Market Place Tea Rooms in Cornwall

Negative experience to say the least! I hope this puts even a few people off wasting their money here! We visited during a family holiday and walked in to get out of the wind, as soon as we entered the lady (owner I’m guessing) started ushering us back towards the door saying “I haven’t had time to clean tables just wait” was extremely rude! Wouldn’t of minded at all if she had of at least been nice about it! So we waited in the cold with three little ones and she didn’t even tell us the table was ready, we had to walk back in and take a guess! She was frantically running around the place making a scene ( if I was her I’d be embarrassed) she gave dirty looks when walking past as if we had somehow offended her?! I have never felt so unwelcome in a place in all my life! I work with the public and Would never treat my paying customers this way! Oh and The scones were terribly dry! Way better places on the sea front with friendly staff and nice scones! Ruined our cream tea experience which we was looking forward to all day! Such a shame! Not the first bad review I’ve read and seems to be about the same lady! She’s letting the place down for sure!

Best cream tea I have ever tried, not just one scone but two!! The cream was to die for and the jam was stunning!! Friendly staff!! You will have a job to find a better cream tea than theirs!! Highly recommend!!

Terrible experience. Online reviews suggested I could get a vegan cream tea here. I had to wait for the person serving to finish her lengthy story (relayed to other customers) about a bad experience with a previous customer before she would acknowledge I was at the counter. When l asked if they had vegan scones or other items for a cream tea they said ‘No’. I asked ‘None today, do you usually have them?’ And they responded again just with ‘No’. So we left. Not even a friendly response.

Fabulous! A proper quaint and traditional tearoom, who’s staff are friendly, welcoming and exude professionalism (even on occasion when they are spoken to by rude, impatient or inconsiderate customers!!). Having sampled food daily during my stay, food was of an exceptional standard, delicious, fresh and beautifully presented! The cream teas are the best I have had, probably down to the fact the owner bakes the scones fresh each day, and the coconut cake is divine (numerous other flavours looked equally tempting!). If you are after a decent sandwich, can highly recommend the crab, which comes with a great salad garnish and crisps!!! Lovely to see holidaymakers and locals alike enjoying banter with the staff, or equally some quiet time with their book or their thoughts. Will miss my daily visits until my next holiday!!!

One of the highlights of our visit to St Ives. Lovely venue, good food especially the home baked cakes. The owner and her staff could not have been more friendly and entertaining.....she even gave us a CD as a fairwell present Ha!. Looking forward to returing in the future

Awkward and unfriendly service. Arrived and went upstairs to find a seat and waited awkward while the waitress cleared tables and smiled but said nothing. No menu, no indication of whether it was table service, app or order at the counter.So eventually I went downstairs to get a menu and order and was told very shortly, in an unfriendly and snotty tone that we didn't speak to anyone, we just went upstairs and were supposed to order down here.All that is fair enough, but we are not mind readers, no one greeted us at the door and told us that's what we should do and your waitress didn't let us know either.So I told our group we won't be spending any money there and we returned the menus and left.Had a lovely drink with a much better view over at the Porthminster Beach Café. I'd recommend a visit there.

AWFUL Service! Went in, with two children and 3 adults, we were very much made to felt like a burden.The owner was rude and unwelcoming, we waited over 15 minutes to be asked for our order, by this time my toddler was getting restless and needed the toilet, so I took her to the loo. ( this is part of the story- not just an unnecessary fact)After waiting again for our order to be taken, we made the decision to leave and get an ice cream instead.We made our apologies as we was actually looking forward to getting a cream tea. We were shocked and saddened when we were met with an unsavoury and frankly rude response of ‘great! I bet you have all used my loo tho!!’ Which was completely wrong and frankly uncalled for as we would have spent a considerable amount of money - if our order had been taken! I felt like I had to explain that only my toddler had used the loo as we have been waiting for over 20 minutes.I will never go back! I recommend to that If you want even mediocre service I would go elsewhere.

Lovely and friendly staff. Great food and affordable. We really enjoyed it.

We visited last Sunday whilst at St Ives for the day. Highly recommend visiting. We order the Cornish tea and scones: absolutely gorgeous and then ordered an afternoon tea: absolutely gorgeous, all very fresh and worth the money.

Had the most incredible vegan afternoon tea. The scones were absolutely amazing and the owner was so sweet and lovely. My partner also enjoyed the original cream tea. I would highly recommend a visit