Beulay Cafe in Wakefield

Called in yesterday after our walk, after not wanting to que at the little cafe next to the river. We ordered 2 lattes and 2 paninis, had the option of chips or salad as a side. We both chose salad. Then informed no panini but could have it as a toastie, which we agreed however slightly shocked we was charged the same price. Our food came out we both just looked at each other in shock, which is bad to say as you can’t have high expectations with a toastie but the toastie bread had burnt bits stuck to it which was obviously from a dirty panini machine (we managed to pick them off) and the side salad was a bit of iceberg lettuce leafs, soft tomatoes and couple of cucumber slices. I mean if you’re paying £18.40 for this food you expect nice presentation at least, onions, coleslaw etc would help justify the price. I’m sorry to say but It was a typical “dirty” cafe and we definitely won’t be returning .

Spot on little cafe. Nice coffee and food

Classic English cafe, the full authentic local experience at great prices and speedy service 👍

Visit here often, love this place great food atmosphere and prices, richard and his team are fantastic, would recommend to all

Always a pleasure to visit this lovely cafe straight opposite from Newmiller Dam lake. Numerous red hot cups of tea, delicious toasties and pie and peas, flapjacks and other sweet treats, lovely pitstop on a walk

Great cafe with warm service. Plenty of options with good prices, cafe has a great nostalgic feeling, the type you can imagine your grandparents going to back in the day.

Called in at the weekend - needed a sandwich for my walk... service excellent - the cooked breakfasts looked fab... anyway, I was provided with a "superb" ham, cheese and pickle sandwich... one of the best I have ever had... thanks !!

Atrociously run down, I don’t mind supporting small family run businesses that actually have something to offer however the poor service that comes with it was even worse, I was served one hard egg on 2 door stopper size teacakes with what looked like stork margarine. Not provided a menu, nor condiments, worst “yorkshire” tea I've ever been served. If you’re wanting nice, you could make better at home for cheaper. Convenience is the only way I think this place is running.

Can the young blonde girl serving at the till please learn some customer service skills? She was abrupt and very unfriendly. This place could be lovely if they moved away for the run down cafe vibes and modernised it.

Good honest food at realistic price.

Good food, great service, good atmosphere to be in, great place.

Dog friendly cafe. Highly recommended

Lovely pot of tea, in the middle of a long bike ride, just what was needed.

Lovely outlook I have been many times Food and drinks expensive abd nit that great After waiting a while it turned up 2 eggs on toast and a coffee £8 expensive my friend had the same Steak Canadian was a big dussapointment Meat thst looked like meat off the shop shelf abd grilled in a bun £8 very expensive and awful Bottle of water £1.40 Food took ages

Great cafe! We ate after an 11 mile walk from Newmillerdam. Dog friendly too which is brilliant!

I live local and this is a regular port of call for me ,dog friendly, clean ,and good food at reasonable prices,l just wish it opened Mon and Tues, but l suppose the staff need some time off

Great food and great service definitely be here again @criggdubbers hq

Good breakfast ,all well cooked and tasty, will use again.

Fantastic little cafe and great value for the family the portions are are great & the breakfast sandwiches were spot on the owner was lovely and very obliging with us nothing was too much trouble.Definitely will be back

Very friendly staff, lovely home cooked food at a sensible price. Will return.

Got a table straight away. "Outside" was a lovely day. Cleanliness spot on. Service was fast, productive, and friendly. Couldn't fault it. We got the ham & cheese panini which was quite nice but I was dissapointed with the breakfast (please refer to the pictures) I asked for the biggest breakfast they had and unfortunately it didn't come with much choice on it. In comparison to other places, the sausages weren't the best. I would only recommend this place for lunch, not breakfast. It's still a lovely cafe, though that does a really nice Latte.

Lovely breakfast sandwich and coffee. Great location opposite Newmillardam.

Been the other month then called in again for a Cuppa Tea and a lovely Slice of Parkin. Very nice café and the service was great 👍👍👍 Called in again 7.7.22 great place.. Back again 22.4.23... 🚴‍♂️🐯🐅..

Great little cafe, the staff are friendly and helpful, the prices are very reasonable and the café is 100% dog friendly. The food is freshly cooked. We have had their full English breakfast several times now and the quality is consistent, with good bacon, well cooked fried eggs etc. A nice little touch that used to be common but is less so nowadays, is the fact that you get a pot of hot water along with your pot of tea - a little thing, but indicative of the attitude of the place. They also have a decent range of herbal teas, including redbush, however the decaffeinated coffee is only instant, not ground. Dogs are welcome and every time we've been there, there have been several curled up under tables or sat next to the table looking hopefully at their owners' breakfasts. All in all a little, slightly old-fashioned (and definitely none the worse for it) gem of a café.

Brill Breakfast, it's got fried bread. Friendly staff too. Back again. 6 years from last review. Still great! No nonsense.

Always great breakfast here. Dog friendly too.

Very happy little cafe, could ideally be a bit bigger but we'll run.

Lovely food spot on but long wait though, drinks were cold by the time we got our food

Nice place. Friendly staff. Good food. Good price.

The Beulay cafe is a family-run cafe with an awesome view of the lake, which is directly opposite. With good food and drinks, and friendly staff, the Beulay is my cafe of choice when I visit Newmillerdam, which is a fabulous place for a walk. The Beulay also has the best selection of ice cream, in a wide variety of flavours.

Coffee was very weak, cake was just about ok

This is a great cafe, I go regularly been local. Food, staff, cleanliness faultless, lovely experience. The one thing that could improve and prevent us trying elsewhere would be if the food was hot and not luke warm or cold beans sometimes. Warm not cold plates would help. Apart from that, super cafe, coffee to die for. Jeff

Clean warm cafe with friendly staff and good menu choices.

Clean cafe. Tea and cakes are a reasonable prices.

Drinks were exceptional hot 👍🏻👍🏻 not something you find in every cafe sadly. ☹

Lovely place to chill and have breakfast in the morning. Food taste good and their cakes is so fresh! Will be back for more.

Had a great breakfast very filling after a goo walk around New millerdam.

Dog friendly, cute little cafe on a popular walking route. Great for a quick drink ands a cool down on a hot day or to warm up on a cooler day. Very clean despite being dog friendly. Very accommodating to people and pets.

Lovely staff and really enjoyed our food which was freshly made and hot great place to eat when visiting Newmiller Dam or just passing by

Friendly and great stop in for walking the lake

A great cafe. Simple but good food at a reasonable price. Staff friendly

Very poor quality with prices higher than they should be. £4.10 for a BLT which was on a tiny, cheap white bread roll (no choice given). The lettuce and tomato were the bits most people discard and the bacon was reheated and dried out. The tea was just a mug with a teabag......plastic spoons from a grubby cup on the counter and a communal sugar bowl.....so unhygienic! For a fraction more money the cafe round the corner is far far better value for money with cleanliness and good service.

Called Thursday afternoon with my family the service and food was 1st class great family buisness would highly recommend also the prices were very reasonable also in a great spot over looking newmillerdam will be going again and again when we are over that way. Thanks once again for great friendly service and food.

Was in the area for my friends wedding/,60th birthday, staying at hotel St Pierre hotel up road, so we called in in here and it was lovely, had the Egg and Bacon on toast, perfect. If in area again would come back, would recommend to anyone if visiting

Very reasonable prices but the cutlery we were given was filthy. I asked for it to be changed and the next lot was no better, encrusted with dried food. The third lot had obviously been wiped with a wet cloth before coming to us as we could see the smear marks on the knives.

Busy today with cyclists, walkers and those meeting up socially. Good to see. Food, service, and value always good. Highly recommended

Lovely little cafe and good grub too! Great staff. Dog friendly.

Very friendly and accommodating (we're veggies) , they even gave permission for us to stay parked there for us to enjoy a walk around the dam .

Great location. The decor is very dated but it’s clean. The food was lovely and good value. It’s was busy and we didn’t have to wait long.

Good location opposite Newmillerdam . Had very nice toastie and also a bacon buttie . Nice staff , would return .

Food is always delicious and the premises are very clean

Two bacon sandwiches a tea and a americano bacon cooked to perfection on a toasted bread cake pritty busy but not too busy.

Amazing little cafe. Very busy but well worth the wait for breakfast. The takeaway sandwich are just as good 10 out of 10

Been popping in since the seventies as a child. Great bacon and eggs. Very quickly delivered to the table.

Warm, dog friendly, people friendly too!!

The cafe itself is so pristine you could eat your meal off the floor; the food is straightforward and well prepared. But what makes this place special is the atmosphere, and the exceptionally warm friendly staff. This hasn't been an easy year for anyone, but these guys were unfailingly cheerful and gave everyone a welcome.

Great to be back safe friebdly place to have a coffee or a meal.

Fabulous breakfasts served here, the bacon is always well cooked, nothing is ever greasy, beans and tomatoes always piping hot. Family owned and run, love it 😀

Good cafe nice and clean and always a nice welcome

Always good service from staff a basic menu but always good value for money.

Good place to call after a walk around the dam.

Always feel welcome. Food lovely and filling.

Great friendly place for good food and drinks Always worth a visit

Great sandwiches and prices are pretty reasonable. Plenty of seating and great view of the Dam and local area!

We called at Beulay Cafe a month back, and what a lovely little place. Nestled opposite Newmillerdam, we bought two breakfast bap type meals, coffee and tea, and our dogs were treated to a sausage apiece at no extra charge. The owner is a lovely man, very friendly, happy to engage with his customers, and the food was lovely. Fresh bread, beautiful bacon, eggs and sausage. Even the coffee was pretty decent (I do enjoy a good quality coffee). All in all a positive experience, and of the eateries immediately around Newmillerdam, Beulay’s is the one I’d recommend.

Nice cafe opposite the dam. We had a roast beef sandwich and it was one of the best sandwiches I've ever had. The meat was cooked perfectly and so tender. Took my little grandson and he has a very good appetite. He loved the fish fingers chips and peas. It was a good portion, really well cooked and served. Staff is pleasant and very obliging.

Rich and the team do great breakfasts, poached eggs are perfect according to my good lady. Personally I prefer the small breakfast and it is just enough when I am stopping of during my biking. Don’t change a thing!!!! Thank you from all the hungry cyclists.

I wrote this review four years ago but yesterday checked it out again. Great reception, friendly staff and all the Covid safety features. Consistently good fried fish. My favourite is with mashed potatoes, veg and tartar sauce. Add a teapot and you are settled in for a feast. All the staff are friendly, courteous and ready to assist. Try the salads in summer. Hand carved ham served with full salad including egg. Quick snack? Try poached eggs on breadcake. Oh - the filter coffee is good too. Then a walk around the dam gets you ready for afternoon tea!

It's always good, been going in for years an known the family for same time

Brilliant food spot on people so nice and friendly 👍👍

It was lovely to see you back open again after covid lockdown. Great service and tasty sandwiches. We were able to sit outside and eat due to restrictions, looking forward to seeing you back open properly.

Lovely friendly staff great prices dog friendly would highly recommend

This place as so much potential however, sadly it’s very poor. Ordered two lattes this morning what I received was two cups of hot milk with not a hint of coffee to be seen. Over priced poor quality!!! If I could give zero I would

Love this traditional cafe by the reservoir, quick friendly service

This is my first review ever ! But I just had to take the time out to make people aware. I stayed at in Wakefield for 2 nights, on our first morning I googled a cafe fir breakfast and this place cane up with good reviews and just one pound sign meaning it was value for money... 🤷‍♂️ I have no idea who has been reviewing this place but they must have money to waste and absolutely no taste buds or concern for their health. There is no real price list or menu, so they can literally charge whatever they want depending on wether you are a local or visitor. I ordered 2 bread rolls / cobs / sandwiches with sausage, I expected to pay between £2.40 and £3.60, instead I was charged £6.40..... Me being me I went with it thinking this is going to be beautiful and proper butchers sausage as they do have a notice in the shop saying how everything is cooked fresh ! OMG no no no what I got was two bread rolls with the cheapest nasties sausage you could ever buy... and how was this “freshly cooked” food prepared I hear you ask ? DEEP FRIED GREASY AND DUSGUSTING !!!! £6.40 fir 2 of the most greasiest disgusting sandwiches I have ever had the misfortune to taste, the rolls went in the bin after the second bite as the grease burst into my mouth and made me nearl commit !!! AVOID AVOID AVOID they charge top end prices for cheap and nasty disgusting food that’s deep fried.

Contrary to the previous review things seem to be on the right lines COVID wise. Hand sanitiser on the way in. Asking to wear a mask for ordering. Staff not masked tho. Never really know when it’s open. Wed-sun 10-3 on window outside. (Must have been too often on a Monday or Tuesday)

Staff do not wear masks or visors. Don’t ask for contact details for track and trace. Don’t clean tables or chairs when public leave. Very very worrying.

Fantastic cups of coffee and cakes.

Very clean, pleasant staff, decent food

Stopped off for a sandwich, tea and coffee after a walk around the dam / lake. Service friendly enough, drinks fair enough, food fair enough, the whole place fair enough. But that's about it hence an average rating. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Really nice sausage roll and crumpets and tea. Very friendly staff. Only one toilet for females, no disabled toilets

Food was amazing nice and clean place great and friendly staff. Beware of the flapjack! Me and my partner tried some and now were driving a 45 mile round trip weekly just for the flap Jack. Absolutely 5**

Great food like lovely staff very clean good choice on the menu very good location near Newmiller Dam Wakefield

Friendly people.. great for food... and nice atmosphere..

This is a friendly, dog friendly cafe, suitable for walkers/cyclists. Good hot and cold meals available

Nice cup of tea and a bacon sandwich after a lovely brisk walk

Dog friendly ..good menu..good prices..great location ..lovely freindly staff..nice little stop after walking Newmillerdam Dam ..free parking too

Love this place the cafe and new Miller dam friendly staff do anything

I've dropped in for coffee and a snack several times recently mainly as it's a good place to meet up with people coming from various directions before we set off for a walk around the lake.Bright cheerful atmosphere, simple tables and chairs, nothing fancy but then you don't feel out of place in your walking clothes.

Best cafe we've been to in a long time, definitely a good little find will be returning! Lovely meat with fat cut off, perfectly cooked breakfast, nice staff and good prices

Nice cafe after a long walk. Plenty of seating and dogs allowed. Good coffee and food and very reasonable.

Sadly I'm forced to give the café this rating simply because I've visited at least 5 times within opening hours and it's been closed. There's a notice in the window stating that it may close early if the weather is bad, but on my visits it has been fine or rather lovely, sadly with the café still failing to be open. For this reason I'm very disappointed, and have to advise caution to prospective guests.

Our party of three had a great breakfast in the cafe whilst staying in the area. I had the full breakfast, my co-diners opted for the small breakfasts, the meals came with toast or fried bread and we had hot drinks. Despite the great location, the prices were very reasonable and we would definately call againThe cafe is in a great location overlooking the lake at Newmillerdam, well worth calling in if you're there.

Nice food. Lacks life. Cheapest in the area

Lovely staff and tasty food. A lot of the customers who came in the cafe where also friendly and talkative giving it a lovely atmosphere.

I called in for lunch and had a breakfast (I know that sounds a bit daft), staff friendly and the place was very clean. The food was cooked well and tasted good.A couple of issues though, I think the toast could’ve been better with thicker bread and I would have definitely appreciated a choice/option to have a smaller breakfast and I will probably ask when I next visit.

Had a lovely family lunch here, food was tasty, nothing was too much trouble, the owner (I think it was) was so lovely and chatty. He even came out to rescue me from a wasp with a swatter which I really appreciated as I am terrified of them hahaLovely view of lake as well, child friendly with high chairs little lad ( 1yo)enjoyed most of mine and my husband's jacket potatoes

Pleasing cafe, simple and delicious fare, very friendly staff

Great bacon n mushroom sandwich.

Fantastic breakfast very well cooked with really nice hot chocolate