Short answer: Stay on the quay and East Looe Beach — both flat and easy. The Lookout has harbour views and room; Island View is over on the level Hannafore side. Avoid the steep lanes up to Plaidy with a pram.
Looe works well with a baby provided you stay on the flat parts, which are genuinely flat.
On the quay with harbour views, inside and outside seating, dog-friendly and family-run. Level approach from the quayside car parks.
On the West Looe side looking across to Looe Island, with a level seafront path outside. Strong gluten-free range too.
On the quay with a coffee lounge upstairs — the stairs are the catch with a pram, but the downstairs works.
Sheltered, sandy and right by the town with a flat approach. The genuine answer on a dry day — more room than any cafe.
Cornish cafes are mostly small, old buildings on narrow streets. Very few have dedicated play areas. What matters more, and what's worth checking before you commit:
The practical approach: phone ahead if it matters. Cornish cafes are small enough that the person answering will know exactly what they can offer, and they'd rather tell you than have you arrive with a pram and nowhere to put it.
Between about 8:30am and 10:30am, most Cornish cafes are genuinely quiet and staff have time. From midday to 2pm in season, the same cafe can be standing room only with buggies queuing outside.
If you have a choice, go early. You'll get the corner table, the high chair, and space to put a baby down — none of which will be available at one o'clock in August.
The lanes up to Plaidy and Second Beach are narrow and steep. Polperro nearby is beautiful and almost entirely unsuitable — steep, cobbled and narrow throughout. Stick to the quay, Hannafore and East Looe Beach.
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