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Title: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 11 October, 2008, 08:30:01 pm
New and improved! With Google maps.
I've set up a new map and given access to all. You will probably need to create a profile with Google if you don't already have one in order to add your Cake Stops to the map.

So share all your favourite cakeries...  :P
YACF Cake Stops Map (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109168215630742238084.000458fd5144216d3a006&z=8)


For the technically challenged, here is some help from Google: My Maps - Google Maps User Guide - Maps Help Center (http://maps.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=68480)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: border-rider on 12 October, 2008, 07:25:07 pm
Good work Mrs P :)

I just added a few...
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: chris on 12 October, 2008, 08:03:36 pm
Great idea, I've added a few too.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: saturn on 12 October, 2008, 08:27:31 pm
I've imported a load from the south midlands, think I may have temporarily renamed the map, hope it's OK now.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: Hummers on 12 October, 2008, 08:59:37 pm
Excellent.

I have added some although there are more to come.

H
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: hellymedic on 12 October, 2008, 09:05:04 pm
Should we be asking the admins to make this a 'sticky'?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: toekneep on 12 October, 2008, 09:19:35 pm
Brilliant idea. Cake, one of the essentials of life.  :thumbsup: The only drawback is that the map could get rather crowded.  ;D
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: Hummers on 12 October, 2008, 09:24:19 pm
Does it have to be Cake?

Could it also be BEER stops?

H
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: toekneep on 12 October, 2008, 09:26:08 pm
Surely we need both. One can't have too many pleasures in life.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: chris on 12 October, 2008, 09:44:56 pm
Does it have to be Cake?

Could it also be BEER stops?

H

Perhaps we could use a different symbol for beer stops.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: Hummers on 12 October, 2008, 09:51:43 pm
How do we do the symbol thong thing?

H
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: chris on 12 October, 2008, 09:53:48 pm
How do we do the symbol thong thing?

H

When editing the text, there is a box above it with the symbol. Click on the symbol and a pop-up is displayed with the available symbols.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: toekneep on 12 October, 2008, 09:54:12 pm
Right click on the blue thing and then choose properties. You can then choose a symbol. The tragedy is that there is no pint of beer symbol.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2008, 10:26:11 pm
Does it have to be Cake?

Could it also be BEER stops?

H
If you have a look at the description, I think I mentioned hostelries as well as cakeries....  :P
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: Hummers on 12 October, 2008, 10:30:52 pm
I thank you.

H
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 12 October, 2008, 10:37:03 pm
24 hrs of quiet and I worried this would die on it's ass!

It appears you can upload your own icons, so if anyone has a pint glass icon on the web somewhere and would like to share...we could use that for teh pubehs.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops
Post by: Wobbly John on 12 October, 2008, 10:38:26 pm
Strange - there doesn't appear to be any cake to the East of the M1  :-\
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: leeg on 15 October, 2008, 01:22:28 pm
West Kent CTC have a huge list of cafe's on their site.  It includes a map reference and opening times.

http://www.westkentctc.org.uk/Pages/Various/Cafe%20list.pdf
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Steve GT on 15 October, 2008, 03:39:32 pm
I have added a few in the Yorkshire Dales area.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: clarion on 15 October, 2008, 03:41:38 pm
Strange - there doesn't appear to be any cake to the East of the M1  :-\

According to our research in Cambs, Lincolnshire & E Notts, there are no cafes worth visiting (and frequently no cafes at all) between Mildenhall & Yorkshire ;D
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: onb on 16 October, 2008, 11:37:09 am
Hope this helps.


Home (http://www.cyclistcafes.co.uk/index.html)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Ray 6701 on 16 October, 2008, 03:17:50 pm
Could some clever person please add Honey pot tea rooms in Rosliston for me.  The pc at work is rubbish and I can't get it to work.  The web address is Beehive Farm Woodland Lakes Rosliston Derbyshire | Family Fun in the Heart of the National Forest | Derby Burton Lichfield Tamworth Staffordshire (http://www.beehivefarm-woodlandlakes.co.uk).  Good food, excellent value, plenty of room, space to park & lock your bikes & lots of cyclists on sunday afternoons.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: JT on 16 October, 2008, 04:05:37 pm
Strange - there doesn't appear to be any cake to the East of the M1  :-\

According to our research in Cambs, Lincolnshire & E Notts, there are no cafes worth visiting (and frequently no cafes at all) between Mildenhall & Yorkshire ;D

I've added a couple in the east of Northants. I've got some more potentials too further east but I have to check them out personally first.

It's a tough job but someone's got to do it.  O:-)

Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Pingu on 16 October, 2008, 04:20:14 pm
Could some clever person please add Honey pot tea rooms in Rosliston for me.  The pc at work is rubbish and I can't get it to work.  The web address is Beehive Farm Woodland Lakes Rosliston Derbyshire | Family Fun in the Heart of the National Forest | Derby Burton Lichfield Tamworth Staffordshire (http://www.beehivefarm-woodlandlakes.co.uk).  Good food, excellent value, plenty of room, space to park & lock your bikes & lots of cyclists on sunday afternoons.

Thanks!

Done  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: токамак on 03 November, 2008, 11:28:13 am
The Viper (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/37/3750/Viper/Mill_Green) in Mill Green (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2373542) is undoubtedly the best pub in the world, ever. Many cyclists stop by there - some of the old boys even have 'Viper' jerseys, slogan: 'Powered by Nethergate (http://www.nethergate.co.uk/index.htm)...' and 'If found, return to The Viper'. ;D

The beer and food is excellent and reasonably priced, it's in a great location, and there's always a friendly atmosphere.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: DanialW on 08 November, 2008, 09:20:50 pm
I was going to add the Gentle Jane in Grosmont, but see that MalVolio beat me to it.

They had that Nicole Cooke in there a couple of weeks ago.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Rig of Jarkness on 22 November, 2008, 08:42:06 am
This cake stop map is a great idea but please, for the benefit of the technically illiterate like myself,  can you also provide some instructions on how to add entries to the map ? 
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: slowfen on 25 November, 2008, 10:05:29 am

There is a couple of good ones in Oundle, but can't remember there names :-[ :-[
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: JT on 25 November, 2008, 11:12:26 am

There is a couple of good ones in Oundle, but can't remember there names :-[ :-[

The Coffee Tavern (facing the market square) and Beans (near the War Memorial) perhaps?

And there's Smiths at No.4 but it's a bit posher and smaller in there.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: IanDG on 25 November, 2008, 12:05:31 pm
Surely we need both. One can't have too many pleasures in life.

But not together, cake and beer just don't mix well
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 December, 2008, 08:59:12 pm
Surely we need both. One can't have too many pleasures in life.

But not together, cake and beer just don't mix well
Says who?? :)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 04 December, 2008, 09:08:37 pm
This cake stop map is a great idea but please, for the benefit of the technically illiterate like myself,  can you also provide some instructions on how to add entries to the map ? 
Please see the original post, I have added a linky hint.....
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: bazzerp on 16 December, 2008, 03:13:46 pm
Just added one in Norfolk - more to come. The work PC is not up to this mapping stuff.....
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Marco Stefano on 23 December, 2008, 09:41:45 pm
Clarion, I can't find any East Anglian ones either.

Wobbly John, enlighten us! I know where some beer is, but there cannot be such a cake vacuum in the mystic east, can there?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: IanDG on 24 December, 2008, 08:00:49 am
Surely we need both. One can't have too many pleasures in life.

But not together, cake and beer just don't mix well
Says who?? :)

IME, Mrs P  :sick:

 ;D
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Wowbagger on 24 December, 2008, 08:46:03 am
I've never had a problem.

Scone with blackcurrant jam and cream, all washed down with a pint of Adnams. Just like being on the Mildenhall 100k.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: IanDG on 24 December, 2008, 02:23:38 pm
Mmmm...  fine for some, I remember a friend who used to have a Mars Bar or Cream Egg with every pint, I just find that mixing sweet stuff with ale just doesn't agree with my GI chemistry
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Fixedwheelnut on 02 January, 2009, 11:20:32 pm
 How did I miss this before  ::-)  Just added a few for Kent  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Bledlow on 10 January, 2009, 08:56:59 pm
There was a deplorable lack of entries around here. Still no cake stops, but there's now a selection of purveyors of beer. All have gardens suitable for summer cyclists, & also sell food - though in some cases just rolls.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: alan on 24 January, 2009, 05:29:45 am
The Stawberry Farm at Bramshall near Uttoxeter
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Raph on 14 February, 2009, 12:21:02 pm
National Herb Centre. Warmington, just north of Banbury.

google map clicky (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104532696062593773251.000462dfde342e6c99d71&ll=52.104396,-1.382217&spn=0.13707,0.363922&z=12)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Raph on 14 February, 2009, 03:05:15 pm
Falkland Arms, Great Tew, nr Chipping Norton

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104532696062593773251.000462e225326c7f5ff9d&ll=52.023346,-1.365051&spn=0.274639,0.727844&z=11&iwloc=000462e23b5a7b31a0e86 (http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104532696062593773251.000462e225326c7f5ff9d&ll=52.023346,-1.365051&spn=0.274639,0.727844&z=11&iwloc=000462e23b5a7b31a0e86)


I haven't worked out whether I'm supposed to be able to add these to the universal map given at the beginning of the thread, but if someone else does so I'll be grateful...
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: PloddinPedro on 15 February, 2009, 11:02:01 am
OK, I give in - I admit it - I'm hopeless at this sort of thing.

I've just logged in, created three new cafe points with descriptions, OK'ing my way out of each one as per the Help instructions. They appeared on the map with the teacup icon and in the list on the left hand pane. When I refresh the Google Maps screen, I now have two editions of "Best Cake and Beer Stops" under "Created by others" at top left, but neither shows my additions - they've just have gone. Pooh!

So what should I have done?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 19 February, 2009, 02:23:27 pm
So what should I have done?
Did you click on the 'edit' button on the bottom left hand pane before you made your markers? And when you'd finished did you click on 'save'?

Raph, I've added yours onto the map.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: toekneep on 21 February, 2009, 06:08:05 pm
I seem to be getting different symbols on the maps depending on whether or not I am looking at page one or two on the left. Has anybody else noticed this?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Raph on 23 February, 2009, 01:54:06 pm
Thanks Mrs Pingu! There was a lack of cake stops around here so that's great. R
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Raph on 28 February, 2009, 11:02:01 am
Not sure how fussy to be - the National Herb Centre is at the top of the hill, south of Warmington, the teacup symbol on the map is about 1/2 mile out and  on the wrong side of the village of Warmington - someone looking for the Herb Centre in the village might be looking for a long time before realizing it's outside the village at the top of the hill - how do I move it to the exact spot?

...which is:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=uk&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=104532696062593773251.000462dfde342e6c99d71

Don't know if I'm being a pedant - sometimes when you really really need a cake stop, knowing exactly where it is can be a godsend!  :)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: clarion on 08 March, 2009, 09:27:27 pm
I am happy to recommend the Tudor Dairies in Henley-in-Aden.

More commonly known as 'that tea room with the ice cream' ;D

Good menu, including whopping toasted teacakes & cream teas as well as savoury stuff (breakfasts served till 1400, IIRC), and, of course, about a gazillion flavours of ice cream.

Oh - and forget silly closing times - they're open till 1730 on a sunday! :o

Tea was good - and they have a big photo of a club outing on their wall. :)

Staff were a clueless but pretty charming bunch of teenagers, but all was well.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Jaded on 15 March, 2009, 12:14:46 pm
Kludgey Google code wouldn't save the 4 that I put in, and also wouldn't let me choose the cup and saucer.  :'(
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: dodgy on 03 April, 2009, 04:31:14 pm
My first post, and I'm using it to announce the edition of The Eureka Cyclist's Café onto the cakery map :)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: clarion on 03 April, 2009, 04:35:43 pm
Where's that, then?  :)

And welcome - good start for making friends!

Ah - your location is a clue.  There's another member rarely about who mentioned it.  Good refuelling before all the mountains of the Wirral, I seem to remember ;)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: dodgy on 03 April, 2009, 04:39:34 pm
Where's that, then?  :)

And welcome - good start for making friends!

Linkage (http://tinyurl.com/clfk7m)

 ;D

Seriously, it is fairly famous and occasionally attracts some well known local riders (Steve Cummings has popped in there and so has Stan Chris Boardman. A very cyclist orientated cafe!

Eureka Cyclists Cafe - Famous meeting and eating place for cycling enthusiasts and cycling clubs based in the North West of England near Chester (http://www.eurekacyclistscafe.co.uk/) <--- Nout to do with me, just lucky that it's my local(ish) cafe.

Thanks for the welcome  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: clarion on 03 April, 2009, 04:46:37 pm
Thanks.  I found it on the map as the latest addition.  It's one of those very famous cycling cafes - like the one just south of Lancaster on the A6, and the crap little one in Hebden Bridge.

Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: LEE on 03 April, 2009, 04:58:25 pm
The Friar Tuck in Amesbury does a wonderful Cake* comprising of Sausages, Bacon, Eggs, Beans and Toast.

* It's not really a cake in the truest sense.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: dodgy on 03 April, 2009, 05:30:21 pm
Thanks.  I found it on the map as the latest addition.  It's one of those very famous cycling cafes - like the one just south of Lancaster on the A6,

The Priory tea rooms?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: dodgy on 03 April, 2009, 05:35:53 pm
Someone's deleted the Eureka off the map now, I suppose that's what happens when you leave the thing open and depend on trust? I can't be arsed adding it back :)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 09 April, 2009, 10:36:45 pm
Seems to still be there dodgy, unless you got re-arsed to put it back that is.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: clarion on 14 April, 2009, 11:18:59 am
I need to work out the magick of how to post stuffs.  But until I do, here is our crop of cafes from this weekend:

Ross-on-Wye:  There's a cafe on the High Street (I'll remember the name soon) that did a grand veggie breakfast.

Malvern: Bluebird Tea Rooms near that terrace-y bit where yon Elgar stands.  Not much bike parking space, as it's just a door at ground level, but it is a magnificent tea shop, with really good food.

Unfortunately, it wasn't open yesterday when we went by, so we went to Henry's Bistro, which was a bit average :-\
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: dodgy on 14 April, 2009, 11:22:54 am
Seems to still be there dodgy, unless you got re-arsed to put it back that is.

It's not showing to me for some reason, tested with logged in and logged out of Google.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Regulator on 06 May, 2009, 11:22:25 am
The Elm Tree, Orchard Street, Cambridge (http://www.cambridge-camra.org.uk/pubguide/viewpub.php?id=24)

As the sign outside says:

"Good Beer
No Food (although they do do lovely pork scratchings and pickled eggs)
Miserable staff (completely untrue)"

I can thoroughly recommend it.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: thing1 on 06 May, 2009, 11:42:09 am
Now on your mobile phone! All you need to do is follow these two easy steps:

1. Install Google Maps for mobile (http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/mobile/default/maps/index.html) by going to google.com/gmm on your phone's browser
2. In Google Maps, do a 'Search' and enter http://tinyurl.com/cakestop into the search box (exactly as shown)

Presto!

(Caveat: I only tested this quickly on my Nokia. YMMV)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Seineseeker on 22 May, 2009, 04:21:21 pm
Added a couple near Paris. Call me up if you are planning a visit.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: chillmoister on 14 September, 2009, 04:08:33 pm
found my self at Lulworth Cove at 8:30 yesterday morning (ridden down from Blandford) ...was gagging for a coffee but the cafe was not open and one the hotels wouldn't serve 'non residents' ....was giving up hope but then saw this place onthe way out clicky (http://www.lulworthcove.co.uk/cromwell/Welcome.html).  More than happy to serve me coffee and a bacon sarnie for the return trip  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: cpjmathieson on 15 September, 2009, 07:22:48 am
If you are visiting Walton on The Naze Tower, Walton on the Naze, Essex.  (http://www.nazetower.co.uk/)...... this place does a cracking Cream Tea  :P
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 06 March, 2010, 03:02:53 pm
My mate is just about to pack in science and run a pub with her partner. They will be opening the Three Horseshoes (Thwaites) in Ingleton as the new tenants from the end of March, so if you're in the area drop in and say hello :)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: brownster on 25 April, 2010, 08:59:34 pm
Just added 3 of my favourite beer stops  ;D

The Cock Inn, Luddesdown

The Stone Horse, Higham

Kings Arms, Upper Upnor

All great for good real ale and bite to eat if you are in the area.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Steve Kish on 27 August, 2010, 10:37:47 pm
Best English breakfast in the south is at The Teapot (Pull-In Cafe) in Maidenhead, top of the market, where the buses stop.  Breakfast special at under a fiver, which includes tea and toast. :smug:

Been going there since the late 1980s .... worst one I ever had was merely 'great!!'. ;D

.............................

Tested again yesterday - still got it!! ;D
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: itsbruce on 30 August, 2010, 11:13:54 pm
If you're ever touring the South Downs, the Singing Kettle (http://www.wheresbest.co.uk/venue/13983/The-Singing-Kettle/) in Alfriston is a top quality cake stop; nice teas, very nice cakes.  Forgive me if I don't add it to the map myself, but I'm allergic to Google.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Weirdy Biker on 22 September, 2010, 11:39:52 pm
This seems a likely place to ask this question.  Does anyone have a suggestion for a good cafe/tea stop in the Shoreham-by-Sea/Lancing/Worthing area.  Ideally with a decent view of the sea and a friendly attitude towards cyclists (especially those of an audax persuasion).
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Arch on 26 September, 2010, 09:02:15 pm
I've added a few haunts around York...

If I tried to list every tea shop in York, the map would sink under the weight of cups.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Peter on 05 October, 2010, 12:41:33 am
All these stops sound great but I think the best one I have come across was on Saturday's inaugural running of the Venetian Nights 200 from Macclesfield.  The ride involves a section along the High Peak Trail, which is the trackbed of the Monsal freight line between Cromford and Buxton.  Half-way along, at Parsley Hay (true), JayP of this parish had parked his camper van, from which he dispensed tea, coffee and oh, so much cake!  Trays of Stollen, flapjack, fruitcake, chocolate cake, brittle....yeah, 'twas a Dickensian Delight of a cake van.  Dusk, with cycles, companions, countryside and CAKE; oh, to be in England at such times.....
Thanks to John, Elaine, Claire and Roy!
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Dinamo on 06 November, 2010, 08:30:47 pm
Used the 'Oak Room' cafe in Lynton last week after visiting the Valley of the Rocks. ( recommended cafe at the VofR was closed )
Great cafe with a good menu - the evening menu looked even better Tapas stylee !
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Seineseeker on 09 November, 2010, 08:10:31 pm
Pointless I know, but I've added the 3 nice stops I've found so far (2 in New Jersey and 1 in Pennsylvania!)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: a lower gear on 26 November, 2010, 06:43:41 pm
Waunwyllt (= "wild meadow") Inn 50 metres off National Cycle Route 47 at Horeb / Five Roads, half way between Llanelli and Five Roads; signposted from the path. A few rings on the outside wall to secure cycles to; tables out front; beer garden at back; bar with light meals; restaurant; Caravan Club pitch adjoining with half a dozen spaces. Changing selection of well-kept real ales (free house). Reasonable value but very nice bar meals. Sandwinches, ploughmans etc especially good. Friendly and helpful - e.g. no problem filling water bottles. Child friendly. We often stop when cycling past.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: keeks on 29 November, 2010, 10:41:04 am
Meon Springs fishery.  This is a little gem open at 08:00 and right in the middle of the Meon valley. Where else would you get a bacon roll and a mug of tea with a wood fire sitting on a sofa with a labrador at your feet!!!!at that time . Its not strictly speaking a cafe but a place where the fishermen can warm up and have  a coffee and bacon roll ( hence the early opening), theres the usual sweetie bars and soft drinks as well. But I rang up and they said yeah sure you can come in as well and at this time of year I ain't going to refuse. So me and chillmoister pitched up about 08:30 on Sunday had a bacon roll and mug of tea £ 3.00 and warmed ourselves by the wood stove. Couple of fishermen came in , not much to catch as the lakes were freezing up . In the summer I can see myself sat outside watching the lads casting. But for now it will make the winter rides abit more palatable.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Canardly on 04 December, 2010, 07:31:24 pm
There appears to be a culinary hole in west Cambridgeshire/east Bedfordshire. Given the number of cyclists  there are in those there parts cannot be possible.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: geoff on 11 December, 2010, 03:28:34 pm
Last Easter RZ and others were planning a camping trip, one possible and one venue was here (http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=4476). I've not camped there... but have visited several times for their brilliant cream teas. Great setting too,  strongly recommended.

Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Wowbagger on 12 December, 2010, 10:34:38 pm
The Viper (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/37/3750/Viper/Mill_Green) in Mill Green (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2373542) is undoubtedly the best pub in the world, ever. Many cyclists stop by there - some of the old boys even have 'Viper' jerseys, slogan: 'Powered by Nethergate (http://www.nethergate.co.uk/index.htm)...' and 'If found, return to The Viper'. ;D

The beer and food is excellent and reasonably priced, it's in a great location, and there's always a friendly atmosphere.

Essex pub guide: The Viper, Mill Green, Essex - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/7972853/Essex-pub-guide-The-Viper-Mill-Green-Essex.html)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: mondobongo on 23 December, 2010, 01:23:43 am

Just added The Barn at Scorton. If you stand at the bottom of Snow hill its across the road slightly to the left, were the big old tractor is.

Great homemade cakes and coffee all at reasonable prices with friendly staff. Fantastic alternative to The Priory.

The Barn (http://www.plantsandgifts.co.uk/coffee_shop.php)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: ian_oli on 04 January, 2011, 11:29:22 am
Just added a few in Eastern/Central England.

Also put a comment at the top to the effect that you may need to look at every page to see all the cafes on your planned route as Google does not display them all in one go I for one would not have realised this and maybe missed some places.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: ngordonc on 05 January, 2011, 07:07:39 pm
Check out Stokes of Stockbridge (Hampshire) - opposite the Orvis shop - a brand new coffee shop/ wine bar/ restaurant. It will be fully opened by 12th January 2011 but the coffee and snacks are great. The owners (Philip & Jules) are keen fun cyclists so expect some rides to start/ finish at Stokes later on in the year.

Tried adding it to the map but failed miserably! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: mmmmartin on 06 January, 2011, 11:51:05 am
A vote for Wilf's cafe in Staveley, just off the road between Windermere and Kendal. Fantastic food, and there is a huge cycle mega-warehouse next door (which sells lots of bikes that all look the same to me). sorry, can't get to grips with the map.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: itsbruce on 30 January, 2011, 05:39:52 pm
Just added Stonehurst Family Farm, the cake stop from the EM Fixedwheel ride.  I can still taste the amazing pheasant casserole.

It's also a very bike-friendly place (CTC certificates up on the wall by the till, etc.); you'll see cyclists in there most days, according to Frenchie.

If you are cycling in the area, stop here.  It's worth adding some extra miles to the route.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: itsbruce on 30 January, 2011, 05:48:12 pm
If you're ever touring the South Downs, the Singing Kettle (http://www.wheresbest.co.uk/venue/13983/The-Singing-Kettle/) in Alfriston is a top quality cake stop; nice teas, very nice cakes.  Forgive me if I don't add it to the map myself, but I'm allergic to Google.

Added it to the map, since I was logged in.
Title: Cake stop
Post by: Wowbagger on 20 February, 2011, 07:48:52 am
Auntie Helen and I agreed that the tea and cake to be had at the old Rayne station, near Braintree, is worth an honourable mention.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: bobb on 21 February, 2011, 02:04:34 pm
The Viper (http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/37/3750/Viper/Mill_Green) in Mill Green (http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=2373542) is undoubtedly the best pub in the world, ever. Many cyclists stop by there - some of the old boys even have 'Viper' jerseys, slogan: 'Powered by Nethergate (http://www.nethergate.co.uk/index.htm)...' and 'If found, return to The Viper'. ;D

The beer and food is excellent and reasonably priced, it's in a great location, and there's always a friendly atmosphere.

Essex pub guide: The Viper, Mill Green, Essex - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/7972853/Essex-pub-guide-The-Viper-Mill-Green-Essex.html)

I've just been to The Viper for lunch. And most excellent it was too. That Torygraph article is utter bollocks. One of things that makes The Viper so great is the friendliness of the staff. Maybe they sensed he was from the Twategraph and treated him accordingly....
Title: Good pub
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 April, 2011, 09:56:08 pm
Wig and mitre, Steep Hill, Lincoln, just round the corner from the cathedral. Excellent beer, food and service and reasonably priced specials.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: bazzerp on 20 April, 2011, 12:45:35 am
The Deli, in Wells-next-sea, Norfolk serves heavenly porridge ...

Wells Deli, Norfolk - Delicatessen, Sandwiches, Fine Food, Wine in Wells Wells-next-the-Sea UK (http://www.wellsdeli.co.uk/)

Has very friendly staff & a full view of the harbour
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: trumpet on 10 May, 2011, 08:09:08 pm
A vote for Wilf's cafe in Staveley, just off the road between Windermere and Kendal. Fantastic food, and there is a huge cycle mega-warehouse next door (which sells lots of bikes that all look the same to me). sorry, can't get to grips with the map.

Hawkshead brewery ( revamped ) is next door & the award winning 'More' bakery is just next door again ( chocolate Mudees are the VERY best !
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Seineseeker on 16 May, 2011, 10:45:18 pm
Makin' it international, added a few of my favourites in the US of A!
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: pcolbeck on 29 May, 2011, 04:52:31 pm
The Fleet Bakery in Lincons Inn Fields London is very good. Proper coffee and a selection of cakes. The Hummingbird cake is heartily recommended.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: lilolee on 12 June, 2011, 09:01:04 am
Add a couple in the Maidenhead area.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: tiermat on 12 June, 2011, 09:29:22 am
Just added 4 pubs sampled during our random night random rides, all in North Yorkshire.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Canardly on 12 June, 2011, 12:23:32 pm
Excellent  tea, and cake, external tables at weekends..... reasonably priced too. Egleton village hall Rutland water.

Village hall, Egleton:: OS grid SK8707 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square! (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/737832)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Aidan on 15 June, 2011, 08:17:47 pm
A useful one for the Way of the Roses route, or just a stop in Ripon

Dudleys cafe & sandwich shop 84, North Street, Ripon. HG4 1DP.
01765 603060
Always a warm smiley welcome . all day breakfasts, toasties, homemade specials etc.


 TO FIND US .When in Ripon square, find Burtons (mens clothes shop) stay on the same side and 2min ride straight up out of the the square to the lefthand corner of the square, pass the original factory shop we are 100 yds on the left .lockable yard at rear of cafe for bikes .
opening times mon - sat 8-4 sunday 10 - 4 (april - mid sept )

I will declare a small interest as it is run by my sister. But she really is cycle friendly and opens on Sundays and Bank holidays  , and the nosh is good too :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: tiermat on 16 June, 2011, 08:09:33 am
A useful one for the Way of the Roses route, or just a stop in Ripon

Dudleys cafe & sandwich shop 84, North Street, Ripon. HG4 1DP.
01765 603060
Always a warm smiley welcome . all day breakfasts, toasties, homemade specials etc.


 TO FIND US .When in Ripon square, find Burtons (mens clothes shop) stay on the same side and 2min ride straight up out of the the square to the lefthand corner of the square, pass the original factory shop we are 100 yds on the left .lockable yard at rear of cafe for bikes .
opening times mon - sat 8-4 sunday 10 - 4 (april - mid sept )

I will declare a small interest as it is run by my sister. But she really is cycle friendly and opens on Sundays and Bank holidays  , and the nosh is good too :thumbsup:

I spent many a Saturday in that cafe with my mum and dad, as a child.  Obv. not run by your sister at that time!
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Aidan on 16 June, 2011, 08:14:41 am
A useful one for the Way of the Roses route, or just a stop in Ripon

Dudleys cafe & sandwich shop 84, North Street, Ripon. HG4 1DP.
01765 603060
Always a warm smiley welcome . all day breakfasts, toasties, homemade specials etc.


 TO FIND US .When in Ripon square, find Burtons (mens clothes shop) stay on the same side and 2min ride straight up out of the the square to the lefthand corner of the square, pass the original factory shop we are 100 yds on the left .lockable yard at rear of cafe for bikes .
opening times mon - sat 8-4 sunday 10 - 4 (april - mid sept )

I will declare a small interest as it is run by my sister. But she really is cycle friendly and opens on Sundays and Bank holidays  , and the nosh is good too :thumbsup:

I spent many a Saturday in that cafe with my mum and dad, as a child.  Obv. not run by your sister at that time!

Probably not! Shes only had it just under a year or so, and, forgive me , but you dint look quite that young ;D
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: lord hereford on 16 June, 2011, 09:18:12 am
Cake needed!!
Off to ride up to Grantown on Spey from Perth and back over the weekend of 25/26th June.
We are going over Glenshee and Lech so calories are required...
Any cafe recommendations out there?

I thank you, Lord H

(or hopefully after cake - Lard H)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Canardly on 28 June, 2011, 09:30:51 pm
Have to say this. I guess that wherever Crinkly is then the best cake stop is right there. She does really exceedingly good cakes and spoils her riding companions rotten. I understand Mrs J also packs a mean cake but I have not experienced that atm. Strewth isn't YACF great?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Deano on 28 June, 2011, 09:43:02 pm
Have to say this. I guess that wherever Crinkly is then the best cake stop is right there. She does really exceedingly good cakes and spoils her riding companions rotten. I understand Mrs J also packs a mean cake but I have not experienced that atm. Strewth isn't YACF great?

You missed out on the cakeavan? :o

You need to come to Tan Hill on Friday and try some of Marj's fruit cake (assuming jogler doesn't scoff it all again).
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 28 June, 2011, 09:43:21 pm
Cake needed!!
Off to ride up to Grantown on Spey from Perth and back over the weekend of 25/26th June.
We are going over Glenshee and Lech so calories are required...
Any cafe recommendations out there?

I thank you, Lord H

(or hopefully after cake - Lard H)
did you get to the potting shed nr aviemore
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Eccentrica Gallumbits on 10 July, 2011, 06:03:12 pm
I just added Mimi's at the Shore in Leith. Bobb and I went for lunch today. He had a BLT which he said was excellent and I had Mull cheddar with caramelised onion chutney sandwich, which was very delicious. Both came with kettle chips and salad, and it was nice salad, quality ingredients nicely dressed, not the usual cheap dull unpleasant salad you so often get with sandwiches. And then we had the biggest slices of Victoria sponge I've ever seen. Thoroughly excellent.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: clarion on 19 August, 2011, 09:33:44 pm
Got to recommend the Mouseman visitor centre cafe in Kilburn, North Riding. Tea is good, and the cakes are from some fantastic magical realm.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Steve GT on 29 August, 2011, 05:14:11 pm
Got to recommend the Mouseman visitor centre cafe in Kilburn, North Riding. Tea is good, and the cakes are from some fantastic magical realm.
Cycled past it many times, but never stopped there. The missus did not want to do cycle up Osgoodly Bank with 'Cafe legs'  ::-)
We carry on until Balk where thare is a new Cafe at the Caravan Park.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Steve GT on 29 August, 2011, 05:17:10 pm
Do any of the Yacf'ers in the York area ever visit D'Oyly's at Bolton Percy? A new favourite destination for us. Great coffee.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: bazzerp on 15 May, 2012, 08:39:54 pm
If U R ever in Cape Town & in Kalk Bay - do NOT go to "Kalkys Fish & chips", in the harbour.

"Lucky Fish" under Harbour House is miles better - just a hint of batter & everything is fresh off the boats - the best ever.
You can go & feed the Cape Fur Seals, or buy fresh fish from the harbour to take home.

http://www.harbourhouse.co.za/luckyfish
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Deano on 24 July, 2012, 09:57:37 pm
I've added the charming Old Smithy Tea Rooms in Caldbeck, Cumbria. Brilliant place - they usually bring out racks of fresh cakes as you're ordering. Go for the cheese scones with cheese :P
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: vorsprung on 31 July, 2012, 05:28:19 pm
Just added a few.....
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 25 September, 2012, 10:01:39 am
I've only just discovered this map! Are people using the various icons to represent different types of place or is it just whatever takes whoever's fancy?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Nelson Longflap on 01 November, 2012, 11:42:56 pm
Well that's done it ... you've overcome my resistance and tipped me over the edge.

I now know why I need a smart phone.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Nelson Longflap on 02 November, 2012, 12:46:27 pm
Supplementary question ...

crowd sourcing the good cake shops is a truly wonderful innovation.  But what about crowd sinking?  For example, despite the valiant efforts of Hummers & Co. the Fox and Hounds at Denmead  @50.907776,-1.08821 is now an ex-pub :'( It is no more. Anybody making the trek to this former arcadia will be disappointed. 

So who does the maintenance to keep the cakes currant current?

My vote would be to trust the community and allow anybody to add or delete. How do others feel?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 23 December, 2012, 10:01:34 pm
I've tried to add a couple of places but they aren't showing. I click edit, place a pin, fill in the details box, save and then click "done" but when I revisit the map I can't see them. What am I doing wrong?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 01 January, 2013, 05:42:34 pm
Ok, I've worked it out. It's because the map only shows the places which are listed on the current page. Yes, I did read "You should look at EACH page - unfortunately google's map does not show them all at once." but I didn't think Google maps would be so clunky that this related to the map itself rather than the listing.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: iainj837 on 07 January, 2013, 06:58:39 pm
Just added Sweet's tearooms Blakeway, near Wedmore and Fenny Castle tearooms
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: iainj837 on 07 January, 2013, 07:41:10 pm
Hi I have put a placemark which is 172 and it should be Fenny Castle tearooms
B&B, tearooms and cycle hire.
Can this be corrected as I can't seem to  do it thanks ::-)
Also i have managed to edit the title Sorry  :facepalm:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Toady on 13 April, 2013, 06:51:54 pm
I had a lovely cup of coffee and slice of cake at Holwood Farm Shop (http://www.holwoodfarm.co.uk/) today.  Here's a picture of the cake (http://s1.wklcdn.com/image_0/11006/4284572/2105721.jpg).  You can find it here (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=N51+20.845+E0+02.643&hl=en&ll=51.347421,0.044053&spn=0.008108,0.013797&sll=52.8382,-2.327815&sspn=8.032946,14.128418&t=m&z=16)

They have a nice sign up that says if you have forgotten your bike lock, they'll lend you one.

I've not read the instructions, but if I have to log in to Google to add it, I'm afraid I don't want to play, grumpy old Toad that I am.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Trull on 15 April, 2013, 06:56:24 pm
Ah - just added Castleton Farm Shop near Laurencekirk south of Stonehaven - hopefully. They have the best meringues!
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: nuovo_record on 10 July, 2013, 03:40:04 pm
i'll try and add Castle Rising Tea Room, Kings Lynn later........and a nice cuppa at Great Walsingham too (cakes sold next door, but a good selection of chocolates which i hasten to add, i didn't try)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Otto on 12 November, 2013, 04:20:44 pm
Just added Duddleswell Tea Rooms on Ashdown Forest... Splendid Puddings nice toasted sandwiches etc... warm fire...
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Philip Benstead on 28 December, 2013, 05:00:49 pm
West Wycombe Garden Centre - Cafe


Dear All

Bad news the West Wycombe Garden Centre - Cafe is to close.

Went in the garden centre today for a meal and was told that the entire site is to close.

The property owner Sir Edward Dashwood wants his property back.

http://www.anlexland.co.uk/

http://www.westwycombevillage.com/garden-centre-cafe/


The next nearest café is the hell fire cave, a poor second choice


http://www.hellfirecaves.co.uk/
Philip Benstead B.Env.Sc. (Hons.)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Ray 6701 on 18 January, 2014, 07:53:24 pm
Mabels tea room in Curborough just outside of Lichfield.
Special rates for cyclists during the week  :thumbsup:
http://www.curboroughcraftcentre.com/Shops/MabelsTeaRoom.aspx.

Here:
http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=412295&Y=311512&A=Y&Z=120

Edit: I'll try adding to the map on Monday.

Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Wowbagger on 23 February, 2014, 07:50:33 am
Alnmouth is a very pleasant place to stay, having a station which links you directly to London, Edinburgh and Birmingham, to mention just three places you might be trying to get away from. It is on the Coast and Castles cycle route (NCN1) and is well-endowed with pubs and tea rooms. We (Ruthie, Mrs. Wow and I) hired the Family Room at the Sun Inn, which was very reasonably priced and would, at a pinch, take up to 5 people at an even more reasonable price.

The pub serves a range of ales and very good food. Friday night was Steak Night so Ruthie and I both partook. Sadly, once I had had the chowder starter and mains (I had lamb shank on the second night) I had no room for pudding, which was a shame because there was one of the Sticky Toffee variety.

Highly recommended for a weekend break or part of a tour. Berwick is only 20 minutes away on the train, although rhe tickets are expensive, at £12 for a single.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Revellinho on 23 February, 2014, 01:38:49 pm
Don't often use this part of yacf, but felt I should add The Barn at Scorton (Lancs) to the map after a very pleasant stop on the North West Passage audax (run by West Pennine Road Club).  I had a 'main meal' sized stop here and it was spot on.  Reasonably priced, large portions and very friendly.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Jack_P on 21 May, 2014, 02:22:43 pm
 :) like this alot, just added a few recent favourites.
a valuable tool which should be kept current  :D
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: lisat on 26 May, 2014, 07:50:56 pm
Sturminster Marshall village hall only on Sunday between 2.30 and 4pm run by different charities each week. Lovely tea and cake
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Polar Bear on 26 May, 2014, 08:26:47 pm
Big shout for this thread.   Just put a few on local to me.   Will be adding a few Orkney and Shetland venues when time allows.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: jamesld8 on 14 June, 2014, 07:39:26 pm
Cracking lovely friendly cafe in Tobermory, Mull--just about 200yd along from ferry terminus near turn up to Dervaig; Tobermory bakery; real friendly staff, very good braekfast and lots choices filled rolls, pizzas, pies, cakes. A life saver (almost but was real done in after riidng Strontian > Kilchoan ferry early morning).

 :thumbsup: ;D ;D Superb coffe too and here`s the selection of cakes  ----no beer but Tobermory distillery just further up the road !

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3842/14234971897_a17a09064a_c.jpg)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: fields5069 on 10 July, 2014, 12:04:43 pm
I am a bit confused as to how to add a cake stop to the map, however I would like to add the Darran Bridge cafe, just off the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (Crumlin Arm) above Risca. Here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/51%C2%B037%2705.5%22N+3%C2%B006%2728.2%22W/@51.6181905,-3.107836,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0

It's on national cycle route 47.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: menthel on 31 July, 2014, 04:41:21 pm
Pilgrim bikes at Westhumble. Nice owner, nice bikes, good coffee and a cold kitkat. Perfect!
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: jenhunt on 02 September, 2014, 04:44:53 pm
I can't make this work at work... but

High Paradise Tea Rooms, Boltby (Bank Top), North Yorkshire (accessible by bike or on foot only!) open weekends until the schools go back, then closed over the winter before reopening in the spring. Lovely homemade cakes, scones and bacon sarnies, tea and coffee, in a lovely farmhouse setting. great place. As it's only accessible without a car, the road bike access is from halfway up boltby bank (saving you from the steepest bit), MTB (or walkers) from the Paradise Trails from Sutton Bank centre.

Lordstones Cafe, Carlton Bank, North Yorkshire, nicely re-done recently, do an excellent lunch as well as HUGE slices of cake!

Roots Farm Shop and Cafe, Rounton, North Yorkshire, farm shop who also have a very very good cafe, cyclist friendly with bike racks outside, and quite used to sweaty/mucky/wet people arriving in need of sustenance!

trying to think where else we stop....

the Ship Inn at Sewerby, good local beer selection, also do cake.
The wolds galleries and tea room, awesome cream tea, but not the most bike friendly and will ask you to sit outside (fine in nice weather!)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Jayjay on 10 November, 2014, 11:12:25 pm
Hm - I found after attempting to map a location that it was already done. On another page! This thing has pages? Ok, will look back in later. Some of those page entries look a little weird. And my entry appears on a different one to the one I first opened the map at. Ah well, it's a nice cafe..

Later:
Interesting. Using Chrome, at home, not all of the locations showed at first, they were split over several pages and dribble down into non-refreshment map and directions references.
At work on IE everything is on the same page, a long list and many pins on the map.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Jayjay on 23 November, 2014, 09:30:23 am
Hornsea (Sigglesthorne) Spring Garden Centre.

Map thing seems to have changed, argh - worse than Asda moving all the shelves around... >:( took a while to find the buttons and features again.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Aidan on 23 November, 2014, 09:35:45 am
Hornsea (Sigglesthorne) Spring Garden Centre.

Map thing seems to have changed, argh - worse than Asda moving all the shelves around... >:( took a while to find the buttons and features again.

Thats interesting! shall give it a try :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: billytheshoe on 26 February, 2015, 09:57:58 am
I've added The Apple Pie in Carnwath (west end of the A70 Lang Whang), which does fantastic bacon rolls for little dosh  :thumbsup:  There's another one in Biggar owned by the same folk but you pay tourist prices there.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Deano on 22 March, 2015, 06:20:43 pm
The Conduit in Middleton in Teesdale has a bikers' special - 3 quid for a buttie of your choice and a drink.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 23 March, 2015, 02:42:47 pm
I've added a few west of Leicester.
Can't do the symbols on an iPad, but will try to edit when I'm near a proper 'puter
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Chicane on 11 April, 2015, 07:20:27 pm
Favourite is Lunch Belles at Hawkhurst in Kent. Just the other side of Bedgebury Forest in the High Banks Nursery/Garden Centre. It is worth the deviation from the main cycle route (Route 18) and away from the crowds at Bedgebury when busy. Really nice home cooked food and always seem to meet some interesting characters in there. A place where you can sit inside in the warm and still see your bike or sit in the well kept garden when it is sunny. Absolutely not just for 'ladies wot lunch' but I did get a free Bucks Fizz on Mother's Day! :)

https://twitter.com/lunchbelles
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 13 April, 2015, 12:25:30 pm
I've just added Tropical Birdland in Desford, not far from me in Leicester to the map.
Very strange! Sitting at the outside table this morning with obligatory coffee & cake and a bloody great macaw ( parrot sort of thing) came screeching down at me - didn't seem interested in the cake, but seemed to be eyeing up my bike - bird with good taste maybe?
I've known this place to be used by local CTC sections for some time, but have never been before. Not expensive, and plenty of room.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Deano on 25 April, 2015, 09:45:43 pm
I've added the charming Old Smithy Tea Rooms in Caldbeck, Cumbria. Brilliant place - they usually bring out racks of fresh cakes as you're ordering. Go for the cheese scones with cheese :P

It closed, but is now under new management. Closes at 4 pm on weekdays, very friendly staff, I can't comment on the cheese scones as they'd ran out.

I've also added the garden centre at Plumpton, which is in a really handy spot for cyclists, and where the staff took pity on my shivering, bedraggled state and fed me free coffee earlier today :D

Apparently there's a tea room in Greystoke, but I found the multiplicity of really-closely-lettered signs bewildering, and gave it a miss. They may have made more sense at pootling pace, but I was freezing cold, an the only way to keep warm was to keep my effort up.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Jakob W on 01 June, 2015, 02:42:36 pm
Have added a couple of stops around Cambridge - the community cafe in Swavesey is particularly good (and a favourite of the local CTC), though alas Thursday mornings only.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: contango on 21 June, 2015, 11:30:36 pm

Dinton Pastures Country Park (just a little way east of Reading) does some good cakes. When I needed a 100 to qualify for R1000 I used it as the far control for a DIY, and left the staff there wondering why I cycled from London to Reading just to have a piece of cake and then cycle home again. The downside is they keep country park hours so don't expect cake at silly-o-clock.
Title: recommended caffs
Post by: sprogs on 31 July, 2015, 09:01:45 pm
Spoilt for choice, Eccleshall road Sheffield. The best cup of coffee I've ever been served that I've paid for. Also the most wonderful BLT in the best bread I've ever had. Only a small place, with few tables inside and out, but a good welcome and food to die for.
Title: Re: recommended caffs
Post by: sprogs on 31 July, 2015, 09:05:00 pm
P.S. To my first post, the staff obviously recognised me as transgender, (Not difficult!), but were so welcoming. So tactful. and so kind. I will remember them well.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Dibdib on 31 July, 2015, 09:06:48 pm
I've sadly deleted Greasy Joe's in Cirencester, which has been closed for a while, but I've added Darkroom Espresso and @thehub in Swindon - a bike-friendly artisan coffee place and a combined cafe/LBS, respectively.
Title: Re: recommended caffs
Post by: hellymedic on 31 July, 2015, 09:07:51 pm
What's the place called?
<pedant> There's no 'h' in Ecclesall Road, S11. (It's not in Staffordshire...)
Title: Re: recommended caffs
Post by: jsabine on 31 July, 2015, 10:06:13 pm
Spoilt For Choice (http://spoiltforchoicecatering.co.uk/sandwich-coffee-shop/3140449)?
Title: Re: recommended caffs
Post by: hellymedic on 31 July, 2015, 10:19:34 pm
Aah sorry!
Title: Re: recommended caffs
Post by: Ben T on 31 July, 2015, 10:38:34 pm
Also good is bragazzis on abbeydale road for coffee and good deli sandwiches and that butchers up sharrowvale road for sandwiches.
Title: Re: recommended caffs
Post by: Mrs Pingu on 01 August, 2015, 09:13:47 pm
There is a thread here:
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=9394.0

:)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Canardly on 01 December, 2015, 10:10:22 pm
Excellent and pleasantly located, fair trade cafe with sensible pricing, located in Bourn village to the west of Cambridge. Unfortunately not open sundays.

http://www.abantufairtrade.co.uk/
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Simon_A on 14 March, 2016, 10:41:23 am
Truffles Bakery, a small chain in W & E Sussex.  I recently had a good cooked breakfast in the Storrington branch and then tea/cake in Hailsham later in the day.

http://www.trufflesbakeryltd.co.uk/locations/ (http://www.trufflesbakeryltd.co.uk/locations/)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Tomsk on 08 April, 2016, 08:19:25 am
Excellent and pleasantly located, fair trade cafe with sensible pricing, located in Bourn village to the west of Cambridge. Unfortunately not open sundays.

http://www.abantufairtrade.co.uk/

I've passed this a few times on 'Boudica's Revenge' 200 - it would make a good café stop, if having 'bounced' the control at the A14 services you feel the need. Been to the golf club on the other side of Bourn before now.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Rampancy on 26 April, 2016, 10:08:31 am
Added the Grind Cafe (part of Rides on Air LBS) in Wallingford. Annoyingly a bit too near for me to use regularly!

http://ridesonair.com/cafe.html
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: ElyDave on 21 May, 2016, 11:04:50 pm
Can heartily recommend the Drayman in Ely. Good selection of ales an ciders, good snacks and good service.  Nice sofas you can see your bike from. Even asked me if I was a CAMRA member today, maybe the beard and being a cyclist stopping in for a thirst quencher.

On Fore Hill.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Simon_A on 02 July, 2016, 05:38:03 pm
The Tea Room, Pulborough.  Had a good fry-up there today.  The high end of avg at £10 inc tea+toast but big, 2 of eveything, and decent quality ingredients.  Efficient and friendly service.  Would happily return.

http://www.pulboroughtearoom.co.uk/ (http://www.pulboroughtearoom.co.uk/)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: jane on 07 July, 2016, 02:49:30 pm
I've added a few more tea stops, from my recent trip to Orkney and Shetland plus a last detour back on the mainland out west to Coigach plus the Cape Wrath Ozone cafe...surprised it wasn't there.  I hope it's still open, haven't been there for a couple of years.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 31 October, 2016, 11:28:17 am
A couple of Leicestershire notes :
There's a new excellent deli-cafe, with lots of outdoor seating at The Tithe Barn on Main Street, Cosby (and for a poncy deli their prices are very reasonable) open 9am-8pm Tuesday-Sunday, although at the moment they are trialling opening till 5 on Mondays. Added to the map.

The very popular Kings Lock tearoom by the canal in Aylestone is now closed until the clocks change next year.

I've had trouble getting served at the Tropical Bird Tea shop in Desford - I think this is a short term hiccup with new staff not understanding that the cafe is open to non-zoo visitors.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: MikeFromLFE on 23 March, 2017, 02:29:37 pm
A new one in Leicestershire.
This is on the western edge of Leicester, close to Desford Cross Roads, where the A47 crosses the B582. A bit tricky to find at the moment as there's been a 'neighbours dispute' about the sign on the road. It is off the B582 on the same side as Desford Hall, but follow the track labelled as Hollows Farm and eventually you'll get to Hollows Farm Vintage Tea Room. There's bridleways connecting the site, but I've never explored them.
Closed at the moment on Mondays, otherwise open 10-4. It's got an 'Eroica' vibe about it, but don't let that put you off. Although could seat 28, I guess that more than a dozen at a time might be a stretch.
It's on the YACF map.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Flite on 28 November, 2017, 02:38:37 pm
Relatively new tearoom, The Boat Shack, overlooking Derwent Reservoir (that's the Durham Derwent).
Next to Pow Hill Country Park, on the Edmundbyers to Blanchland road.
Very welcoming, super views, pretty safe for bikes.  Limited menu - soup, sandwiches, paninis, cakes, etc, but we had a bit of everything and it was good (esp the Toffee Cake!!)
Closed Mon and Tues.  Roast lunches on Sunday, 12.00 - 3.00

For youngsters/less confident, there is a multi-use path about 5 miles round the reservoir, from Pow Hill car park over the dam to Millshields in Northumberland, and 5 miles back. 
Public toilets at the dam and Millshields, but not at Pow Hill
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: rogerdodge on 28 February, 2018, 09:29:25 am
I've just added the Lighthorne Pavillion Cafe (south of Warwick.) It was, and still is a cricket pavillion but they have worked wonders on it. Run by very pleasant people who are cyclist friendly. No website, but they do have a Facebook page
https://en-gb.facebook.com/LighthornePavilionCafe/
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: ElyDave on 07 May, 2018, 02:02:53 pm
The White Horse at Whepstead, mid way-ish on my ride yesterday,

Nice freindy staff and a good selection of Essex energy drinks.  A pint of St Peter's Blooming Marvellous and a packet of crisps was just the job, and a topped up bottle with plenty of ice in it.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: bludger on 23 July, 2018, 06:45:09 pm
Netherlands: https://m.facebook.com/LickthePlateCateringRossum/

About 50km west of Nijmegen.

The best cake I've ever had. €8 gets you 3 slices of different cakes which are all divine, and a big jug of delicious coffee. The English managwr also does local catering for weddings and whatnot, Lick the Plate is the "day job."

Can't believe I came across it by accidwnt, it was a miracle.
Edit: sadly the dutch bureaucracy shut the place down. 'Not enough parking spaces'!
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: UshCha on 27 August, 2018, 08:55:59 am
Beths Cafe, Bredon on the Hill near Asbourne in the UK.  Large helpings and everything is homemade.    I am a regular but it does off settthe good of the ride ;-).
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Canardly on 25 November, 2018, 04:36:24 pm
Italian cafe Bedford. Worth the visit. Oustanding and authentic. Very good pricing e.g. coffee £1 amazing cake £2. generous proportions.
https://www.yell.com/biz/wendover-caffe-bedford-8307751/ (https://www.yell.com/biz/wendover-caffe-bedford-8307751/)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: campagman on 26 November, 2018, 06:05:46 pm
Beths Cafe, Bredon on the Hill near Asbourne in the UK.  Large helpings and everything is homemade.    I am a regular but it does off settthe good of the ride ;-).
I think you find this is closing soon.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: MsG on 30 March, 2019, 04:43:29 pm
Added a few in the Fenland and Norfolk area today. Will add some more gradually  :)
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 30 March, 2019, 06:10:32 pm
Was very impressed by the cafe at the end of the cycle path in Weston-super-Mare by the marina. I can't remember it's name, but the food was good and there was impressive ample secure cycle parking.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Thing2 on 13 April, 2019, 10:24:38 pm
Thank you to whoever added Emily's Tea shop in Whitwell. We rode out to visit for the first time today. Well worth a visit.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: astaman on 05 May, 2019, 03:30:36 pm
I've added a fairly comprehensive list covering the mainland, Bressay, Yell and Unst in Shetland in case anyone should be brave/foolhardy enough to venture north. There may be another couple opening shortly that I will add when they appear. I should say that there are many more options in Lerwick and I've only noted the more useful ones like Islesburgh House (it is next to the SYHA hostel and can be used as a cafeteria facility if you're staying there). Also worth noting that the community halls through the country sometimes do teas in the summer as a fundraiser with great home baking. In the same way they also do curry nights, Chinese nights and fish and chip nights on occasional weekend evenings. Worth keeping an eye out for signs as you travel around.

Not meaning to drift this thread but maybe a list, using Google in the same way, of shops in remoter areas listing their opening hours and closing days would be useful to the cycle tourist. I'm sure many of us have had the experience of pitching the tent, cycling down to the shop and finding it not open for whatever reason and then being so hungry you consider licking the crumbs from the bottom of the Ortliebs - or is that just me?
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: ElyDave on 17 December, 2019, 03:24:20 pm
Can reccomend the coffee and bacon sarnies at Kings Lynn railway station, they also do tinned beers if you're that way inclined.

Haven't checked out their cakes yet.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Suffolk Born on 15 October, 2021, 07:49:52 pm
Can recommend IV10 Café on the Black Isle west of Inverness - just wonderful for a pit stop.
Title: Re: Best Cake Stops (also beer)
Post by: Suffolk Born on 08 April, 2022, 05:27:57 pm
Sorry - EAST of Inverness