Charlbury Deli & Cafe

Our Cafe: made for Charlbury

We’ve designed our cafe for the widely differing tastes of Charlbury people and our visitors. Maybe it’s a builder who wants a take-away coffee, a business wanting a catered lunch for the office, a family needing nibbles for after a funeral or a local organisation needing a few hours on our free wifi to research a grant submission.
Each of our thousand customers a week needs something different from us.

Here’s our cafe menu:.

Our bread and cakes: made locally

We’re almost as famous for Lynne’s home-made cakes as for the best coffee in the Cotswolds. And this Christmas, she’ll be baking all month.
For many of our customers, though, our sourdough bread from Mark’s Cotswold Bakery is beginning to rival Lynne’s cakes. His fruitloaf (at present: weekends only) is fast catching up with his sourdough as well.
This Christmas, we’ll be adding fabulous panettone, gluten-free mince pies and a host of seasonal scrumptiousness as well

The heart of any Deli is its Deli counter.

Where we make our famous sandwiches, brew our coffee, slice our cooked meat and help you choose from the best-kept cheese in the Cotswolds. And this Christmas, we’ll be having some real treats for you

This Christmas, we’ll be completely transforming our range of beer, wine and spirits.

Charlbury Deli: made locally

The Charlbury Deli is owned by about 120 local shareholders. To get in touch, see our Visit Us page

Originally the town’s Good Food Shop (back when it took a 7-mile drive to buy a packet of muesli), we moved in 2017 into a former bank. And overnight became the hub of a busy village.

We sell the best coffee in the Cotswolds – brewed in Charlbury from beans roasted by Oxford’s Missing Bean – who help train our staff.

We’ve got separate rooms, so our younger customers can drink their babyccini and raid our toybox away from their elders having meetings or using our free wifi to write their dissertations or their TED presentations. Or try our walled garden (designed with help from Charlbury’s Andrew Lawson) or relax on the pavement, opposite the town’s delightful Corner House. The town’s thriving art community provides ever-changing exhibitions of their paintings and prints on our walls – and original pottery.

We also sell the best home-baked cakes in the Cotswolds: most mornings, our shop manager, Lynne Stubbles, is up at 4.30 baking cakes. Like the team at our main sourdough bread supplier, Mark’s Cotswold Bakery, just outside Chipping Norton.

Overall, about 80% of what we sell comes from Oxfordshire suppliers: we’re fortunate to have some fabulous local food manufacturers on our doorstep. British isn’t always best of course – so Standlake’s Oxford Wine Co finds us really distinctive wine, and our neighbours swear by our delicious loose Belgian chocolates.

But if you’re local, supply good food or drink and want to join us, just send one of us an email at news@charlburydeli.cafe. We can’t promise we’ll be able to do business with you. But we’d be disappointed if we couldn’t.