Cafe Altitude in South Lakeland

Fabulous food, fabulous service and great views too. Will be back - tomorrow!

Lovely cafe. We really enjoyed the jacket potatoes

Lovely little hidden gem in Ambleside. Can't comment on the food, as we only had drinks, but the menu looked fab, great choices and great value. Great views of the hills.

Delicious coffee, fabulous views. Good menu and prices, shall return for lunch.

We were staying next door & were so pleased to discover this place. Lovely people, great views & music. The food could not have been better. Sausage & egg on bap or bloomer plush toasted bloomer another day. Good prices too.

Best Bacon Butty and Sausage sandwich ever!! Thank you.

Based on top floor so great views if you can get a table at rear of building. Otherwise you can see people through internal windows on the climbing wall also based in the same building. Very friendly couple running the café with fabulous home made cakes served in large slices. Also do breakfasts. Close at 3pm and also closed Tues/Wed. Will be back for more cake!

Visited here with our dog in July, it was the best cafe experience our dog has ever had! Really welcoming, thank you

Really nice cafe, very warm welcome for both myself and my dog. Gave the dog a sausage and gave me a towel to dry him. Really friendly people, lovely baked potato and coffee , great value for money. Nice view from the window seat as well. My favourite cafe of my trip.Very highly recommended.

Fabulous little cafe with good home made food, great service, and lovely views. Nothing seems too much trouble, including providing our doggo with a beautifully presented plate of sausage! Great coffee too!

If you’re in Ambleside this family friendly cafe is well worth the short walk from the centre of town. The breakfasts are great and the cakes are home made, just look at the indulgent cherry Bakewell cake. But for us the highlight was just how accommodating and friendly the staff are, thank you for giving our family a warm welcome.

Bit of a hidden gem heading out of town on the lake road - but ignore their A board advertising this friendly second floor café at your peril. We visited Sunday pm in a bid to find a little peace from the bustle of town and grab a cold drink. Sadly, we'd already eaten but we'll definitely return for some food next visit. What sets this place apart is the service. Yes the cakes looked fab, yes the milkshakes were AMAZING and yes the big glass windows overlooking the climbing wall made a brilliant setting...BUT without a doubt, the reason we'll return to and recommend this place is absolutely the welcoming, chatty owners. They mentioned they've not long since taken it over but if they keep up that level of service and quality food/drinks, I'm certain you'll be around a while. Meg (the dog) said thanks for the special treat!

Just at the end of town but well worth the walk. Really nice food and freshly baked bread, nothing is too much trouble and great service, can’t fault anything

What a hidden gem. We arrived close to closing time but the hosts couldn’t have been more helpful and accommodating. They were at pains to insist we didn’t feel rushed and served up delicious food - including a lovely warm piece of cake and ice cream. Delicious! And all with a great view over the rooftops of Ambleside to the fells.

Great coffee - staff are very friendly and accomodating - good food well worth a visit

Fabulous cafe and a good selection of food. Staff were very friendly and made time to chat about local area and where food was locally sourced. We will be visiting again soon.

A hearty full English breakfast and scrambled egg on toast set us up for the day. Better value than the cafes right in the centre and friendly welcoming staff.

We received a very warm welcome and were seated by a windows from which we had a very nice view on the surrounding mountains (upper floor). There, you are immersed in a mountaineering atmosphere because this place sits above a famous mountaineering’s gear shop. Pastries were delicious !

Great service and outstanding food. Even though we arrived just before they were due to close we weren’t rushed and made to feel welcome along with the dogs. The food was great across the 4 of us and we all had different items off the menu even with some tweaks. Great couple who were running it too

Very expensive and honestly, the coffee was awful.

Very friendly. Sausage for Precious, coffee and croissants for the adults. Would definitely be back when in the area 😀 😀

Came here Sunday, enjoyed lovely soup and homemade bread. Great views. Very friendly staff, and also perhaps best coffee we've had in a long time. Would definitely come again.

Great food and a very friendly atmosphere. Very worth a visit. Great view from my table.

Lovely friendly cafe The food tasted delicious and well presented We ordered some takeaway sandwiches, for our long walk Definitely go back again, when we’re in the Lake District

Just down the road from where we were staying in Ambleside. Couple of flights of stairs to get to it but there is seating outside now the weather has got better. Great selection of food for breakfast and as the day goes on. GF options a plenty and all servers with a smile and good banter. Owners are a Lovely couple and had a nice chat while we ate out fantastic breakfast. My partner described her crispy bacon and soft fried egg the best she’s had. From someone who loves these. Praise indeed I had gf breakfast which was equally as good. Lovely coffee. Made as requested and set us both up for a great day in Ambleside and beyond. Views across the fells to👍👍

The new owners, Joanna & Neil provide great food in a lovely environment, rain or shine. Great views vary from table to table, whether it's out onto the hills, or onto the indoor climbing wall. There's something for everyone, including dogs 🐕 I enjoyed my jacket potato and came back later for homemade ice cream.

Delicious home made food, even the butter. Yes, it's on the second floor, but it's certainly worth effort. I can't recommend this cafe 'highly' enough. Treat yourselves. 😋

Between the two of us we had soup a sandwich and a tuna jacket potato. All were good quality and enjoyable. We will certainly go again.

£6.60 for 3 small bottles of water. Scandalous!

Dog friendly. Clean. helpful staff. Yummy food

Poor quality food, which wasn't very warm.. Very slow service and miserable staff.. One to avoid, much better alternatives near by

The food was absolutely splendid. And the climbing wall was absolute scenes. Highly recommend 😃🥸😎🤩🤪

Lovely freshly cooked food, friendly staff and fantastic view. Would highly recommend a visit!

Great location. Nice selection of deserts and also non dairy options too.

Excellent service and value. Will definitely visit again.

An absolutely charming cafe on the second floor of the Ambleside climbing centre, great vibe and some wonderful views of the surrounding fells. The coffee and soup is outstanding!!

Watch the climbers or find the table with a view across Ambleside. Friendly staff, good array of treats. Tea was very nice. Toilets need a refresh, a little manky.

This was our first visit here but won't be our last. We were the only ones in at first so got the window seat with amazing views. The staff were great and I had a bacon and fried egg bagel and my husband had a bacon on granary sandwich. They were delicious and very generous portions of bacon. We will definitely look forward to visiting again next time we are holidaying in Ambleside. Highly recommend.

So brought my children to the climbing wall for a lesson and popped to this cafe whilst I waited Wow I was not disappointed I sat next to the floor to celling glass wall watching the climbing whilst having a lovely coffee so nice after the climb I brought the children up for lunch! We again where not disappointed all home made and the lemon crumble slice was the best I’ve tasted so good I took one away with me! Looking forward to our next visit!

Good food and a really friendly owner - thanks!

Great food and drink. Fast and friendly service and great value for money. Well worth the short walk from the town centre. Give it a try you won't be disappointed

Coffee and cakes whilst watching the boy on the climbing wall. Heaven!

Lovely coffee, simple food selection, the soup was delicious and they have milk alternatives!

Lovely coffee, great views and really friendly staff 🤗

Great, chilled cafe with yummy soup and excellent service . Really friendly staff giving good local info. Worth the climb upstairs. Will return.

Great coffee and cake,. Friendly staff with good local knowledge

What a fantastic place to visit.

Delicious, freshly-made food. Good coffee. Nice ambiance. Great tables for laying out your map to plan the route you should have planned earlier...

Kids climb, parents drink coffee

Nice cafe brilliant views.Not sure the "thick" chocolate milkshake lives up to its name 🤣

Nice little cafe tucked away on the 2nd floor above the climbing wall. Ok for a rainy day but in warmer weather there’s no outdoor space so I imagine it will get very warm. Fair prices. Nice food that is well presented.

Great food and to be able to watch people climbing the wall from the cafe a great idea

What a great cafe, really nice freshly prepared food and drinks served with a smile. Fab location with view out across town and hills but also internally at 3 story climbing wall - plenty to enjoy.

Nice coffee shop. Good friendly atmosphere.

Great service and food enjoyed watching the rock climbing,

I visited this lovely coffee house by myself as I was passing some time while waiting for my husband. I had a lovely coffee and chat with a lovely lady. Today I returned with my husband and we had lovely coffee with delicious homemade ginger cake. Well worth a visit.

Two days in s row. Lovely coffee, exceptional ginger cake and wonderful staff.

Scone was delicious, hot just out the oven.

Lovely cafe with a great view, serves a range of food at decent prices for the area

I went here for cake and got a huge yummy slice of chocolate fudge cake.the staff were lovely and the cafe was cool and different as it over looked the climbing wall.

Quirky location next to a climbing wall. Part of the cafe overlooks it whilst a few seats look out over the rooftops to the hills... Nothing fancy in the way of teas or coffees but nice enough drinks and quirky location...

Popped in for a very late lunch over Christmas period and was really impressed with just how good the food was especially with how late we were running. Really friendly staff member more than happy to help out. A really clean and spacious cafe with excellent views over the hills. Dog friendly too!!!

Just visited this cafe, friendly staff and the food was all freshly prepared, hot and was absolutely gorgeous. Good food is always worth waiting for 👍👍

Called in for lunch while waiting to check in and lovely suprise, very friendly and value for money, went again the next day half way through our walk, very dog friendly with fresh water straight away, soup yummy and sandwich plate was full with the trimmings, well worth a visit.

The generously large full english breakfast was splendid after a long rainy day on the hills. The cafe is walker and dog friendly. All in all excellent food and coffee made by fantastic welcoming staff. One of the best Café's in Ambleside.

Had breakfast Saturday morning and it was wonderful! All really nicely cooked and presented with care!

Very dog friendly, water bowl supplied immediately when we sat down. Huge fresh, still warm scones, yummy.

Of all the establishments in Ambleside this is the only one that I can think of with such a wonderful panorama of the nearby fells. The view comes with warm friendly service and great food so well worth the effort.

We had the spicy tomato soup with a roll and can honestly say that this offers the best value for money in Ambleside. Great views over the rooftops and the cleanest cafe I've ever seen!

I am just with my Border Terrier,he turns to come in here so he must like it,or knows that I do.Great Place.

Popped in for breakfast. Good full English and got the window with the view over Ambleside. Pleasant staff. Good find, will visit again.

We payed a visit while staying in Ambleside, The Fruit Scone which was warm with lashings of Jam & Butter was a real treat especially sitting looking over the top of the town and viewing the Fells, There was plenty of Tea on offer and the Cafe was clean with great staff serving us.

We popped in for a quick tea. Pot of tea for two and a Pepsi £4. Goods spot to sit and watch the climbing. The lunches looked OK for about £7, milkshakes were £4 so my child was talked out of it.

What a nice find! Friendly, quick service. My warm fruit scone, (with butter and jam) was delicious, as was the Breakfast Tea. A well-priced menu. A spectacular view across Ambleside. Highly recommended.

We just pop in to kill time while we were waiting to climb downstairs.

We had breakfast at Cafe Altitude. Their food were just simply tasty. Highly recommend the pancakes, which were crispy outside but soft inside! Lovely cafe, nice staffs and excellent services!

Dog friendly and good coffee and cakes.

This is a lovely, clean café serving great lunches and refreshments for climbers and their audience.

Called in on Friday after my dog was thrown out of Costa - dogs not allowed. Here the dog was made a fuss off and even provided with fresh cold water. The Spicy Tomato Soup was to die for and my wife said the hot chocolate was one of the best. Will certainly call in again, must try a Panini on our next visit. Thanks Costa with your help, we have found a little gem. Don't be put off by the 40 steps, this just provides the great views over the roof tops of Ambleside to the hills.

We popped by one rainy afternoon after I was trying to spend my money on technical clothing I don't need! anyway, we saw the sign for the café immediately outside the outdoor peaks shop and decided to see what it was like. Anyway, it was worth the effort, a very good cup of tea (in a pot) at a reasonable price. The cakes looked good but I didn't try them, for once I was actually full! There was a good view of the climbing centre. The place was also very clean.

Worth the climb up for comfy sofas, lovely staff, great food and drink all offset with stunning mountain views. Go visit!!!

Relaxed with great coffee whilst watching kids have a fantastic time 😊

This was a lovely little cafe, it's a shame it's quite hidden away. Lovely fresh food and friendly staff.

Had amazing breakfast here today beautifully cooked and served would highly recommend to all . Cafe a hidden gem spotlessly clean and dog friendly. Would highly recommend

It was a relief to find this place on a very wet July afternoon. The food was great and very reasonable for Ambleside. The staff were friendly and helpful. The views over Ambleside and the inner climbing wall were great!

Went here for Breakfast last Saturday, it was excellent. Very good quality and well cooked plus very good price £6.95. Coffee and cake were also excellent. Very nice cafe, worth a visit.

Un salto en el café y la tarta, ya que tenía unas vistas de las montañas. Tras subir varios tramos de escaleras era evidente que la vista era de una mesa de ventana que estaba ocupada. El café, pasteles y el servicio era genial, pero la vista es una exageración!

A hidden gem. Food was excellent especially the lemon and blueberry cake. All homemade. Service with a smile....happy staff always makes a difference.

Fuimos a almorzar y realmente disfrutamos de la cafetería. Una buena opción en el menú, y entretenimiento viendo la escalada de actividades a la pared! Una gran variedad de paninis, sándwiches y sopas, pero tenía el bocadillo de palitos de pescado, que era delicioso. Pasteles parecía, así que muy tentador volver viniendo en muy pronto!

We had been walking most of the day up Wansfell and I was desperate for something to eat and when we came back into Ambleside this was the first place we stumbled, (I kid you not), upon. We had to climb what seemed like an awful lot of stairs but it proved to be worth it. The lady in charge was very helpful and we where soon tucking into the most delicious Welsh Rarebit we have ever tasted. We where soon refreshed and able to go on our way. We will definitely visit again when next in Ambleside.

We took a break in Ambleside after a walk at Rydall Water. Having parked up and being very thirsty we came across this cafe walking in to town. Very friendly staff, lovely fresh food and you can either watch people climbing on the indoor wall or look over roof tops at the hills at the back. We left having thoroughly relaxed and having had an enjoyable lunch of home made coleslaw, salad and perfectly cooked jacket potatoes with cheese. The tea was ample but we were still asked if we wanted the teapot refilling. Great service and food. Only reason not 5 is you gave to go up a lot of stairs so not good for disabled people or those with pushchairs; unless I missed the lift.

Our eldest boy loves climbing and this cafe right next to the wall is a great touch. Lovely home made cakes and comfy ambience. Though as a decidedly very family friendly environment the toilets could do with a baby changing shelf as we had to do our youngest on the toilet floor. Sure we will return here again as our eldest loved it but being watched impinged on his concentration we found. Free wifi and some outdoor activity reading material help pass the time too.

Visited the cafe whilst our daughter had a climbing lesson. Great little cafe, Haylee the owner is very friendly, even went out of her way to bake me a gluten and dairy free cake. First time I've ever licked the bowl in a cafe! Gluten free bread and soya milk available. We stayed all morning and would definitely recommend!

Just wanted to say what a lovely experience we had at the cafe. Food was lovely and served fresh and the children loved watching people climb the wall so much that they had to have a go themselves so more fresh coffee was ordered while we watched the children experience the climbing wall for themselves....oh and we couldn't resist ordering a slice of cake while we waited. Thank you to two love ladies.

When we decide to pop into Ambleside after a day on the fells we always decide to visit Cafe Altitude. There are great views up over Fairfield, and there's always the climbing wall to watch the children. Great coffee and food. Drop-in when it's a wee bit wet outside - good idea :-)

Lovely dog friendly cafe with excellent food and cakes. Friendly relaxed staff and views of the hills from Windows on one side and viewing window onto the indoor climbing wall. Highly recommended.

It does take much to make make me happy when I go out to eat. Get the basics right and you are onto a winner. Simple really, but so many places get it wrong, not Altitude Cafe. What more do you need after a morning climbing. Hot coffee and cake. Happy, happy, happy.

We discovered this place when hiding from the weather with some indoor climbing. The cafe was cosy, friendly with very nice home made cake and good coffee. We came back for lunch a couple of days later and that was good too.

We had lunch here on a rainy day and it was beautiful! Homemade, wholesome food, beautifully presented. Staff were friendly and efficient. The cakes looked especially lovely although after soup and fresh bread I couldn't manage a cake! The climbing wall looked fun, this is a separate business though. Keep up the fantastic work!

A rare sunny day yesterday meant we had a lovely walk from Ings to Ambleside and were looking forward to a cuppa and a cake. Hayes café closed at 4 so we made our way into town and came across Café Altitude. We had a warm reception and lovely coffee and cake (can really recommend the tea bread with cheese). We could also watch brave souls going up and down the climbing wall. Shall definitely return next time we're in Ambleside.