[Closed] Excellent cafes. Recommendations!

Baristas, Bristol

thanks for the positive info, this is a better thread isn't it! didn't know there was a decent caff in Crafnant.

The Wee Blether Tearoom - Loch Ard

[url= http://weeblethertearoom.co.uk/ ]mmmmmmmm……[/url]

It's not open all the time Kev, but we always stop when it is.
Leek & potato soup followed by Bara Brith or a big cake - it's great. 🙂

Zappis in Oxford

Chew Valley Lake

Petes Eats!

The Wee Blether Tearoom - Loch Ard

mmmmmmmm……

Cafe/shop in Berwick St. James (nearish Stonehenge). Huge slab of home-made bread pudding for 50p GET IN. 8)

Costa at Chester Service station - its just a generic expensive coffee outlet but its in just the right location.

hot chocolate with melted marsh mallows and a huge bacon bap at Llandegla. mmn!

Forgot [url= http://www.westmorland.com/tebay-services ]Tebay Services[/url] - but everyone knows about that place, right?

I like Ramblers in Peebles. Nice fry up.

Gullane, Falko [url= http://www.falko.co.uk/visit-us/gullane-cafe ]Cake-tastic[/url]

Time served German Konditormeister....

CG I got a route that goes right past there! It's always shut though....looking at their website I must always be doing that ride on a Sunday afternoon, better ride planning next time!

http://www.theprioryscorton.co.uk/
http://www.corrieris.co.uk/

The whole food cafe (Lakeland Pedler I think)in Kendle - vege chille is ace.

I almost put it in the Rip Off Cafes thread, till I realised it was about "crap" cafes. [url= http://www.pottery-cafe.com/chessell/ ]Chessell Pottery's cafe[/url] on the Isle of Wight serves humungous slices of cake and scones that are a cut above most other tea stops. Pricey but well worth the difference.

The Four Teas Cafe in Cholsey, superb cakes and other food / coffee, very handy when dropping down from the Ridgeway.

New Manor Farm Shop at West Harptree near to the Chew Valley lakes in North Somerset - great cakes and puddings.

Also the cafe at Yatton Station at the start of the Strawberry Line ticks most boxes.

cafe florence at loggerheads - top food and don't mind manky muddy singlespeeders eating their body weight in lovely home made cakes after a day in the clwyds

Brother in law has just opened Cloisters in Petersfield. Really nice food and bike friendly

Inshriach Nursery near Aviemore is brilliant - The expectation when you visit is that you will be eating cake, and good cake it is!
The Old Library Tearoom in Balquhidder is another good one. I've stopped there a couple of times after big rides where its position on the Sustrans makes it rude not to. Again good cake, but with sandwiches as well.

Forgot this one as well:

[url= http://janenormanphillips.wordpress.com/location/ ]Arts & Crafts Gallery & Cafe, [/url]Malltraeth, Anglesey.

Three I like on local rides:

Tea shop at Kilnsey Park (trout farm place), not terribly cheap but nice grub, handy for Mastiles Lane etc.

Farm shop with cafe attached just north of Airton on the way to Malham. Again not uber cheap.

The cafe at Five Rise Locks in Bingley. Felt like good value to me.

All three have bike racks.

Skyline cafe at Afan has the biggest flapjacks in the world. Thought it was two stuck together! Great hot food as well.

Forgot Tebay Services - but everyone knows about that place, right?

If venturing into Mugdock Park & surrounding areas, give the usual visitor centre a miss and head to Bullands Cafe. It's back in the town centre beside the Cross Keys Pub. They do fantastic soups and their chicken & mango baguettes are supreme. The also serve the best homemade empire biscuits & vistoria sponge.

Fans of bicycles and cafes should definitely pay a visit to http://www.patisseriecyclisme.co.uk/

2nd the Dales Bike Centre nr Reeth

I also like the cafe at Grizedale. Had some lovely cake and toasties there.

Also a shout for Parkhead cafe on the Waskerley Way - they do a really good hot beef and gravy bun.

bar italia

Cafe Cali in Hebden Bridge... 8)

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Grandpa Green's Ice Cream, Diggle/Saddleworth.

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Tunnel End Cafe in Marsden for a brew after descending the pack horse route.

The cafe attached to Dean Forest Cycles was great yesterday – ‘Grandma’s Power Fruit Cake was superb!

local to me and a good call in on a road ride is the swimming pool cafe at hathersage

also a bit too local as in nearly home the Bankside cafe in Langsett changed hands a couple of years ago has been renovated and is much brighter and pleasant with good coffee and excellent value food (no relation just think the effort needs some bigging up)

Cafe Cali in Hebden Bridge

Only really had coffee there but some cafe's in Hebden are ridiculously expensive 😯

Pilu, Freshwater Beach.....if you happen to be in Manly, Sydney 8)

Courtyard Cafe in Hope - great coffee and good value.

Right next to 18Bikes too 😀

Wilfs in Staveley,georgeous carrot cake, Hollands in coniston, opposite the public toilets, Nice coffee and cakes, are just two that we base mtb and road rides around!!

Village store in Wolverly is great, home made cakes, all the butties made with locally baked bread with locally sourced sausages and bacon. Top nomage!

Special mention goes to Nimmings (sp?) at Clent, Olga's in Kinver is good too.

Another vote for Wilf's Cafe in Staveley.
The biggest chocolate brownies you've ever seen, fantastic!

Sun Cafe in Hawkshead.

Don't plan on doing anything afterwards though if you have a cake frenzy.

The Real Food Cafe at Tyndrum. Huge portions of great fish and chips, pies made with local meat, and perfect for refuelling before the climb over to Glen Coe.

The Hill and Rockhampton WI: they do amazing cakes and pavlova, available on the 1st Sunday each month at Hill village hall (South Glos)

must give the local a mention - BikeBeans Cycle Cafe in Ashtead, http://www.bikebeans.co.uk/ . Top Coffee, must remember to tell them to stock cheese straws though..

+1 to whoever menationed The Potting Shed in Inshriach. Best cake in the Highlands, and the viewing gallery by the bird feeders is something else.

This one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18141421

penny lane in holmefirth, yondermans opposite the three staggs head inn on the a623 near cressbrook, the old black smiths in monyash and the cafe in flagg.

EDIT forgot the Moorside cafe Cromford

hp_source - Member
Cafe Cali in Hebden Bridge... 8)

oh yes

and druidh and teej took me in one the other week, which was ace.

deadlydarcy - Member

Baristas, Bristol

Good call.

+1 for Holingworth Lake as I spent a lot of my yoof cycling around that area.

Mess Cafe in Hackney do superb burgers, but you better get there before all the hipsters 😉

Pelicis for your 'the Crays' ate here, type thing.

The Alibion in Shoreditch is very good - might not be a cafe but if it is it's a CAFÉ not a kaff

Baristas Bristol?

They used the word "[i]Collective[/i]" on their website.

[i]Shudders. [/i]

Oh shit, totally forgot to mention Tamper.

best coffee in Sheffield (and probs further afield in fact)

Not desperately good for biking to, but the coffee is sublime.

Also some crazy cakes etc. made by nice Mr and Mrs on premises.

Daisys Cafe in Ambleside is nice, all the other nice ones I know are referred to as "that one just past the field with the bulls in" or "the one along from the bit where we fly the kites on the hill" which arent much use...

Whats the name of that bakery/cafe at Stavely/Cumbria?

Always stock up on their sarnies and bread when I start a ride there to take home for the missus.

also went in a cafe in hutton le hole which served enormous slabs of cake and fried my eggs just right. Not sure the name but it was owned by a southern woman (not that that matters just saying like)

EDIT greenwood crafts

+ 1 for The Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum.

Visit there pretty much every Friday night in summer on my way up north.

Always feel a wee bit sad when I sit in the booth next to the door and read the owner's memorial to her husband 🙁

Ah here it is: http://www.moreartisan.co.uk/

Ok, ok should I share this with you lot? Hmmm I guess you're all ok and would behave. I'm not too keen on you all going "en mass" because she'll not be able to cope with a mass bunch of STW's, but I guess us lot of locals and riders who use this wouldn't mind too much... It's not too far from the SDW trail as well and a most excellent place for a mid ride rest and cake..

Tazzina Cafe, West Meon.
"We are located just off the A32 on West Meon High Street, behind the village shop"

Also a most excellent place to stop is the Fisheries at East Meon.. Just over that Old Winchester Hill..

The Potting Shed in Inshriach. Best cake in the Highlands, and the viewing gallery by the bird feeders is something else.

Roman Lakes cafe - Marple.
Rosie's cafe - Hayfield.
Wilf's cafe - Staveley.

+1 to whoever menationed The Potting Shed in Inshriach. Best cake in the Highlands, and the viewing gallery by the bird feeders is something else.

One of the best cafes in the UK in my opinion. I'm not sure if the birds are being fed so that we can watch them while we eat - or we're being fed so that they can watch us.

Worth checking opening times before you head there though theres a day each week (weds maybe?) that its closed.

In that neck of the woods the Mountain Cafe in Aviemore comes a close second but they're never really on top of their service when its busy. They can have folk patiently queuing down the stairs waiting to be seated when in fact about a third of the tables are free

Other faves of mine:

The Green Tea Room in Moniaive - a good refuel stop after drumlanrig
Transeurope in Trongate, Glasgow
'Go Slow' in Govanhill, Glasgow - Rose does an astounding burger.

I always get a little taken aback by how excited people get about Tebay services - compared to other service stations its amazing, but its only as good as you could imagine a service station to be. I'm glad they as successful as they are though - I missed my exit passing there a while back and ended up in the next services down the road instead - I was the only customer and they'd only two staff (not exactly struggling) to run the whole place. Dismal - with the Tebay gang branching out to the M5 lets see if the other services start to up their game a bit

I always get a little taken aback by how excited people get about Tebay services

+1. It's got a nice farm shop and cafe but it's staggeringly expensive. To be honest I'd rather have a generic Starbucks. Services are where I'd like to spend the absolute minimum of time.

For those who've posted their fave caffs, consider doing a review for this website: [url= http://www.patisseriecyclisme.co.uk/ ]patisseriecyclisme.co.uk[/url].

I've no connection, but it's a neat little idea. Reviews of decent cafes for cyclists to go to.

anyone been to bruar north of pitlochry? its a pretty good cafe....ive had some really awesome meals theyre...also theyres a place near dingwall ont road north to golspie thats really good(cant remember the name)

Look Mum No Hands on Old Street in London is very nice. Expensive but generally good service, great food and coffee, nice laid back atmosphere, books and mags to read, big screen showing all the Tours. Often got art exhibitions, talks etc on there as well.

Lock your bike up outside though! The cafe supplies loan locks to customers.

The caff in Beeley is pretty good. Up the hill from Devonshire arms. Does cracking homemade cake and posh sarnies/coffees

Reviews of decent cafes for cyclists to go to.

Do the cafes know whats about to befall them? 🙂

Just thought of another - [url= http://sucasaayr.com/ ]Su Casa[/url] in Ayr - I was looking at reviews for eateries in Ayrshire on trip advisor. Unsurprisingly my local, the Sorn Inn, gets top ranking - the guy has cooked in Mayfair, catered for the Beckhams engagement party, that sort of thing. But Su Casa got second spot and thats a massive accolade for a tiny wee cafe that Lucas runs 7 days a week and he puts every ounce of himself into it, a proper host- asks for and remembers everyones name.

This: [url= http://www.rectory-tearooms.co.uk/tearooms.htm ]Rectory Tearooms Morwenstow[/url]

This: [url= http://www.applecrossgarden.co.uk/#!__page-0/the-cafe ]Applecross Walled Garden[/url]

Coldwell Activity Centre Cafe, top of the world just on the Burnley side of Widdop Moor. Good coffee - much better than the all milk no beans they dish up at Coffee Cali - good cakes, very reasonable prices and decent banter with the manageress 🙂 We were up there just before Christmas on the day after they closed for the holidays and she still let us in and gave us a (free) brew. Top service.

[url= http://www.barrowburn.com/tearoom.html ]Barrowburn[/url] Tea Room
+1 The Real Food Cafe at Tyndrum
Rotcher Cafe, Holmfirth
Beal Tea Room, Northumberland

Pen-y-Ghent café in Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Dog & Partridge @ Tosside/Gisburn

The pub in Long Preston just on the left as you emerge on to the a65 after a trip to Gisburn

The Lakeland peddler

Stump cross cavern

The tea van at Janet's Foss nr. Malham

There are many more, and yes this is a better thread.

The tea hut on Blackheath

Minutes silence for Stella's in Holford please

Alex222
Where's Moorside Cafe in Cromford ?

Don't think anybody has mentioned the Tor Cafe ? One of the favorite cafes for any roadie in the Peaks / Matlock area.

[url= http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Cromford,+Matlock,+UK&hl=en&ll=53.10907,-1.558758&spn=0.005507,0.016512&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=22.297654,67.631836&oq=cromford&hnear=Cromford,+Derbyshire,+United+Kingdom&t=m&z=17&layer=c&cbll=53.10907,-1.558758&panoid=SeQJ_L3PbvGeQ7OQY_ULsA&cbp=12,350.38,,0,7.54 ]Tor Cafe[/url]

Cheerful chilli Otley chevin Jane leaves the cakes outside on the windowsill to cool it's really a ploy to get you to go have seconds.

+1 Cheerful Chilli.

Had a top lunch at the cafe on Mill/High Street in Snaith, West of Selby the other day. Posh little place, but really nice sarnie and good range of cake.

Pennard Stores on the Gower, above Three Cliffs Bay have never let us down.