Porridge is a family-run shop and cafe at 13 Fore Street, two minutes up from Brixham harbour. Over fifteen hundred wholefood lines on the shelves, a Bio-D refill station, Voyager Coffee on the bar, smoothies blended to order and Pastel de Nata on the cake stand. Clare and Cal behind the counter, six days a week, closed Sundays.
Open today · 9 to 5 Over two thousand five hundred lines across four aisles at 13 Fore Street. The counter is the same whichever aisle you walk in from.
Over fifteen hundred lines on the shelves at 13 Fore Street. Pantry staples and cooking ingredients, rice and pasta and pulses, oils and vinegars, herbs and spices, dried fruit and nuts and seeds, baking, snacks, tinned, world foods, breads and cakes. Oat and almond milks. Kombucha. Refills where the supplier supports them.
Locally roasted Voyager Coffee from the Penzance roastery. Organic teas. Smoothies blended to order, all named: Berry-Go-Round, Pash N Shoot, Strawberry Split, Coco Loco, Cherry Poppins, Big 5. Matcha and turmeric chai lattes. Locally-made cakes on the glass-domed stand and freshly baked Pastel de Nata. Sit at the counter, watch the harbour traffic go up Fore Street.
Eight hundred lines of natural supplements, herbal remedies, aromatherapy and personal care. Viridian on the shelves behind the counter. We aren't pharmacists, but we read the labels with you, we don't pretend a supplement is a prescription, and we tell you when the answer is the GP up the road.
Two hundred household lines plus a small considered gift range. Bio-D cleaning and laundry on the refill station, where you bring your bottle, top it up, pay by weight. Bio-D is a B Corp from Hull, made on solar energy. Kitchen storage, eco essentials, the kind of birthday gift you can take from the shelf and walk straight to the till.
The cafe sits at the back of the shop, eight seats inside, four pavement chairs out on Fore Street. Voyager Coffee, locally roasted in Penzance, pulled on the bar. Six house smoothies blended to order from real fruit. Matcha and turmeric chai. Locally-made cakes on the glass-domed stand and freshly baked Pastel de Nata for £2.50.
Sit at the counter, watch the harbour traffic go up Fore Street. Dogs welcome inside and at the pavement tables. Water bowl by the door.
Smoothies: Berry-Go-Round · Pash N Shoot · Strawberry Split · Coco Loco · Cherry Poppins · Big 5
Porridge began as Postal Pantry, registered on 30 July 2020 during the first national lockdown. Andrew and Clare Brayshaw started a small Devon delivery and UK mail-order service for wholefoods and eco essentials, run from the spare room, dispatched into an empty Post Office queue.
The Brixham shop came in 2022. Sally and Alan had spent years running Oats Healthy Living Store from 13 Fore Street as a community-focused health food shop for the people of Torbay. When they decided to retire and change the pace of life, they chose a successor business rather than leave the unit empty. The Brayshaws took the keys, repainted the fascia sage green, and opened the cafe alongside the pantry.
"Sally and Alan welcomed a successor business rather than leave the unit empty." Oats Healthy Living Store, on closing in 2022
Today Clare and Cal are on the counter, six days a week, and a small electric delivery van runs locally around Devon. The original Postal Pantry side still ships UK-wide. The Food Drink Devon Business of the Year 2020-21 plate still hangs on the wall behind the bar.
Most independents will tell you they care about provenance. Two suppliers carry more weight than the rest on our shelves, and both have a story longer than a bag label.
For stockist enquiries, wholesale, brand outreach or a quiet hello, drop a note below and we'll answer in a working day. For an order, click and collect, or anything quicker, the counter on 01803 926246 between 9 and 5, Monday to Saturday.
Brands wanting to stock with us, please email rather than call so it reaches the right inbox.
Walking up from Brixham Fish Market and the Old Fish Quay, Fore Street climbs past the Saturday market and All Saint's Church. Porridge sits on the left-hand side at number 13.
From the harbour, walk up The Strand and keep going as it becomes Fore Street. Porridge is on the left at number 13, sage-green fascia, produce display on the pavement. Brixham Sewing Box is our neighbour. The Saturday market under the Old Fish Quay is two minutes back down the hill.
Middle Street, Torbay's indie quarter for cafes and antiques, is one block over. Brixham's public Tuesday morning fish auction (May to September) runs on the Old Fish Quay opposite the harbour.
For anything not here, the counter on 01803 926246 is the fastest. Mon to Sat, 9 to 5.
Locally roasted Voyager Coffee from the Penzance roastery in Cornwall. We pull it on the bar in the cafe and we sell the bags by the till. Customers come back for the Swiss water decaf to take home. Espresso, flat white, batch brew, matcha latte, turmeric chai latte, smoothies blended to order from real fruit.
No, we are closed Sundays. Monday to Saturday we are open 9 to 5, last cafe orders go in at about 3:45pm and cafe seating closes at 4. The shop side stays open until 5 for groceries, refills and gifts.
Yes, dogs are welcome in the cafe and at the outdoor tables on Fore Street. Water bowl by the door. The pavement tables are a nice spot to sit if you are walking up from the harbour.
Bio-D is a B Corp from Hull that makes naturally derived cleaning and laundry products on solar energy. We carry the bottles, the refill containers, and a station to top up your own bottle and pay by weight. Bring it in clean and the till handles the rest.
Yes. Locally around Devon we run a small electric delivery van. UK-wide we ship via Postal Pantry, which is where the business started in 2020 before we took the Fore Street shop on. Click and collect from the Brixham shop is free.
Oats Healthy Living Store, run by Sally and Alan as a community benefit society for the people of Torbay. They retired in 2022. Rather than leave the unit empty they welcomed us in as a successor business at 13 Fore Street.