Ellerton Lakeside Cafe

Over priced moderate food quality. Friendly attentive staff surrounds are good

Great cafe, very cycle friendly, nice cup of tea and homemade scone. Staff were great, very friendly and couldn't do enough to help. Would highly recommend. Just been back a year later after a long ride round the Dales, still got great tea, cakes and scones, well done to all the staff, great service....

Shared fruit scone, which was a little dry, but it went down with a generous amount of tea.

What a nice spot! I was excited for breakfast since they offer a full vegan selection. However, my breakfast arrived with egg on it! I brought it back, and the server apologized and removed it. They did provide another breakfast, but this was quite careless and disrespectful. Kid-friendliness: Lovely child's play area Wheelchair accessibility: Fully accessible

A large group of 17 social riders today so a stop off at the Ellerton Lakeside Cafe but a caveat that there's a SPECIALS BOARD with 'Any coffe & scone for (just!?) £6.50' (or any coffee & a (very small!) mince pie for £4.95). It seems unless you say you're ordering from the specials board option you'll be charged more (around £7.50 as the price seemed to 'vary' and with one of the group about to be charged £17.50 until it was pointed out and then given just £10 change, hmmm?!!). This is a 'sharp' and dubious practice and not what you'd expect, be warned, so if you order a scone and coffee here make sure you say it's from the specials board option (my Yorkshireman's tip of the day, ha!). Otherwise there's extended seating now available at the cafe which is good and it's clean and pleasant enough. Service can be on the slow side though not an issue if there's no rush but we found what was ordered was just left on one table and we had to retrieve what we'd ordered from there from the various other tables we were sat at, hmm!? Not everything we ordered turned up thus had to be chased too. I get the impression cyclists aren't particularly welcome (though we are well behaved, respectful and polite), the blue rinse and pensioned set being perhaps the unquestioning customer of choice, despite the fact that this used to be a popular destination for many cycling groups (until they started charging a frankly ridiculous £8.45 for a coffee and a scone when the par elsewhere is around a fiver or less!). This isn't a cheap cafe by any means and perhaps it's intended to be so, to cover 'extensive' overheads and achieve profit margins, but by not offering good value food and drinks they limit their customer base and its not a cafe I'll be rushing back to as will many other cyclist's which is a very common view now and perhaps that's the cafe's objective alas, such a shame!?

Homemade large chicken and mushroom pie excellent, also mince and onion pie, served with peas and chips, service good, nice local cafe,good atmosphere, lovely staff.

Food was bland bland bland,no warm welcome