Bank View Cafe in Barnsley

Had the woodhead vegan breakfast which was just weird, loads of beige food, falfafal, corn balls and a weird potato sausage and the weirdest of all baked courgette. Food was poorly spiced and was all just mushy. For £14 you could so such a better breakfast, proper soy based sausages, and just making sure the food is well seasoned.

NICE PLACE BUT CAN BE A BIT COOL INSIDE ESPECIALLY IN WINTER I JUST WISH THEY WOULD LIGHT THE LOG BURNERS THEY HAVE WHEN ITS REALLY COLD THAT'S THE ONLY PROBLEM HERE, WELL THAT'S THE MOANING OVER, THE TOILETS AND THE DISABLED TOILETS ARE SPOTLESS AND SPACIOUS THERE ARE FOUR OF THEM, THE FOOD IS GOOD AND HONEST, MASSIVE CROSS SECTION OF CLIENTELE FROM AVID HIKERS TO SLEEK PUSH BIKERS, DAWDLERS AND STRIDERS EVEN HORSE RIDERS, SCOOTERS TRIKES AND BIG MOTORBIKES YOU GET THEM ALL HERE AT THE SPOTTY CAFE, THEY ALL COME TO EAT ALL THE WARM CHERRY SCONES WITH BUTTER AND JAM BEFORE I GET THERE, YOU CAN ALSO GET A PINT MUG OF BEAUTIFUL LATTE TO GO WITH THE CHERRY SCONES IT'S ORGASMIC, **NOTE THEY ALSO CATER FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE RESTRICTED TO GLUTEN FREE FOOD, THEIR GLUTEN FREE BREAKFAST IS GREAT AND PLENTYFUL, DON'T JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT GIVE IT A TRY. 12-11-24, JUST BEEN IN TODAY THERE'S A GOOD CROWD IN THE FIRES ARE IN AND IT'S NICE AND WARM, HAD MY USUAL PINT MUG OF LATTE AND SOME TOAST & MARMITE IT WAS GREAT, MY WIFE HAD TOAST AND JAM, SHE LIKED THAT TOO. THEIR HOME MADE TOMATO SOUP WITH CRUSTY BREAD IS AWSOME WITH A SPLASH OF TOBASCO IF YOU LIKE ON A COLD DAY TO WARM YOU UP.

Always nice here. Great spot. Good chip butty, better with cheese, and good cakes. Nice walks by the reservoir and the staff are always nice 🙂

Our group (14 cyclists) arrived and served in a well organised fashion by just two staff. We might have eaten all the 'Langsett Dam Cake'

Great cafe, great food, great staff, great value. Ideal for walkers and cyclists or anybody just passing through.

Great place to eat, after a bracing walk round Langsett reservoir.

Absolutely fantastic cafe friendly staff. The steak and stout pie is to die for. Be warned they soon sell out. Fear not the filled Yorkshire pudding home made of course is a very good substitute

Have visited this cafe several times in recent years as it’s on the way from Manchester to Lincoln. Always a warm welcome, great tea and coffee. Outstanding scones (shop bought ones are sticky and chewy often, these are totally different and melt in your mouth). Nice atmosphere with a strong theme of walking, climbing and cycling. Picnic tables at the back if weather is good. Visited twice last week (mid/late September 2024) - wouldn’t miss it for anything.

Tea was weak and expensive:the food was pricey on the menu.we arepensioners saving up now there's no. Winter fuel money

Great food, great portions, good value.

The coffee is drinkable, and the restaurant itself is very cozy, but you can certainly find better coffee. Unfortunately, what really doesn't work is the smell of the fryer that permeates the entire café. It smells like a fast-food joint.

Nice cosy cafe, dog friendly. Slightly overpriced but nice fresh food.

Good coffee, ideal place to walk round Langsett Reservoir and feels like a Scottish Glen.

Only had a coffee but it was good in nice surroundings.

I understand that recently with the cost of living increases, businesses have had to increase their prices as well. But it seems every time I go into Bank View Cafe there's been yet ANOTHER price increase! To add insult to injury, the portion sizes have also significantly decreased, although on the day I visited it was the owner himself doing the cooking, which might explain the small portions. So if you're reading this Pete, yes, increase prices in line with the cost of living, OR lower the portion sizes, just don't do both.

Had a couple of tuna mayo rolls here yesterday, a couple of bacon/sausage rolls and a pot of tea and was disappointed with both the quality and the cost. The rolls were pretty average, unlike the really nice bread used at the Hassop Station Cafe over near Bakewell. The side salad was really disappointing and they were £7.50 each, which was too much. The bacon in one of the rolls was incinerated. The tea was a little light on the teabags. Total cost £35 which was pretty poor considering we could make it at home better. Was a stop off point on my sons driving practice, but I think we will head West into the Peak next time. Been to this cafe before once or twice, as it is the only cafe around here...but it is losing pace with others in the area. Even cyclists might start to complain. Cycling has gone up market and this place is not as good as the Adventure Cafe in Hope or the Hassop Station Cafe...which provide better quality food. I think if a rival place starts up, it will struggle to complete.

Had an amazing visit here and will definitely be back. The breakfast was amazing (veggie breakfast) it came with a hot drink and toast. The food was amazing and the staff were so friendly throughout. Couldn't recommend it enough and the chocolate brownie was out of this world.

Recommend the hot pork sandwich or Yorkshire pudding meal. The cakes are also homemade and splendid. Well worth a visit if your cycling or walking I'm the area.

Fantastic food as always, however please sort the toilets out. They were disgusting, particularly the sink area. Here there are three cubicles for use by any human and one disabled cubicle. On this occasion there was only one cubicle available and the disabled cubicle. I can't describe how filthy the sink area was.

Bacon butty and coffee stop during bike ride, sat out in the garden. £8.50, very nice

Great location for local walks. Hearty food that comes in large portions. Coffee could be improved. Inside and outside seating, dog-friendly.

Just passing, called in for ice cream, very nice

A great location, food is good but portions are decreasing and prices increasing to such a level it's not value for money. £14 for standard breakfast is Bistro pricing. It's a shame because it was our go to place for many years now I'm not sure we will be back .

It was a little hard to judge the food as I could eat it as I was and my breakfast was attacked by flies to the extent thar it upset my 7 year old son. 1 fly yeah but to have 5 or 6 attacking our food was too much. Had to leave the food.

Great place for snacks before your hike/walk. Great for meals. Great to come here after an early morning walk or after a wild camp. Great breakfasts. All tastes and catered for. Vegan and vegetarian options. Great staff.

a bit pricey at £9.50 for a jacket potato but you do get a decent mug of coffee

Always wanted to visit this place but everytime we pass, it always seems very busy - It was today but we had walked up the trial. We didn't hang around as it was busy but we sampled some cakes...Highly recommend the Rocky Road 😋

Pros Fab location after a dog walk Lovely smoothies Proper chips Friendly staff Cons Flat white was far too milky and weak Side salad was just a few pieces of iceberg, a slice of hard tomato and a slice of cucumber Very little cheese in the toastie

Food lovely, service lovely, but toilets horrendous, in great need of a clean and restock of soap. We had a lovely piece of homemade flapjack and rocky road and then had a loo stop and 🤢. Totally spoilt it for us. Get your loos sorted and it would have been a 5*

Good coffee after a walk. Nice place located with nice scenery just off the main road. The rocky road was the best i have ever had.

Lovley bacon and egg sandwich after a long walk

Lovely and friendly Yorkshire welcome from the staff. Proper tasty home cooked food especially the old school puddings and a tub of ice cream for our dogs 🐶🍦😋

Can’t beat a good coffee stop while out cycling. This place ticks all boxes, great coffee, food and helpful staff.

We called here for breakfast whilst camping nearby. It was an enormous breakfast with really nice quality produce. Will definitely be going back!

Genuinely one of the most horrendous experiences I've had. I also believe the owner needs mental health support, and I mean that with sincerity. We booked a room for a business meeting as their website advertised we could. Upon arrival we where asked to move out cars from the car park to the nearby public car park, fair enough I thought as we had 22 members of staff present and it's a small car park. I asked if I could set up a tab and if he would want me to leave a card or deposit, the response was don't worry we would find you, which I considered alarming and aggressive. Half way through my meeting/training the owner once again interrupted me mid conversation to say more cars would need moving( we only had three cars left, one being mine and as I was paying the bill thought I should have a space) I promptly said not a problem just give us ten. The owner the shouted I was disrespectful and stood in the centre of the room fists clenched, eyes shut doing breathing exercises, wow! I did say we had brought 22 people in all having drinks and a meal that he wouldn't normally have, and had he asked any other customers to move? He continued doing breathing exercises. I asked staff to move whatever cars where left. When exiting I asked to speak to him but was refused. The ladies serving where nice and polite. The food is standard greasy spoons food, but is over charged. What you don't realise is we have been visiting your cafe with clients for over three years now and had that big meeting, we now won't be visiting again in any capacity, so by trying to penny pinch on one day you've lost a lot of revenue, when you didn't need to , you just had to be nice.

Lovely coffee and cake, friendly staff and lots of books and games to choose from if rain stops play!

That “George” “Robson” served me today, he was very ignorant and messed up my order completely, I got given a cheese and ham toastie on BROWN! And I asked for a Yorkshire pudding with meat. Absolutely appalling, 1/10 never coming back.

I popped in here after a walk around the area and had pie, chips & mushy peas, a Langsett Cake (can't remember the exact name) and a pot of tea. Fairly large portions of them all. The cake was delicious, as was the homemade steak pie & chips. Pricing was more than reasonable and I'd definitely pop in again when I'm up that way on again.

Absolutely disastrous, After a laborious drive across the country back to Sheffield we decided to stop for what we hoped would be a 5 star breakfast worthy of the £14 price tag it commends only to be disappointed beyond belief, not only did we let our stomachs rule our brain after walking through the door to the stench of old fat we decided to give it a try. Here’s the list of issues, • asked to swap fried bread for bread and butter….. never happened. •Deep fried sausage….not good •Bacon that salty I now need a 24hr IV •Beans that hard I wonder how I never chipped a tooth. •Not a fan of shallow fried eggs gone hard and crispy. •Deep fried mushrooms swimming in grease. I hereby sadly conclude my review and will never be stopping there again.

Disaster from start to finish. Drinks didn’t arrive so had to ask again for them (This was after the tables after us had been served theirs). Then wrong drinks arrived, then no milk brought with the tea. Soon after cold breakfasts arrived.. had to ask for cutlery as that also didn’t arrive with food. Staff were constantly bringing wrong food to wrong tables to which customers were all shaking their heads at how badly organised the place was. Didn’t bother to complain about our food being cold as it was obvious after all the mistakes that it was just better to give it up as a bad job! The picture is what I got charged £7 for! (Add a cold piece of toast and a tea bag). Overcooked, cold egg, cold beans, a greasy veggie sausage and cold mushrooms. It wasn’t busy and plenty of staff so no excuse for any of this. If you wouldn’t serve your family what you’ve put on a plate then don’t serve it to paying customers. Will take advice given by a customer outside to go to Fox valley next time.

Great food and coffee at a reasonable price with attentive service. What’s not to love?

Good quality coffee - nice selection of food - in a welcoming, friendly environment. Still good food and service.

We stopped here for afternoon tea, the scones just crumbled into little pieces it was difficult to even put anything on it, the tea was very nice from the pot! The place needs a good clean it’s dirty, I know dogs can go in and walkers, but there is no need for it to have cobwebs everywhere, it needs a good clean! Looking back through the picture it looks like it’s gone down hill and needs a clean and paint.we wouldn’t stop here again.

Called for Breakfast as a Treat, Try to call at least once a month, Good choice of food at a Reasonable price, Welcoming Staff , Good Service, 5*

Great cafe for freshly cooked food to warm you up. Excellent selection on the menu, with plenty of vegetarian options. Quaint and quiet......a really nice stop for lunch

Excellent traditional cafe. Great homemade food in proper sized portions with genuinely friendly staff. I can't imagine driving over the Woodhead Pass without stopping here.

Took 30minutes to get 2 hot chocolates and a slice of cake, avoid!

Great little cafe with good food and friendly staff. The perfect place to refuel after a walk around the reservoir.

Lovely cosy cafe, good range on the menu to suit all diets (and a sausage for the dog!). Perfect place to start a day of walking - Langsett reservoir car park is 2 mins down the road with ample parking for a lovely walk

Excellent as always. Dambuster brekkie at its best.

Delicious food and lovely cafe. Would recommend.

1st time I've been in for years, absolutely bang on, brilliant place for stop off while out walking 🚶

On a cold, damp, miserable day we'd hoped for a warm cafe in which to enjoy a hot drink. Not to be.

Just called ln today. A dream of a steak pie. Quality meat, pastry yummy and gravy. Proper chips and plenty of. Even tea was yorkshire. Get thi sen their. Staff a joy to talk to.

Enjoyed an excellent bacon sandwich after a local walk around Langsett Reservoir. I would recommend both the sandwich and the walk.

Lovely cafe - good food choice and relaxed atmosphere inside.

Wonderful warm and friendly welcome ( including our dogs). Excellent all day breakfast. Great service and atmosphere.

Lovely coffee shop with a vibrant country character, the coffee was splendid!

Lovely coffee shop with a vibrant country character, the coffee was splendid!

Cosy interior, friendly staff and good coffee. We sat inside, but on a nice day the outdoor seating would be lovely.

Lovely wall around langsett, finished by a gorgeous breakfast and a cuppa. Friendly, helpful staff too

Welcoming and friendly. Great choice of hot drinks and a great price.

Can't go wrong with a great cup o tea with a homemade scone, comes with virtually a jar of jam & another jar of real cream - go for 2nd cup to help get through jam/cream

Difficult to park and cakes not great but ok. We only had tea and cake so not much more to say! The staff were very pleasant.

Friendly and great foo, clean kitchen...

Lovely scenery inside and out and the food was very nice very warm and welcoming

Six of us turned up for a breakfast. Despite a shortage of staff our full English breakfasts turned up without delay and very tasty it was too. Impressive.

What a wonderful cafe. Right up my street with some very cool art scattered all over the place that you can buy. Staff are lovely and full of smiles. A real happy place. Oh the food is good too

Lovely cafe. Haven't visited since pre pandemic - very impressed with choice of menu, quality of food, and friendly service.

They were having new windows fitted when I visited but the food was good and at a sensible price.

Nice place and a great breakfast.

Lovely cafe, staff friendly and food lovely and good value

Great food and dog friendly to boot. Spoiled by to awful woman complaining about dogs and then proceeding to have the loudest conversation ever

Welcome relief after long wet walk...decent food at reasonable prices

We were first in, but had a queue behind us, it was freezing inside and, not a welcome environment from the freezing temperatures outside. Ordered four lots of their pancakes, my kids normally have them and I look on in envy, so today I caved in. We got one pot of maple Syrup, enough for 2 plates, when I asked for another portion I received a cold pot of golden syrup. 21st century, modern world problems I know, but I paid £36 for 4 plates of pancakes. I then had to ask for extra milk to go with the 4 pots of weak tea. We have attended this place regularly, in passing, after a walk and when desperate for sustinence, we may have eaten anything in those circumstances. Today we went out of our way, after watching the sunrise and what a spoiler. I wouldn't go out of my way again to attend the café.

Great (vegan) cooked breakfast!

Brilliant cafe with a warm welcome and great cake

Perfect for post-walk refreshments. Great slabs of homemade cake.

Amazing little place. It was windy and rainy and we were drenched and the staff were so lovely and helpful! Quick food despite warning us it may be a wait. Delicious and cute interior too Will be coming again

Friendly staff, quick service, enjoyable food.

Lovely food, friendly staff and great value for money

Traditional English cafe with great food. Loved it Friendly staff. Surrounded by speed cameras: beware! Good choice of sandwiches and other grub. Very friendly staff. :)

Dogs allowed inside which is great as not many places do. Vastly over priced. Sausages were lovely. Could tell the bread had been out too long, a bit stale Burger was burnt (dogs enjoyed it though) Strangest coleslaw I've ever seen.

Fantastic Cafe, great food and Coffee.

We enjoy a regular breakfast here each week always pleasant service and good value for money very tasty

Lovely, friendly and quick serving staff even when they were busy

I had to work away from the house for a few hours which was dog friendly. We went to the Bank View Cafe and were treated to breakfast and drinks. Highly recommended. Lovely atmospheres and great service. Reliable WiFi service.

Great service. Very friendly, Great quality and value. Will come again.

We came here on our walk yesterday, though we have been many times: we startled ourselves at the realisation we have never made a review here before. The reason this is our favourite café is because it is located at such a nice spot on the route of a very nice walk, it is dog friendly with plenty of water bowls for the dogs, the service is some of the friendliest in all of Yorkshire (which also means the rest of the country). We only come here as an incentive after walking a great distance of miles, so the rest as a halfway point is always much appreciated. The prices here are reasonable and the food is generally quite good, though not top quality, but we still enjoy it greatly. As mentioned before, the service here is very hospitable and the staff are amazing. For drinks, we especially recommend the Caramel Frappe, as for meals, everything is quite good. Certainly stop off here on your walk, it is worth it!

Great friendly cafe, good selection of hot and cold food and drinks at competitive prices. Highly recommended, will definitely be calling again.

Fab cafe for a great breakfast (well that's what we go for!) They do veggie and vegan breakfast too. Can't miss it, it's the spotty cafe

Lovely little cafe, staff were very friendly, food was lovely to.

We always stop at Bank View on our way to Sheffield. Its friendly, the tea, coffee and cakes are great and it's not at all expensive.

Very busy, bicycle friendly and decent food.

Great dog friendly cafe , nice food for a fair price .

Lovely place go for a coffee after a walkbaround Langsett

Quirky little cyclist cafe with little rooms off here and there. Good food good price. Friendly staff. Nice area to explore.

Fantastic food, friendly service and a quirky, homely feel to the place. I will certainly visit here next time I am passing.

We got to this cafe regularly .We enjoy the meals and the service .The prices are favourable too. We have been today and have felt a little uneasy , as staff usually wear masks . , and no one who served meals wore one .We are older folk and I suppose we feel more vulnerable than some , but I usually feel that the Bank View have their priorities in place.Todsy , because of the masks, I felt very uneasy and not sure I want to go back for a while .Until we feel safer . Sorry folks , as I really do enjoy our visits for a fry up . Please remember , we are not out of the woods yet Regards E Ward

Good portions and vegan choice, however the food itself was tasteless. My partner had the dahl and found it almost inedible as it was full of coriander seeds (seriously - hundreds). Nice café, perhaps the non-vegan options are better.