Short answer: For the best cream tea in Polperro, reviewers point to Clements & Hope on Fore Street (warm scones, plenty of clotted cream; open year-round, closed Fridays and Sundays) and the Plantation Tea Rooms on The Coombes, which has a garden by the stream and welcomes dogs. Cones and Scones does flavoured scones, and the House on the Props has the harbour view.
A cream tea is half the point of Polperro, and the village does them well. These five come up most often in reviews.
A coffee shop and tearoom on Fore Street (4.9 on Google). Reviewers praise the warm scones with "plenty of clotted cream and jam". Open 10am to 4pm, closed Fridays and Sundays, and it stays open all year with a reduced menu from November to March.
The traditional choice, on The Coombes, with a garden courtyard beside the stream. Cream teas are the speciality; reviewers also rate the gluten-free cheese scone with chilli jam. Dogs welcome inside and out.
A newer, small café with homemade scones in flavours like apple crumble and apricot-mascarpone, plus sundaes and ice cream. Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm. Reviewers say it's dog friendly.
A harbourside café with freshly baked scones and the best view of the boats. It serves breakfast and lunch all year, and is dog friendly. A February visitor found it the only place open on a Monday morning.
If you're walking the coast path, the beach café at Talland Bay is the halfway stop: cream teas, crab sandwiches and seats in beach huts a few metres from the sand. Daily from 10am (9:30am at weekends). The Looe–Polperro walk.
In Cornwall it's jam first, then clotted cream on top. Nobody in Polperro will stop you doing it the Devon way, but they'll notice.
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