Eat and drink · Winchcombe
Café 21
A small café on Bull Lane, off North Street in Winchcombe, serving breakfast baps, homemade Homity pies, salads and daily specials to eat in or take away, open from 8am most days.
Walker-friendly
An early start for walkers on the Cotswold Way: breakfast from 8am, then homemade pies and salads to eat in or carry up to Belas Knap. It is a small room, so groups should email ahead.
- Good: Open from 8am, ahead of most of the town
- Good: Homemade Homity pies, salads and specials
- Good: Everything to eat in or take away
- Worth knowing: Closed on Tuesdays. Shuts at 1pm on Wednesdays
- Worth knowing: A small room: no phone number published, so email ahead for groups
About
Café 21 is a small café at 21 Bull Lane, just off North Street in Winchcombe. It is run by Philip, who managed William's of Winchcombe, the delicatessen on North Street, from March 2024 until it closed at the end of October 2025, and the cooking follows on from there: local suppliers where possible, plenty made on the premises and most of it able to go in a bag.
Breakfast is a bap, toast or a pastry, and there is an all-day breakfast granary roll. At lunch the counter has salads, among them a Greek salad and a bean and grain salad, homemade Homity pies, quiches, pasties, toasties, sandwiches, frittata and jacket potatoes, with hot specials such as fishcakes, macaroni cheese with bacon, a sweet potato and coconut curry and a Whitby smoked fish pie. The autumn menu changes with the season, and cakes and bakes come with the coffee.
It opens from 8am to 4pm on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, from 8am to 1pm on Wednesdays and from 10am to 4pm on Sundays, and is closed on Tuesdays. It is a small room, welcoming to walkers, dog owners and regulars alike, and everything can be taken away, which makes it a good stop before the climb to Belas Knap. Ready meals for two can be ordered 48 hours ahead, and the café also does event catering and a monthly themed supper club with The Wine Rooms.
Opening hours and season
| Monday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 13:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 16:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 16:00 |
Closed on Tuesdays. Ready meals to take home need 48 hours' notice.
The details
- Food
- Café food
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch
- Dietary
- Vegetarian dishes
- Booking a table
- Walk-ins only
Photos
Breakfast 
A salad from the counter 
The counter 
Homity pies
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