Welcome to Daily Brews

“ It is easy to avoid Daily Brews because it looks like a national chain from the outside, it is located in a prime commercial area, and indeed, it is right next door to the corporate giant, St*rb*cks. Amazingly, it turns out to be a superb, locally owned business (sister café to the nearby Peaberry's). Popping in for breakfast is delightful. Weather-permitting, you can don your shades and achieve the continental pose right in The Old Market Square. Otherwise, inside has many more tables than you would expect from the width of the frontage. Either way, you can people-watch, right in the heart of the centre of Shrewsbury's river loop. Of course, the Tourist Information Centre, museum, Old Market Hall Cinema, high-end shops, banks and other cafés and restaurants litter The Old Market Square. The menu is innovative with a lot of choice. Fellow porridge-addicts will love the banana, cinnamon and nut presentation, no matter of the spelling. Other light choices include the pancakes with a variety of sweet fillings and optional crispy bacon for those with American tendencies. Other breakfast choices are abundant, and of course, all bread these days comes in the sourdough variety. Great flavour, but you need a steak knife to tackle the crust. Of particular note is the Turkish Breakfast which is somewhat incredible. Squeaky, grilled halloumi, spicy beef sausage, Turkish cheese, a poached egg and much more. The Swiss Kiss jumps out at you, featuring two crisp, roti potatoes, bacon, avocado, poached eggs and cilantro lime crema. You can also choose from a complete line up of poached egg dishes plus the off-road, gluten-free option of Southwest Eggs Benedict. Poached free-range eggs (obviously), chorizo, jalapeno hollandaise sauce, and a toasted breakfast muffin. For the more traditional, there are three omelette offerings (two of which are veggie). The Spicy Garlic Sujuk Omelette is now on my bucket list. If you are seeking to kill time over a long tea or coffee, there is everything to choose from and a great selection of cake slices on display. The staff (including my favourite, like Beck, from recently deceased local cafés) clearly like their jobs and never perform as minimum-wage-robots. They greet you, ensure that the food and drink is to your liking, and they are a great source of local knowledge too. In fact, there is no need to visit to Tourist Information Centre across the square when you can simply ask the DB staff for relevant local data. The members of staff tend to be trained baristas, so you can expect a swirly drawing on the surface of your latte. Wi-Fi is free and easy. There is no tricky password to enter. In the style of Rock Café, Charles Darwin's original electric guitar is proudly mounted and displayed on an interior wall. According to the literature below the artifact, in his later years, Darwin became disillusioned with the futuristic sound produced by the instrument and decided instead to focus his spare time talent on the theremin. Darwin went on to compose a number of great works that can, surprisingly, still be found on the likes of YouTube (lookup 'Darwin's secret theremin compositions'). The most famous being, 'Descent', which was resampled and used to accompany the melody in the hit Beach Boys track, 'Good Vibrations'. I visited Daily Brews again today (September 2025) and was thoroughly impressed. Our waitress had joined the staff only earlier that day yet was fully up-to-speed. Also, the owner himself, Lee, was getting his hands dirty, taking orders and clearing tables. Considering the owner now has three establishments to oversee (Peaberry’s Café, Daily Brew, and now The Peach Tree), this was very admirable. As a group of six, we were also given complimentary baklavas (which were superb) by the man himself. Please don't go to St*rb*cks next door and feed your money into a chain that seeps upwards to an American billionaire. Invest in the local community by taking ten more steps to choose Daily Brews. ”

“ Best Coffee shop in town , service excellent not intrusive, food perfect. ”

“ Just popped in for a coffee really and wanted to avoid the big chains. What a lovely place. Great drinks and ended up having an apple pie each because it looked lovely. It tasted amazing! Nice light, soft, thick pastry! Gorgeous. Would have been a five if it came with custard. Regardless - well worth it and the staff are great! ”

“ Pleasantly surprised by this cafe. From the moment I approached the smiling young lady behind the counter was so friendly and chatty. I only had a cup of tea and a tiramisu but it was delightful. The tiramisu was just about the right level of coffee taste and the crockery was really good unlike some places that use cheap crockery. I have been here before last year and had carrot cake and remember that was good too. I am yet to try the main food and am tempted next time I visit. All in all a really great cafe! ”

“ Amazing pancakes with blueberry and mascarpone - very generous portion for the price. And best cheesecake in Shrewsbury town centre which i keep coming back for! Highly recommend their new food menu and their coffee is juz excellent as always. Thank you for the amazing food and service every time x ”

“ Had lunch here, they welcome dogs. We sat outside as it was a very nice sunny day. I had an omelette which came with sour dough toast and my wife had scrambled egg on same. The staff were very friendly and attentive. Taking our order not long after we’d sat. It’s a lovely spot by the ancient market hall building. The food was very good. Well worth a stop off. We got chatting to a lovely couple who lived in Shrewsbury having migrated from Lancs and were rightly very proud of everything it has to offer. It’s just over an hours drive from us, wish it was closer Give the Daily Brews a try, you shouldn’t be disappointed. ”

“ Absolutely 10/10. We visited for the first time on a Sunday morning, the staff were very polite, exchanged a couple of items on my breakfast(very appreciated). Even a choice of which toast, eggs & bacon you would prefer. Cappuccino 10/10. Food 10/10. The best breakfast we have had out in a VERY long time! ”

“ We stumbled upon Daily Brews whilst trying to avoid the usual chain coffee shops in Shrewsbury and it didn’t disappoint. We had a late breakfast here and it was really nice. The coffee is really good too. I’ve only put a 4 for the service as we stood at the counter quite a while before anyone acknowledged us although they were fairly busy. I would definitely recommend. ”