The Balloon Tree in Ryedale

Well, this little location surprised me. Food is outstanding, staff very pleasant and atmosphere nice.

Friendly staff and efficient service. Relaxed atmosphere with lovely lunch menu yorkshire produce. Farm shop good selection

Too overpriced. The kids meal was so small and they got the wrong order 😑. The service wasn’t bad but I had to wait 40 minutes for a cheese sandwich. There weren’t enough vegetarian options either. People that were seated after got their order first, while we were hungry. 2 stars is me being generous.

Food is slightly overpriced for the offering

Husband and I have just been to the cafe for lunch.It was such a bad experience. Ordered 1 Bacon bun , 1 Rarebreed sausage bun a portion of Skin on Fries and 2 teas which cost us £23. 90... I asked the waitress what rarebreed sausages they were her answer was "there just normal ones". When the food arrived the skin on Fries were normal fries no skin on them questioned them and I was told they were right. They had to be returned as they were cold did replace. The sausages had been sliced in half to be refried,the bun I couldn't eat as it was dripping in fat and the sausages were cold.The Bacon bun not too bad just burnt Bacon.. Never again !!!...

Delightful, stop off on journey, with cafe, shop, and lots of fresh produce for sale.

I have just had the worst chicken sandwich from the balloon shop that I have ever purchased anywhere. At a cost of £3.95 and there was no tomatoes or egg on this sandwich, it had so much lettuce. The girls where too busy chatting rather than focussing on what they where doing, who is managing these people. I feel completely robbed

Delicious 😋 breakfast lovely place

Havent been in the cafe but the shop has a good choice of Veg, home made goods, bread, cakes etc but as with all farm shops its expensive.

Well, I feel I will pay a visit again

Nice lunch and a well stocked farm shop

Love The Balloon Tree they have a good selection of fruit and veg, the farm shop is great and I have to say their Steak Ale pies are delicious, the best pie I've ever tasted the beef melts in your mouth, as does the pastry, and their Cafe is just delicious every thing I've had has been lovely, andi try to visit regularly, as I love their steak ale pies well recommend truely you won't go anywhere else, I've tried but I return

Kids loved the outdoor play area. Food and drink is ok - we ordered teacakes, would have been be nice to be offered jam with them as an option, would personally prefer a stronger coffee too.

A lovely cafe to break up a journey with a good farmhouse selling a great range of food and drink

Only visited cafe and shop. Both highly recommended.

Very disappointed with the food. Considering eating out is not cheap these days they need to do better. I had a posh fish finger sandwich. Two small, cold ,very dry pieces of breaded fish and 1 lettuce leaf on a large toasted bread bun with cold, very dry chips. Poor. Won't return.

Another superb visit to The Balloon Tree. Staff could not help enough or be more attentive and then the Sunday lunch was excellent. Nice pink rump of beef, just how it should be in my opinion. Massive portions, but still managed desset. Great as always.

paid £7 for a bacon sandwich, slightly buttered bun with 2 of the thinnest slices of bacon i have ever seen. for £7 i expect thick bacon and plenty of slices of it. might as well have gone to mcdonald’s, much better there. shocking really, feel like i’ve been robbed

We have visited The Balloon Tree many times on our way to and from our holidays in Sandsend. We felt it was a special part of our break. Sadly, the most recent visit may be our last. We arrived in the hope to order breakfast on the morning of 28th December. We queued for approx 10 minutes to be greeted by a very flustered host who was extremely stern when we asked if we could still order breakfast. Her reply was a rather rude..you're only just in time. Then a young lady took our order for drinks and breakfast but after about 20 mins still no drinks. We received them after asking their whereabouts. After another 35 minutes still no breakfast!!! We asked yet AGAIN and then about 5 mins later the breakfast arrived. The food and the plates were cold and to be perfectly honest it was inedible. My husband's full English breakfast looked burnt and my vegetarian breakfast had items missing. When we informed the "host" about it her reply was..What ??? It's all cold ??? Do you want it warming up ? By then my husband had lost both his appetite and patience and we asked if we could pay for the drinks and be on our way. Whilst the cashier was very apologetic and polite and professional and did not charge us for the drinks we would have hoped that her pleasant manner would extend to all the staff. The food is generally excellent although we have seen a decline in both service and food over the past year. I was hoping things would improve in the Farmshop but unfortunately not. There wasn't a large amount of gifts or fresh produce to choose from. It basically looked like there was a closing down sale on. Whilst I normally buy all my holiday gifts for my family and friends and lots of lovely fresh food for us, I came away with a jar of pickles and a couple of pies. Although there was an extremely helpful and pleasant young man who assisted me with a smile and excellent manners. He is a credit to your company. I do hope things will improve in the future as The Balloon Tree is a little gem.

Lovely fresh, local fruit and veg, an interesting deli and a very good cafe serving "home made" products.

Lovely atmosphere and super friendly staff. A little on the pricey side but good quality. I had the curriwd cauliflower soup with a roll for £7.50.

Went with my wife. I had shepherd pie, my wife's vegetarian Christmas dinner. £36.45 with coffee and soft drink. I was disappointed with the shepherd pie. It came with 2 roast and one parsnip and a bread bun. I pointed this out at the counter when paying. The polite girl pointed that other had given the same feedback and the chef didn't won't to alter the dish . I won't rush back when they don't want to listen to feedback. Obviously making to much money. Christmas dinner now £17.99. deans is better value and when you give feed back to improve menu they listen.

this place is a must go to place for food. Service exceptional, food outstanding and spotlessly clean.

A must visit cafe when on a visit to York for my family. On every occasion we are always met by friendly and polite staff. Set in a beautiful building with plenty of natural light the setting in the countryside makes for a very pleasant and relaxing atmosphere. Really tasty breakfasts which are very filling and a great start to the day. The cakes also look very tempting but i’m yet to try those. This location also has a very well stocked farm shop on site.

Love the self-service, fresh milk machine outside.

Narrow selection and a bit pricey..fyi there is no garden center here

Pleasant, clean and good variety. Typical farmhouse cuisine.

As regular customers to balloon tree , we feel that the standard of food is dropping . The toast on our breakfast was thin and burnt , not at all like the usual haxby bread which was so delicious . Really hope they can improve things as it was our favourite place to go .

It's really nice but service is very slow at times. Sometimes, food doesn't come and eventually have to cancel. No dogs indoors and heaters not working outside... Stay away in winter.

Lovely service and food ain't bad either top noch

At my request, the cafe opened a bit earlier than usual for our group of 6. Coffee, and bacon/ bacon and egg rolls all round. Quickly served and very generous amounts. Coffee excellent (as it was last time I visited). Only slight complaint was the lack of loo paper in one of the ladies’ loos. Hence the 4* rather than 5*.

Brilliant venue, great food and excellent shop. Very friendly and welcoming staff, can 100% recommend.

Roasted tomato soup was delicious, but the half sandwich accompanying it was a disgrace: one thin slice of bread with a thin, old piece of ham, a slice of processed cheese and half a slice of tomato. Expected more for £10. The pot of Yorkshire tea was great (but the cups could be bigger).

Me and my family went to visit the cafe for lunch with no pre conception. Very impressive, attentive staff, well presented and tasteful food! We will definitely be visiting again

Found the cafe good but rather expensive. Usual farm shop goods all seem good quality but nothing startling

It’s difficult to write this review, as I’ve always enjoyed the Ballon Tree for lunch on the way to the coast and would normally recommend it. But sadly I feel it’s not what it was. I had the soup and half a sandwich in brown bread. It’s a very small bowl of soup (which was delicious). But the sandwich was really poor. Imagine the smallest thinnest slice of supermarket bread, with a slice of cheddar that was so thin you couldn’t taste it. Surely they could do better than this. They used to.

Very nice drinks - coffee and tea. Gorgeous bacon butties for breakfast. Good service. Dogs not allowed in the café.

We had a lovely breakfast before travelling back to Scotland

Go here every year to pick our own pumpkins, been last 5 years and we love it! So many to choose from and we go to the cafe after which serve an amazing roast dinner from 12pm onwards, the food is really nice, just wish they brought back the halloween treats from 2021 lol.

I really wanted to see a balloon, but they just had pumpkins. I love balloons. So why were there no balloons. There weren't even many trees! Boo! Ah I scared myself reading that, I thought the boo was from a ghost but it was a boo (pejorative). can you please get me some cheese and salad oh and I also need some cash so can you get some from an ATM and I'll transfer you

Pumpkin picking, cakes and coffee: brilliant morning spent at The Balloon Tree. We got there straight after 9:00 when hardly anybody was out yet. Got ourselves a wheelbarrow and onto the field for picking some pumpkins. It's october and an open field, so wellies are recommended. Our daughter had lots of fun walking up and down and choosing the right pumpkins. We changed our shoes back and managed to have a seat in the cafe right before the big wave of guests started arriving. Lovely morning overall, our daughter loved it as well. Recommended to arrive really early as later there were queues for everything, especially the cafe. Friendly staff, nice food and drinks as well

Went pumpkin picking, been going for years but this year it's now £1.50 per person. Understand that costs need to be covered but a family of 4 is now £6 before you even pick a pumpkin. Love the farmshop though

Dropped in by pure accident to pick up a pumpkin. Beautiful produce, great staff, and the milk is to die for! If you're passing, drop in. You won't be dissapiunted.

It's really beautiful here, my only negative is there isn't much choice for vegetarians, aside from that it's great 👍

Great food, coffee and outdoor fun for the kids. Deli shop is excellent!

Lovely bacon sandwiches and cakes

Busy cafe had to wait to be seated then drinks took a long time to come.

A little expensive! Food very good. Service unbelievable! Produce in shop outstanding!

Visited today had to wait for a table that's OK but when we were seated had to wait again and noticed tables that was seated after we were had there order taken waited about half an hour and left hungry won't visit again

We came here some time ago and thought that we would come again this year. It was a very disappointing visit though. Dogs are now not allowed, an entrance fee is charged. Literally no positive changes, just got worse. Definitely won’t come here again.

Went for breakfast which was excellent, great play park for the children to run off their energy too.

Service slow. Taken 20 min to get a cappuccino and 1 tea plus 2 cakes. Coffee near empty. 6 people to service.....never to return.

Not like our previous visits.We think it is expensive.Waited a while to be shown to a table when we sat down noticed it had not been cleaned properly had to ask for it to be cleaned again.I had ordered soup and half a sandwich and was brought a full sandwich and no soup the sandwich had salad and crisps with it .when I pointed this out instead of just bringing a bowl of soup my sandwich was removed and just brought back with half a sandwich no crisps or salad not what I would have expected after it had already been brought out to the table.Will not be back as we feel it is not like it was on our previous visits

We stopped by for Sunday dinner. Oh my goodness was it amazing! Not only presented beautifully, it was also incredibly delicious! The beef was rare (which we enjoy) with a variety of vegetables that were cooked to perfection. And even better….plenty of gravy!!! A fantastic sized portion and certainly not an ordinary Sunday dinner. Will 100% return again and it was a massive upgrade on Sunday dinners we’ve had there before for sure! Well done team!!

Very nice farm shop and friendly staff. 👌

Stopped off for lunch. The staff were really considerate and found us a table tucked in a corner so my daughter could breastfeed her baby in relative privacy. We had brie, apple and walnut sandwiches, which were delicious. My son-in-law had a burger and chips. My daughter had the luxury hot chocolate, which looked like a meal in itself!

Very good quality food and drink. The shop also sells great produce. I nice ride out from York.

Stopped here on my way to Bridlington for a light breakfast and coffee. Both were good but the men’s toilets were not so good. They consisted of 2 WCs one of which had a sign saying Out of Order, sorry for the Inconvenience! The other worked but had no toilet paper, so really you had to visit both!

We were there for cake. And the half n half options were a wonderful idea. The cake itself was lovely, soft, not dry and not overly rich with the buttercream. However, we couldn't resist the vegetables on offer, which turned out to be a bit tastier than supermarket food. Even my kids commented :) We didn't try the cafe, but the shop has an excellent selection available. We will be back. Update. We came back. More cake. Just as good as last time. But also something savoury too, which was also nice.

Came upon this place by accident, my sat navigation rerouted me off the A64 on the way home. It has a lovely veg shop with a really good choice of veggies, salads and fruit so I ended up stocking up for when I got home. It also sells quiches, pies, coleslaw etc, cheeses, bread, biscuits, gifts and much more. There is a really nice cafe that I have since been back to visit and can vouch for the food which was excellent. They also do a Sunday roast, which I bet is delicious. They also have plants, pots, etc, and do strawberry/berries picking and at the moment, it's pick your own pumpkin 🎃. Some lovely gifts for Haloween too. It's well worth a ride out if you don't live locally, like myself, as it's set in beautiful countryside.

Just used the cafe today and very good it was too. Staff were very helpful and efficient, food excellent. Keenly priced also. Would use again no problem.👍

Lovely breakfast, staff helpful and efficient. Great food

Good garden centre and great food 👌

Called in on our way home from Reighton sands What a lovely place glad we stopped for breakfast food tasty staff friendly Even picked up a terracotta pumpkin from the shop what's not to like.

Good produce, Fruit veg and bakery, tried all sorts, the breakfast and sandwiches are very good too

Amazing food at the cafe and in the shop!

Waited 20 minutes, for order to be taken, people after me getting orders taken. In the end had to ask about ordering. Not good enough Hope The food is better

Lovely shop with good quality stock.

Great place with a cafe with a good choice of menu, a farm shop selling a good selection of foods and fresh produce and a play area for children.

Great place for good food Good children's play area Shop has a good selection of food and drink. Highly recommend the pulled pork pasty

We visited on Bank holiday Monday 28th August, we waited a few mins to be seated then a further 15 mins to have our order taken. We ordered coffees and cakes, I empathised twice I needed an oat milk latte, as I’m diary intolerant. The coffee tasted very nice, but it certainly was not oat milk. I was extremely poorly an hour later… please please please get your baristas to be very careful when preparing coffees, a slip up like this can be life threatening to some people.

EXTREMELY slow service in the deli! 3 staff and 2 of us waiting to be served. They finished making sandwiches before they served us. And then took a long time to make 1 hot chocolate. Very disappointing

Great food and selection highly recommend

Nice farm shop, doesn't have as much choice as some of the others I've been to but the quality is there for sure.

We visited here as a stop off on our journey to North Yorkshire, we visited previously a number of years ago and did not have a great experience but it’s always looks busy so we thought we would try again. We really wish we hadn’t, the place was nice and it was busy, we arrived to be told they had stopped doing breakfast at 11.30 and the don’t serve lunch until 12 noon, I asked if we could order before noon as we had an appointment, the answer was a stern no. Once we looked at the menu we noticed that it said lunch was served from 11.45, anyway a different waitress came over to take our drinks order and we asked if we could order the food and she said she would send someone else over, we ordered the quiche of the specials board and the half sandwich & soup combo. I couldn’t eat the soup it was so bland, I tried to liven it up a little with salt & pepper but it just didn’t taste of anything, and my half beef sandwich was not presented well at all, the beef was nice but only half a slice of wafer thin beef, being a farm based eatery you would think it would have been more filling than that, it’s usually more of a hearty offering at farm shops & cafes. I was wishing I had chosen the quiche but my friend also said that was very bland too! Hers was much better presented with a side salad and coleslaw but again no dressing on the salad and the coleslaw was not great quality and again tasteless. We also got a portion of chips and onion rings and to be fair these tasted nice. I wish we had read some reviews before stopping here as it looks like it has gone downhill lately. It’s a shame as we pass this place a lot and if it was better we would visit more often. I really can’t work out why it’s so popular, maybe it’s just convenient for people. Must say most of the staff were nice especially Kez who was a breath of fresh air. Toilets were clean too.

A wonderful experience for the whole family, play area, cafe, shop and strawberry picking

We stopped here for breakfast on our way to our caravan holiday in Flarmbough. A very nice place and the food was lovely and freshly cooked. Had a look around the shop and could not resit buying some cakes and biscuits. If your passing then definately pop in.

Nice food and a great little farm shop, worth stopping off there if you are in the area.

Tasty hot pork sandwich very filling. Staff are very welcome

This is an all time favourite of ours, the cafe and farm-shop has locally sourced produce which is hard to find nowadays. The cafe is lovely and spacious with a great menu and daily specials available. The outside area is dog friendly, and there is plenty to keep the kids busy with the playground and PYO 10/10 would recommend for a family visit

Fantastic Breakfast with very friendly staff.

Lovely lunch! Menu good service friendly Shop had a lot of nice but expensive food

What can I say? Regular to some extent as at least twice a year as it’s my wife’s favourite place. Starting with strawberry raspberry picking, end of season for strawberries but managed to find enough, raspberries plenty and were great. Expensive when adding the £1.50 each person surcharges. However we understand this and it’s about the experience and family time. Cafe. What a disappointment. Expensive and not that great. Ordered 2 quiche meals, really disappointed, hardly any salad and poor quality coleslaw. Kids meals ok. 2 ciders 2 soft drinks and 2 cappuccino with 3 desserts. £70 light in my pocket. I would say balloon tree are living off their reputation now and I for one will only pop back for the odd cake and coffee ( which the be fair was delicious). Just not worth the money anymore and that’s an absolute shame as this was a go to place for us for a treat. Why oh why don’t they offer ploughman’s lunch? They sell gorgeous pies in the store and we’ve had this many times and was superb. Sorry balloon tree, you have one less (semi) regular.

Just a table for two. Once seated had to wait ages to order, infact we had ask for someone to attend to us. 25min after ordering still no food! no update as to why from the staff or apologies for the delay. Eventually stopped one of the staff to enquire what was happening. He came back 5min later to inform us "the bacon has just gone in so wait another 2 or 3 min and if it's not there then speak to him again". Finally walked out after no food arrived and told a staff member why, she said "the kitchen was struggling to keep up". Pitifully service will never go again.

We took a sporadic trip to The Balloon Tree for a bite to eat and to take advantage of a pick your own. A place the other half has been to a couple of times whereas this was my first time. Upon entry the car park was relatively full, with not many spaces left but that wasn’t a problem, just means busy! First stop, the cafe. With the choice to sit indoor or outdoor, we elected out. A nice day for it. Plenty of area for the 3 year old to run about in, with slides, climbing frames and more. Upon seating however, a family of ants were crawling all over the table. Not ideal. Photo attached shows one after I swept the others away. The staff, servicing on tablets, were on hand to take orders, and were respectful about allergens/ intolerances, with their own “safe” menu too. A bit dissatisfied though that they cook all chips/ potatoes in soy oil, meaning our child had to go for sweet potato fries, cooked in an air fryer? Me and the missus ordered pork & beef hot baguettes. The actual meat and stuffing in there was lovely, especially the apple sauce, but there was only 2 roast potatoes (one of mine was half black) and a very small amount of gravy in a separate pot. The crackling however was amazing, should’ve been more!! All priced well, portion sizes could be much better. I also got a pot of three cheese cauliflower cheese, which was STONE COLD and somewhat tasteless. After lunch we went to do the Pick Your Own (PYO). £1.50 per person, plus the weight of your punnet(s) of fruit picked… next to no strawberries, raspberries or anything left/ ready… to the point we walked away with 4 strawberries and 3 raspberry’s, costing just over £6 total. Miles cheaper to go to a shop…

Excellent place to visit for food. The farm shop sells some lovely things. Always busy.

Excellent service with a smile. Great full breakfast.

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Went today for Sunday dinner. Waited 10 minutes to be seated inside. Then waited a further 15 minutes for someone to take our meal order. Meals finally arrived after a further 30 minutes wait. After the server took our meals to the wrong table he finally found us. What we had waited all this time for was terrible the roast beef dinner was mainly inedible hard and grissly beef with cold veg and dried up roast potatoes. Yuk. The soup and beef sandwich was a joke for £9.75 it consisted of a tiny bowl of cold mushroom soup which i had to send back to be reheated as for the beef sandwich i think they had cut the small ammount of beef on it with a razor blade. Will never return here ever.

Beautiful breakfast 🍳 lovely staff too!

Gets busy and table service very slow. Food good bur expensive. Nice place for kids to play. Enjoyed picking strawberries.

A lovely place for lunch. The farm shop is brilliant too. Also PYO fab too.

Nice venue, farm shop, and food area. Busy at lunch time, Friday, had to queue for 20 mins to be seated indoors but lots of staff so food didn’t take too long. ‘Expensive’ £32 lunch was tea for two, a cold, home cooked beef sandwich on dry tasteless white bread, bowl of soup with half a ham sandwich on dry tasteless brown bread, with a portion of poor scrappy chips with two rice crispy buns for afters. Why do these places charge £2.50 for a small portion of poor scrappy chips when potatoes must be the cheapest item on menu for them to buy wholesale? THROW THE SCRAPPY BITS AWAY!! Just saying 🤷‍♂️

Read good reviews so went along hoping for a nice morning out. The fruit picking was signposted and there was a wee cupboard with tubs to collect before getting to the fruit. I was really disappointed that most of the fruit was bruised and mouldy. It was also pretty expensive, over £7 per kilo of strawberries plus £1.50 per person to pyo fruit. Feeling put off we went to the cafe. We were seated at a table for 4 straight away. The lady who took our order got it wrong. 2 adults and 2 children at the table and she put through 3 kids meals, 3 lattes, one juice and cakes even though I pointed out each thing on the menu. Another waitress corrected this so our bill was accurate. The kids had scampi and chips, each plate had 6 pieces of scampi and some handcut chips with peas. The cakes were nice too but the coffee wasn't overly hot but that's more preference. The toilets were nice and clean but the sinks are really high up with no step so not accessible for little ones. We were done within an hour but had anticipated spending a lot longer here.

Lovley staff friendly . Cakes were nice raspberry’s were lovley went picking your own

There was a fair wait for the cafe, but was worth it, lovely friendly staff, lovely food, shop has very nice fresh produce at reasonable price, some items are over priced, but overall a lovely place to visit, lovely play area for the children

Can't drive past the Balloon Tree. Great farm shop with some great quality produce. Lots of other goods to to tempt the pallette. There's a nice restaurant there too, makes a super coffee and snack stop. The grandson loves playing in the play area with the excavator. Looking forward to taking him along when the pick your own goodies are ready.

Very popular place. Called in on our way to Filey. Lovely setting , great choice of food. Friendly staff -( could do with explaining they come to take the orders as a few people weren't sure, us included.) The food is very good quality and very nice. Definitely recommended. All on one level for wheelchair users 👍😊

Lovely farm shop and fresh strawberry picking that kids loved. Lovely food and playground that kids enjoyed.

Entry fee of £1.50 per person for PYO, outrageous, though delicious the strawberries are expensive in the first place and to pay for small children makes them extortionate