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The Baking Bird

The Baking Bird
Cafe and coffee shop in Coombe Hill
Coombe Hill Farmshop, Coombe Hill, Gloucestershire, GL19 4BH
Opening hours: 9:00 - 14:00 (Fri / Sat), 10:00 - 13:00 (Sun), closed (Mon - Thu)
 Vegetarian  Vegan  Gluten Free  Open Sunday
coffee

Great coffee and loose leaf tea!

taste

With daily specials it's hard to pick a favourite. However the lemon & blueberry we recently tasted was one of my favourite cakes of all time, certainly worthy of a 5 star rating!

selection

It's all about the sweet treats and coffee here, a lovely range of homemade cakes and tray-bakes changing by the day

value

Cappuccino (£2.70), tea (£2.00), cakes (£3.25), tray bakes & cookies (£2.75), pastries (from £2.00), hot chocolate (£3.20)

storage

Situated next to Coombe Hill Farmshop, there’s plenty of space for bikes around their 60’s Bedford van located undercover in a former barn

groups

There’s undercover seating in the barn located next to the vintage Bedford van, alongside seating directly beside the pop-up bakery. It’s the perfect quick pitstop for cycling groups heading between Tewkesbury, Gloucester and the surrounding areas

location

Located roughly equidistance between the cathedral city of Gloucester and historic medieval town of Tewkesbury, we’re also just a stones throw from the Malvern Hills and west of the Cotswolds. Located on the A38 the road does get busy so try to avoid cycling on the road until you need to, to get your caffeine fix

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Gloucestershire

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The Baking Bird coffee van at Coombe Hill in Gloucestershire
Croissant and Pastel de Nata at The Baking Bird coffee van at Coombe Hill Farmshop
Pastry selection at The Baking Bird coffee van at Coombe Hill Farmshop
Cake selection at The Baking Bird coffee van at Coombe Hill Farmshop
Lemon & blueberry cake and cappuccino at The Baking Bird coffee van at Coombe Hill Farmshop
Seating at the Baking Bird coffee van at Coombe Hill Farmshop
Millionaire shortbread and Biscoff cookies at The Baking Bird coffee van at Coombe Hill Farmshop
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Served up from their vintage 1960s Bedford CA van is a family-run mobile cakery boasting delicious homemade cakes, pastries, gourmet coffee and loose leaf teas. Cakes are baked fresh each day and certainly some of the best we’ve tasted in Gloucestershire – their lemon & blueberry cake is fabulous!

During our last visit cakes and pastries included a lemon & blueberry cake, pastel de nata (Portuguese egg custard tart), pan au chocolat, almond croissant, double chocolate brownies, low-gluten millionaire flapjack and chunky Biscoff cookie.

Situated within the ground of Coombe Hill Farmshop there’s plenty of seating undercover in the nearby barn for groups of all sizes and space for bikes. It’s the perfect quick pitstop located roughly equidistance between the cathedral city of Gloucester and historic medieval town of Tewkesbury on the busy A38 (use the quiet roads nearby if you can).

Last visited in March 2024

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