Café restaurants in Wales
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Chelsea Café
Golden yellow tablecloths and dark red banquettes against wood-panelled walls and a red-brick chimney breast make for a snug dining room at this popular restaurant. Check the blackboard specials for filo-pastry parcels filled with prawns, squat lobster tails, cockles and laver bread, and roast loin of lamb with a smoked bacon, date and rosemary jus.
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Consti Café
On Constitution Hill, the erstwhile Victorian tearooms have been rebuilt in line with environmental considerations and the resulting Consti Café is a café by day and licensed steakhouse three nights per week. It also features displays of the wildlife you can spot on a, ahem, constitutional around the hill.
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Quarry Wholefood Café
Run by the same people that manage the CAT, this woody, gentle-paced place has delicious, wholesome vegetarian lunch specials, using mostly organic ingredients. It's also fantastically baby friendly with organic baby food on the menu, and changing facilities. The only downside to its popularity? Queuing for a table.
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Press Room
An arty café that is great for a coffee stop and lunches, this place has real South American coffee, funky artworks on the walls, a menu of tasty café fare and a garden area for alfresco elevenses. It's just by the entrance to the castle and also serves evening meals Thursday to Saturday.
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Refectory at St David's
Part of the ongoing restoration of the cathedral cloister, this stylish modern café has a lunch menu with a choice of sandwiches and hot dishes (at least two vegetarian dishes), as well as excellent coffee and home-baking. Grab a table upstairs with a view of the cloister and garden.
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Papillon
An excellent deli-cum-café with a Mediterranean motif and an ethical policy of donating tips to international aid projects, this is Bangor's best place to eat by far. Aside from tapas, special deals include an Express set lunch and all-you-can-eat Italian night on Wednesdays.
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Plas Derwen
A very modern and airy café serving lunches and light meals, plus a full afternoon tea (£6.50). A few tables overlook the main street for an al fresco morning coffee and the owners have introduced a couple of modern, tasteful rooms upstairs for B&B (rooms £25).
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Pilgrims Tearooms
The café in the cathedral grounds is housed in a tithe barn-style building, with outdoor tables beside a herb garden. The menu includes home-baked bread, salads, jacket potatoes and daily specials, and a Sunday lunch of roast lamb, beef or chicken.
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Dylan's Books'n'Bites
Armchairs and tables scattered among the bookshelves in the Dylan Thomas Centre bookshop make an agreeable spot for a coffee and a read. The lunch menu includes home-made soup and sandwiches, plus dishes from the more formal restaurant upstairs.
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Café Macsen
A simple but airy café with marble tables, it offers the stock-in-trade all-day breakfasts and sandwiches, as well as some reliable mains. While the food may be simple, the place is cleaner and friendlier than other cafés in the block.
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Pebbles Yard Espresso Bar
A cute little space, with butter-yellow walls, worn pine floors and basketwork chairs, this café is the place to read the papers over a cappuccino, or tuck into cakes and cream teas. Art on the walls, and cool tunes on the sound system.
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No 25 Cafè
An appealing café with marble tables and bentwood chairs, the No 25 uses home-baked bread and fresh local produce to create delicious sandwiches, along with good coffee, home-made soup and cakes. It has wi-fi access, too.
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Honey Pots Ceramic Café
Excellent little café with an artistic motif: upstairs you can paint your own pot over coffee, plus the cost of the pottery - excellent for families. There are also hand-painted pots for sale.
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Mariner
A very small BYO eatery by the harbour, the Mariner is a café by day and a restaurant specialising in fresh fish by night. The tables outside are an attractive feature on sunny evenings.
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Dolgellau Coffee Shop & Restaurant
No-frills toasties, breakfasts and a surprisingly large menu of vegetarian options are on offer at this big café-style place. It's nothing fancy, but family friendly for kids.
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Greenhouse Café
A quirky little place with bare floorboards and mauve walls, this restaurant cooks up imaginative and adventurous vegetarian and vegan dishes accompanied by an excellent wine list.
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Coffee #1
Wales' answer to Starbucks is a cosy nook of dark wood, brown leather and chilled music, and offers an extensive menu of organic and Fairtrade espresso, cappuccino and latte.
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Wedges Coffee House
This is a cosy family coffee house, serving excellent home-cooked soups, curries and vegetarian dishes. In summer, the tables spill out into a sunny garden at the back.
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Tower Coffee House
An airy café with great views across the estuary to Deganwy. Downstairs there's a rather incongruous dungeon-style area - watch out for the shrunken head.
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Ottakar's
The best bookshop in town has a great little café upstairs serving fair-trade coffee, a perfect complement to a browse through the nearby travel section.
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Maengwyn Café
Straightforward dishes and décor are the staples of this locals' café. It's simple fare at budget prices, but accordingly very low on frills.
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Grapevine
A no-frills spot with a sun terrace out deck, this welcoming locals' place offers snack lunches, traditional mains and a kid's menu for families.
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Y Tebot Bach
The nicest of the many tearooms around the castle, this tiny place for a light bite has a cosy, living-room feel, homemade cakes and sandwiches.
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Caffi'r Castell
A deservedly busy little corner café, with sunny outdoor tables in summer, the Castell does good coffees, cakes and hot snacks.
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Moulin Rouge Café
A simple café for drinks and snacks, plus internet access - spend around £3 and get 20 minutes of free internet access.
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