Gilou's - Wiltshire

This is a smart cafe with a good selection of cakes and on this occasion we enjoyed the Millionaires Brownie and a moist Blueberry and Lime cake . These were accompanied by good flat whites.

Greeted indifferently by an owner who seemed more intent with badgering regulars with his inane chat than serving anyone politely. Served a poor flat white in reasonable time, but had to sit on an uncleared table which was then cleared, but not cleaned. To be honest, sat drinking our coffee outside looking at the coffee shop opposite thinking about what could have been. Whilst there, witnessed the owner treating others with similar disdain which actually resulted in a sharp exchange of words awkward, to say the least. The cakes looked a little small and uninteresting. I wouldn 't return when there are so many other places to try in BoA.

When we were looking to move to Bradford on Avon, I had a coffee at Gilou 's and thought, ok if this is here, it 's all going to be ok Great coffee and pastries and lovely owner. I hope they open up again soon. Please!!

First visit here and enjoyed the style and atmosphere. Very good flat white with good strong coffee unlike the chain coffee shops provide. We also had chocolate croissants that were excellent. New favourite when visiting BoA

My partner and I both have mask exemption. We visited Gilou's this morning and were very unpleasantly told to leave by the owner. This despite the fact we could have been seated at a table within about 10 seconds and then taken a mask off!. I post this as a warning to anyone else with legal mask exemption do not visit Gilou! As a postscript we then went to the Shambles Cafe opposite and were treated with courtesy and friendliness. We have visited before and found the drinks good but expensive