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Eat and drink · Stow-on-the-Wold
Huffkins, Stow-on-the-Wold
The Stow branch of Huffkins, the Burford bakery founded in about 1890, in a listed seventeenth-century building on the Square, open every day for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea, with dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly
A dependable café on the Square for breakfast, lunch or a cream tea, open seven days and happy to see dogs. Afternoon tea can be booked. The rest is walk-in.
- Good: Open every day
- Good: Dogs welcome
- Good: Afternoon tea can be booked online
- Good: Vegan and gluten-free menus
- Worth knowing: Closes at 4pm on Sundays
About
Huffkins is a Cotswold bakery that began in Burford in about 1890 and has been owned by the Taee family since 1999. Its café in Stow-on-the-Wold is in what the café describes as a listed seventeenth-century building on the Square, a few steps from the market cross, and it is air-conditioned, which matters on a hot August afternoon.
It serves breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea, with coffee and cakes in between, and the same building sells Huffkins' own bread, cakes, preserves and lardy cake to take away. There are separate vegan, gluten-free and children's menus. Everything is baked in small batches at the company's own bakery, opened in 2021, the business says.
It opens from 9am to 5pm from Monday to Saturday and 10am to 4pm on Sundays. Most tables are walk-in, but afternoon tea can be booked online, and groups and coach parties of up to 30 should book. Dogs are welcome.
The parish's directions (2013) give the passage behind the café as a step-free way into St Edward's churchyard. For a longer stretch, the walk to Maugersbury starts from the Cross a few steps away and comes back in about two hours.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Thursday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Friday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 to 17:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
The details
- Food
- Café food · Bakery · Tearoom
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Afternoon tea
- Dietary
- Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes · Children's menu
- Features
- Café · Shop · Wi-Fi · Dogs inside
- History
- Huffkins founded in Burford in about 1890
Photos
The tea room 
The back room 
Afternoon tea 
The tea room from the street
Location
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Stow Lodge Hotel
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The Old Stocks Inn
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The Kings Arms, Stow
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Stow Lodge Hotel 0.0 km away
- The Old Stocks Inn 0.1 km away
- The Kings Arms, Stow 0.1 km away
- Red Rag Gallery 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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St Edward's Church, Stow-on-the-Wold
Sight · Church · Stow-on-the-Wold
St Edward's is Stow-on-the-Wold's Grade I parish church, beside the Market Square, with a fifteenth-century tower seen across the wold and a north door framed by two yews. Royalist prisoners were held inside after the battle of 1646. Open daily.
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Market cross, Stow-on-the-Wold
Sight · Monument · Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow's market cross stands in the southern half of the Market Square: a medieval calvary and socket stone, probably of the fourteenth century, carrying a shaft and lantern head restored in 1878 and again in 1995, when its four carved panels were restored. Grade II and scheduled.
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Pineapple Spa, Lower Swell
Sight · Historic building · Stow-on-the-Wold
The Pineapple Spa is a row of cottages beside the B4068 between Lower Swell and Stow-on-the-Wold that began as a spa over a mineral spring found in 1807, with a front in the Indian style of Sezincote and a stone door hood crowned by a pineapple. Grade II*; private.
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St Mary's Church, Lower Swell
Sight · Church · Stow-on-the-Wold
St Mary's at Lower Swell, a mile west of Stow, is two churches in one: a twelfth-century nave and chancel, now the south aisle and chapel, beside a larger church of 1852. Its Norman doorway has a Tree of Life tympanum and its old chancel arch rare carvings. Grade II*.