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MamGu's Kitchen, St Davids
St Davids Cathedral Refectory, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, St Davids, SA62 6PE
Welsh cake bakers turned café — MamGu's Kitchen fills the fourteenth-century Cathedral Refectory in St Davids with rarebit, cawl, crempogs and a dozen kinds of Welsh cake.
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MamGu started as a Welsh cake business and still makes them by hand and the thousand at its St Davids bakery - traditional ones and their alternative 'welsh cakes with a twist' flavours alongside - but the café is what most visitors meet. Since 2024 that has been the Refectory beside St Davids Cathedral, a Grade II listed fourteenth-century room with a mezzanine upstairs; the original Solva café closed when it moved. A second café sits on the harbour wall in Saundersfoot.
The menu is what they champion as Welsh soul food: Welsh rarebit made with local ale and Welsh cheese, homemade cawl, stacks of crempogs (the Welsh pancake, sweet or savoury), loaded savoury Welsh cakes, and their viral Welsh cake churros for pudding. Breakfast runs until 11.30, lunch until three; a rarebit was £10.50 and a cream tea £5.80 when we checked (September 2026), with a children's menu around a fiver. The kitchen makes a point of local sourcing and daily specials, so the printed menu is short.
Open daily, 9.30 to 4.00, no bookings — walk in. Dogs are welcome in both cafés. There's a wheelchair lift at the St Davids entrance (not for motorised scooters) and accessible toilets in the cathedral cloister by the cafe entrance. The company is proudly B Corp certified.
Best for
Lunch after the cathedral; a proper Welsh breakfast; picking up a box of Welsh cakes for the cottage.
Why this one might suit you
Dogs are welcome, there's somewhere to sit outside, it's set up for families and it opens on Sundays.
Assembled from what we can evidence — hygiene ratings, measured distances and the venue's own listed details — not from a visit. We haven't eaten here, and we don't pretend to have.
MamGu's Kitchen, St Davids in pictures
Photographs supplied by the owner.
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Details
- Address
- St Davids Cathedral Refectory, St Davids, Pembrokeshire, St Davids, SA62 6PE
- Phone
- +44 1437 454369
- Website
- mamguwelshcakes.com
- Food
- cafe, light bites, cake
- Step-free access
- No
- Dogs
- Welcome (on record)
- Opening hours
- Monday - 9:30am till 4:00pm Tuesday - 9:30am till 4:00pm Wednesday - 9:30am till 4:00pm Thursday - 9:30am till 4:00pm Friday - 9:30am till 4:00pm Saturday - 9:30am till 4:00pm Sunday - 9:30am till 4:00pm Opening hours change seasonally
Hours change with the season, so check before you go.
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Nearby
St Davids Cathedral & Bishop's Palace
AttractionWales's holiest site, hidden in its hollow — 12th-century nave, medieval ceiling, and the great ruined palace beside it.
The Treasury exhibition inside St Davids Cathedral — centuries of the cathedral's silver, vestments and story, included in a cathedral visit.
Step-free access
Public toilets
Public toiletsSt Davids
Step-free accessFree
Photo: Robert Edwards (CC BY-SA 2.0)The Bishop's Palace, St Davids
Historic siteThe vast ruined palace beside St Davids Cathedral — arcaded parapets and a great hall built for medieval princes of the church; Cadw site, entry charged, cathedral free next door.
- Opening hours
- Mar-Jun: Mo–Su 09:30–17:00 · Jul-Aug: Mo–Su 09:30–18:00
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Details checked with the owner on 10/09/2026. Things change — please tell us if something here is wrong.