If you are looking for an amazing coffee shop in Bray, County Wicklow , Ireland. I highly recommend Finbee's Coffee House located on the main sea front. I was made feel very welcome. upon walking up to the cafe. I ordered a cappuccino. The cafe has lots of seating indoors and outside. It should be noted I am originally from Dublin, Ireland, lived in the United States for over thirty years and served in the United States Marines all over the world. I definitely know a great Coffee Shop from all my travels and life experiences. I definitely will return to Finnbee's Coffee House in the near future. This establishment rates five stars and more! A must visit when in Bray, County Wickow, Ireland. read more

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Stopped in to grab a coffee and a bite to eat on our day in Bray. The latte was delicious and the sausage roll was great! In addition to these things, the view from the second floor was amazing! Great food, coffee, and ocean views? Unbeatable! read more

One thing there is not enough of is late-night coffee shops! I mean i know its not advisable to drink coffee late at night but I need more places to hang out in! 5 star location on the beach and the interior is spacious with a nice assortment of treats. The coffee was pretty decent but the fact that this place opens late and that its right on the beach its gets a solid 4 stars from me. Next time I walk on the beach you can be sure ill have a Finnbees coffee in hand! read more

Finnbees - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Bray, WW

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Finnbees is a lovely seaside coffee shop in Bray and I'd been here on 3 occasions while I was in Bray. The cafe is very big and spacious, very bright with both indoor and outdoor seating. It was very sunny on the days I went, so I could sense a kind of 'holiday' atmosphere with the promenade and ocean. It reminded me a lot of my hometown, Galway. The coffee was not bad but not exactly a fantastic barista blend. The sizes are pretty big, as in the small size is like a medium compared to a lot of other coffee shops (excluding Starbucks and Costa), and the prices were also very reasonable. There's also a nice selection of ready-made desserts, sandwiches and snacks. There's also free wifi! Location: 5/5 Coffee quality: 3/5 Atmosphere: 4.5/5 Variety: 3/5 Overall, a great place for coffee and a snack when the weather is good, but not so much for the die-hard coffee fan or someone looking for a gourmet meal. read more

Finnbees - Small size coffee! - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Bray, WW

Just got a 'iced latte' and a mango tango smoothie from here and honestly it was absolutely disgusting. The iced latte consisted of a hastily concocted latte tossed into a plastic cup with 9 cubes of ice thrown in on top. I could barely finish mine and it made me feel ill. Imagine if you left your coffee for an hour and then came back to drink it.... Yeah it was pretty vile. The mango tango tasted like lemons. Don't ask me how there were no lemons in it according to the menu but it was sour, lumpy and horrible. DO NOT TRY THIS PLACE!! read more

Finnbees - A latte with ice cubes - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Bray, WW

I love their coffee and the friendly relaxed attitude of the staff who work here always leads me to enjoy my experience here. Prices are reasonable and there is an array of wraps, sandwiches, cakes, smoothies, snacks, teas and coffees to keep the wolves from the door up until the evening sets in. It has a somewhat mini Starbucks feel to it minus the corporate bullshit and egg mocha nut ridiculous latte offerings around Christmas time. In starbucks small means tall, in finbees a Venti is called an infusion. This is why i come back here, they wont write your name on your coffee cup because they dont ask you your name but the last time i felt justified in giving my name to a professional was to a Guard for running a red light so this is just fine with me! read more

Finnbees - Great place to sit and watch the world go by not just in Summer - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Bray, WW

I love the downstairs cafe. The staff, tea, pastries and coffee are all great and the ambiance is nice. The patio is great when it's dry out. I've had the choc sticks twice now and would go back! Plenty of seating for a busy, drizzly wet day. 5 stars to the cafe. 4 stars and the reason for the 4 stars for the upstairs restaurant. Went their for breakfast yesterday. Expensive for what you get. Is it normal to get salad with breakfast, that's the side to the omlette? And my Benedict tasted overwhelmingly of vinegar with ham bits that looked days old. They may not have been but certainly looked it with dried crusty sides that tend to be on left over ham. read more

Works as advertised but nothing spectacular. I make it a point to stop here before I embark on the Bray-Greystones coastal cliff-walk and tend to get coffee or something to hydrate myself. Their coffee is quite ordinary but I love their hot chocolate - especially on cold days where it's fun to get one to go and stand by the beach and enjoy the view. To sum up -- Finnbees are much better than your average Starbucks, but there isn't anything extraordinary here. Their staff are lovely and they're located in Bray where there aren't many great options. read more

Been here a few times, will come back for sure. Delicious scones, chai tea, and of course coffee-in-general. Tried different places in town, and somewhat prefer their coffee here. And truly kind service. Kinda cozy and versatile seating areas. If you're looking for a "coffee shop-office" setting, it's easily possible to find a good spot to make that work. Practically on the beach, so try not to get distracted. read more

Great coffee, excellent view. I really like these places. Their range of eatable stuff is great as well... read more

Finnbees - Coffee & Tea Near Me - Bray, WW

Customer service is something that is definitely needed in this establishment. No direction in where to queue. Myself and several other customers found ourselves in the wrong queue. Floor staff cleaning tables banging trolleys off chairs and in to customers! Won't be back. read more

I would hate to tell you how long it's been since I was last in Bray. I can say that I'll never willingly return. It was a cloudy cold 15 degree day despite it being summer and July. More like winter lite. Parking was difficult as the sea front place was packed with vehicles and like many places now ya must pay to park on a road that people are already paying road tax for and parking is limited to three hours - not that I could stay three hours, but serious walkers could put in over three hours easily. We began to walk up Bray head towards a Christian cross. It was certainly a pretty view across the bay and town to the Dublin mountains and the train silently gliding along the coast into the town made it all the more so. We were making good progress walking up the hills and felt rain on the wind so not wanting to risk a soaking we turned back down hill and as is typical there was no more rain, thankfully. We then walked from one end of the town to the other in search of toilets and coffee. As we ambled a few things struck me. First was the awful smell of over used cooking fat in the air from a few run down fish and chip shops and it was a nasty stench, yet a takeaway fish and chip was a stonking 13 euro (say £11.50) and many places didn't say which fish was being sold. Sorry guys you are having a real laugh. If it was a giant beer battered fresh cod, cooked in groundnut oil with proper chips, proper mushy peas, bread, real butter and a pot of tea then it would be worth buying but the portions I saw people paying an extortionate sum would cost a fiver in my home town and that's for cod. I also witnessed one shop tipping frozen chicken nuggets into the stinking hot fat. No thanks. Second was just how dingy and run down many sea front places looked. Seedy would be too strong but there's little attractive where we walked on the other side from the promenade where the shops and bed & breakfast places were. The promenade side was pretty though. The beach area is 80% stone and the 'sand' was the type you could park a car on. So we arrived at the other side of town to this place and we noted the Sea Life centre just next door. So we went in there looking for toilets. I saw one. It was a disabled toilet and I saw two wheelchair clients already queued up to go in. Just at that moment the toilet door opened as a wheel chair user was exiting. The acrid stench of urine wafting toward me made me wretch. How dare the Sea Life management treat customers in this filthy way; what does it take to clean a toilet? I'm assuming that there are managers but I wouldn't be surprised if there were none. The idle staff were talking to each other. Mind you the stink removed the stench of over used cooking oil, so every cloud! The last time I experienced toilets this nasty was in the Sinai peninsula, Egypt miles from fresh water, in a third world country. I left quicker than I went in and into this coffee place. The place was clean, cosy and the coffees were among the best I've had in a while. The Flat white and a tall cappuccino was €5.40. They served hot foods including soup and toasted panini, sausage rolls, as well as wraps, salads and sandwiches. The servers were mega friendly, the tables were cleared and cleaned quickly and efficient, serving our order pretty fast. We sat in comfortable armchairs and watched life go by as we promised ourselves never to return. We used their very clean toilets. The coffee guys say they roast their coffee in Co Wicklow: all I can say is it's darn good coffee. We were glad we visited Bray once more though but never again. read more

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The service here left a lot to be desired, as did the overall ambiance. Tables and counters seemed a bit messy, and the pricing was a little steep. read more

The pastries are delicious, the coffee is the best in town and the staff is very friendly!