Timber Yard Café in Cheshire East

Very slow service and poor quality coffee

Cafe needs makeover and more reasonable prices

In desperate need of a revamp. Much poorer vs other NT cafes in the North West, such as those at Dunham and Quarry Bank

Staff so slow. Tables with Dirty items on them . This place could be so much better.

Some great bakeries and cafes in Disley. 30 minute walk. Go there instead.

The timber yard is nice for a quick bite to eat, and if you have a dog like us, there is a room where you can sit, the main café is off limits for dogs. Be aware you will need your National trust membership to get into Lyme Park, or you will have to pay at the entrance gate.

Lovely place to eat after a great walk around the house and garden! :)

Very cold day it wasn't warm inside as the door was open. I did have to wait a while for my soup.

It was great to have an option for doggy section. However this area was very cold if you have babies with you also. The doggy doorbell was a great idea. The wedges were awful like they had been kept warm for a lot longer than they should of been.

Just stopped in for coffee whilst my family walked the dogs

Super veggie curried pasty and tasty soup!

Good area for coffee and cake after a walk. Dedicated muddy paws area is great for dog owners.

Seriously slow as even a modest queue for coffee took far too long to process (30 minutes).

Despite it being Friday of a bank holiday very quiet. No queue. Just had coffees, pretty good for automated bean to cup machine. Usual NT pricing.

We love it here, only live 10 minutes away and come 3 times a week.

Food is very good service is a bit on the slow side at busy times. Lovely outside dining area and dog friendly

They do lovely food service can be a tad slow at busy times but worth the wait

Not the best National Trust cafe by sent means. Expensive - as you'd expect - but the food itself is pretty mediocre which you wouldn't expect, and the options are very, very limited

Quick service. Plenty of seating inside and out, tasty food ,well stocked cutlery and condiments, Even some live music when we visited. Cornish Pasties recommended

A nice cafe for refreshments and a light snack or meal. Serves ice cream too!

Excellent service and good quality

Beautiful place & lovely shops & great that dogs are welcome. The food is very nice .

Nice food, however, ran out of the veal chilli 😥. Maybe next time.

It's nice. A bit pricey, but quality food and choice. Nice that they still take cash to.

The food was terrible and very pricey at £3.95 for an undercooked tasteless sausage roll! Never again!

Cafe was cramp and service area is difficult to get into when busy. Food was reasonable but some better value options would be appreciated. Good dog area and I imaging a great location when warmer. In the winter and during the rain, a little too crowded inside and not very well laid out. Everyone stuck waiting for drinks and others unable to get served.

Could do with more food choices.

Nice rustic setting for a hot drink and snack in Lyme Park grounds

Nice food but a bit expensive! Outdoor seating too

After having queued for an interminable eon; At the front of the queue I was told that a (recyclable) cardboard cup would be 15p extra. As opposed to a ceramic mug which would require a chemical clean in boiling water. Do people really buy this National (un)Trust(worthy) nonsense. Do they not see it for what it is - simply a further moneymaking scheme. The disposables are recyclable and they have cost NT vastly less than 15p each. Respond to this criticism NT, I would love to know how you can possible justify this exploitation of your members.

Actually when you get it the food and drink is excellent but the queues always seem annoyingly long, but then we always visit on school half term. Other tea rooms at Lyme Park also seem always full, so perhaps it's just because it's popular. I'm not sure how you could improve the service as I'm sure the staff are doing their best.

Best sausage roll I've had for a while.

I only had coffee. But the staff were all lovely. And friendly.

Nice little cafe away from the main hall serving snacks, drinks, ice cream and a selection of hot food, adjacent courtyard has plenty of tables for outside eating but also a few inside tables. Reasonably accessible. Separate area for doggy families. Handy for the toilets. Not so busy for me but it was a quiet time. Close to kids adventure playground but far enough away to dissipate the noise

Lovely area, place was busy and looked a little untidy, staff were all working hard to keep on top of things and they were all friendly

Worked there for 9 years until 2021 and it needed change. Went there recently and it STILL is outdated. Still lives in the covid era. I must include that it is never the fault of the people working behind the counter. It is ran poorly by management.

Popular cafe within Lyme Park. Always busy. Good to grab a coffee whilst out for a walk.

Lyme Park, National Trust. Great food and staff, good value for money.

A customer opened and unlocked second door so I could gain access .... It's very hard to get service unless you have a legged friend 😕 drinks menu extremely limited.. ended up leaving didn't try food but looked nice

Lovely hot choc, cappuccino and chocolate brownies after a fresh, wet and breezy walk up to the cage!

Visited 25/10/2022, staff behind counter were fantastic and handle all requests for food and drink with ease, I would advise you if you visit and order food to take a look at the order number on the receipt, I put mine away without looking and missed the lady from the kitchen who brought the food out, until she checked with the counter team. The egg bap and luxury hot chocolate are recommended to get you going on your adventures on site, with seating indoors but plenty outdoors too. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

During half term so extremely busy. Had to queue for half an hour before finally paying for food. Not enough staff to deal with volume of customers. Inside cafe a mess but plenty of outside tables. Had sandwiches and they were fresh but very expensive.

The food was good but there were a few issues: - queue was huge and wasn't going down quick - when we got a pasty out of the fridges and got to the front of the queue, we were told it couldn't be heated up and they only had 1 left - The soup didn't seem to be homemade but more like Heinz which is fine but didn't expect it based on other National Trust places But we still enjoyed it and there are plenty of seating options indoors and out.

Limited menu, badly trained staff, queues out of the door because its the only place to sit with a hot drink.

While the food was nice, the queue was very long with only 1 person on the till. The staff was veryfriendly, working hard, and the setting was lovely. It could benefit from managing the queue slightly better as it was 25 minutes in a queue to grab to kids boxes from the fridge and go through the point of sale.

Bit draughty and a long queue, but clean surroundings and friendly staff.

Very busy as it is a dry sunny day.

Why does the National trust go on and on about how they are conserving our heritage and adopting eco-friendly practices when they have heating on inside an uninsulated cafe and the doors wide open? NT needs to get its act together!

Great food, even though its a very limited menu, and drink.

Nice coffee at a reasonable price

Had a cheese toastie was just what I needed on a chilly day

Took 30 mins to get two cups of tea.

All the grandchildren came, enjoyed immensely.

This NT cafe seems to be offering a very much reduced menu on what it used to be, or what you can find at other NT properties. No yummy salads or quiches or baked potoatoes. Nice soup, but then very basic paninis or sandwiches. Such a shame considering the impressive property.

Lovely cafe inside Lyme park grounds, welcome break from the wonderful walks in the lovely grounds.

Called for a coffee whist enjoying a walk around Lyme park

Hope you have a lot of money because its incredibly expensive definitely not good for family's on a budget

Standard National Trust cafe. Unfortunately they seem to moving away from proper cups and saucers.

We only got take away drinks,so can only say the service was friendly.

Not up to normal National Teist standards

Really nice cafe with good selection of hot and cold food

Nice & lovely & people Nice & friendly & staff.

A nice coffee and outdoor seating area

Food very good service a bit slow

Nice cafe at national trust Lyme Hall, coffee and cake with plenty of outdoor seating.

Good food, local produced venison too

Quite pricey, usually slow service but always nice enough

Lovely walk and fantastic sausage butty. Bought a box of venison for a really good price here too.

We just had some coffee and a scone with jam, good coffee though..

Lovely feel to the place and nice cream teas

Lyme has a number of places to grab a bite to eat, this one is nice for being near open space to sit and consume the goodies.

I come here three or four times a week just for the brownies, such a good cafe and the staff are so friendly and good looking.

Nice staff, enjoyed our purchase..

Great staff, I had my do with me so rang bell waiter came out took my order and money and bought my drink out to me

It's a nice stop in the park but it's expensive and limited in options.

Only got coffees but they were very nice only issues I saw were people queuing to get food then asked for a drink and was told they had to join the other que as one side did food the other side did drinks and ques were about 15 mins long so then having to join the other que for another 15 mins after getting food was not really a good set up... also it used to be 1 charge for a car or you could walk in for free but now its charged per person in each car and even the same charge if you walked down which was about £6 per person, I know it helps fund national trust but it makes it quite expensive to just go walk around the grounds and then have to pay again to go into the house or gardens..

Enjoyed our visit staff helpful friendly bit expensive but I suppose it was right for the time as every thing is expensive. Will recommend and will visit again thanks

Nice, friendly welcome. Decent selection of cakes, pastries, savoury options, ice cream and soft drinks on offer (despite posted shortages). Good selection of coffees to sit in or to take away. A bit on the expensive side but it's NT so not surprising! Dogs welcome, although not in the main café area.

It was the end of the day but the staff were still obliging

I visited T cafe on 14 April for first time since the pandemic Before I got a pot of tea and hot water with a cup and saucer. This made 3 cups On 14 I got plastic cup of tea including tea bags My scone was dry and crumbled when cut, served on a plastic tray. I thought we were avoiding plastic to save the environment. The price for tea and scone with spread and jam was £5.05.I cannot recall the price I paid 4 years but..... This all fell well below the standard I expect from the NT David Thornton

Service really slow. Very expensive

Nice pub, friendly staff. Nice food, I had the hallumi kebab.

Very nice, lovely place to visit.

Nice place to sit and enjoy the fresh air. Cosy inside

Stopped off for a bite to eat during a cycle ride. Good quick service. Had a cream tea. Tea was a mug with a tea bag in it. Had to stand around and wait for it to brew as milk was on a separate stand and not close to our table. Scone was acceptable but hard and crumbled when cut, so had better. Overall not the best but passable.

Got there at 3.30 closed can't really comment.

Always got a good selection of cakes to go with my tea! Service can be slow at the weekend

Unfortunately there wasn't very much hot food, but it was clean and the staff were friendly

Nice cafe and somewhere to relax for a bit as you walk around the park or much further if you wish

Excellent little cafe, the staff are brilliant

Poor selection, nice spot though

Good food, good coffee, great staff

Not open at 9.30 on Saturday morning as 100 runners complete their park run. It opens at 10. Ridiculous.

Great coffee good selection and good staff.

Had a really tasty hot sausage roll and hot chocolate. A pleasant outside seating area and a chance to buy local venison for those who like it.

NT can surely afford to pay more to experienced staff rather than taking advantage of youngsters? although they try to cope can't handle an influx of customers. Lost the will to live queuing along with others

A lovely place to stop after a long walk

Excellent cafe near the lake in Lyme Park. Buttered scones clotted cream raspberry jam and tea. Very moorish.

Great food, service tends to be on the slow side but worth the wait

Idyllic country park run by the national trust, friendly staff running a covid safe environment