Yallah Cafe St Ives — Restaurant in England

Reviewing both as a roastery and the St Ives site: The St Ives site is a firm favourite and I've invariably attended whenever I've been in the area since 2016. Their food menu has expanded over the years and you can get a great lunch or a quiet sit with a drink in a remarkably tranquil spot despite being right on the harbourfront of St Ives. This spot first introduced me to specialty coffee proper and I still recall the Burundi filter coffee I had the first time I attended. An excellent visit all around.

As to the online shop and roastery, the online offer is as good as any comparable specialty roaster on the market, especially in terms of their commitments to sustainability, transparency, and supply chains and logistics. In respect of the coffee itself, I've consistently found Yallah to offer light roast beans better than any other roaster I've tried in terms of balance, flavour, and consistency. Recently, I've brewed Yallah's Guatemala Tinamit bean and found it excellent. Where many Guatemalan beans have a red fruits profile which can be quite overbearing and sometimes verge on the unpleasant in the wrong hands, I have found Yallah's offer to be balanced with a full body and light sweet aftertaste while retaining all the fruitiness one might expect without drowning other flavours. I think this is one example of Yallah's excellent offer and marks them as superior among their peers in the highly competitive modern specialty...

The food wasn´t very good, it was pretty much thrown together with the same pre-prepared basic five ingredients (boiled eggs, cherry tomatoes, potatoes, cheese and beetroot). (We realised this is because there isn't actually a kitchen.) Even so, it took ages to arrive.

The place has lovely views of the harbour, the cakes looked good and the waitress was nice, but at 33 quid for a grilled sandwich and a scrambled mixture of the above ingredients, one flapjack, (?) and two pretty dire coffees, we felt ripped off, especially as the day before, we paid less than this for amazing quality local salmon, mackerel pate and pilchards at Crabby´s Shack in Marazion.

Maybe we have a different idea about what constitutes good coffee because we drink Illy or Caracas coffee pretty much every day, but we are surprised at ´the best coffee...

This place has become our go-to cafe for work, socialising, breakfast and brunch, and even the solo trips into town that just need that little something extra! The food is refined and very very tasty, with an ever-changing specials board full of local ingredients. The bakes and cakes on offer are superb, from homemade malt loaf which will have a place in my heart forever (pls bring it back!) to cookies and banana bread, it’s all excellent. Most excellent of all though is the coffee and the view! Yallah is known for its coffee and it’s best served fresh. That paired with the gorgeous view of the harbour and bustling yet warm community vibe the place has, I genuinely cannot think of a better spot to hangout!

The staff are superb and very friendly, and no doubt we will be seeing a lot of them the...