The Kitchen @ Thorpeness in Suffolk Coastal

The best value ice cream serving in the area with fab flavours as well. Car park next door is reasonable for visiting the beach or the Meare. Great walks through the village too.

Nice coffee however the spiced squash soup could have been hotter in temperature. I will of course return as otherwise a great place with lots of menu choices.

Excellent quality of food and drinks, but could do with more gluten free options, possibly plain or cheese scones? Also, is it possible to leave sultanas out of the GF carrot cake and apple slice, as not everyone is able to eat them?

Delicious cooked food and cakes, plus lovely coffee! A bit expensive, but worth it.

Coffee shop and antique shop share the overall space. Good coffee and cakes and looking at other tables the food looked nicely presented and freshly prepared. We'll worth a stop to recharge the batteries.

After waiting over half an hour for food of which we were not told of any delay whilst ordering, eventually it came out some 40minutes later after complaining. Ordered a tuna Mayo Sandwich for our 13 year old granddaughter, that came out as a child’s sandwich which was not what I ordered & not fulfilling, luckily we ordered a portion of chips she could fill up on. When asked if everything was ok, I said no & complained about the sandwich & service, of which there was no response or apology given & he was quite indifferent about it. When we complained about the service and that other people were getting their food who ordered after us, we got told that it is because people were moaning to waitresses about the delay in their orders, which was passed back to the kitchen and the chef panicking. This intimates we shouldn’t talk to the waitresses. Not really satisfactory. We will not be going back here to eat again.

Really nice place to meet for tea before a good walk. We were not there to eat but everything looked delicious. Been before and will go again.

Great reasonably priced food. Lovely open cafe, indoor and outdoor seating.Good for social distancing.Great breakfast menu, egg and mushroom on toast and sausage and egg bap... went down well. Coffee is not so great, bitter and burnt. Airport coffee I'd call it.But apart from that everything else was great, I'd highly recommend paying a visit.Very crowded during summer months, so get there early.Friendly staff.

Great to see a place working well with all the current issues around lack of staff in the hospitality sector. The staff were right on with sanitising tables etc, nice and polite etc. The food and drinks came out in really good time, which I wasn't expecting (it was semi busy and we had some much longer waits in places locally that were a lot less busy!) Food was good, a little pricey, but c'est la vie, it's holiday season! And it was worth the money to be honest.

Made a pitstop here after the 4 mile walk from Aldeburgh to Thorpeness. Very busy but the staff were efficient and friendly. Oh and the coffee was good and not over priced, as is often the case these days.