Beatfords Country Kitchen

Traditional tea rooms with amazing sandwiches and other delicious treats. Highly recommend trying the baked potato with prawns, which comes with a generous mixed salad and plenty of prawns.

We popped in here a couple of times during our recent visit to Cockermouth, for coffee and tea cakes. A nice Cappuccino and very nice teacakes, with plenty of butter. We shall look forward to our next visit!

Charming tearoom with excellent home baking and friendly service. Wide range of cakes and tray bakes, fresh sandwiches toasties. Very reasonably priced oh and they are dog friendly too. Their scones are IMMENSELY good!! View menu

On our yearly visit to the lakes this lovely cafe is first on our list whilst in Cockermouth on this visit did not disappoint.We had a pot of tea,a latte,scone with butter,jam cream ,hubby had the carrot cake,both food drink up to their usual high standard. Lovely friendly staff who worked so hard as it was a busy day but never lost their smiles. We paid £8.80 for the above,more than reasonable in my opinion as the day before we had exactly the same in a cafe in Pooley Bridge there it cost us £13.

We are lucky to visit the northern lakes at least once a year and always include a half day in Cockermouth....and that always includes a trip to Beatfords. This place clearly has a loyal patronage from locals. And I can well understand why some tourists might not like it; its old-fashioned, dated and its been a long time since some money was spent on it....... but we love it. The food is great. I love one of their salads and my other half loves their Lemon Meringue which they kindly serve with 2 spoons ; Appreciated the outdoor seating when we visited this last July.

Lovely selection on the menu from breakfasts and light lunches to afternoon tea. Everything is freshly prepared and served very quickly which was great as we had limited parking on the street . We took cakes and scones out for later as we were too full after our delicious fresh ham salads. All the meals can be eaten in or take out and also tables can be booked. Lovely staff and dog friendly too, with a relaxing patio for outdoor dining in summer,there 's a lovely atmosphere in this quaint and bright little gem of a place ....definitely our 'go to 'place when were in Cockermouth. View menu

Stopped in here for lunch,good start with a cheery welcome confirming dog friendly status.There was ample staff around to manage the busy time of day,considering the publicity regarding a lack of available staff,we found the speed of service,and cheerful manner of all the ladies working,made a refreshing change,to some of the experiences recently. We had scrambled eggs on toast, and a full breakfast,both served very promptly and piping hot.Rounded off our lunch with an excellent homemade BlackBerry scone.Perhaps a good thing we live some distance away,would be here for tea and the cakes too frequently.

I used to frequent this place without incident by myself. the younger staff are great but the older staff look down their noses at me and my daughter Saskia. Saskia has extra needs her food needs to be cut up small to prevent choking and she has mayo with everything. They have small sachets and they begrudgingly give more than 2 sachets. The staff were overheard slagging me off in the kitchen regarding said mayo sachets on our last visit. They rolled their eyes when I asked for crusts to be removed. I didn’t dare ask for food to be cut up small too!. In short I said I wouldn’t be back and one lady said that it was a good idea that I didn’t! Disgusting!

My friend and I went here for a lunch. We ordered jacket potatoes. They were hardly bigger than a boiled egg! Such a miserly size. I asked for beans, cheese and coleslaw. My potato came swimming in watery baked beans, the tiniest amount of cheese and coleslaw. My friend had a tiny potato with cheese and sachets of mayo. The quality of the food was cheap: Hard rough skinned and overcooked beans. Have you heard of Heinz? Cheap cash and carry mayo. Overcooked dried out potatoes. The waitress could see we had left most of our food and she asked if everything was ok. I replied No and explained. She looked shocked and flustered. She offered no apology. At the till the lady/owner looked equally emb... View menu