Eat and drink · Stroud
Woodruffs
A café on Stroud's High Street for brunch, lunch, coffee and cake, open every day, with dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Car-free
Brunch and lunch on the High Street, then coffee and cake into the afternoon, and dogs can come too.
- Good: Dogs welcome downstairs, with water and biscuits by the door
- Good: Open every day, a few minutes' walk from Stroud station
- Good: Children's room upstairs with toys and books, and highchairs
- Worth knowing: Food stops at 2.30pm (2pm on Sundays)
- Worth knowing: Little room for wheelchairs, and the toilet is too narrow for one
- Worth knowing: Book by email, not phone; Saturdays from 10.30am to 2pm are busiest
About
Woodruffs at 24 High Street, Stroud, is a café serving breakfast, brunch and lunch, then coffee and cake into the afternoon. It has traded in the town since 1998 and calls itself Britain's first totally organic café; it still uses organic produce unless that is impractical, and seasonal ingredients grown locally as far as it can.
The menu changes with the seasons and runs from eggs with avocado to hash with barbecue beans and Korean-style tofu with rice. There are vegan and gluten-free cakes, plant milks for a small extra charge, and wine, beer and cider as well as coffee and tea. Whole cakes can be ordered by email in advance.
The café has tables downstairs, upstairs and outside on the pedestrianised High Street. Dogs are welcome, ideally downstairs, and upstairs there is a children's room with toys and books. Groups of eight to ten can sit together upstairs.
It opens Monday to Saturday from 8am to 5pm and on Sundays from 9.30am to 3pm. Food is served until 2.30pm (2pm on Sundays). Tables are not essential, but the café suggests an email the day before to be sure of one, above all for Saturday lunch. It is a few minutes' walk from Stroud station.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 08:00
| Mon | Opening | Food served |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 08:00 to 17:00 | 08:00 to 14:30 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 17:00 | 08:00 to 14:30 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 17:00 | 08:00 to 14:30 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 17:00 | 08:00 to 14:30 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 17:00 | 08:00 to 14:30 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 17:00 | 08:00 to 14:30 |
| Sunday | 09:30 to 15:00 | 09:30 to 14:00 |
Food served: The FAQ page says food stops at 2.45pm; the home page says 2.30pm.
Food until 2.30pm (2pm on Sundays), then coffee and cake until closing.
The details
- Food
- Café food
- Serving
- Breakfast · Brunch · Lunch
- Dietary
- Vegan dishes · Gluten-free dishes
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Wi-Fi
- History
- Opened in 1998 as an organic café
- Parking
- No parking at the café, on a pedestrianised street. Church Street and Parliament Street car parks are about two minutes away; both are free on Sundays.
- Without a car
- Stroud station is a few minutes' walk.
Photos
A Woodruffs toast 
The café on the High Street 
A berry smoothie
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Stroud Farmers' Market 0.1 km away
- Salt Bakehouse 0.3 km away
- Cotswold Canals Trust boat trips, Stroud 0.5 km away
- Premier Inn Stroud 0.6 km away
Sights nearby
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All Saints' Church, Uplands, Stroud
Sight · Church · Stroud
Temple Moore's Grade I church on the hillside at Uplands, above Stroud: built 1907 to 1910 and finished by Leslie Moore in 1932, with a tiled broach spire uncommon in Gloucestershire, a cool ashlar interior and oak stalls made by the Arts and Crafts cabinetmaker Peter Waals.
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Old Town Hall, Stroud
Sight · Historic building · Stroud
Stroud's market house of the 1590s in the Shambles beside St Laurence's, with an eight-light oriel on scrolled brackets, lion-mask arches and Victorian battlemented stair towers. Grade II*; seen from the market place.
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River Frome, Stroud
Sight · River · Stroud
The River Frome runs along the bottom of Stroud, where four streams join it to make the town's five valleys. It drove the mills of the Stroud cloth trade, and today a riverside path through Frome Banks and the canal towpath follow it below the town.
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St Laurence's Church, Stroud
Sight · Church · Stroud
Stroud's parish church, beside the Shambles: a fourteenth-century tower and spire with a High Victorian church of 1866 to 1868 behind it, carved by Joshua Wall, with a Weatherley rood screen, a screen by Peter Waals and about 80 brass plates on its north wall.