Pudding & Pie Cafe

Pudding & Pie Cafe is a fully licensed café and restaurant in Wayfarers Arcade, Southport, where dogs are welcome inside. The emphasis on home-cooked food gives it a warm, unfussy appeal, and the setting inside the arcade adds a nice little layer of Southport character.

It feels like a place for proper sit-down lunches, cakes, breakfasts and slower catch-ups rather than a hurried in-and-out coffee mission. The comfort-food menu and cosy settle-in atmosphere make it the kind of spot that quietly becomes part of people's regular circuit, with dogs watching every passing plate with Olympic focus.

Strong comfort-food energy with a side order of "we'll just sit for a minute" becoming a full pause in the day, and nobody needs to do the pavement-waiting shuffle.