Dukes pantry in Northumberland

Just stopped at the ‘food truck’ for a cup of tea while passing through Kielder but was tempted by some food as well. Excellent quality and the guys running it were extremely friendly. Sat out side on one of the picnic tables and had a nice break in the sun.

The original hunting lodge has been turned into a cafe. It serves great food and the staff are very efficient.

Lovely setting. Staff really friendly and welcoming. Food excellent. Dog friendly as well! Also do carry-out.

We visited Kielder Castle Café on two days at the beginning of September; I was revisiting Kielder, where I lived until I was 10. On the first day, I had a delicious and large cheese scone during the morning. We came back for a late lunch - lasagne for me and fish and chips for my husband. The next day we both had quiche for lunch. All the food was tasty and good value, and the staff friendly and efficient. The open fire was very welcome as it was a bit chilly outside. We were sorry that our stay near Kielder was so short, as we would have loved to return to sample some more lunches, and some of the cakes and puddings!

Four of us stopped here for a light lunch and were not disappointed. The coffee and tea with home made food was very good indeed.

We ordered 2 full English breakfasts and we couldn't fault the food. Good value for money £16.10 for 2 including drinks. Good service, dog friendly and clean.

Hard, stale scone obviously sat out for hours/days. Dubious cream that seemed on the turn. I left it uneaten. I virtually never write reviews but I am sat here now writing this ‘live’, annoyed that I have paid so much for something rubbish that is so easy and cheap to delight the customer with. Stick to a pot of tea can’t go wrong.

Dropped in here for a snack of tea and cakes (and the odd slice of warm apple pie and custard) and enjoyed the fare on offer. All seemed to be well made, fresh and tasty. A welcome drop in on the route around Kielder for the traveller on foot or wheels.

We stopped here for a family lunch after a few hours cycling on the bikes rented from the shop next to the castle. The cafe served great food with quick, friendly service. There was a good range to choose from, both hot and cold, and a good selection of cakes and deserts. Food was delicious and eaten while watching the Osprey nest camera. It’s quite a small cafe so the seating was always full, but people were happy to share their tables and also moved on quickly to free up space.

A lovely little cafe in the gorgeous kielder castle, would recommend the apple pie and for the gluten free the millionaires shortcake

A nice place to stop if cycling in the area , however we visited twice and had two very different experiences. On our first visit the bacon roles and hot drinks were quickly delivered and we enjoyed watching the many variety`s of birds feeding at the bird table our second visit was not so good we ordered some jacket potatoes and coffee`s. The drinks were swift but had to wait 30 minutes for the jacket potatoes even though there was only four other people in the restaurant. The waitress did apologise and admitted to forgetting about us !!! something we would of accepted if they had been busy but sadly the place was very quiet.

Top breakfast in a lovely setting. Lots of other cafe type foods all good quality. Check the short local walks with red squirrel cams

Family (7 people) visit. Prompt service and delivery of freshly cooked food from a good but, a little limited menu. Staff very friendly and helpful. If you only want a cup of coffee you must get watch the live cam of the ospreys! Unfortunately the museum was closed on our visit which was a little disappointing.

Cosy cafe serving excellent food. Excellent position for bird watching whilst enjoying a bacon buttie!!! You can purchase some wonderful pictures, photos or other related items.

If you are in kielder look no place else for a bite to eat home made food to an excellent standard I have been here several times and always look fall wards to my visit it has stunning views and this great cafe restaurant you can also take inside the dog , food wise I had the lasagna and salad jacket potato followed by ice cream sundae it was lovely , there menu is great and made fresh my sister enjoyed the clotted cream scone mmm there is a great choice enjoy

Kielder castle内の1Fにあるカフェでアットホームな感じ。スコーンやホームメイドケーキやドリンクがある。まわりに食事をとれるところが少ないので休憩するのに便利である。

Stopped for a late lunch , nice cafe food was freshly cooked , baked potato for misses and quiche for me both very tasty finished off with a nice piece of chocolate cake ! Worth a return visit.

Después de terminar el Camino gruffalo llamamos en Duke's Pantry para tomar una copa y descansar.

Fue una ventaja para encontrar esta cafetería abierta en nuestro camino a lo largo de la orilla del lago. Que simplemente dejó para té, que estaba muy bien servido en una olla de té como debe ser y a un precio razonable. Había una buena variedad de apetitosos y barato, pero también los pasteles no probamos estos.

Kielder Castle está situado en en el extremo norte de agua kielder, este es un pequeño negocio familiar. Servir productos de calidad, tartas caseras y buena comida sólida para senderistas y ciclistas, es mucho mejor que la de otros lugares

My wife and I have been in this cafe a couple of times whilst we were staying nearby during early November. The cafe serves a good selection of lunch and brunch options and some great cakes (Including a few gluten free ones) as well as hot, cold and alcoholic drinks.The cafe allows dogs inside the cafe as well as at picnic tables outside, which in November was great. (They have a towel to rub your dog down in the entry way if they are very wet or muddy like our Labrador was!)Service was friendly and quite quick, although being a November weekday outside of school holidays the cafe was fairly quiet.

Visited for a coffee and cake, and to check on progress of the Osprey chicks. Camera showed that all the chicks had left. Lovely cake, and great coffee, and always a great welcome.

You can't beat the cream teas. The scones are delicious and the staff are really friendly and efficient. The English breakfast is average - shame there is not a Duke's version with chunky local sausages, large herby mushrooms and thick chunks of local brown or seeded bread. Definitely worth it for tea and cakes though.

Dukes pantry is a nice quite café with a good range of food and drinks available. very conveniently placed for walkers and cyclists.

Stopped for refreshments before a short walk. Tea, coffee and tea cakes, with entertainment provided by a large wall mounted TV with live feed from cameras overlooking several Osprey nests.

We ate here and were happy with our food. The quiche was either home cooked or bakery cooked, good salad and baked potato. Really enjoyable. Amazing latte and even better cakes !

The setting, inside Kielder Castle is quite something! Nice warm welcome from the staff/owners with a good selection of cakes; they also serve breakfast and light meals. Both the scones and the fruit cake were good. There is a large wall mounted TV taking a direct live feed from cameras overlooking several Osprey nests, along with details of when the birds returned for the season and when eggs were laid and hatched etc. There is also a hazelnut feeder attached to a window, so you can see red squirrels up close.

My wife and I were staying very close to the castle and decided to call after we had been out walking. We found it warm and the staff were very friendly

Really good cup of tea, delicious scone and dog friendly. What more could you ask for? Well I'll tell you. Ospreys online on their nests and a lovely lady who answers your questions and tells you about the progress of the Osprey maternity wards. Fantastic

A café within Kielder Castle serving good solid home made food and service with a smile!Great value lunches and a good cake selection

Visited Sunday 24th April. Have been before, staff pleasant and food nice. Plenty of choice and good portions. Good value for money in a nice setting. Worth a visit, and daughter loved it as the ospreys had layed an egg and our daughter was very intrigued.

excellent breakfast and tea, great staff and relaxing atmosphere felt very welcome and will come again

Had an excellent breakfast here on a recent visit for a forest event. Must admit I find the Kielder area pretty bland, featureless reservoir surrounded by grim plantations but this place made up for it.

A lovely find in a beautiful location. After a long forest walk, we took our hounds (very dog friendly) to the Dukes Pantry. Fantastic homemade soup, with a cream tea to follow. Reasonable prices to boot! There's even a small (free) exhibition attached (child and dog friendly) showing wildlife in the forest, stargazing exhibition (area renowned for dark skies) plus history of the castle. Would highly recommend if in area.

Lovely tea room. Free wifi, and in season, cameras on the osprey nests so you can watch in comfort. Also may see red squirrels feeding while you drink and eat. Staff friendly and helpful. Snacks and meals available, and hot food cooked to order. All good.

Definitely call in for cakes and coffee or a hot chocolate great for a visit after running round the maze or one of the walks in the area

On a bleak December day with very few people about, we were very grateful to find this restaurant open. Being the only customers, we enjoyed fast and friendly service (the staff were pleased to have someone to talk to !). Good food at a sensible price. The exhibition is also well worth a visit.

A hearty meal and some very hard working and helpful staff made our meal a satisfying pit stop. The food was a bit carb heavy but was well cooked and there was plenty of it. Service was with a smile and was most welcome.

My husband competes in mountain bike events around the country, and this is our third visit to Kielder. The Duke's pantry is a typical tearoom but situated in the historic hunting lodge of the Duke of Northumberland, it makes for an atmospheric treat. The food is all home made and locally sourced, and while simple fayre, it is delicious. The staff are attentive, speedy and polite and the prices are not outlandish

We popped into the cafe whilst visiting the excellent free exhibition which is well worth a look. We had a very warm welcome and enjoyed an excellent couple of snacks and drinks. The quality of food was good, as was the value for money.The cafe was very tidy and the live ospreys webcam really made the experience with live views of one of the nests nearby.Ideally situated on the northern tip of Kielder water for anyone visiting this lovely part of England.

We landed late (after 2pm) and so maybe missed any rush. Great sandwiches and scones and coffee did just the job. You'll need to park behind the bike shop and walk across and through the 'castle'.

It is a lovely area round here and everyone we met was so friendly but when we went into the cafe we felt the the service was lackluster and unenthusiastic as was the food. Maybe we hit this one on the wrong day, it looks like a lovely place and it's a shame we left feeling it was just average, we wont be in any rush to come back but it was okay just nothing special.

This is the cafe at Kielder Castle, friendly staff and well priced menu. Full of home baking and light lunches ... Serving local ale also.Slice of homemade carrot cake, ice lolly, coffee and pint bottle of beer £8

When we called for lunch, it was very busy with a group of cyclists having just arrived, so service was a little on the slow side.There were 6 in our party, and we all had an enjoyable lunch.As there are some lovely walks very near - for example along the old railway line to get views of Kielder Water, we shall probably return.

Arrived at Kielder lake with my family , had a lovely walk on the superworm trail - the kids loved it. Popped into Kielder Castle Cafe for lunch , very busy as it was the school holidays-we had a small wait which was understandable . The food was homemade and yummy. Kids loved their lunch boxes and me and my husband both had lasagna and chips - great value at £6.95.Found staff to be very friendly,we will be back to explore more of Kielder.

I had a nice Full English in the Dukes Pantry, but oh dear, where's the atmosphere??The food was indeed good, service was fairly swift too and I was entertained by the view of the Ospreys on their nest on the flat screen monitor.The problem with the place is the lack of interaction between staff and customers. No smiles, no hearty welcome, no thanks for coming and not even a please call again. Maybe I'm old fashioned in expecting the service industry to feature these niceties but it really left me flat.A bit of background music and the fire on may take the chill off the otherwise luke warm atmosphere!

Came here around 2pm, it was busy but most people were finishing their lunch. We ordered a cheese roll and a cheese and ham toasty. After waiting over 30mins I went to ask where our food was...? Cue hushed discussion between the boy on the cash desk with the only adult on the premises where it became obvious our order had been misplaced. "It'll be two minutes" was the response. No apology or acknowledgement of us having waited longer than we ought to. The cheese roll did arrive in two minutes, it was about another five before the toasty turned up for my very unhappy 8 year old son. Our drinks were long since finished and I didn't feel inclined to hand over more cash to this place that treats it's customers so poorly.The food was ok, I prefer some butter or margarine in my sandwich. The latte had a weird sweet taste to it which was disconcerting.

Had a few ice creams here and then had lunch whilst staying at local campsite. Food nice and fairly priced. Enjoyed looking at the osprey camera too!

Had a lovely latte and a bacon butty after a short ride on the MTb. Not too pricey and really nice real open fire was a bonus too

The home made cakes are well worth the visit. There are not many tea rooms that are in such a beautiful setting and location. There was a variety of options available for food. From breakfast to light lunches and sandwiches.

Lovely room which used to be the gift shop!The menu is not extensive but the food is good, particularly the homemade quiche, and the staff very friendly and helpful.There is outdoor seating in the courtyard and at the front of the castle, too.

Had two meals here, Home cooked and reasonably priced. Loved the homemade quiche and scones. Staff friendly and pleasant. Play park for children, maze and two great walks.

Staying nearby, we enjoyed cream teas at The Duke's Pantry. The place was busy (always a good sign) and service was prompt. The scones were enormous - just what we needed!

Spent the afternoon with the kids in the rain hunting the forest for the Grufflo. Once he was found we headed to the castle to dry off and get a bite of afternoon tea. Lovely little cafe, quite busy but the staff & service were great. We had tea & cream scones (which were not long out of the oven) & the kids had the chocolate fudge cake & custard. It was all very good & we will be back. Added bonus was the Osprey cam was on in the cafe so spent a bit of time watching this as they about to leave the nest. Well worth a visit.

Called in for a coffee on a bike ride around Kielder and really pleased I did - nice traditional café with a good selection and at a reasonable price for a relatively remote location.

My fiancé and I visited here after failing to find somewhere to have a quick bite to eat on a Sunday lunch time, that wasn't a big Sunday dinner. We were glad we did! We each had a can of soft drink, steak & ale pie and chips and a dessert for only £22. The steak & ale pie was only £7.95 and was the best home made pie we've had in a long time. The steak was tender and fell apart and the chips were lovely too. I had carrot cake for dessert which I was a little disappointed with as it had an overpowering banana flavour but my fiancé enjoyed his cream scone. We sat outside on a large picnic bench as it was sunny, and a friendly waitress brought our food out when it was ready. We will be back when we visit Kielder again.

The staff were very friendly, the place was clean. The food was excellent. Brilliant place to eat.Wonderful views while you eat. The birds were eating just outside our window.

Bacon butties good, breakfast good, coffee very nice. Watching the live feedback from the osprey nests - utterly awesome. Super walks from the site; bikes for hire, red squirrel hide, lots of fresh air.

The Kielder Castle Cafe is without doubt a wonderful place to have a good feed.The food is excellent and the welcome along with the service is second to none.A very friendly and warm relaxing atmosphere make a visit an absolute pleasure.The soups and cakes are a personal favorite - but whatever you have it will be of the highest standard.

I visited Kielder in November with my wife and two children for a bike ride. (Be warned its a long way around the lake!) We had a great day and the weather was good. We finished off at Kielder Castle where we were met with a very warm welcome by the staff at the New Dukes Pantry Tearoom. The food was absolutely fantastic and very reasonably priced. The kids really enjoyed watching the live bird feed. I would highly recommend visiting the Dukes Pantry when ever you are in the area, superb from start to finish.

2 people - lunchtime - mid week - start of month - Various seasonal opening times, perhaps check their website for detail.This is cafe within Kielder Castle and the exhibition in the house is accessed via here.Enjoyed time spent here watching large screen with a feed from a feeding station in the forest - chance to see various birds and red squirrel.Bird feeders, outside of the windows, proved to be a draw as well.Had light lunch and coffee, all good and fairly priced - Pleasant staff.

I visited the cafe in November after a lovely morning in the maze and we received the worst welcome ive ever had.my sister and I with our two children aged 3 and 5 ordered our lunch and sat at a table to wait for the food arrive,all of the tables had leaflets and pens on about solar panels. My nephew (5) asked to write his name on one as he's been learning it at school so I let him and of course my son (3) also wanted one so I let him. The cook, owner can out of the kitchen and stared to shout at us saying"can you not let your kids write on them" we explained that we only give them one each, , then we got a lecture about someone would have payed money for them. I've never been spoken to like before I was totally taken back even my son said"shes not a very nice lady". We'll go to the pub over the road next hopefully it will be family friendly

The café at Kielder Castle has been recently refurbished to a high standard and there is a new visitors' centre. The food was good quality and reasonable. We had dinner (soup, vegi lasagne then apple crumble) for £10 off a special menu - really good value. The restaurant also has a licence - they had some nice local beers available. We also went there for breakfast - there was a choice of full English at £5.50 or continental at £4.00.This is in a lovely location. It is in close proximity to the maze, the kids play area and a new hide for observing red squirrels and birds.

If this review was based on the food I would give it 4 stars. However it's more about the place itself that could be improved. This cafe used to be in a different part of the castle (now an info centre) and they have moved the cafe into what was the gift shop. The only thing is it's still a gift shop so you are surrounded by tat. It is a bit warmer inside however and their is more seating so not an altogether bad move. A nice touch is a large flatscreen tv on the wall linked to an outdoor cam so that you can watch the local wildlife feeding while you do the same. Ordering is done at the counter and it's not the best way. Having to queue to order while a child is waiting to pay for a pencil sharpener with Kielder Castle written on it is irritating. A table service would be much better here. Diners are also expected to forage amongst the gifts for cutlery and condiments. They're all there but things could be better laid out.Prices are reasonable and the food is pretty good. Things like sausages appear to be locally sourced and portions are a reasonable size. To be fair this place has potential to be really good with very little effort. I am not put off by the shortcomings but would love to see these niggles addressed.

Visited here whilst leading a tour group of motorcyclists, the tea room is lovely situated in Kielder castle, the staff are very accommodating and helpful, one of the group had the quiche meal and said it was lovely, another the corned beef pie which was equally well received, the group also had a selection of rolls, sandwiches and cakes all of which were delicious, the tea, coffee, and soft drinks were all good, rose lemonade mmmm!! There was also a tempting selection of local ales but alas as we were riding we couldn't sample them, The setting was charming and a live on screen feed from the osprey's nest was spectacular, the cafe itself was spotlessly clean and was proudly and rightly displaying its 5 star food hygiene rating. The castle is free to visit and the area is outstandingly beautiful.

This cafe has taken over the old gift shop at Kielder castle. It has brilliant views and provides simple and very reasonably priced food. 4 of us had a good meal for just over £20 and it was served very quickly. You can't really fault it!

visited Keilder Castle on a lovely Saturday morning in May: found The Dukes Pantry cafe within the Castle: we had cream scones and tea: very nice and reasonable price bearing in mind the setting of the cafe:other meals and snacks being served looked very good:if you are in the area pay it a visit you won't be disappointed: only downside about the visit was the car park charge which was something like £1.60 for an hour... Keilder Water and Forest is a lovely area and not that far from Hadrian's Wall so an interesting part of the country...

Hidden at kielder a delightful place. Good basic food and reasonable prices, has a licence. Stop after a bike ride, a walk for a warmer, watch the live squirrel video feed. Enjoy a quiz night. A real saviour of a place try it you will not regret it.