The Dug Out Café

Our Café

King Shots Coffee opened a café in partnership with Leckhampton Rovers Football Club; welcome to The Dug Out Café!

We take huge pride in our homemade and locally sourced menu. In fact, we often have a new menu each week to celebrate what our local suppliers have in store for us – a lot of them are literally down the road from our café, here in Cheltenham.

Working with charity football club Leckhampton Rovers, we built our café with the hope of becoming a hub for all ages in our local Leckhampton community. If you take a look at our social media, you can see that we’ve done just that.

We host events year round, partnering with other local businesses and make sure everyone who enjoys our town park is well fed and coffee fuelled!

Our local suppliers

Speciality coffee from Fire & Flow

Speciality tea from Born Wild

Baked goods are a mixture of home made, Hobbs House Bakery and Jane’s Pantry

A selection of sparkling and still juices from Hayles Fruit Farm

Milk from local dairy farm Cotteswold Dairy

Gelato tubs from Wholly Gelato

Non alcoholic beer (and alcoholic for events) Gloucester Brewery

Bacon from Bath Road Butchers

Sauces and seasoning from Tubby Tom’s

Plan a daytrip

We’re probably one of Cheltenham’s most child friendly cafes with board games, children’s toys and colouring materials, rounders and boules sets to borrow. Our café doors open directly onto a new play park and huge field, and we’re just a 2 minute walk from the BMX pump track.

A day at The Dug Out Café

Dog friendly café

We’re also incredibly dog friendly and have dog treats, puppuccinos and doggy ice cream available as well as a water bowl. (Also if you forget your poo bags just ask and we can give you some!)

café OPENING HOURS

Monday: Closed

Tuesday: Closed

Wednesday: 08:30 – 16:00

Thursday: 08:30 – 16:00

Friday: 08:30 – 16:00

Saturday: 09:00 – 16:00

Sunday: 09:00 – 16:00

The Dug Out Cafe with King Shots Coffee

4.9

Based on 57 reviews

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Kathy Street

14:45 21 Mar 25

Polite and friendly staff, very professional service. Delicious food and coffee. Love that the menu is varied and specials are always on offer. The quality of the food is very high and the owner seeks out local resources for the customers. Lovely to sit outside in the sunshine too. Family friendly and dog always welcome and catered for. Really enjoy the seasonal events and a super place to take a stroll. Really recommend!

Debbie

21:10 20 Mar 25

What a fabulous cafe, absolutely amazing high class coffee, and the lovely owner made me a lovely keto lunch especially for me as I’m diabetic as he completely understood. The prices and quality is outstanding, beautiful park for walking and playground for children. Lots of choices for children to eat and drink. If you have not been you’re missing out. Extremely dog friendly, my golden retriever was very welcome and got a treat and put on the paws of fame.

Christina Sadler

19:48 20 Mar 25

I love this place! I have said many times it’s the best coffee, so much so we make a point of travelling 30mins to go here. Having a park but also the huge playing field makes it ideal with the kids. The people that work here are lovely and friendly. It’s a real gem.

Beth Jewer

18:02 20 Mar 25

Our favourite coffee shop in Cheltenham! The coffee is delicious, we have also tried many of the sweets treats on display and particularly like Chris' homemade brownie 😋 we love that it is dog and child friendly and have always been made to feel really welcome with both our cocker spaniel and our baby. Can't recommend it enough!

Victoria Jess

14:26 20 Mar 25

We are so thrilled that the DugOut exists! We’ve spent many a day down at the Burrows and now there is a fantastic café to visit when we fancy a treat!Locally roasted Fire and Flow coffee, Wholly Gelato icecream, Hayles Farm fruit juices and Tubby Toms bacon dusted tater-tots are all family favourites! The focus on local producers is a huge selling point and definitely does not go unnoticed! Who wouldn’t rather pay a little more for something locally made?Plus there is a bring your own cup discount!The staff are really friendly and helpful and they put on great events for families throughout the year too!The outside seating area is a great addition to the park and makes chilly trips to the playground much more pleasant. Plus if the weather really turns there are a whole host of toys inside to keep the kids occupied!A fantastic addition to Leckhampton!

Joel Kirstein

19:08 18 Oct 23

This independent coffee shop is a hidden gem. It serves coffee of a quality you'd expect in some of the best independent coffee shops.The first time I visited this place I was very surprised - you don't usually expect this quality at a coffee shop in this kind of location! I can only highly recommend it. Particularly great if you have kids or dogs... Given there's parking and a huge playing field and well equipped playground right outside, you can stop and get your caffeine fix whilst your dog or kids run off some steam.Also serves a good range of light snacks (sweet and savoury) and ice cream, too - even dog friendly ones!Highly recommended.

Sarah Atkinson

10:54 21 Jun 23

Fantastic coffee and brownies! Super friendly atmosphere and well worth a visit.

Steve John

10:59 19 May 23

Nice spot and great alternative to all the other cafes in town. Friendly owner, really good quality coffee, with tempting treats especially the brownies. And furry friends allowed.

Magda Nowacki

16:19 18 May 23

Very short take-out visit but lovely service. AMAZING brownie!

Gabrielle Jenkins

08:40 12 May 23

Great to have a cafe open in the Burrows open space. Offers a hot drinks menu and cakes, with seating and a toilet. The toilet is accessible and has a fold out changing table for small children.

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Love our coffee at The Dug Out Café? We offer mobile coffee hire for corporate hire, TV and film sets, weddings, events and bespoke packages. You can reach out to us here for a quote.