Terrific store with high-end groceries, kitchen novelties, very clean and spacious restrooms (not gender-specific). Funny selection of cocktail napkins. Array of salad and sandwich choices including a limited possibility for create-your-own. Beautiful desserts on display and what appeared to be a fabulous homemade ice cream case, though I cannot partake of that, so I concentrated my attention elsewhere. Drink case offered several varieties of bottled drinks, both carbonated and not, as well as water. We had a lovely salad and part of a baguette, drinks and a dessert for about $30. I had a delicious coconut/ chocolate confection, while my hubby enjoyed a blondie (that sounds like a whole other topic, but I mean the light version of a brownie!!). Indoor and outdoor seating are available.

Food was ok. You choose your food from trays and they make you a plate and warm it in the microwave. Mediocre quality and quantity of food.

Misleading atmosphere. Everything looked nice & smelled delicious; however, the food did not meet my expectations. The “Chicken Burrito” was just chicken chunks & sour cream mixed and wrapped in what felt like Pillsbury Dough. It was very texturally confusing. I also ordered the chai latte. It was ok, but I wish it had some more spices.That said, the staff was amicable & I could tell they were working hard due to the shortage in staff.All in all, not a bad place for a pit-stop & a wee snack plus, they had a lovely trinkets selection.

Delicious food and fantastic gifts. They have all sorts of candles and soaps. I especially love the pine scented soap and the bayberry candles.Im going back there this weekend!

Extremely rude staff and owner. Owner yells at staff publicly in front of clientele. This probably leads to the sub-par service. Food was pretty good though...

Twelve Pines is a yearly haunt of ours. Great, healthy, handmade food. Specialty items one cannot find anywhere else. The staff are pleasant and helpful. Stop in and take some time looking about and exploring the food. The only bad thing is on my part, I am off of sugar and carbs, so no gelato or cookies for me!

Good place for quick Deli type meal. Awesome desserts.

Great service and food. Some of our party had items made to order while others got theirs premade from the deli case. Everyone seemed pretty happy. Two of us got gelato and while good wasnt quite as smooth as we expect gelato to be. Id gladly stop here again.

Love, love, love Twelve Pine. Yummy selection of entrees, soups (especially the tomato cheddar). The sandwiches are generous I enjoy they are served with a good crisp dill pickle and chips. Um Um um😊

Wish this restaurant (store) was closer to home. Best Tuna melts, great beer, wine and cheese selection. Quick service for take out ( only offers take out). Deserts look yummy and great coffee selection to pair desert with.

Really great food and very friendly helpful staff.

Love, love, LOVE Twelve Pine! I dont understand the very few unhappy people who left derogatory reviews. IMHO they seem more personal attacks against the owner and staff than constructive feedback. I used to work in Peterborough and still travel there to go to Twelve Pine even tho its a drive for me now. There were and are a small number of transplants who have an air of bourgeoisie entitlement about them. They dont like to wait, or be told they cant have/do something that they think theyre entitled to. The negative-nannies wont influence the old school patrons and all the better if their reviews keep others of their ilk from patronizing the cafe.For those complaining about not being able to sit at the dining room tables to be on their computers for long periods, there is a nice green space in back of Toadstool that has a gazebo and benches to sit and eat during nice weather. Just be sure to bring your own hotspot if you want to go on the internet.Twelve Pines owner has continually succeeded in improving everything about the cafe--from the menu and food quality, to the dining room environment, and overall dining/shopping experience. He keeps people employed in a small town where the economic environment can be difficult. Hes fastidious in his efforts to keep the place clean for the safety of his patrons, and the staff are always cordial, hardworking, and helpful.In a time when restaurants are struggling to stay alive, I really appreciate Twelve Pine. My experiences over the years have always been 5-star, A++!

Wonderful service great atmosphere

Great place for breakfast or lunch..to buy a nice gift of jam or fancy mustard ...cheeses and prosciuitto. Tasty sandwiches and prepared foods. Delicious scones and lots of places to sit outdoors if you want to.

Twelve Pine restaurant is amazing! Great homemade dishes, desserts and great variety of coffee. After your done eating you can shop! The only place I can get white lilac dish soap. Love it.

Menu not updated on a regular basis which caused some confusion in terms of my ordering. I eventually went to another place.

Sw chicken sandwich was awesome, you should stop for lunch.

The food here is delicious and they offer a nice variety of meals.

Everything that is served here is groom real fresh ingredients. Real CHEFS preparing real WHOLESOME CUISINE CHOICES!! CHEERS!!

Love the drive to go get some foodBuy some gifts and get some cake!

Under new ownership...stay away. Ive catered several parties every summer with the excellent professional catering from 12 pinesThis year I placed my four of July order as usual, but when I went to pick it up, they had my written order but had not filled it. The new owner gave all sorts of excuses but my party was now diminished. Did not seem remorseful and proved to be UNRELIABLE.

Always seem a bit behind the eight ball in there. But appreciate the effort especially during the Covid. Thanks.

Consistently great food and friendly service. Some dishes are rather pricey. They sell scented candles which can overwhelm the aroma of their food.

They do not offer indoor seating which I didn’t know until I ordered all of my food. The excuse I got was that they didn’t have enough staff to clean the area. There were plenty of customers passing through, so I suggest you hire more staff and open up for business.

Great place to visit for eats and special gifts or personal items. Little pricey, but it is worth it.

Good xpot to pick up lunch or dinner but the service is very slow even though they have plenty of people working. Maybe more cross training is needed along with some management guidence for the young workers.

Meh

Have been enjoying this haunt for decades and continue to ejoy it. Regardless of what the other reivews say...chocolate lovers must stop in and order the Chocolate Spoon Cake!

Dog friendly and great food

What an amazing place for a leisurely lunch. They have an assortment of a spectacular dishes, soups, Cafe coffees, salads, and mouth-watering desserts.A huge assortment of kitchen items, candles, and pantry foods to purchase. I hope to go back for the on tap oils and vinegar.You can sit outside in the courtyard or inside in their beautiful sun room.

Good was delicious!!

I usually love twelve pine, but feel compelled to give one star since the person behind the counter wasn’t wearing a mask. Had to leave empty handed :(

We were lucky enough to stop here for a quick lunch on our way through town. Great selection of specially foods and a diverse menu with enough choices for the vegetarian in our party. Tofu thai wrap was amazing!

Wonderful lunch spot. good soups sandwiches and quiche. Sunny dining area and outdoor seating in season.

This place is full of exquisite homemade and organic products to take home. Additionally, you can have a handmade salad or sandwich, iced cream, gelato, and a delicious variety of different types of foods. I absolutely love this place!

Nice food and staff. Their system to serve is a little messy, so line goes long sometimes. Price is very salty.

Very good food. But pricey and have a habit of messing up my order (just personal experience)

Order 2 items to wait 45 minutes and everyone after you to get their food before getting mine. Only to have the joke of an owner tell me wont refund me? Wont be back here again.I talk to the manager who everyone in town knows is an unsavory character and he basically turns around my complaint to say its my fault for the sandwich I ordered because it takes longer. A Reuben take 5 minutes at home to make. Not 30.Then the employee I asked to get him is standing besides him giving her feedback and trying to make it seem like Im wrong by reinforcing what hes saying with things like it was 15 minutes after you ordered your salad. Actually it was 2. My transaction on my phone has a time stamp.Then she keeps running her mouth spouting nonsense. Manager continues to avoid a refund for the wait or any kind of compensation. I end up leaving with a new understanding of people who work in customer service, but dont actually know what theyre doing.. This is the place to get shunned by employees if you complain at all.

This was the first time I tried using the 12 Pines for a catering item. I ordered the small cheese, cracker, and fruit platter for an Open House we were having at Kitty Rescue and Adoption in Jaffrey. The cheeses were excellent, the fruit ripe, sweet, and juicy, and the way the platter was arranged was just lovely with beautiful fresh flowers and a creative pineapple vase. I was extremely happy with the purchase, everyone at the event enjoyed it tremendously, and I would definitely order from their catering menu again.

What a great selection of meals to choose from.

Enjoyed the selection of great tasting food. Only for stars because soup was not hot enough and cappuchino half full. But tasted great.

Great for coffee, sweets, and sandwiches.

Good coffee and pastries. No china cups for tea, only paper. Paper cups effect the flavor of tea, and not for the better! If you are going to serve tea you need to offer china cups!

Really cute place. Fresh salads and lunches daily, fresh flowers for arrangements every day. Gourmet snacks and condiments too. Worth a peek in.

If you love pretentious things youll love this cafe!

Perfect for a quick lunch...a wide array of sandwiches, soups, sandwiches and a quiche or two. Order at a counter and take your tray to a sunny seating area. Lots of wine and gourmet items to purchase, too.

Sandwiches were pretty good, but they forgot NO tomato and my chips. Not a huge problem, well give them another chance.

Went to Toadstool Bookstore, awesome selection of used soft back books. A little higher than Ive paid before but great store. Must try the cafe next time!

Pricey but my favorite Reuben sandwich ever, seriously. Something about the panini warmth and the melted cheese with the just right sauerkraut is amazing. My wife loves their salads. The burritos are very good warmed with salsa. The triple chocolate brownie is so rich it should require a permit to eat one. Be warned however that most of the time if youre ordering a sandwich you going to have to wait...and wait...and wait. The sandwich will be worth it but if youre with anyone else and they didnt get a sandwich they will likely be done. Im not sure why it takes them so long but perhaps they arent focused on efficiency. Still, despite the wait worth it, albeit somewhat frustrating.

I was just told by the owner to leave because it was busy. I am honestly stunned, as Ive never been kicked out of a coffee house/restaurant for being a patron. I am a local Peterborough resident and have been coming to Twelve Pine for two years, but my husband and I will never spend money here again, and we will make sure to not recommend this establishment. I was literally sitting at a single table for less than an hour with my laptop, a 20 oz cappuccino and two cookies (so clearly, I paid to be able to sit there), and the owner told me to leave since it was busy. Also, the cappuccino was poorly made (it tasted like nothing but milk) and theres no WiFi.

Good wine selection, good cheese selection as well though pricey. Theres usually a nice selection of flowers. Im always incredibly unimpressed with the service though, its pretty awful.

Great service, fast and friendly staff. When in Peterborough we always stop in here. The food has always been very good.

Fabulous food and atmosphere

Really diverse selection of food choices. The menu changes but the food is always great. Nice seating area looking out at downtown Peterborough.

I regularly stop here for lunch when Im in Peterborough. They have a wide variety of delicious items on display. The macaroons were AMAZE-balls!

Red, white and blue salad with virus vinaigrette was phenomenal. Healthy and delicious packed with seasonal berries, goat cheese, chicken and greens. Will be back for this one.

Good food and atmosphere for lunch or an afternoon break.

Its good food at the speed of fast food. Fairly priced with comfy and plentiful seating. Food made there from scratch proudly displayed and quickly vanished by hungry clients. Great bang for the buck especially in Peterborough.

We are usually pleased with the quality of the food and non food products we purchase. We recently bought an 8” mocha cake that was beyond it’s purchase date. It was dried and and inedible. We were very disappointed as were our guests.

Nice selection of prepared foods for lunch. Definitely get the gelato for dessert!

What do you get when you have a joint run by an out-of-state owner (New York) and marginally-palatable food? You get Twelve Pine.Now, on their web site, they will display all of the awards they have received, but note that none of them were earned from the current owner. The current owner has nothing to do with them. The only award he should receive is systematically​ tearing down everything that the previous owner built up. He is rude to customers​​. He chastises​ his employees in front of customers. ​When my wife bought one of their sub-par cappuccinos​ and two cookies, she went to the table to do some work on her laptop. The owner strolled over and told her to leave. I guess her weekly patronage to that place doesnt compare to a four-way table-top of schoolmarms​ eating their half-sandwich and cup of soup that they split. For a town known for its writers and artists, I guess one needs to apply for a fellowship at the MacDowell Art Colony in order to sit and write a book. Best avoid an establishment that serves coffee and offers seating, Peterborough isnt Paris after all, is it? That would be too cool. There is a reason for this. The O.G. town residents are dying off and the out-of-towners, like the Twelve Pines owner are moving in and selling out this quaint town to urban sprawl and provincials.The girls that work are all well-meaning​ but seem stressed out and overworked. Judging by the Glassdoor reviews, I see that even minors are pushed​ through a nine-hour​ day without a break, so I understand why they are what they are. Again, the onus of poor customer service lies with the owner and his manager.THE FOOD: Once I bought the chicken burrito. Imagine Gerber Pureed Chicken baby food with a few pieces of white meat poured inside a deep-fried burrito. These are then piled all day on a plate in a glass showcase with nice frilly kale to give it color. When you order this burrito to be served hot, it isnt​ refried. The counter-person plunks it on a plate and pushes a button on the microwave oven. When it is served (without a smile, for these workers have the zeal of an Orc slaving in the caves of Mordor), the fried shell is lamentably soggy. The inside is blistering hot like molten lava, not from heat convection, but a freakin microwave! When this piece of crap is stabbed, the whole gelatinous baby food mess oozes out all over the place as if it were Julius Caesar.​ You cant eat​ it until it cools, and once it cools, you are now eating wallpaper paste with that tough chewy chicken that gets that way from nuking the crap out of meat. Believe me when​ I say that you are better off buying a Whopper from Burger King, because at least the mystery meat sourced from razed Brazilian rain forest cows was put through a burger cooker.Thall of the charm and imagination of a Depression-era soup line.COFFEE: Nobody there is a trained barista. The coffee in the urns is often lukewarm. The Chai comes from syrups and therefore is always too sweet in that sickening way one hearkens to their childhood when they drank Zarex. None of it is any good. They are stretching themselves thin trying to cover all fronts to exploit tourist dollars.Dont forget to not take photos! Thats right. This joint is so exclusive, so special and so unique, that photography is prohibited! Now, is it because​ theres a Picasso hanging on the wall? Or, maybe its​ so posh with hordes of celebrity dining? Not sure. My suspicion is that the current owner is leery of Yelp reviews like mine with on-site photos for evidence.Twelve Pine only deserves to go out of business so a better place can move into that space. Thats all one can hope for.

Delicious food. Unique atmosphere. A real treasure/mainstay of Peterborough

Great coffee and foods. Great place for a meetup or to work remotely.

I love the salads from the deli, and am obsessed! The store is nice too and has some great items although extremely costly.

I have had some great food from here and the people are great too. Recently there was a ravioli pasta with artichokes, sun dried tomatoes and chick peas. Love their macaroons! One day we got food to go and drove up to the top of Pack Monadnock with my elderly mother for a memorable and delicious picnic.

Great food!

Nice place, well put together, friendly service and great food.

Not cheap, but good salads, upscale foods (wine, cheese, olive oils), good coffees. Great place for an outdoor lunch if you can afford some wait time.

Love the selection of made in house take home or dine in food. Atmosphere is cafe like and the to go food is to die for!

Never work here lmfaoo.

Ate there today, have frequented for years, must say it is the best now than ever before, and I thought it couldnt be topped before today! I am a soup connoisseur, and the chicken and bleu cheese soup I had today was the best soup I ever had...anywhere....Great staff, great coffee, too!!

Great food! Healthy options too!

The food and deserts are to die for! Fresh and prices are so affordable. Save room for the gelato!

They mixed up orders for me and the person after. I got tofu instead of chicken, and no cheese on my wrap. Thankfully im not picky. The vegan who got my chicken and cheese was not impressed, however. It also took a long time to get our food because they forgot to put them on the grill. We wont be back.

Food and coffee is so good, and the dining space is sunny and pleasant. Good selection of things for sale, from wine to knick knacks to chutneys to chocolate, and often fresh flowers as well.

Great food and service. Reasonably priced. Nice NH style shop attached

Good food and choices but not cheap :-)

Great food and fun atmosphere!

Great specialty shop that features fantastic house made lunch to go options great desert and bakery treats

Morning latte....reasonably priced

Good prices, friendly staff, and the food is to die for. Its also a great place to sit and people watch as its right in the middle of Peterborough.

Overpriced deli with mediocre food that all tastes the same. Greeted with unwelcoming sign at the door about prohibiting strollers. George the owner is a miserable hot head that treats his staff like garbage. It is common to witness him yelling at them in front of customers. Do yourself a favor and head over to the cafe at the Toadstool.

Great food for a good price!

Good selection, decent food - but they took longer than we were hoping for.

The food is good but the service is poor. They use to be friendly, now the staff act like its a bother to serve you.

Great place for a sandwich or dessert. Great country atmosphere.

Great food. Salads are very good. Not cheap, but worth it.

Great salads and loads of bits to take home. Excellent place for a quick bite.

Amazing lunch and the classic Twelve Pine burrito.

Best food but the owner screams at his staff in front of customers 😑

I love the food here! Service is awesome!

Good high end deli. Priced for tourists, not locals. Quality food and retail. Not a huge selection, but a good lunch.

Unique place offering unique food.

Great place. Interesting natural soaps.

Actually the food isnt all that bad, nor is the service or the overall presentation of the place. It does have a hollow corporate feeling which you dont often find in non-franchised restaurants. From what I hear this is related to the low pay rates offered there as well as the incredibly poor attitude of the owner. I have myself witnessed him literally yelling at an overwhelmed barista for not answering the phone by its third ring. There were probably 6 customers standing in line waiting for service and we had to witness this. If you lend any credence to the saying you are what you eat I suggest passing this place by because whereas the menu all looks appealing in the display case it is overpriced for what it actually IS, and there is no feeling to it (at least no good feeling)

Great pastries, coffee, wine, and a nice place to buy gifts.

Great food, great desserts, and great beer/wine selections

Great selection of prepared food. Comfortable place to sit and eat.

The burrito I ordered was not very good. However the gelato was, and the staff were helpful.

This is my favorite place to visit in Peterborough new Hampshire although this is a somewhat expensive general store it has some of the best food in the area especially the burritos