Cafes and Coffee Houses Trail
As the foodie capital of Suffolk, you will discover a strong cafe culture with a diverse range of cafes, coffee houses and tearooms. With lots of nationals and independents, you are set to have a unique experience.
This trail includes over 30 amazing venues within the town centre.
Participating Businesses
Baileys 2
With a strong local reputation for tasty treats, aromatic coffees and sandwiches with a twist, Baileys2 offers a relaxed and friendly environment to lunch, or to break up your shopping trip with a much needed coffee stop!
Cafe Kottani
Cafe Kottani is a family run little Cafe with a wide selection of tasty Greek meals. Our menu includes mousakka, pasticcio, yemista and Greek Meze plates such as tzatziki, hummus, vineleaves, halloumi, feta cheese, olives, giant beans, meatballs, aubergine imam, falafel and more.
Caffe Nero
The Caffè Nero philosophy is really very simple: premium Italian coffee; a warm and welcoming atmosphere; good food and great service.
Cookie Barista
We are the one of the first to bring Bubble Tea to Bury St Edmunds, offering a large menu of classic milk teas, taro & matcha served with brown sugar syrup & tapioca pearls.
Cornish Bakery
Cornish Bakery is an eat-in or take-out bakery with Cornish roots. Award-winning pasties, buttery viennoiserie, cakes, bakes, tortilla and ethically sourced coffees are the foundations of our business.
Costa Coffee
Costa’s mission has always been to save the world from mediocre coffee. Back in 1971 most people thought this was a noble yet hopelessly unachievable task.
Gastrono-me
At Gastrono-me the aim is to create fantastic, and imaginative food and drink in a laid back and beautiful space.
Greggs
Greggs, the home of fresh baking, is the leading bakery retailer in the UK. Expert bakers for the last 70 years, they serve delicious, freshly baked, quality food at great value prices.
Grounds Cafe
Grounds Cafe Abbey Gardens is a family-run, independent franchise, offering a range of homemade soups, sandwiches, cakes, gelato hot and cold drinks, and more!
Harriets Tearooms
Remembering the ‘old days’ is a favourite pastime in which we all indulge. For many, those days are recreated so eloquently at Harriets cafe Tearooms, where the true quality of service from ‘yesteryear’ is at the centre of everything.
Hotel Chocolat
Hotel Chocolat is a British chocolatier and a unique type of chocolate company that connects luxury chocolate making and retailing with cocoa growing – it is one of the world’s few chocolate makers to actually grow its own cocoa.
Lottie’s Waffles
Lottie’s is an independent local coffee and waffle shop, where we strive on serving the finest products using locally sourced produce. Our local suppliers include F and E coffee and Woosters Bakery.
Marks & Spencer
One of the UK’s leading retailers with around 21 million customers visiting their stores each week, Marks and Spencer sell high quality, great value clothing and home products as well as outstanding quality food, responsibly sourced from around 2,000 suppliers globally.
Midgar Coffee
Midgar is all about great coffee, tasty toasties, and scrumptious home-baked treats within a friendly, cosy, and tranquil atmosphere. Being family owned we know you can’t leave your dog behind, so we are fully dog friendly for your well-behaved dogs.
Muffin Break
Muffin Break is a unique cafe bakery offering customers an irresistible combination of fresh baked products and quality espresso coffee. Their freshly baked muffins are traditionally baked each day are ‘always fresh.’
No 5 Angel Hill Cafe
This newly refurbished cafe run by husband and wife, Charlie and Tanya Athorne will be bringing a taste of Europe to Angel Hill.
Northend Cafe
Friendly cafe on St Andrews Street North, serving a wide range of no-frills meals including breakfasts, home-cooked roast dinners and sandwiches. Perfect for a coffee or meal break whilst shopping in town or somewhere warm and cosy to relax.
Old School Cafe
Just Traid started approximately over seven years ago with the intention that members of all the Churches in Bury St Edmunds and District should work together to assist in alleviating poverty in developing countries by buying and selling Fair Traded goods.
Primal 8
A health and wellbeing cafe and retail shop stocking CBD products and infusions, natural herbal supplements, healthy snacks, hot drinks and more.
Procopio’s Pantry
Located in Langton Place, Procopio’s Pantry is a traditional tea room with a twist. Swapping out jacket potatoes for loaded wedges and serving up sweet treats for breakfast, this tea room aims to be a relaxing spot where customers can enjoy good company and even better food.
Really Rather Good
As small independent business, it aims to offer the very best coffee in town along with a wide range of top quality teas, complemented by home-made paninis, wraps, salads, daily specials and gorgeous cakes.
Shuffle Board Game Cafe
Your local hub for all things tabletop. It’s a fun place to hang out, play amazing board games in a friendly, café environment.
Suffolk Carver
A small independently run cafe, serving a selection of teas, coffees and homemade scones and cakes. Their breakfast menu offers quality ingredients and great value
Starbucks
To say Starbucks purchases and roasts high-quality whole bean coffees is very true. That’s the essence of what they do – but it hardly tells the whole story.
The Bay Tree Cafe
A friendly family-run restaurant offering something for everyone. Bay Tree has been established in St John’s Street for 20 years; a lovely street, that retains its traditional feel with many individual shops.
The Coffee House at the Apex
Serving locally roasted coffee, fairtrade teas, freshly baked pastries, seasonal salads and artisan sandwiches with fabulous produce by some of Suffolk’s best independent makers.
The Lounge
One of the town’s most stylish cafés situated in Bury St Edmund’s prestigious Hatter Street, serving a breakfast and lunch menu with lots of options together with pastries, cakes and savoury snacks, as well as a full range of hot and cold drinks.
Total E-Cig Vape Cafe
Since we opened in April 2014 a lot has changed as our family run company grew with the vaping industry, however customer service has always remained at the very top of our priorities
Vinyl Hunter
Our Bury St Edmunds Record Cafe has been open for over 7 years, and in that time we have strived to create a strong community for the large group of music enthusiasts in the area.
Wilcrofts Cafe
Wilcrofts located in Brentgovel Street, has not only been listed in the top ten places to eat in Bury St Edmunds, but has received a maximum five stars in a food hygiene inspection.
Waterstones
Waterstones is the UK’s leading bookseller, with millions of books covering every subject. Waterstones’ mission is to be the leading bookseller on the high street and online providing customers the widest choice, great value and expert advice from a team passionate about bookselling