Borough-wide

Best Cafes in Dacorum

Dacorum Daily’s borough-wide guide to the best cafes: from Hemel Hempstead’s neighbourhood parades to Berkhamsted High Street and the village pubs in between.

We start with places we would send a friend. When a village has no honest equivalent, we say so and point to the next town. That is how you build trust, and how you eventually rank.

We rank cafes on coffee, welcome, whether a laptop is tolerated without colonising the room, and whether a school-run parent can still find a chair. Chains are listed when they are part of how a town actually works.