Glorious Art Cafe — Restaurant in Exeter

'The' Bohemian cafe and (part) gallery in Exeter. If you like quirky, but cool then this is for you.

From the orange and turquoise walls to the gold cherub, whippet statue, and textile artwork (made by owner Rosy) Glorious is a great place for a coffee, tea or sweet snack if you are in the Fore Street alternative quarter of exeter.

Staff are all friendly & personable and even at maximum covers you never feel things are stressed or rushed. Fare is all quality and served as you would expect on bright coloured crockery. The baby silver spoons just reinforce the sense of individuality.

The top floor is often used as a gallery for local art or projects. But even if no one is exhibiting its always worth a look on the first floor at the textile art, especially the full size grandfather clock.

The small walled courtyard is a calm oasis on a busy summers day.

Obviously appealing to local uni students, but don't be put off as the clientele is eclectic and it never feels like a student dive.

All in all a cool place to check out for a relaxed coffee if you're in exeter...

Coffee here is nice, with a good variety of food. Drinks are served quickly.

Unfortunately the staff working here don't appreciate that their conversations are overheard by customers. We were having coffee on the afternoon of 25th March and the two girls working here spent the hour we were there talking about their current relationship woes. Worse than this, they berated customers after they left including one guy they spend about fifteen minutes talking about quite negatively. God knows what they said about us when we left! Or about anyone else who orders there...

I don't get why it would ever be OK to talk about customers in any way, especially when there are still customers inside the cafe. Either it's absolute self absorbed ignorance, or just absolute rudeness. Because of the bad vibes, won't...

Me, my fiancée and sister were looking forward to coming here again, as we had a wonderful experience 2 years before. We were planning visit it again today 3/6/2024 at 10. We turned up just after 10,it wasn’t open. We walked around town for a bit came back about 10.15 it still wasn’t and we a lady behind the counter just standing there, she didn’t acknowledge us. It would have been nice if she let us and let us know that she apologised and said she was running and just setting up. We would...