I should of trusted my gut feeling when I entered the shop, which is shabby, but I went ahead and ordered fudge for myself and 2 children. The shop assistant seemed a bit short with us when there was a slight hesitation when my children...also wanted to have a drink. I wouldn't normally write a review just for that, but when I tried my fudge later, it was awful, just like pure granulated sugar. The other fudge wasn't as bad but still very grainy. £12 for the pleasure. Very disappointing.More

Popped in on a whim, was a bit later on a Sunday afternoon. The gent who served us was great-really friendly and had the balance right of checking if we were ready to order etc without being over bearing. Nice little cafe with lovely food...and very reasonable pricing. Quirky surroundings. Would recommend!More

A very pleasant surprise, after visiting the Guildhall on a cold day in Lavenham, to find a small quirky cafe upstairs above a small sweet shop that had an interesting menu with some unusual food combinations for all dietary requirements at very reasonable prices. Non...dairy home made vegan ice 'cream' also available- i had the ninja ginger flavour. The chocolates also looked delicious and a number were vegan. Also had home made turkish delight. If you visit the cafe look out see the quirky Suffolk time clock.More

From the three cheese scone (stilton, gorgonzola, Shropshire blue) to the halloumi salad with smashed peanut brittle the menu is fantastic! We had the seafood chowder and avocado basil tomato muffins - delicious! The standout was the hot chocolate, perhaps the best we've had :)...Paul was an absolute pleasure, so friendly and professional!More

We had a lovely coffee and scones upstairs in the cafe. I had the 3 cheese hot scone which was delicious (I have never tried a scone like this before). Nice atmosphere upstairs with some cool jazz playing in the background. We bought some freshly...made in house sweets downstairs. The owner kindly gave my wife her selection of turkish delight sweets when he found out it was her birthday today. It was an all round good experience.More

Wow you need to make a visit here, cream tea is simply amazing, all home made x just look at all the home made chocolates, amazing customer services with total passion for everything they do x we will visit again for sure

I have had the privilege of going to sweetmeats on many occasions, there's always a warm welcome and the most incredible food served from what I think must be the smallest kitchen, with perfection, and precision, great flavours too There's something for everyone, even gluten...free, I can't praise the owner enough, And great prices too, There's also some great ice creams to try too Give it whirl I can assure you you won't be disappointedMore

I visited today with my daughter. Cake was excellent and went above and beyond to ensure all my dietary needs were met. Really friendly owner who took us through the history of his shop. Can’t wait to visit again.

Unfortunately the worst ice cream we have ever had in our lives. Admittedly, expectations were high. The enormous variety of exciting flavours offered, written on a board outside on a sunny April day, led us to believe that this was an expert purveyor of iced...goods. How wrong we were. We decided to get four different flavours between the two of us as we wanted to tickle our tastebuds in as many ways as possible within our budget of £8.40 i.e. the cost of two two-scoop waffle cones, and the serving lady kindly allowed me to have a small amount of one extra flavour on top, taking our total to five. It gives me no pleasure to say that we might as well have got five scoops of the same flavour as they tasted identical. We were faced with a watery, gritty, slushy, icy substance faintly reminiscent of weak milky tea, in five different colours. We're talking slivers of pure ice, by the way. The individual flavours - A Date with Honey [dates and honey], Peaches on the Beaches [Allegedly peach with homemade tablet], Marie Antoinette [strawberry jam,cream,cake], Pomegranate and Raspberry Sorbet, and Zesty Lemon were as discernible as a faint whisper across a crowded room. Ironically the Zesty Lemon, the flavour we had been warned could be somewhat overpowering, was the worst of all and about as punchy as an octogenarian facing Mike Tyson. As an aside, I have travelled through many foreign lands and tasted varieties of iced cream, both within the boundaries of our humble nation but also the motherland of iced cream and creamed ice, Italy. These global meanderings had foolishly led me to believe that ice cream had reached a base level of tastiness, whereby anyone jumping on the glacial production bandwagon was free to adopt the tried and tested methods. Whereby a product could be created which was at the very least predictable and ticking a certain ice-cream shaped box. This ticked no such box. Perhaps this was related to the exciting looking but clearly dysfunctional large metal machine behind the till where new flavours - or new names for the same flavour - are invented each day. My friend hypothesised that the tastemaker's sense of taste and smell could have been adversely affected by Covid-19. One red flag was that when I asked the serving lady which her favourite was out of two of the flavours, she said she DIDN'T KNOW!!! This could be why. Worst of all I now feel environmentally unethical as when I threw my cone out of the window as we drove out of the town, the serviette went with it. I can only hope no local livestock had the misfortune to encounter my deserted dessert.More

I lived have be coming here for as long as I can remember. Today was awful! Cheap tasting ice cream and the most uninviting/rude person to serve it. Very dissatisfied!

absolutely diabolical attitude from both of the owners regarding initial entry to their premises with a small well behaved service dog. 3 adults in our party of 6 silently decided against staying to eat (no disabled access anyway so would of been difficult) so we...made our excuses & left. when we discussed our experience outside we all concluded the same. rude. shocking. unclean establishment we had all individually decided we would not be staying & we can't all be wrong without discussion! we found a delightful hotel with a complete contrast in service & food was amazing. we had promised the children an ice cream so we returned on our way to the park & ordered 2 double cones & a baby cone but when i asked for a taster of a flavour b4 deciding on it the owner reluctantly gave ne the smallest of blobs on a spoon & commented that they don't usually allow this??? absolutely absurd & shocking attitude. our experience twice in a day would of been enough to decide none of us would ever return there but the ice cream was tasteless, not at all creamy in fact it was icy a sign of poor quality - none of the children wanted to finish it which was unusual. we will never go back & will not promote this establishment in fact we will do the opposite if asked. i have been raised in a catering industry & was completely shocked by the owners attitude i felt embarrassed that i had suggested to my friend that we go there but despite our experience here we all still had a lovely afternoon in lavenham.More

We called in for takeaway coffee at the start of a walk all around Lavenham and also picked up 2 delicious homemade 3-cheese scones fresh out of the oven. The proprietor could not have been nicer, and the prices were very reasonable. At the end...of our long walk we were ready for another drink and although Lavenham has lots of tea shoppes we chose to return for afternoon tea which was also excellent. Again the owner was friendly and when asked he gave us some tips for our visit to Bury St Edmunds the next day.More