The Yard Cafe Cotesbach in Harborough

Good quality food,basic ambiance.

A quiet piece of the East Midlands Hunting History.. Now evokes the same ambiance but with some real places to eat , purchase and just have a mooch and soak up an environment that has not been on the hit list for development.

Another fantastic brunch at the Yard. Friendly staff and an excellent Full Yard breakfast. Now on winter opening so just open Thurs, Fri & Sat.

Amazing lunch at the Yard, really lovely space and incredible food and coffee!! Great menu and specials Only a few minutes off the M1 and a million times nicer than a stop at the services, would really reccomend! Lovely friendly staff and great value Editing to add, got a brownie to takeaway for the rest of the drive, and it was the best brownie I've ever had, and I've had a lot of brownies, wish we'd brought more cakes now!

Gorgeous little cafe tucked away in a barn. Lovely quaint earthy atmosphere and great food. So glad I spotted the sign just off the road!

Great place, even if the location is a little out of the way. Went on a weekday so fairly quiet, but pictures around the place suggest it’s bustling if the weathers good. Breakfast was lovely though and service great.

Nice tucked away hidden gem of a place. Number of small indy businesses here, with this charming cafe central. Would have liked to see a vegan full breakfast on the menu but they had vgn sos sandwiches (Linda McCartney ones which are a tad dated now vs say Richmond?), though the drinks took seemingly forever sitting outside in the courtyard was bliss and see they also do beers would want to return sometime when passing.

Thought I'd try this place out as it was mentioned in Motorcycle news paper as a great place to eat. I must say I was very impressed with my full English breakfast. 👍

Excellent venue for bike meetings

Excellent venue for bike meetings

Lovely place with very friendly atmosphere. Food is delicious and the staff really kind. I recommend attending the live music afternoon events!

Lovely place with very friendly atmosphere. Food is delicious and the staff really kind. I recommend attending the live music afternoon events!

Hidden gem, you must try the cheese on toast, wow

Lovely place near market harborough. Great salads, sausages rolls, quiches and cakes. All produce local with meat from the butchers in the yard. Hidden gem

A beautiful cafe in a friendly courtyard with a wee blacksmiths and vegi plots, just off the M1/lutterworth way. Love this place. Staff and friendly and the food/beer is fantastic.

Had a very tasty toasted sandwich. The quiche and salad 🥗 were very good also, enjoyed by my lunch partner.

Popped in for a light breakfast, very friendly staff, great service and tasty food.

Lovely fresh food, generous portions and cakes were delicious! We went on a cold / grey day so sat inside. But nice outdoor seating area !

A great cafe to visit with freshly grown salads, exceptional quiche, good coffee in lovely rustic courtyard settling. Don't be surprised if the hens are strolling around the courtyard. The staff are very friendly and the food is freshly made and served by friendly staff. This cafe situated in a small village in lovely countryside is well worth leaving the M1 to visit.

Service, foods and atmosphere is wonderful. When I want to fresh atmosphere and delicious breakfast I always prefer this place. Many thanks to the lady who served us. 🌸

The service, the quality of the food and the values shared in the place is outstanding. This is not a place this is an experience

Shows huge potential but would benefit from better management. Menu good but cooking not brilliant.

Great little find, thanks to Google maps and reviews. Not cheap, but it didn't disappoint. Lovely out in the sun too. Fresh and tasty ingredients. 1 fault, if I'm being majorly picky. My bacon was a lil overcooked. And at the price of the yard brecka, a free sourdough slice upgrade instead of 2 normal slices would've been a nice touch, rather than an extra price option. Oh, partners egg sandwich was enjoyable to!

They finish breakfast at 12, although website says all day. Everything had onions in or on it and partner can't eat them (they don't state it in some things. We ordered nettle quiche and sausage in forcattia and got chorizo quiche and roasted veg quiche. I returned the veg forcattia and they had run out of forcattia and they put sausage on sourdough, with lots of fried onions, which took 15 minutes and they didn't keep quiche hot. For some reason they have put a TV in, although not turned on when we were there. Been coming for many years, but this may be the last.

Stopped for lunch, great ambience, friendly staff and the food and coffee was great! Will definitely be back again

Visited with a friend last week, both had the quiche which came with two fresh salads, really good portions and absolutely delicious! I loved the place so much, went for lunch again yesterday, when I had the special Focaccia with Jason’s sausages, caramelised onions and melted cheese. Again absolutely delicious, nice coffee, friendly staff and swift service. Yes, a quirky setting but it all adds to the charm ! Oh and the sausage rolls looked very tempting, might have to go again !

Great atmosphere, fantastic food, and great coffee. 👍🏻 Excellent service with friendly staff, out in the country side and they host a large range of workshops and activities. Highly recommend.

V good all round. Super attentive staff. Rustic ambience. Wholesome food. Can take the dog. What more could you wish for?!

Brilliant food great cheese on toast amazing salad definitely recommend it

Very nice cherry scone and latte served in a very pleasant atmosphere

Food and service provided ourselves as we hired a room and courtyard great place with helpful staff 👍

Lovely place. Tucked away but cafe was great. Good food. Service good staff friendly eat/drink inside or outside. Breakfasts and cake available.

Great service and products, but no heating. I was very cold.

Went here for a lunch. Had the BLT on sourdough. Excellant!

Dropped in on a long journey from Yorkshire to Sussex. Easy access just off the M1 with plenty of parking. Welcoming and courteous staff. Varied menu. Nice coffee. Enjoyed brunch of smashed avocado, fried egg, pan fried tomatoes and sourdough toast. Very tasty. Well worth the visit. Thank you.

A quirky relaxed little gem of a place that makes you feel like you’re far from the city. Quality coffee and food. Friendly and personable staff. Will be lovely on a sunny day. Only negative was the toilets. Need to be checked and cleaned more frequently to keep on top of trade. Get a bigger bin?

A limited menu but a lovely experience in a unique setting

A stunning hidden gem where we were made to feel very welcome. Do not be fooled by the surroundings. Inside is a cosy environment with a relaxing environment. The food was very fresh with a good range of drinks. Dogs are very welcome.

Best cafe I have EVER had the pleasure of visiting! Home made bread is out of this world, the focaccia was divine ✨ selection of herbal teas amazing. Definitely making this my regular!! And to top it off, the biscoff brownie is to die for YUM. Excellent tunes. What more can I say???

Best cheese on toast ever, served by lovely friendly staff. So glad we found this place by accident.

Quirky! We loved it! On one of our regular trips between Cheshire and London to visit family. Tasty food. Beats a motorway service station any day. The 3 staff knew exactly what they were doing. Service was slick and efficient despite the constant stream of customers. A little gem. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

2 minutes off the M1. Dog friendly. Stopped for coffee and cake. Coffee very weak, flat white very milky. Cakes looked better than they tasted. But much nicer than a service station

Where ever possible we like to use local, independent businesses. Whilst travelling to the North, we googled places for breakfast/brunch and found this place just off the M1. It looked great and is relatively easy to find. We were soon parked up and walked in, to be greeted by two very obnoxious ladies. Not sure if they were the owners or just customers, sat on the right just through the door with their old laptops out, leads everywhere. If looks could kill, one of them couldn’t help make a sarky comment, as went to find a table. WOW! We found a table amid collected menus from the till area, whilst it wasn’t freezing, it was not warm! WOW, very very very pricey for what they offered, but then again probably in line with those rip off service stations on the M1. The large breakfast was certainly not worth the money, 1 sausage, 2 rashers of bacon, tiny ramekin of beans, 12 small mushrooms sliced, a slice of toast, 6 cherry tomatoes and an over fried egg nearly £14! Big thing about it being Jasons sausage, which looked like the butcher that was on site. Perhaps Jason needs to go and learn about sausage making and taste. We asked for poached or fried eggs, this was met with a firm NO! When the food arrived, the cook seemed affronted that we asked for some more brown sauce, what we had was a table spoon of sauce in a dish for the 3 of us that had asked for sauce. No salt and pepper, no cutlery! Cutlery eventually arrived, but we had to go and find our own salt and pepper, we had sachets of wet salt and pepper given to us. We duly ate our food whilst been dive bombed by flys! Wonderful experience! PS try cleaning the toilet area and vacuuming the extractor fan, the dust is stopping any stale area being extracted!

Had passed signs for this cafe a few times so we dropped in today. Situated in a converted old building with uneven floors and mis-matched furniture, it was quirky and lovely! We had 2 full breakfasts which were cooked beautifully, everything fresh and made to order. Really tasty, with friendly staff. Thank you!

Really Lovely place, best sausage rolls ever, bloody good coffee, great staff super friendly and really lovely setting!

My wife enjoyed the home cooked style of food as did myself and our son. The location is not really conventional and the food preparation area quite small so well done for being able to serve nice food. As it is in a rural setting the abundance of flies in this hot spell of weather is not a good look for the business. Everything is quite rustic so do not expect perfect surroundings inside or outside.

As per my March review I meet an ex work colleague here about once a month, usually for breakfast. Slightly later meet today and cafe has just switched over to lunchtime menu, told breakfasts no longer available and there then seemed to be stock issues on lots of items! Lots of customers ordering after us being told items N/A! I had the last sausages and they are a good quality. Not as clean as usual! Will return for our breakfast meets.

Charming understated with excellent food. A gem of a cafe in a Harry Potter esque setting

Popped in for breakfast today as I was working near by. Delicious food and great service in a quirky but lovely setting.

If your in the “know” you will be aware of this place Fab food for motor biker’s in the same courtyard as Idle Torque motorbike shop definatly one for a visit.# the Yard Cafe Cotesbach Leicestershire LE174HX .. ps hidden behind an old Manor House next to a blacksmiths and butchers!

Amazing homemade cake and lovely staff

My eldest daughter gave me the book “Extra Mile” for my recent birthday which gives details of good eateries near motorways thus avoiding run of the mill motorway service stations. This place is dog friendly inside and out and serves very good food. Highly recommended.

We were driving through the area and thought this looked an interesting place to stop for a coffee. It certainly wasn’t the usual coffee stop as it is located in an old farm yard building. Two flat whites cost £6.60. You need to be aware that the walk to and from the car park is on very rough ground with adjacent stinging nettles.

By good fortune the café we had planned to go to had stopped cooking. So went to the Yard Café, Cotesbach. Do not be put off by the yard which is a hidden gem for various small businesses. BUT the café and its food were excellent. Yes limited menu but clearly home cooked, locally sauced, beautifully served. A must if passing by that way.

Went for brunch and the although the menu was very limited, it was a good selection. The food was freshly prepared and absolutely delicious. All staff were brilliant, really helpful and friendly. Will definitely be back another day.

Love meeting up there. Lovely coffee and the best cheese on toast ever.

Excellent food in a rustic setting.

Friendly welcome, excellent service, nice coffee and excellent Sausage sandwiches or Pasties. A regular meeting spot for me and an ex work colleague.

We regularly take our VW Beetles for a drive out to the Yard for a lovely Latte, breakfast bap or quiche. Followed by a tasty cake. The staff are always friendly and look after us. The yard has plenty to take in including motorbikes across the way.

Simple menu but oh my, it is simple done extremely well. Very fresh ingredients, homemade quiches to buy. I had a sausage ciabatta roll which was delicious. Coffees are amazing and cakes are all homemade! Soooooo much better than anything you would get at a service station. :)

Pretty ploody pleasant and perfect pasties.

Great little place! High quality food with some unusual options. Friendly and attentive staff. Particularly nice to sit outside in nice weather.

What an absolutely wonderful little hidden gem! The staff we're so accommodating, chatty and friendly. The food, which majority of its ingredients are organic and sourced from local producers or their own garden, is absolutely delicious! Also their flat white is spot on! Can't wait to go back when I'm passing by on the M1!

Always super lovely food and service

Visited The Stable Cafe today, what a fabulous place. The homemade soup was the best I have ever tasted and the cake was superb. Well worth a visit. Thank you

Delicious, a real treat and lovely atmosphere, gem of a place

Looked for lunch options off M6 /M1 rather than use motorway cafe and not disappointed. Nearly missed the turning on a very small unmade road located nearly opposite church in village. Not sure the cafe was open as middle of December and no one visible, but once inside warmed up with the log burner. Staff were friendly and menu caters for vegan, vegetarian and dairy free without compromising on taste, Eclectic mix of customers from locals, visitors, walkers etc. Glad we made the 3 mile detour to this cafe rather than suffering bland motorway food. The food is very good and well presented generous portions.

A great find for breakfast, lunch & snacks just a few minutes off the M1. Far far better than stopping at the services! Lovely friendly welcome and cosy ambience. Will keep it in mind for all further trips this way.

This is a nice place to go for a coffee and something to eat. It is in a lovely picturesque village, and is an old stable yard setting. The setting is very rustic, with exposed beams. It has a nice ambience and attracts the right sort of people. Coffee and food good, service good, staff friendly, prices competitive. Nice experience.

Lovely little cafe. Unfortunately took 35 minutes to bring us 2 lattes, and then found our food order had not been sent to the kitchen. BLT was lovely but could not work out why a salad of lentils, beetroot and red onion would be paired with a bacon sandwich!

Great service cosy and tasty food

My husband had lunch and appreciated very much their coffee and sandwiches

Made the short detour off the M1 to stop here for a snack. Highly recommended, great food, lovely coffee with real chocolate shavings on top (nice touch), friendly service and a lovely emporium to browse round and spend your pennies. Will definitely revisit when we are in the area.

Had a gorgeous gluten free bacon sandwich here. The bread was fresh bloomer which is very rare. Definitely would recommend this place.

We made our first visit here today. Lovely friendly staff and a pretty, quirky setting made for a good lunch. We shared a quiche and both had salad. The quiche was delicious and was served with home grown salad. I wish we’d known about this little gem before - we will return.

Lovely people, fantastic homemade grub. Many thanks.

Huge portions of delicious quiches and sandwiches lovingly made from local produce. The absolutely perfect place to break a journey on the M1. I will definitely return!

We went to the garden barn first but the owner was so rude we left so my sister said we'd go to the yard cafe ,my first visit omg it's a hidden treasure I loved it the sausage roll was amazing actually the best I've ever tasted friendly helpful staff plus theres lots of nooks and crannies to explore would definitely go again

A Stunning Brunch and beautiful setting!

Beautiful home made and home grown food. Couldn't have asked for more

Nice pleasant place, good food and drinks, hot or cold , some great live folk music, live music, pleasant cafe staff 😀

Friendly, warm welcoming staff with great food all reasonably priced. This place has souch character and is immaculately clean and there's even a friendly dog that roams around t court yard with his ball in his mouth. 👌👌

Great sausage butty and coffee. Really lovely staff in great surroundings.

We had quiche - several choices - with a side salad. Both quiches were hot with crispy pastry & really delicious. The side salad was tasty, though perhaps a little limited in content [leaves, tomato, cucumber, thin slices of courgette & yellow pepper], but very tasty with a lovely dressing. We sat inside as it was a little cool & breezy outside & there was plenty of space between tables. Our only negative point was the rather bizarre background music which seemed to consist of a loud throbbing beat & was quite unpleasant & intrusive. [This is a comment from people who love rock & heavy metal!] We recommend this cafe for an excellent & good value lunch, but maybe bring earplugs.

Lovely food, location and staff.

Good food friendly staff and a band was playing

Relaxed atmosphere. Friendly staff. Excellent coffee and cake. Our favourite place for coffee and cake or a wonderful breakfast or lunch

Fabulous place to visit food lovely, friendly staff, would recommend highly

Food was wonderful, couldn't fault. Atmosphere was also lovely. The service was quite poor - not clear how to order, 2 of us ordered inside, 1 of us told to order from the table but no one came over so ended up having to go inside anyway. Drinks were slow and requesting tap water was responded to as though it were a huge inconvenience. It also didn't arrive and had to go inside again to ask for it. Needs clearer instruction and organisation but otherwise a great meal.

Lunch today. Delicious ploughmans with plenty of very tasty cheers, and very good quiche. Salads tasty and good setting .

Great cafe ,great location , great for a light lunch and refreshments

Lovely coffee but the marquee was a bit smelly.

Visited the yard café for lunch and it more than met our expectations. The food was of a good quality and well presented, most of the ingredients being sourced locally. The weather was fine and we sat outside in the yard which is a lovely...

Their is a wonderful place to have a wholesome breakfast, local flavoursome produce . Friendly service very relaxed atmosphere. The yard cafe at cotesbach is on my rest stop when travelling north.

One of my favourite places for brunch, on my own or with friends. Takeaway food during lockdown has been amazing, and I’m very glad to be able to sit down for weekend breakfasts again. The food is always fresh, with local ingredients - particularly the...

Great local cafe friendly staff with a nice bike accessory shop next door and lots of nice bikes to admire

Lovely cafe in a quaint setting serving delicious food and drinks. A warm welcome awaits you.

Thank you for a lovely lunch with live music - we loved the mushroom and bacon quiche!

Fantastic food and nice, relaxing atmosphere.

Perfect place for an afternoon tea 👌🏻☕❤️