Cafes and Restaurants in Mevagissey
Mevagissey has an excellent spread of cafes and restaurants beyond its pubs — from She Sells' harbourfront crepes and galettes, to the Teacup Tearoom's award-winning cream teas, to Salamander's locally caught seafood. Here's a proper look at where to eat in the village.
She Sells
If there's one cafe in Mevagissey that visitors talk about again and again, it's She Sells, right on East Quay overlooking the harbour. It's known for genuinely excellent French crepes and galettes, alongside bagels, pasties, artisan cakes, Treleavens ice cream, and Origin coffee — with the flat white regularly singled out as one of the best in Cornwall. It's properly dog-friendly, with both indoor and outdoor seating looking straight out over the boats, and it takes dietary needs seriously — vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free options run right across the menu, not as an afterthought. Whether it's a breakfast crepe to start the day or a sundae to finish it, this is the cafe most people end up returning to more than once during a stay.
Teacup Tearoom
A multi-award-winning, quintessentially English tea room, with over fifty types of tea and infusion on offer, including some locally grown. Proper traditional cream teas, warmed scones if you like them that way, and a reputation for doing the classics properly rather than reinventing them.
Lighthouse Cafe
Known for its freshly made bakes, with a Cornish cream tea that regularly gets singled out as the highlight of the menu — a good, unpretentious stop for something sweet.
Kelly's Cornish Ice Cream
A proper harbourside ice cream shop, with a wide range of flavours and real attention paid to gluten-free options and allergen handling — a good stop on a warm afternoon by the water.
The Shack at Portmellon
Just along the beach from She Sells, The Shack at Portmellon sits right in the car park next to us at The Rising Sun — a genuinely lovely little beachside cafe run by Kirsty and her team, with a terrace looking straight out over Portmellon cove. It's known for award-winning Cornish pasties, giant scotch eggs, and proper pork pies, alongside a full hot drinks menu, thick hot chocolates, and fresh cakes — plus a good range of vegan options including pasties, tarts, and salads. There's a small on-site shop for local produce too, and a produce market in the car park on the first Sunday of the month through the summer. It runs seasonally, so it's a daytime spot rather than an evening one — well worth timing a visit around.
As it happens, if you're in Portmellon of an evening once The Shack has shut up for the day, we've recently started serving our sharing plates menu here at The Rising Sun — , so there's now a good option to carry you from Kirsty's daytime menu through into the evening without leaving the cove.
Choosing between them
If you want the classic Mevagissey cafe experience — harbour views, crepes, and a menu that takes dietary needs seriously — She Sells is the one most people head for first. For a more traditional afternoon tea, Teacup Tearoom or Lighthouse Cafe are both excellent. Out at Portmellon specifically, The Shack is the daytime beachside option for snacks, with The Rising Sun picking up in the lunch and evenings with our sharing plates and pizza’s
Between the cafes here and the pubs and restaurants covered separately, Mevagissey and Portmellon between them offer a genuinely varied spread of places to eat — well beyond what you'd expect from a village this size.
