[dave atkinson]

For the road.cc Recommends show on YouTube we’re looking for your suggestions of the best cycling cafe stops in the UK. If you want to recommend your local favourite, let us know what it is in this thread, and tell us why! Please include a link to the cafe on the interwebs/facebook/etc if you can. Cheers!

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[flyingpitman]

In Northumberland I like

In Northumberland I like Matfen Village store,and coffee shop.

Other notable ones are,Capheaton,Blacksmith’s Belsay,and Rocky Road in Bellingham 

[biking59boomer]

Memo Bay cafe (formally the

Memo Bay cafe (formally the RSPB cafe) just before the barrage bridge. Very friendly staff and reasonable prices. Popular with local cyclists

[richliv]

We have many round our way
Dunno if this thread is really still live as its dated 2021 but I’ll assume its reanimated so…

We have many excellent cycle caffs round our way (which is also your way @dave so you may have first hand knowledge). My top three:

1. Honey Street Mill, Alton Barnes. A stalwart of the Trowvegas CC club rides and the best bacon butties in Wiltshire. And good cakes… kitkat cheese cake once spotted there ❤️ . https://www.honeystreetmill.co.uk/

2. Ginnys/The Ginger Piggery, Boyton
A lovely caff on a lovely route down the Wylye Valley to Salisbury from Bath. Friendly staff used to damp and shivering cyclists!
https://www.facebook.com/Thegingerpiggery/

3. Flying Monk Brewery and Taproom, Malmesbury. I don’t actually consume alcohol on rides but the zero % is great (a good call for carb loading too), the usual cakes and butties and it’s basically a giant barn in the countryside with underfloor heating and air hockey.
https://flyingmonkbrewery.com/

[mdavidford]

As an aside, Google’s

As an aside, Google’s proposed route included this.

[mdavidford]

Shreds wrote:

Marmite scones sometimes! 

😲 *Considers whether the 254 mile round trip might be worth it…*

[Shreds]

Tea at lil Maggies and the

Tea at lil Maggies and the Secret Barn, North Muskham, Newark NG23 6HU is an amazing food stop. Did it last year with the V-CC which meant walking on the grass verge along the A1 😳 to get to it, ignoring Greggs on the way. 
In my view using off road tracks and paths from the River Trent would be safer and more pleasant way of getting there from Cromwell, but definitely worth checking out. 

[Shreds]

Another new place recently

Another new place recently discovered is Wingfield Station cafe (no longer a station) in Derbyshire. ( Holm Lane South Wingfield, Holme Ln, South Wingfield, Fourlane Ends, Alfreton DE55 7NY )

A good tea and coffee stop with cakes and even Marmite scones sometimes! 

[davidtcycle]

The tea room at the top of

The tea room at the top of the Col de la Croix de Fer is a must-visit. Alternatively, try the wooden hut tearoom just down the road at the top of the Col du Glandon, which is not so busy. Other pictures are available from davidtphotography.com 

[pandm1@talktalk. et]

Greggs wherever it may be

Greggs wherever it may be,with or without seating 

[LiamY_80]

Twin Lakes Velo Cafe

Twin Lakes Velo Cafe

Brickcroft Lane
Croston
PR26 9RF
England

Always greeted with a smile and the food and drink is excellent.  Local rides posted and great location.  Would highly recommend 

 

[Judge dreadful]

Velo Domestique in

Velo Domestique in Southbourne.

https://www.velodomestique.co.uk/

Cafe Velo in Ringwood is great.

look mum no hands Old Street in London, is always good.

https://www.lookmumnohands.com/

A tiny little tea room called the  tea cosy in Hurstbourne Tarrant is fun, as they actually use knitted tea cosys of different designs on their tea pots, and the cakes are lovely.

there’s my favourite more ‘local’ one, called the old bake house in Beaulieu as well.

There’s probably loads I’ve forgotten, but that list will do, I reckon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[peted76]

I’m putting four cafe stops

I’m putting five cafe stops down because each is so good for different reasons they deserve to be visited.

1) The Straw Kitchen, Whichford CV36 5PG. Why, it’s a beautiful unique Warwickshire village full of flowers in pots. The cafe itself was made from wattle and daube and has glass in the walls, it was made by and is run by hippy types. Everything is compostable and locally sourced, the food is fantastic and award winning, the coffee is super. The cafe is located within a carefully planted wild flower garden, it is glorious. https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g8468653-d8465670-Reviews-The_Straw_Kitchen_Whichford_Pottery-Whichford_Warwickshire_England.html

2) The Mulberry Cafe, Cropredy OX17 1NH. Why, location, service, quality of food in an unexpected setting. Locally sourced food is top notch. In the middle of a unassuming village there lies a converted house, a tiny little cafe run by a flambouant young man who really should be on reality TV somewhere, the juxtaposition is one of the main factors why this cafe stands out, The food is top top notch, coffee is excellent and Cropredy villiages echoes this cafe. This quaint little rural chocolate box village seems to be home to an unusual amount of aged rockers and has since 1976 hosted the largest folk and rock festival you’ve never heard of. https://themulberrycafe.co.uk/

3) Napton Post Office, Napton CV47 8LR. Why, location, service, character. This place never ceases to make me smile. The coffee is mediocre, the food is good, but the place is such fun. Family run and packed from floor to ceiling with local produce for sale there is something for everyone. Location, it’s a charming village on a hill the post office is located just a few hundred meters in one direction from a Water Buffalo farm and at the base of a nice steep grind up tiny narrow lanes past a church to a windmill the place has character. You can sit inside or out and it’s busy with village life and characters as people pop in to get a paper or meet for a coffee, it’s a glorious slice of life. https://www.naptonvillagestores.co.uk/ 

4) Gilks Garage Cafe, Kineton CV35 0JZ. Located on the main road into Kineton which is a main gateway to the coltswolds from Warwickshire, this is a popular edge of village cafe. Why, it’s an old car garage and sort of museum to it’s history. It’s cooler than I’m making it sound, think 1960’s machanics garage.. anyway, it’s owned by and run by the same family who founded the gargage in the same building in 1949, generations of old fella’s later and the father/daughter team of the most recent ‘Gilks’ decide to do something different, and it’s ace. Lots of outside space and bike parking, always cyclists passing and stopping, the food is fantastic, it’s a popular eatery for the local villages and they do Sunday lunches when they aren’t doing coffee and cake. You can’t help but like this place. https://gilksgaragecafe.com/ 

5) Bakery on the Water, Bourton-on-the-Water GL54 2BY. Why.. Location, service &  that bakery smell. I’ve never had anything from here which isn’t fantastic. Awesome food & good coffee. Lovely friendly family run bakery and cafe servicing a horde of locals and vast numbers of tourists in the summertime. Located in a beautiful village just over a tiny bridge which I’m sure American tourists would stop and take a picture of. Outside seating in the rear, good clean toilet facilities. There’s always something to see here, it’s a top drawer cafe! http://www.bakeryonthewater.co.uk/

Don’t ask me to choose one.. I can’t, they are all awesome.

 

[peted76]

mdavidford wrote:

peted76 wrote:

has since 1976 hosted the largest folk and rock festival you’ve never heard of.

<pedant> 1980 was the first proper festival year, and in 1981 it was held at Broughton Castle.

Meh.. debatable..  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairport%27s_Cropredy_Convention

[mdavidford]

peted76 wrote:

has since 1976 hosted the largest folk and rock festival you’ve never heard of.

<pedant> 1980 was the first proper festival year, and in 1981 it was held at Broughton Castle.

[shufflingb]

+1 for Wild Carrot – great

+1 for Wild Carrot – great stop if riding Chavenage Lane bw next door.

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