Eat and drink · Fairford
The Coffee Post, Fairford
A small coffee shop and custom cake maker on Fairford's Market Place, open weekday mornings and Saturday mornings, that also sends boxes of its cakes by post.
A small Market Place coffee shop whose real trade is cake: it makes celebration cakes to order and posts boxes of its bakes. Good for a coffee and a slice on the way to the church; it shuts at 2pm.
- Good: On the Market Place, by the free parking
- Good: Eat in or take away
- Good: Custom celebration cakes made to order
- Good: Cake boxes sent by post or ready to collect
- Worth knowing: Closes at 2pm on weekdays and 1pm on Saturdays
- Worth knowing: Closed on Sundays
About
The Coffee Post is a small coffee shop on the Market Place in Fairford, which also makes custom cakes. It calls itself award-winning, serves coffee and cakes to eat in or take away, and has a following for its celebration cakes, from birthdays to weddings, made to order.
Its cakes travel too. Through its website you can order boxes of Coffee Post cakes to be sent by post or collected from the shop, which is the surer way to take some home than relying on what is left on the counter late in the morning.
It opens from Monday to Friday, 9am to 2pm, and on Saturdays from 9am to 1pm, and is closed on Sundays. Its website's menu page was being updated when we checked, so we cannot say what it serves beyond coffee and cake. Park free in the Market Place outside. St Mary's Church is a two-minute walk, and for a longer lunch try 7a Coffee Shop round the corner on London Street or Lynwood & Co on the High Street.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 09:00 to 14:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 09:00 to 14:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 to 14:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 to 14:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 to 14:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 13:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
Closed on Sundays.
The details
- Food
- Café food
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch
- Booking a table
- Walk-ins only
- Features
- Café
- Parking
- Free parking in the Market Place outside.
Photos
The Coffee Post on the Market Place 
Caramel brownies 
Valentine's cookies 
Cupcakes on the counter
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
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- Lynwood & Co, Fairford 0.1 km away
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