A gorgeous seafront in Southwold with a long Promenade and a pier extending out into the sea with…read morerestaurants and shops on it. It is a very popular destination for locals from around the region and it was packed when we were there. A nice sunny day also helped the cause. It's a great place to come out for a day and walk along the beach and eat at the many nice restaurants and cafes in town as well as along the waterfront. It's a typical English seaside town and quite charming with gorgeous old buildings dotted along the coast line. I would happily come here any day. A great walk is from Southwold to Walberswick along the tow path and it takes about an hour to walk it. Gorgeous fishing villages and boats dot the waterline.

Southwold pier (along with its beach and sea-front) has a quaint, old-world charm that is just…read moreright for these staycation times. It's the sort of place that reminds me of what my parents' childhoods would have been like if they had been brought up in this part of the world. From the water clock with its quirky show to fish, chips and a Suffolk beer sitting out on the pier, looking through the boards to the sea below, this is a relaxing, civilised and quintessentially British sort of place. Afternoon tea, anyone ?

A gem on the coast of Suffolk. Unchanged through the millenia except for a couple of more modern…read morecafes and restaurants. Take a stroll along the seafront to the outlets for freshly caught fish etc, by the owners, at reasonable prices. As one states ' fresh fish, the only fresher is still swimming'. Plenty of good hostelries serving good real ales and Suffolk cyder ( no the spelling is correct). You must sample the fish and chips from a couple of take outs in the town. I have qyped, seperately, for these two outlets. Warning, if you want to try these take-aways, start queueing before the shops open. After 20 minutes the queues are at least 30 yards long which says it all.

Stopped in here for lunch one day and absolutely loved it... the service is top notch, the staff…read moreare super friendly and I had the best pea & mint soup ever, along with a small cheese sandwich. Everything we ate here was delicious and we would not hesitate to recommend... we will definitely be coming back! :-)

Just on the pier, it's a light, bright, colourful, cheery, clean cafe serving snacks, meals and…read moredrinks from 8:30am every day except Christmas day. Teas and coffees are great the food looks good too. Recommended if you're in Southwold.

This is a really fun place to have breakfast in or a coffee. Brilliant colourful tables and chairs,…read morea couple of members of staff were a bit too serious for such a fun place. I have got to say though £5 for a bacon roll is rather steep when a full breakfast is just over £6

Walking into Two Magpies, you'd easily double take - have I stumbled back into Manchester? No, this…read morelittle place is a new addition to the ever-expanding Southwold 'high street' (use this term loosely people!). Competition isn't exactly rife; much of Southwold still revolves around the blue rinse idea of what cakes should be, so something with this hand-written/brown paper edge is very appealing to the younger generations. The cake display outside is inviting, with hand written brown label price tags and a variety of different sized cake stands. You're faced with amaretto chocolate cupcakes topped with edible gold, huge praline meringues, and slabs of brownies. Stepping inside, it feels a touch chaotic, but it sort of (sort of) adds to the charm. We visited on two occasions - naughty - and had a raspberry bakewell slice, pecan nut brownie, the aforementioned chocolate cupcake, and a huge slice of sponge cake with raspberries and limoncello sauce. Service on the first visit was much quicker than the second; our cakes were selected, popped into a white box and stickered ready for us to go on our merry way. Our second visit and there was only one person behind the counter, doing his best but struggling slightly under the demand! I hope that Two Magpies doesn't fly away too soon; Southwold is changing in many respects and, as long as the prices don't shoot up much further, I think they've found a good niche to sit in.

We have enjoyed Harris & James elsewhere in Suffolk & Norfolk, mainly for the gelato. This time we…read morewent inside for a coffee/tea and a cake. The coffee and tea were OK, the cookies and cakes reasonable and the donut small. Service was average and the prices not cheap. OK but nothing special.

Best coffee shop in Southwold, with good food and friendly staff. Don't miss it. Plenty of places…read moreto sit down inside too

This is more a review of the Cafe/coffee shop which is at cellar level below the gallery, though I…read morehave been in the Galleries on previous visits. Mrs and I popped in for a quick lunch last Saturday - we got in at noon which was as well because by half past all the dozen or so tables were occupied. The decor and atmosphere is rather better than some other in Southwold but its probably the most expensive but not prohibitingly so. We had already rejected the cafe in Adnams Kitchen and Wine shop as it had the atmosphere of a railway station cafe. My wife ordered a Tuna/Mayo sandwich and I had the same but in a baguette. The baguette was excellent - crisp and light, and well filled. We also both had a cappuccino. My wife's turned out to be a problem as the waitress had slopped a bit into the saucer which then over a period of a few minutes soaked into the 'lacy' doily mat. That then stuck to the bottom of the cup when she lifted it. We asked for a new saucer, but some mat was still stuck on the underside of the cup ! All rather messy ! The waiting staff however were very friendly (Three attractive young ladies and a handsome young man). Service was reasonably prompt and efficient. We ended our lunch sharing an excellent iced Danish pastry, complete with glace cherry (I lost the argument for the cherry). The bill came to £16.45 Later edit - Visited again last Sunday. We both had some excellent Stilton and Broccolli Soup - it came with a large soft roll and three of those infernal pats of butter that cannot be opened without messing your fingers. I had a tuna baguette as before, Mrs just settled for a Danish pastry (as I shared with her before). Capuccinos again, but once more avery tiny spillage causes the doily mat to stick to the cup ! Service brilliant, food brilliant - just some attention to detail needed.