Buckingham Palace Garden Café
The Garden Café is situated on the West Terrace of Buckingham Palace, after you exit the State Rooms. Relax after your visit to the Palace with a view over the famous Palace lawn and lake.
Our Garden Café menu celebrates the glorious British summer with freshly prepared sandwiches, bagels and fruit pots, from coronation chicken bloomer, with baby spinach and mango chutney mayonnaise, to West Country cheddar multigrain baguette with farmhouse chutney.
This year’s patisserie range features treats such as the raspberry victoria sponge, vegan chocolate fudge, carrot cake, and chocolate and orange cake.
The Garden Café caters for all dietary requirements.
Café opening times are:
- July and August: 10:00 – 19:00 (19:00 – 19:15 takeaway only)
- September: 10:00 – 18:00 (18:00 – 18:15 takeaway only)
Download the menu (pdf)
Afternoon Tea at Buckingham Palace
Our Afternoon Tea is served in a limited-edition keepsake tin. Tuck into a selection of finger sandwiches, earl grey eclairs, strawberry and vanilla battenberg, homemade raisin scones, all served with a cup of tea or coffee.
There is no need to book in advance for Afternoon Tea.
Ice cream in the Buckingham Palace Garden
We also have an ice cream parlour as you walk along the garden path towards the exit, serving indulgent real dairy ice cream made exclusively from Windsor Farm milk.
Ice cream parlour opening times are:
- July and August: 11:00 – 19:15
- September: 11:00 – 18:15
Sustainability
We are committed to minimising the impact of our operations on the planet.
- We use free-range, Red Tractor-certified British eggs and fruit from the UK and EU.
- We use chocolate which is made from 100% traceable cocoa beans and is grown by farmer communities in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Ecuador that are supported by the Cocoa Horizons programme.
- Our ice cream range is made exclusively from Windsor Farm milk.
- Our coffee is sourced from an organic cooperative in Peru and family-run single estates in Guatemala and Colombia.
- Our milk is British and Red Tractor-certified, and we offer plant-based milk alternatives free of charge.
- Our water bottles are made from 100% recycled aluminium and can be reused.
- Our sandwich packaging can be composted naturally.
