The Marmalade Cafe & Coffee Bar

10/12/2026

Happy Thanksgiving
We are open today from 9-2

10/11/2026

🍂 BIG FALL YARD SALE AT THE MARMALADE MOTEL! 🍂

We’re doing some fall cleaning, making room for exciting changes, and finding new homes for all kinds of treasures!

Join us for our TWO-DAY FALL YARD SALE at Marmalade Motel!

🗓 Saturday, October 17 & Sunday, October 18
⏰ Starting at 8:00 AM both days
📍 25658 Highway 7, Port Dufferin, NS

We’ve got a little bit of everything, including:

🪑 Furniture

🏡 Household items and home décor

🛏️ Motel furnishings and supplies

☕ Café equipment and supplies

✨ And plenty more!

🌧️ RAIN OR SHINE!

We’ll be setting everything up inside our geodesic dome, so you can browse comfortably no matter what the weather decides to do!

💵 CASH AND CARRY ONLY! Please come prepared to take your purchases home with you.

Come early, have a look around, and see what treasures you can find. We’d love to see you!

Help us spread the word by sharing this post with your friends and neighbours! ❤️

10/05/2026

A wet and cold fall day. Guess it’s time to bring back the soup sandwich lunch special.
Today’s deliciousness is cheddar broccoli soup and grilled cheese for $13.95

This would go great with a pumpkin spice latte

09/30/2026

🧡 Every Child Matters 🧡

Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we’re wearing orange, taking time to reflect, and doing one small thing here at Marmalade Café to support our local community.

And look who’s back in the kitchen. 🥹
Chef Zoey is home! And she’s been baking.

Today we have these beautiful orange cupcakes for $2.50 each, with 100% of the proceeds being donated to Indigenous programming at Marine Drive Academy.

So stop in, grab a cupcake (or six — we’re not judging 😉), and help us turn something sweet into a little bit of good.

Because today is about more than wearing orange.

It’s about listening.
It’s about learning.
It’s about remembering.
And it’s about continuing to support the work of reconciliation in our own communities.

🧡 $2.50 each
🧡 100% of proceeds donated
🧡 Available today at Marmalade Café while they last

Every Child Matters. Today and every day.

09/11/2026

There are a few rumours making their way around town, so we thought it was probably time you heard this directly from us. 🤍

Yes, The Marmalade Café & Coffee Bar will be closing toward the end of this year.

We haven’t set a final closing date yet, and when we do, we’ll make sure you hear it directly from us.

It’s a big decision and one Neil and I have spent a great deal of time thinking about.

Over the past six years, Marmalade has grown and changed in ways we never could have completely predicted when we first opened the doors of our little seaside motel.

What began with nine rooms on the Eastern Shore has grown into something much bigger: vacation properties, experiences, events, partnerships and new opportunities to welcome people to this incredible part of Nova Scotia.

And we’ve reached a point where we need to make some choices about where we put our time, energy and investment next.

For us, that means returning our focus to where Marmalade began: tourism, hospitality and The Marmalade Motel.

We see enormous opportunity to continue growing the motel, creating new reasons for people to visit the Eastern Shore, developing thoughtful guest experiences and building the next chapter of Marmalade around the place and industry we fell in love with in the first place.

So while one chapter is coming to an end, The Marmalade Motel is absolutely not closing.

Quite the opposite.

We’re refocusing.

We’re investing.

We’re growing.

And we’re incredibly excited about what comes next.

For now, nothing changes at the café. Our team is here. The coffee is brewing. The kitchen is cooking. And there is still plenty of time to come through those doors and enjoy this little place with us.

We’ll continue operating through to the end of this year and will share our final closing date once it has been decided.

We are enormously proud of what we created at The Marmalade Café and of the people who helped us create it.

Closing its doors will undoubtedly be bittersweet.

But after six years of building businesses, we’ve learned that growth isn’t always about doing more.

Sometimes it’s about getting very clear about what you want to build next — and having the courage to put your energy there.

For Neil and me, that next chapter begins back where Marmalade started.

By the ocean. 🤍

Cheryl & Neil
The Marmalade Motel & Café

09/07/2026

09/05/2026

UNFORTUNATELY, WE HAVE MADE THE DECISION TO REMAIN CLOSED TODAY AS WE STILL DON’T HAVE A RESTORATION TIME FOR POWER

WE WILL BE CLOSED THROUGH LABOUR DAY, MONDAY
AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING EVERYONE ON TUESDAY

On behalf of Marmalade Cafe and staff, we hope everyone enjoys their long weekend

09/05/2026

UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO THE POWER OUTAGE WE HAVE HAD TO DELAY OPENING

WE WILL POST AS SOON AS WE ARE ABLE TO OPEN

09/04/2026

Ms Terri will be bringing fresh flower bouquet’s for Saturday morning
$15 each limited quantities

08/14/2026

Fresh flower bouquets have arrived limited quantities were open till 3 pm today

Aren’t these colours BEAUTIFUL!