Elizabeths Tea And Coffee Shop

This has to be the best restaurant in Swanage. There are no end of fish chips and burger places in Swanage but if you want a high quality meal, home cooked with excellent ingredients and a feeling of ‘class’ then this is the place for you. The food is reasonably priced too and cook by the owner. Book a table to avoid disappointment and the house specialty is the local Purbeck pie. An absolute gem.

Called in whilst on holiday and greeted by a friendly waitress. Ordered tea and sandwiches (my husbands was a toastie). Both arrived with small side salad garnish. Plenty of filling though. Tea was hot. Variety of teas to choose from and 2 deserts strawberry cheese cake and Banoffe pie. Specials board was oozing with interest but as we were limited on time hence the snack lunch but I know we will return as they looked amazing. Food cooked to order so have patience and enjoy. Now takes contactless card payments so no reason not to visit this clean appealing friendly cafe. Well done team

We stumbled across this restaurant on a Saturday evening and were pleasantly surprised. We had lamb tangine, spaghetti bolognese and rump steak. All of the meals were cooked very well by the owners and were very tasty. During our 7 night stay in Swanage, this was by far the best dining experience. Well worth visiting, but probably best to book in advance.

Delicious home-cooked food, very friendly welcoming staff made our evening really enjoyable..being coeliac it was lovely to have a good choice of starters, main course and desserts...the gluten free lemon meringue pie was amazing!!

We were looking for an evening meal in Swanage on a Saturday evening . The owner of our B&B was gloomy about our chances of finding anywhere good as we had not already booked. We wandered into town and stood outside of Elizabeth’s cafe reading the menu. We were hesitant as it is obviously a cafe venue however they do evening meals until 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays and are licensed for alcohol . Some locals passing by recommended the food to us so we entered. The food and service were excellent. The meals were a good restaurant standard and the menu was interesting. The food is obviously cooked to order and therefore the service was an little slow but was well worth waiting for. I would recommend this place. Everything was delicious.