirty carpet. In this day and age, no food and beverage establishment should have carpets, especially if they allow dogs. Upstairs was even worse. It consisted of old, mismatched, and tired fabric sofas. Nothing matched, and everything looked grim. My wife’s instincts were telling her to leave, but I insisted we stay, still remembering the appealing food from downstairs. We ordered warm food and a couple of soft drinks, though our spirits continued to sink in the unappealing surroundings. This place has enormous potential, but it needs serious renovation. When our food arrived, it was pleasant but nothing special, certainly not reflective of the entrance and display. As we were about to leave, my wife noticed foil on the floor. Upon investigating, I discovered what appeared to be an ancient, mummified leftover jacket potato. If it weren't for our dogs, it might have remained as a historic artifact for future patrons. Even our dogs refused to eat it, which says a lot. We quickly departed and spent the next hour dealing with bouts of dry heaving at the thought of what we had found and the overall cleanliness. To the owners, I wish you every success, but please, please gut the upper floor and start again. This place has so much potential with just a small investment and some imagination.

Wonderful quaint cafe with the most friendly staff. Customers are the young and old from nearby towns as well as tourists (like me!). I needed to charge my phone and the staff went out of their way to be helpful. I had an oat milk cappuccino for £3.50 which was lovely and will be back soon with friends, to try the breakfast. Definitely recommend dropping in!

Great baking, fabulous old ironmongers transformed into a cafe. Busy and well run. Hot and cold food, many teas, coffees, and WI quality scones and cakes. A delight!

Slightly disappointing visit to TH Roberts. The Cafe is in what appears to be an old pub. It is really cool and quirky. The cakes and sweet bits all look really lovely in the counters. We had 2 cheesecakes and the biscoff one was really nice however the other, that had cream swirls, had thick hairy black mould underneath the cream. We quickly took this back to the counter and showed this to a member of staff who replied with 'I can't see any mould' but offered to replace it. The rest of the cake that it came from was left in the counter unit until we left about 15 minutes later so unsure if it was binned. Would expect it to be chucked out if one of the slices has thick black hairy mould. The cheesecake was very nice, just isn't ideal for it to have mould growing on it.

Used to come here religiously every year between 2011 - 2020 but haven’t been since Covid. Great to see local cafe still in business and nothing has changed. A great spot for anyone passing the town.

A real little gem with some of the best cheesecakes we've ever tried!!

A gem of a cafe with superior home made cakes from which we enjoyed chocolate fudge, coffee and walnut, and lemon meringue. Very dog friendly and interesting decor retaining the previous old world shop fittings and fixtures. So good we visited twice in the same day before and after a walk along the Mawddach trail.

Great place really quirky good coffee and excellent cakes, staff very friendly.

Such a great and friendly cafe! Love the huge comfy seating area upstairs. We had the welsh rarebit and roast veg quiche which were delicious! Just a great vibe all round

Coffee, tea and cake were decent but not exceptional. Service very stern and unfriendly. A smile doesn’t cost anything, in particular not when aimed at paying guests.

Absolutely gorgeous scrambled eggs on toast. Freshly cooked and piping hot - a bit of a wait but they were very busy. Very dog friendly aswell. Cappuccino was also lovely.

Lovely relaxing place for a coffee and chat

A must visit cakes are enormous and well worth sampling. Staff do not seem keen to serve and do not mind keeping customers waiting. However if not in a hurry, it's a must place for a coffee.

Visited with family and 2 dogs. Walking through the door was like stepping back in time with the old shop display units - so interesting. Staff friendly and welcoming and not pushy as we spent ages trying to decide which of the vast selection of goodies we should go for. In the end we opted for Bounty cheesecake, rhubarb cheesecake, rocky road and coffee and walnut cake, all of which were fantastic and good sized portions. Will definitely visit again.

Great atmosphere, excellent staff and the Welsh breakfast and the cakes are delicious. It’s dog friendly and there’s blankets for cold winter days. It has a real old world charm.

Great coffee and home-made cake;- a rather, a refreshing change from the standard fare of the ubiquitous "Costa" , "Starbucks" or other high - street franchise outlet

Very tasty food, cozy atmosphere and friendly staff. Dogs are also welcome

Absoutely lovely breakfast highly recommend if in area we are just passing through Quirky little place Very friendly

So happy to finally get here not on a Sunday when closed. Really lovely happy and helpful staff serving great espresso (I bought a bag of beans to take home) and a selection of cakes that makes it almost impossible to just choose one!! The atmosphere was a warm and chatty environment surrounded by quirkiness 😊 My kind of place, I will definitely be back

Excellent coffee and breakfasts, cheerful service in a wonderful atmosphere.

Place to go for fresh meat and pies staff very helpful and friendly all meat very fresh and reasonably priced,definitely recommend

What a unique place. Good coffee and the cakes are amazing .

I only ever write reviews for places that are utterly amazing or that are jaw droppingy awful: in order to help good businesses and extract the Mickey from dumps. Straightforward you might think.... until now! Been going to TH Roberts for many years - regular holidays to the Mawddach area. This place is so WONDERFUL that I almost thought of giving it 1 star so that when I go it can be really quiet instead of busy . Thus enabling the amazing chef to provide the gorgeous breakfast bap ( veggie OR meaty) and the brilliant barista the delish coffee as quickly as possible. Thus enabling me to wolf it down and then quickly follow it up with another coffee and some of the flippin' AMAZING baking. Whoever baked the chocolate peanut granola thing I had this morning should be recommended for some sort of medal - maybe for services beyond the call of duty to General Life Enjoyment and Taste Bud Ultra-Tickling? In case I haven't made myself clear this place is rather good. It IS the best cafe in Dolgellau/Gwynedd/Wales/The Universe. Please don't go, but if you must at least leave a table free for me.

Brilliant cafe within an amazing building and fantastic seating options upstairs. The array of cake options was exceptional. Hot chocolate (dark) was one of the best I've ever had in a cafe. Slightly disappointed with the flapjack I ordered as it was incredibly (?unecessarily) sweet.

Just had the most amazing veggie breakfast bap. Creatively presented in perfectly fresh bread. Absolutely delicious. All the food arrived hot. The Melon strawberry smoothie was lovely.

Great cafe with lovely traditional vibe as well as great service, coffee and the best cakes I've ever had.

Beautiful atmosphere! Big selection of drinks and cakes! Delicious.

We had a great lunch, cake and coffee. Such a fabulous independant gem. Totally recommend the Guiness cake and chocolate amongst others!

Lovely cafe with a wide range of options for lunch.

Amazing full breakfast! Great coffee too, nice staff.

Will definitely not be visiting this place again as arriving two wet dogs were coming out which had been able to sit on carpet as where we sat there was dog hair on carpet and it smelt of wet dog staff was very pleasant except for one lady I approached one of the staff and asked for a bowl of water she agreed and passed me one but as I went to put it down I heard a voice saying don't put that down on the carpet I don't want slobber obviously one of the staff had noticed her attitude and said what on earth is the matter with you with a few drops of water and I thought the same wet dogs are allowed to lie on the carpet but not my 9 month old puppy is allowed a drink does not make sense 😖

Great coffee shop with the best atmosphere. Lovely staff. Amazing building with plenty of things to look at. Dog friendly. Would definitely visit again!

What a brilliant place! Lovely atmosphere and loads of features from when it was an iron mongers (we have family members that had been in it's former life...). Amazing range of homemade cakes. Service was really friendly. Dogs welcome.

This place is amazing in every way and if you are in the area it is well worth a visit. The cakes are next level!

Went twice. It feels like you are in an old fashioned shop but everyone is so friendly (including to dogs) and the food just excellent. We were a family of 6 adults two children and a dog. Food, coffee and smoothies excellent. Really the best selection of home made cakes and tray bakes I have seen in a long time. Do go!

A unique coffee shop experience. The decor and ambience are very old school.... dark wood apothecary type fixtures and fittings.....reworked to provide a homely, atmospheric cafe. The food is good value....omelettes, sandwiches, all day breakfast etc.....with a huge enticing homemade cake selection. We always eat lunch here when we're in Dolgellau. It's a highlight of our trip just as much as the surrounding mountains!

Exceptional full breakfast to eat it and cheesecake to take away. Staff are friendly and attentive. Perfect way to end our holiday. Thank you.

Lemon meringue pie was massive and sooooo good. Also vegan rhubarb flapjack moist and tasty. Huge cake selection, great coffee. Lovely place and friendly staff. Will definitely be back …

Lovely hot chocolate, comfy, nice ambience. Only thing stopped the five star review is the temperature - cold out, and noticeably not especially warm in.

Quirky coffee shop, Very relaxed and cosy. Only oat or full fat milk available so due to my intolerance I was unable to enjoy a hot drink. Server was a bit rude but other staff were very pleasant

A wonderful cafe with lovely staff, great coffee and delicious cakes and Welsh rarebit!

Wonderful food, friendly staff and a gorgeous interior!

Very friendly and yummy cakes!!!

My wife has been here several times, my first but not last visit. Huge space upstairs to sit and chat had the breakfast roll which was spot on and great coffee. Lovely place Update, still coming for coffee still great 👍

I love this place! Great atmosphere and amazing cakes baked by Meg. Cooked breakfast is excellent. Very busy place, expect longer waits during peak periods.

One of my favourite cafes anywhere, situated in a fine old building in the centre of town. Sensibly the interior remains much as it was when it used to be a hardware store and is all the more impressive for it, with a long counter and plenty of seating on the ground and upper floor. Breakfast are terrific although i suspect one of the main reasons for customers visiting are the fabulous cakes, made by the owner, 'Meg Queen of Cakes', as described by The Sunday Times. Meg and her staff are delightful and I always enjoy my visits.

Superb superb SUPERB cakes! The Bakewell slice... So almondy, so jammy, so frangipani and gooey icing on top. The scones.... with a hint of vanilla knocking about. The Rocky Road (Ffordd Cregiau!) - so much chocolate and biscuitty goodness Nice big mugs of tea too.

Friendly helpful, attentive staff. A properly big full breakfast with excellent quality products, well cooked, served hot and thoroughly delicious. The desserts/cakes also looked amazing but there wasn't any pudding space left in me after the breakfast/brunch. this does give me the perfect excuse to revisit the place though. :) Lovely place, delightful staff, excellent food, definitely worth a visit or two!

Popped in here Thursday afternoon after a very long hike with my fiancé. It's a very quirky place and the staff are very friendly. We managed to get a seat in 'the snug' which was a lovely private seating area with a sofa. I had a bakewell slice & cuppa which was lovely and my partner had the full breakfast which he was impressed with especially the quality of the bacon. We would return here again if passing through Dolgellau.

Fantastic breakfast, everything was cooked perfectly with quality ingredients, staff were attentive, very nice vibe. Coffee and tea were spot on.

Lovely quirky coffee shop with amazing cakes. Fabulous homemade carrot cake and lovely honeycomb cheesecake. Large portions - you have been warned! Had great fun swapping banter with Meg and her team. Have been back twice already. We did rather cheekily ask if amongst all the excellent homemade cakes and pies Meg had any 'proper' cakes like those produced by Mr Kipling.... And were shocked when some were fetched from the back and delivered with a sarcastic comment and a wink. For those who like a bit of banter, you'll find your match in Meg!

Very nice cafe. THE BEST IN TOWN!!! staff were wonderful and friendly. They were all happy. Cafe had it's quirks but I like the old style cafés. Food was really good quality. If I'm ever on the area would definitely go again. Cheesecakes are beautiful and tasty.

Great breakfast staff welcoming, comfortable seating, easy access reasonable pricing, would go again

Lovely coffee house, we went based on the Google reviews and really glad we stopped in. Staff were very friendly and social. Food was good and the desserts were even better. Lovely the Welsh rarebit jacket potato!

Excellent food, made with top quality ingredients & served expertly. Full breakfast was magnificent! Being totally dog friendly was really lovely & so nice the whole family could enjoy breakfast!

Wonderful food, friendly service, lovely upstairs room with comfy sofas, dog friendly.... quite simply a lovely place to eat! Thoroughly recommend and will definitely return!

Friendly staff nice coffee. Not got the cosy feel we were looking for but very clean and comfortable

Lovely place to go for a cake. But don't bother ordering a breakfast. If took over 40 minutes to arrive. No apologies from any of the staff. To make matters worse, a member of staff asked me if I would like a knife and fork with my breakfast? What else was I supposed to use!

Amazing breakfast - building with great character. Service with a smile & lovely family feel.

Extraordinary cakes - huge variety of homemade treats and traybakes, very generous servings, and excellent coffee. Big upstairs seating area, and lots of games to borrow and play.

Excellent service and very friendly staff. Fantastic coffee and an amazing selection of cakes. A must visit.

Best poached eggs in Doll! We love poached eggs on toast and if the eggs are runny and the toast is dripping in butter then wonderful and this lovely place served it all perfectly. Great service by a very well organised team too

Lovely food had a full breakfast and a scrambled egg on toast. Not quick but well worth the wait. Had an italian Depth Charge to drink loved it so bought another. Place itself is welcoming, quirky with pleasant staff.

Great staff with great banter with colleagues and customers lovely old style premises. Really good choice of cakes and hot meals

Best coffee anywhere. Beautiful building inside (and out). Plenty of seating. Rightly popular

All the character that is missing from so many places is present in the building, furnishings, food, drinks, cakes and not least in the staff. Check out up- and downstairs, plus the manager's office. There are a number of other cafes & bakers in the village that are well worth a visit, each with their own take on food and drink. I didn't spot a single franchise.

Possibly the best coffee in North Wales and food of the finest too. The cakes are stunning

A cafe that looks unassuming from the outside, but is fabulous on the inside. Fabulous tea and coffee. Homemade cakes. Plus breakfasts, rarebit, etc. Friendly helpful staff.

Quirky setting with a large and varied menu which justifies making repeat visits! The breakfasts are generous (with a few portion size options) and will satisfy meat-eaters and veggies alike - the veggie sausages are a worth a try, being vegetable-based rather than 'fake meat'. There is a massive range of cakes, with more being baked in-house throughout the day. Coffees are good, and smoothies and milkshakes are a refreshing alternative. The building is unique, and there's plenty to look at while you wait for your order to be prepared. The owners welcome guests taking photos, but ask them to consider donating to the RNLI to support the local Coastguard - a nice touch. Service is friendly and good-humoured, suited to dealing with the mix of tourists, cyclists and locals who can't stay away. Thanks for keeping us fuelled up on our visit to Dolgellau :)

Amazing array of homemade goodies in a quirky environment. Lovely staff. Coffee good too.

Was passing through Dolgellau and just had to drop in for a coffee and flapjack. As always excellent service and lovely coffee and cake. Prices reflect the quality. One of my favourite cafes in North Wales. I cut two stars for atmosphere as it would be 100% if the staff spoke Welsh.

Most interesting coffee shop ive ever visited. I really recommend the Italian Depth drink. The carrot cake was good too.

I think this is the best cafe I've ever been to. Incredible cakes (& cheesecakes!) set in a lovely, characterful building. And upstairs is a huge warehouse-full of comfy sofas to relax in!

This is a five stars place without any doubt. The atmosphere is unique and the Welsh food is superb. I had a Sunday breakfast with my family and we all had a great experience