Award-winning tearoom in North Devon

Enjoy afternoon tea with stunning views of Salcombe estuary at The Jetty restaurant. Relax in the lounge, or out on the terrace to experience the spectacular views. Their Jetty Cream Tea comes with plain and fruit scones served with clotted cream & jam with your choice of teas for£8.50 per person. The Jetty Afternoon Tea also includes a selection of sandwiches and homemade cakes for £16.50 per person, with the option to add a glass of sparkling wine for £21.95.

Bumble and Bee Tearoom & Kitchen, Exmouth

Whether it’s on a clifftop, by a riverside or indeed on the water itself (we have a number of boat cafes!), it would be easy to plan a whole trip around visits to great Devon cafés and tearooms … This hotel sits on three miles of coastline, off one of the best beaches in Devon. Immerse yourself in these coastal views and enjoy a luxurious afternoon tea with delicate finger sandwiches, scones and fine pastries. Castle Drogo’s cafe is the perfect place to keep yourself fuelled up with tasty treats, serving coffee, cake, cream teas and snacks. Once an old fishing lodge, Badger’s Holt is located on Dartmoor between Ashburton and Princetown at Dartmeet, the famous beauty spot where the east and west tributaries of the River Dart meet.

If you want something luxurious, try afternoon tea in the grand surroundings of this five-star hotel. Scones, which only became a common feature of afternoon tea in the 20th century, can be sweet or savoury. Along with the drink, there are dainty sandwiches, show-stopping cakes, and scones which you aren’t sure should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cone’ or ‘gone’ (it’s the latter).

Superb Cream Teas inDevon

Discover places to stay, things to do, food and drink, and what’s on across North Devon & Exmoor. This cafe has been rated ‘excellent’ by nine out of every 10 reviewers on Tripadvisor. It’s praised for being friendly and great value, and its carrot cake is particularly popular.

Served with tea, coffee, or perhaps something bubbly, in the Hotel’s elegant, Victorian surroundings. Set on Babbacombe Downs, with excellent views over the South Devon coast, the tearoom and daytime restaurant at Angels bustles from the moment the doors are open. They offer lots of cream tea variations that come highly recommended on Trip Advisor. Angels’ afternoon tea is also very popular including lots of tasty home-made cakes and representing great value for money. Their cream teas come with extra large home-made scones and local clotted cream.

Loved by those in the area, afternoon tea at this traditional Devon tea room feels like a visit to grandma’s house. With the endless amount of cakes and snacks to choose from, all served in a cosy atmosphere, this is an award-winning parlour. When you visit, keep an eye out for the window display, which is changed regularly to entertain locals and show events happening in the area. The forecast may have other ideas, but we’re manifesting sunshine, garden terraces and leisurely afternoon teas. Here are the Devon spots worth bookmarking for when summer makes its comeback.

• In the pleasant market town of South Molton the Corn Dolly is a small family run business that’s been serving some of the best cream teas in North Devon for nearly 30 years.
• You can eat your cream tea in a vintage setting, beachside or next to the water mill which ground the wholemeal flour used in your lunch!
• In summer cream teas can be enjoyed on the suntrap terrace or the lawn, whilst in winter they’re served in the comfy lounge.
• Garden highlights include beautiful rhododendrons, summer wildflowers and the turn of autumnal woodland leaves.

Otterton Mill is an award winning café, bakery and food shop set in the ancient mill on the banks of the peaceful River Otter. The mill is dog friendly and there is a lovely walk following the river to Budleigh Salterton where it meets the sea. They produce fine organic scones in the ancient mill and their cream teas are regularly featured in local papers as one of the best cream teas in Devon and the Westcountry. The Prince Hall Hotel is set high on Dartmoor in a lovely setting overlooking the beautiful West River Dart. They serve delicious Devonshire cream teas featuring freshly baked crumbly scones, locally made strawberry preserve and Devon clotted cream.

It was introduced in Britain in 1840 by Anne, the seventh Duchess of Bedford. She would feel hungry in the afternoons, so would request a tray of tea, bread and butter, and cakes to be brought to her room. She found it was the perfect way to satisfy her before her evening meal at 8pm.

Creams teas can be enjoyed in the cosy sitting room or bar, the light and airy restaurant or outside on the terrace. Moorland Garden Hotel is located in ‘War Horse’ country, on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, not far from Plymouth, Tavistock and the border with Cornwall. Devon cream teas and afternoon teas are served in the Lounge or in the picturesque garden and come with homemade scones and a choice of tea. The Royal Oak Farm has a small tearoom alongside a traditional pick-your-own fruit farm. Their gorgeous farm shop is packed to the brim with produce grown locally and meat reared within just a few miles. All scones are freshly baked each morning and served with local clotted cream and homemade jam produced from the strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries and blackcurrants grown on-site.

They have a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence and their cream teas are award winning with most recent award being the Devon Life “Best Scone in Devon 2016” award. Step inside The Bedford Hotel in the heart of the award-winning Devon market town of Tavistock for a warm and traditional welcome. Dainty sandwiches, warm scones with jam and cream, tempting cakes, and plenty of tea and coffee are available. Full afternoon tea is served from 3pm–5pm every day, or enjoy a perfect https://www.thecoffeerush.co.uk/ Devon cream tea at any time of the day. Deep in the West Devon countryside outside of Torrington is the Royal Horticultural Society’s Rosemoor Garden. Admission to the restaurant is free and it has views overlooking some of the beautiful gardens.

They offer cream teas with a difference – large Cherry Bakewell flavoured scones! The loose leaf tea also adds to the experience as its accompanied by a three-phase tea timer for weak, moderate or strong tea strength. Boringdon Hall Hotel is a seductive manor house hotel on the edge of Dartmoor where luxury and style come together with the drama of Elizabethan architecture. It serves great afternoon and cream teas with homemade scones which can be enjoyed in the Great Hall or intimate but impressive Grenville Suite. A short walk from Exeter Quay overlooking the canal and Trews Weir on the River Exe is the Welcome Café.