Family run, friendly cafe.
Situated in the heart of beautiful Dawlish, overlooking the iconic lawn where the black swans in Dawlish live on the stream and have been a major tourist attraction for decades, being used as the town’s emblem.
John’s offers outside covers for 29 with a further 30 inside covers. We are a family run café, that prides ourselves on offering and sourcing high quality local ingredients and exceptionally welcoming friendly customer service to all of our customers.
In the Summer we open from 08.00, 7 days a week with our menu consisting of delicious, freshly cooked breakfasts, lunches, afternoons teas, freshly baked homemade cakes on the premises and much more at very reasonable prices. We are also fully licenced.
Here at John’s we look forward to welcoming everyone, young, old and inbetween, and our furry friends are also welcome inside. We are fully disabled accessible with a disabled toilet and baby changing facilities.
We are fully committed to supporting local farmers, producers and suppliers here in the South West and enjoy supporting all of the local events and activities.
What we do
Our Breakfasts
If we have a reputation for anything, its our breakfasts. Rated on Tripadvisor as number 1 in Dawlish.
Smooth locally roasted coffee
Voyager Coffee based in Buckfastleigh, Devon blends coffee from Brazil, Colombia & Peru for a superb coffee called “Road Trip”
Locally sourced ingredients
We actively use locally sourced ingredients where possible leading us to win Gold for the two years running from Taste of the West.
Events
Friendly customer service
We will go that extra mile with a smile on our faces. We pride ourselves in being friendly and very customer focused.
Our business in numbers
Numbers up to date as of 28th of March 2024.
What our customers think
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Lovely Breakfast - Visited a couple of times while on holiday set us up on the last day for our long drive home. They were extremely busy but you don`t mind waiting for... read more quality. spoke with John was greeted like an old friend can`t wait to return in 2025.
22nd September 2024 -
Beautiful food - Been to Dawlish many years, this year on arriving went to John's when I looked up where to eat breakfast in Dawlish what a find the breakfast was value for... read more money, beautifully cooked, service was brilliant nothing to much trouble for the staff, definitely recommend it 10 out of 10
21st September 2024 -
Wonderful Home cooked English Cuisine in Dawlish - Excellent cooked breakfast served with lashings of hot coffee and hot chocolate. Every cooked breakfast item was perfect. Wholesome food, generous portions. Very friendly helpful staff. Definitely worth visiting. Iseal... read more location next to the green and by the sea.
21st July 2024 -
Highly recommended. - Delicious food, great atmosphere, courteous and friendly staff.
I loved the local produce board to see where the ingredients are sourced. Manager apologised that food might be a while, it... read more was only 15 minutes and the cafe was packed.
15th July 2024 -
Friendly service and delicious food - We really enjoyed our visit to John's. It was busy inside, but we managed to get a table straight away. We visited for lunch and had a cheese and ham... read more panini and chicken strips, chips and beans. Both meals were brought out very quickly, especially when considering how busy it was. We both enjoyed our meals. The staff were very friendly and chatty. We would definitely return if we are in Dawlish again!
28th June 2024 -
Amazing food and Staff - Amazing place for food. Our 8 year old grandson and us agreed the best sausage we had eaten. Service & friendliness first class. Would highly recommend. So good went 2... read more days in a row
20th June 2024 -
Great locally sourced breakfast - My family and I called into John's for a hearty breakfast before we headed home after a weeks holiday. We had a warm welcome on entering, which was nice. The... read more menu offer a full range of options, but we opted for the full breakfast, it's great to see a map on the wall that shows the locations of where all their food suppliers are, which is mainly all very close. The food itself tasted great and cooked to order, the service was quick, efficient and very good, nothing was too much trouble and the staff checked a intervals to make sure we had everything we needed. Seating both inside and out dependant on the weather and parking on the street right outside if you're lucky. We'll worth a visit.
9th June 2024 -
Best Breakfast in Dawlish - What a fantastic little gem of a place to eat in Dawlish.
We first found John's Cafe 2 years ago and head straight for there for our breakfast.
... read more The place is so clean and the food is superb. The staff can not do enough for you and so polite and cheerful.
Like I said the staff go out their way to help you even makeing breakfast etc that may differ to the menu. I wanted bacon, egg, tinned tomatos and mushrooms on a bap, it was not on the menu but they did it.
We have just came back from 7 days holiday at Dawlish, and 7 fantastic breakfasts at Johns.
Thank you all, see you all in October.
25th May 2024 -
Highly recommen - We was here with my family for some food before we travelled home after our lovely holiday in dawlish, the food was very very nice the service was excellent and... read more we all throughly enjoyed even our dog Alfie after his treat .. I would highly recommend this place
18th May 2024