Our story

Megan and Tomasz, since 2016.

A café on the corner where Megan’s grandmother used to sell laverbread, and a baker who came for a summer and stayed.

Inside the café with wooden tables, a sage counter and raspberry cushions on the window bench

Megan Watkins

Owner, front of house

Megan grew up above a shop on Frogmore Street and spent Saturdays in the market hall with her grandmother, who sold laverbread and cockles. She worked twenty years in hotel kitchens and front of house in Cardiff and Bath before coming home and taking on the empty corner of Cross Street in 2016.

She runs the floor, writes the soup board and takes every private hire booking herself. Her rule is that nobody waits more than a minute to be noticed, even if they have to wait longer for a table.

Tomasz Nowak

Baker

Tomasz trained as a pastry cook in Kraków and came to Wales for a summer in 2015. He met Megan when he was baking for a hotel in the Brecon Beacons and joined the café the year it opened.

He starts at six, bakes everything on the counter, the bread and the whole-cake orders, and has learned to make Welsh cakes on a bakestone better than most people born here. His poppy seed cake appears on the counter about once a month, without warning.

2,016opened on the corner of Cross Street
41covers inside, eight more outside
9cakes on the counter most days
4.8average from 386 reviews

Behind the counter

What we hold ourselves to.

Food hygiene

Our rating is displayed in the window and on the Food Standards Agency website. (Left for the owner to fill in on this demonstration site.)

Allergens

An allergen sheet for every dish. Our kitchen handles all 14 major allergens, so we tell you honestly what we cannot promise.

Local first

Butcher in the market hall, eggs from Llanvihangel Crucorney, coffee from Crickhowell, honey from the Blorenge.

Nothing wasted

Cakes half price at four, then to the food bank on Thursdays; coffee grounds go to the allotments on Park Road.

Come in. There is usually a table, and always cake.

Breakfast until 11:30, lunch until the kitchen closes, cakes and coffee all day, Tuesday to Sunday. Book for six or more, order a whole cake for collection, or hire the café after hours.

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