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Church Square · St Andrews

Cafe in the Square

Look up on Church Street for a small cream sign with a coffee cup on it. The words run all the way round its edge — in the square, in the square. That’s the café.

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The café’s hanging sign on a stone wall: a cream square with a coffee cup, the word Café, and ‘in the square’ running round its edges
The sign itself, hanging from the stone wall.
A bowl of soup on a wooden table, with a basket of sliced bread and a hot drink
Soup, with bread on the side.
Two halved scones spread with red jam, a cup of tea, small metal teapots and an open book on a wooden table
Scones and jam, and tea from a metal pot.

Open six days a week, ten till four. 4.7 on Google from 189 reviews.

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Address
4 Church Street
St Andrews KY16 9NNOn Church Square, in the old town
Hours
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Wednesday from 10.30am · Closed SundayAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip.
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Cafe in the SquareThe café’s own Facebook page
Ratings
Google 4.7 · Tripadvisor 4.5189 Google reviews · 173 on Tripadvisor
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Sheet 1 · St Andrews, old town

You are here: Church Square

Cafe in the Square is at number 4 Church Street, the short street between Market Street and South Street.

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Key

  1. AOpen Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm. Wednesday from 10.30am.
  2. BClosed on Sundays.
  3. CRated 4.7 on Google (189 reviews) and 4.5 on Tripadvisor (173).
  4. DFood hygiene: Pass — Food Standards Scotland, September 2025.
The café’s hanging sign on a stone wall: a cream square with a coffee cup, the word Café, and ‘in the square’ running round its edges
1 Landmark: the hanging sign.
Inside the café: wooden chairs and tables on a wooden floor, and a pale wall hung with a grid of small square pictures
2 Inside: wooden tables, a wall of small square pictures.

Visit

Address
4 Church Street
St Andrews KY16 9NNOn Church Square, in the old town
Hours
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Wednesday from 10.30am · Closed SundayAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip.
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Cafe in the SquareThe café’s own Facebook page
Ratings
Google 4.7 · Tripadvisor 4.5189 Google reviews · 173 on Tripadvisor
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A short account of

Cafe in the Square

St Andrews · in three chapters

Two halved scones spread with red jam, a cup of tea, small metal teapots and an open book on a wooden table
Frontispiece. Scones, jam, tea — and somebody’s open book.

Chapter I

The Café

There is a small café at number four Church Street, St Andrews, under a hanging sign that tells you, four times over, exactly where you are: in the square.

It opens at ten, six days a week, and closes at four.

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Chapter II

The Table

The photographs people leave of the place are mostly of the table: a bowl of soup with sliced bread, scones split and spread with jam, tea poured from little metal pots.

They have rated it 4.7 on Google, across 189 reviews.

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A bowl of soup on a wooden table, with a basket of sliced bread and a hot drink
Plate II. Soup and bread.

Chapter III

Hours, as a contents page

  • Monday10 – 4
  • Tuesday10 – 4
  • Wednesday10.30 – 4
  • Thursday10 – 4
  • Friday10 – 4
  • Saturday10 – 4
  • Sundayclosed

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Address
4 Church Street
St Andrews KY16 9NNOn Church Square, in the old town
Hours
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Wednesday from 10.30am · Closed SundayAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip.
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Cafe in the SquareThe café’s own Facebook page
Ratings
Google 4.7 · Tripadvisor 4.5189 Google reviews · 173 on Tripadvisor
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Cafein theSquare

Number four, Church Street. Stone outside, wooden floors and tables inside. Open six days.

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10–4Monday to Saturday
10.30Wednesday opening
4.7Google · 189 reviews
PassFood hygiene · Sept 2025
The café’s hanging sign on a stone wall: a cream square with a coffee cup, the word Café, and ‘in the square’ running round its edges
Inside the café: wooden chairs and tables on a wooden floor, and a pale wall hung with a grid of small square pictures

Visit

Address
4 Church Street
St Andrews KY16 9NNOn Church Square, in the old town
Hours
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Wednesday from 10.30am · Closed SundayAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip.
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Cafe in the SquareThe café’s own Facebook page
Ratings
Google 4.7 · Tripadvisor 4.5189 Google reviews · 173 on Tripadvisor
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Squares, all the way in.

Inside Cafe in the Square, one wall is hung with small square pictures in a tidy grid. So this page is one too.

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10–4Mon – Sat
Inside the café: wooden chairs and tables on a wooden floor, and a pale wall hung with a grid of small square pictures
4.7on Google
Sunclosed
A bowl of soup on a wooden table, with a basket of sliced bread and a hot drink
No. 4Church Street
Two halved scones spread with red jam, a cup of tea, small metal teapots and an open book on a wooden table
10.30Wednesday start
KY169NN · St Andrews
Passfood hygiene, 2025

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Address
4 Church Street
St Andrews KY16 9NNOn Church Square, in the old town
Hours
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Wednesday from 10.30am · Closed SundayAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip.
Facebook
Cafe in the SquareThe café’s own Facebook page
Ratings
Google 4.7 · Tripadvisor 4.5189 Google reviews · 173 on Tripadvisor
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St Andrews · the home of golf

A scorecard for a café

In this town, everything gets a scorecard. Here’s the week at Cafe in the Square, 4 Church Street — one day per hole.

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Course: Church SquarePlayer: you
HoleDayTee offFinishPar (hrs)
1Monday10:0016:006
2Tuesday10:0016:006
3Wednesday10:3016:005½
4Thursday10:0016:006
5Friday10:0016:006
6Saturday10:0016:006
7SundayRest day—
Total35½
Two halved scones spread with red jam, a cup of tea, small metal teapots and an open book on a wooden table
The nineteenth hole: scones, jam, a pot of tea.

4.7

Google rating, 189 reviews

4.5

Tripadvisor, 173 reviews

Visit

Address
4 Church Street
St Andrews KY16 9NNOn Church Square, in the old town
Hours
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Wednesday from 10.30am · Closed SundayAs listed on Google. Worth checking Facebook before a special trip.
Facebook
Cafe in the SquareThe café’s own Facebook page
Ratings
Google 4.7 · Tripadvisor 4.5189 Google reviews · 173 on Tripadvisor
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