Eleven tea rooms — four in St Peter Port, the rest scattered across six parishes. Seven do cakes and patisserie, six serve afternoon tea, five open for breakfast and lunch. The oldest, Portelet Kiosk, has been run by the Dodds for eighteen seasons; the newest, The Swallows, reopened in July 2025 in the gardens of Les Cotils. —
St Martin·Café·Est. 2023
Historic Moulin Huet Tea Room site, frequented by Pierre-Auguste Renoir during his 1883 visit and also by Victor Hugo. Revived in late summer 2023 by Natalia Silvester after being closed for an extended period.
St Peter Port·Café·Est. 2025
Part of Les Cotils Hotel and Conference Centre
Formerly Les Cotils Coffee Shop; renovated by C.A. Duquemin and reopened as The Swallows on 7 July 2025 under new management
St Peter Port
✦Oldest in this niche
Fishy Tales Tea Room is a traditional Guernsey kiosk at the top of the Model Yacht Pond, adjacent to the Guernsey Yacht Club. It offers light bites and refreshments, including buttered Guernsey gâche, scones and Guernsey Dairy ice cream, alongside tea and coffee. Graham Garland…
Forest·Restaurant
Le Gouffre is a cliff-top cafe and restaurant in Forest parish, on Guernsey's south coast cliff walk. Head chef Jay Ellis — trained at the HM Royal Navy culinary school and under Michelin-starred chef Hendrick Ritzen — serves a fresh, seasonal, locally sourced menu. Open Tuesday…
St Peter Port·Café
Part of Hand Picked Hotels
The Valley Tea Rooms is a café set within Fermain Valley Hotel, St Peter Port, offering traditional afternoon tea, homemade cakes and biscuits, and loose-leaf teas with views over the hotel grounds and Fermain Bay. Part of the Hand Picked Hotels group, it welcomes all ages…
Torteval·Café·Est. 2005
Run by John Dodd and his team for approximately 18 years; the most south-westerly kiosk on the island
St Peter Port·Restaurant
Originally opened as The Patisserie at Moores, relaunched as The Hideaway in 2011, renamed Anni's Hideaway in 2023 in loving memory of Anni Bichard (née Sendlhofer), an Austrian-born pastry chef from Bad Hofgastein who was at the helm when the restaurant first opened
View full profile →St Saviour·Café
Originally operated as Mint Brasserie & Tea Room, then renamed to Patois Brasserie under chef Dieter Hurst, now trading as Patois Tea Room under owner Anthony Hobson
Vale·Takeaway
Family-run for approximately 38 years; rebranded as Surfside in 2019; Elke Schimek took over after her step-parents ran it for 30 years
Castel
Cobo Tea Room is an independent tea room in Castel, run by Camille and Pham. It serves freshly made cakes and scones with homemade jam and Guernsey cream, alongside homemade sausage rolls, Guernsey beef lasagne, and Guernsey bean jar slow-cooked for 18 hours. Gluten-free…
Alderney·Est. 2016
The Old Tea Room is a three-bedroom self-catering townhouse on Alderney that sleeps five, run by owner-hosts Janine and Charlie Gauvain. First offered as a holiday let in April 2016, the property has a kitchen in a former German bunker at the rear of the house. It holds a…