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Taking my dad for a weekend of road riding in the peaks in a few weeks. based in Castleton, but planning a route that will stop somewhere good for lunch.
So what's your recommendations for really good cafes or pubs for a quality lunch stop?
Depends how far you will be riding, and what direction. If you head south into the White Peak, there are some lovely quiet lanes. We often stop in Monyash and there's a nice little cafe that sells decent food. Mind you, last time we were there, their card machine was down and we had to go to the pub next door and we found their chip cobs even better than the cafe
My favs:
Tea on the Green, Chinley
The Cafe At Green Pavillion, Buxton
Peak View Tea Rooms, Near the Cat & Fiddle (macc-buxton road)
Scarthin Books, Cromford, Matlock (veggie and you'll need locks).
But there are millions these days!
The Chequers under Froggatt edge is nice if you end up that way.
Surely the best Café has to be at Grindleford
I'd ride to bakewell from Castleton, nip into the tearooms at Chatsworth and then ride back. Lots of scenery and heritage. Googlemaps reckons only 14 miles castleton to bakewell so you may want to extend that a bit. Lovely area, nice dilema to have! 🙂
cheers, i'll check some of those out.
planning a 40ish mile day or so. it's all about scenery, quiet lanes and nice riding. maybe a coffee stop, a lunch stop and then an afternoon pint somewhere.
probably going to head down into the white peak. The george in alstonefield is a particular favourite of mine but may be a bit far to make a good loop back.
If you are heading near the very good café at monyash, might as well risk the dodgy crossing of the A515 to get to the Royal Oak at Hurdlow. Lovely food and bike racks as just off High Peak Trail.
Pricey but worth it. Think the site is www.peakpub.co.uk?
Ooh - forgot one.
High Nelly's in Tidewell.
Great coffee, cake and oatcake-based meals.
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If you get the chance, please support the Litton Community shop, which sells interesting, home made and hugely calorific cakes.
Lovely food in the Pub in Monyash but as said before loads of places some nice cafes in Eyam all over the Peaks.
+1 for High Nellys in Tideswell. Hathersage Social Club is a very good cafe of sorts and a bit different. Best pub food is found at the Packhorse in Little Longstone IMO, and the Moon Inn in Stoney Middleton has had a refurb and was excellent the other weekend. Red Lion in Litton has a lovely setting. Oh and Cafe Adventure in Hope is good.
That should keep you going.
Yorkshire Bridge and Ladybower Inn are both good pubs. Nice food in both.
Grindleford station cafe for?the legendary rude signs (& sometimes service) but ace food.
The no car cafe at rushup edge is great, as are the breakfasts at the old smithy in monyash
15 posts and no peak pedantry.
Tsk.
The Barrel inn on the road above Eyam towards the gliding centre at Hucklow from Hathersage
and an oddity but def' my favourite Hathersage Swimming Pool cafe but in March probably shut
I keep meaning to try that, but it never seems to be the right time in a ride.paule - MemberThe no car cafe at rushup edge is great,
I might have to engineer it in.
Another fav I forgot about is
Coleman's Deli Hathersage.
Great coffee, cake and platters. Sun trap outside too.
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+1 for The Royal Oak at Hurdlow - stopped there when attempting the Peak 200 and they were most accommodating for two rather mucky mountain bikers.
Was recommended the No Car Cafe but like AlexSimon we mistimed it.