Zinc Home & Gift in Derbyshire Dales

We enjoyed a coffee and scone at a window table. Staff were friendly and welcoming. The sultana scone was freshly baked and generous in size. Pleased we chose this excellent venue.

First time here and very impressed. Spacious cafe with a good menu. Coffee and scones were very tasty. Quick service. Friendly staff.

Every school holiday I take 3 of my grandchildren to Matlock for a day out. We always go to Zinc for lunch for 3 reasons, the lovely food especially their jacket potatoes, the cosey ambiance and the staff who really are very friendly great with the kids and make our visits special. The scones are amazing and I always get a couple to take home. Try Zinc when you visit wonderful Matlock its a real treat

Popped in here for a lunch at 2pm on a weekday. Ordered Pea and Mint soup, expecting it to be a light, bright summery soup. It looked and tasty exactly like thinned-down mushy peas and mint sauce. It was that odd dull browny green. Ok, perhaps my expectations were too high! But it tasted awful - bitter and vinegary - so much so that the roll & butter were the best thing. We sat in easy view of the waitress and the lady on the till who watched whilst the soup was prodded at and dipped into. She could see that we were not happy. No one came to clear our plates, nor to ask if everything was ok. Many menu items had already been sold out we were told, and I didn’t fancy/couldn’t eat any of the remaining options. We were going to stay for cake and coffee, but dare not risk it. It’s a shame as it’s a lovely ambience and a super elegant and airy room. We were scouting it out for a large family get together, so glad we tried it before we arranged anything. Perhaps because you pay for food when you order, they don’t care if you enjoy your meal - they’ve already taken your money. This cafe could be improved upon tremendously. I realise that if we only wanted a coffee and cake, we may have had a totally different experience.

Visit on a regular basis usually market day which is Wednesday. Have cappuccinos and either brown toast and honey, crumpets or scrambled eggs and smoked salmon on brown toast. The food is of a consistently high standard and the service is excellent. Highly recommended. .

Called in on a Saturday morning, just before it started to get very busy. Got tasty coffee and delicious sausage bap. Husband had a bacon bap. Both were very filling and worth the money.

Visited today during a walk. The service was attentive & efficient. The welcome was friendly and polite making it a pleasant & relaxing place to visit. The Americano coffees were excellent and the choice & quality if the cakes was good.

Excellent food and service. This is also a beautiful gift shop with lots and lots of wonderful gifts. Well worth a visit

In terms of the atmosphere and food quality I want to give this place 5 stars but they let themselves down with the drinks service. The cafe was busy but there was only one person working on hot drinks. He was having to both prepare hot drinks and take them to the tables. As a result he was well behind. We ordered food and tea for two. The food service was pretty quick but our teas did not arrive until we had almost finished eating. This is very disappointing. The person on hot drinks needs help.

I had a lovely catch up with a friend over breakfast. My bacon cob was delicious. The cafe was buzzing with lots of people, the service was great, friendly staff and we weren't pestered to leave our table when we'd finished. Would recommend!

Zinc is abit different in that there is a craft type shop situated in the cafe. The drinks were not huge but they were very nice and served good and hot. The scone was OK if lacking slightly in currents but that can happen in baking. Now I saw some of the other tables food and it looked great. There is a garden area at the back if you want to sit outside and a couple of pavement tables at the front. The access is flat. Service was polite and prompt. I would go again and try one of the other menu items that looked so good.

Just called for a coffee, and finished up with and excellent meal, which lasted us all afternoon. Really good home made food.

The food here was simply excellent. Really really fresh, SOFT beautiful bread roll with the zinc special hot sandwich which again were full of fresh, home cooked ingredients. Friendly service. Highly recommended 👍

Lovely garden, terrific staff and great food. The shop was also very interesting with lots of lovely gift ideas. Shame I don't live nearer!

Very busy cafe and shop. Monday morning and it was packed and we were lucky to get a table. I had porridge and a tea cake and both were lovely. You can see why it is so busy.

Am I the only one baffled by the current tendency to give quirky names to licensed premises, cafes and restaurants? Take 'Zinc' in Matlock for example. I was so intrigued by tr name that I asked for an explanation. The answer, I discovered, was they...

While visiting Matlock we decided to stay for lunch, we saw a well known coffee establishment, but then saw Zinc. home & gifts. The staff are friendly and helpful. The food is exquisite, the environment is calming and comfortable. The background music was a subtle...

Breakfast is the best , just prefect !! really nice atmosphere here to , gift shop definitely is worth a visit , real little gem in Matlock .

We used to come here and it was lovely, but oh dear.. We ordered bacon, sausage and scrambled eggs with coffee. I’m not sure where to start. The coffee was very weak and not particularly nice. The bacon was the thinnest cheapest possible, the sausages...

This is a really nice cafe, and as I am local, just down the road in Matlock Bath, Zinc is somewhere I have really enjoyed frequenting with friends for lunch or hubby at the weekend. Sadly the menu has changed quite a bit and the...

I came with my family in which we have a few allergies. The staff were so helpful is discussing the options they could make for me. Even offering items that weren’t on the menu and being careful to check each item and the ingredients for...

We were seated in the gazebo on a warm sunny day, where plants and foliage were at their best. The shop, the food, the staff, the facilities and ambience were a delight. We had lunch and hope to return for coffee and some of the...

Popped in here to basically have a change from the hotel breakfasts we had had for a few days and pleased we did. Both our breakfasts were good - a bacon, egg and cheese bagel and a bacon bap with scrambled egg, helped down by...

Slightly off the beaten track, we espied some folk enjoying afternoon tea and - needing some refreshment ourselves - wandered along and ended up at Zinc. An interesting homeware/gift shop with a cafe towards the rear and a 'walled garden' complete with gazebo. This latter...

Matlock itself is lovley and this little tea room suits it very much! Its very pretty, nice food and drinks and good service. One criticism was that there wasn't a fat lot for vegans so might be worth them looking into that but other than...

Lovely little place to sit on a wet Saturday or just to watch the world go by. We had sweat chill chicken roasties, very nice indeed. Staff all really friendly and good covid restrictions system. Could do with printing some menus for each table though.

Avoid using this cafe in the afternoons. If you miss the 'Closing Early' sign being stuck on the door whilst you are inside, you will be disturbed by the staff sweeping floors and hovering over your table waiting for empty pots at least two hours...

Popped in for a quick coffee but were tempted by their food. We both had an egg mayo sandwich on granary. The egg mayo was homemade and so much better for that...so tasty! My husband had his usual coffee and I had a caramel coffee...

A warm welcome (we had booked). Everywhere was spotlessly clean - tables were cleared and cleaned immediately after they were vacated. Pleasant staff. Good choice of light lunches and drinks. Food was excellent. We relaxed and weren't made to feel we ought to move after...

Absolutely great to be back in Zinc again after lockdown. Still the best coffee around. Still the best quiche, I have ever tasted. Lovely to see you all again.

On arrival the lady kindly put our tables together as we were a large party. The sandwiches took a long time arrive but we’re nicely presented and fresh ingredients. Presented very nicely. HOWEVER, one of the meals was a Brie, bacon and onion chutney ciabatta, we found a piece of plastic in the meal, we told the lady who took the meal away. We were then confronted with a disgruntled kitchen staff member who quoted “ it wasn’t plastic , it was onion skin out of the chutney “ , she was rude, bombastic and clearly not a happy lady. It was not onion skin as it we could rip or tear this so called onion skin. They replaced the meal with a new dish without the onion chutney. We didn’t make a scene due to family visiting us and did pay full price.... however... unfortunately we will NEVER enter the premises again. I would recommend your staff have a days training in customer service as they clearly need it.

We are regulars, but on the past three occasions had uncomfortable experiences, culminating in being booted off a table we were sitting down to without any apology "I've just reserved it for someone". Fortunately there are other more welcoming cafes in Matlock.

Forget your main stream corporate coffee shops walk up the side street and visit Zinc. This place is fabulous! The lovely glass frontage leads you into a very nicely decorated cafe with a range of nice seating.To the side is an area set to gifts and cards of good quality,very well worth a browse. To the rear is a lovely courtyard area and its dog friendly to! The food and drink are of good quality and also reasonably priced. Staff are all efficient, friendly and welcoming.

A lovely cafe, serving really good Barista Coffee. The homemade soup and sandwiches are delicious. The vegetable and feta quiche is to die for.

we go here quite often for Breakfast. The food is lovely and the coffee is very tasty. Reasonably priced and the staff are very friendly and professional. Its very nice you can take your dog in so we can call in during a walk. If i have one gripe its they dont give you enought butter pats with your toast! Not moaning!

Lovely independent cafe and gift shop that offers a delicious selection of cakes and coffees, especially enjoyed visiting in the summer months to use the private courtyard for alfresco snacks. Gifts and card section are always nice to browse after coffee Well worth a visit

My sisters, nieces and I had the most amazing Afternoon Tea here. We were a party of six. Peter and his team made sure we had an absolutely wonderful experience. The food was perfect with a great selection; something for everyone to enjoy. We could also browse the lovely gifts in the adjacent gift shop. Perfect in every way. Thank you.

We have been several times to Zinc and my last review sang the praises of the cheese scone with smoked salmon. However, at our subsequent visit, I chose this again, but unfortunately it wasn't as good. The scone was the same, but there was such a small piece of smoked salmon, it barely covered one side of the scone and wasn't worth the money. The staff really do need to be consistent with portions and this last visit may be the last. Another thing we noticed was that we have walked into the cafe just after 12 o'clock and most of the tables were reserved, which can be quite annoying.

It's become very popular, and the barrista does a great flat white. Snacks good - and the crumpets are decent, not the flabby flat cold cheap rubbish served at the chatsworth farm shop café at double the price.

We were looking for a light lunch and came across this great little place which serves home cooked foods . The service was friendly and efficient and my special of the day leek and potato soup with a sandwich of my choice was both reasonably priced and delicious.

Good coffee but unfortunately the very slow service needs to be sorted out.Fruit scones lovely and fresh nice selection of home made cakes.

Premises were busy on our midweek visit and were nice, as were the staff. Unfortunately the cheese & onion tart both I and my friend ordered came to us soggy, as if had been microwaved, which I found unpleasant. The coffee was a little weak too but I accept that's down to personal taste. The coffee cake however was very nice.

Discovered this lovely home gift and cafe. What a treat , beautiful and clean settings, with lovely conservatory. I wasn’t feeling all that well but the staff were lovely. I ordered a sandwich and cup of tea which were presented beautifully, by smiley staff. Being under the weather I asked to take my sandwich and beautiful salad, not just lettuce, tomato and cucumber. Really good salad to be packed up and taken home. Which they did very beautifully. It’s just a shame I wasn’t able to taste the wonderful array of cakes. Yum yum. Oh well perhaps next time

Camping in Matlock with my sister and she said that on our last day we had to have breakfast at zinc as she had been before.

This Place is great with the option of some retail shopping at the same time. We called on a busy lunch which ment there was a wait for the food so good if its your day off but not so good if your in a hurry.. Otherwise a pleasant way to spend time to chill and take in the surroundings.

Never visited before to the coffee shop side ( have been in to the gift shop). Lovely to see it was dog friendly. There was a good selection on the menu but decided on coffee and cake. Staff where friendly and drinks served promptly. A little wait on the cakes which we where a little disappointed with. The mars bar cheesecake didn’t have much flavour ( if it hadn’t said mars bar on the label we would have thought it was vanilla and chocolate) and the mint chocolate cake the bottom sponge was on the dry side compared to the top sponge which was lovely and moist. There was a lovely courtyard with seating but we sat inside as it just started to rain. It was nice to see they hadn’t crammed tables in like some coffee shops so there was room to move around.

Service, food, lovely surrounding what more do you what! .. apart from a good coffee.. they have it all.

Visited here friendly staff and gift shop with a range of gifts. Inside and outside seating. Range of coffees light bites and cakes. I would recommend to all

Can definitely recommend a visit here for afternoon tea which has to be pre booked. Visited today with 3 others, sandwiches were beautiful & so were the scones & cakes, you also got pork pie & scotch egg. There was too much for us but they happily bagged it up for us what we didn’t eat. The staff were very pleasant and couldn’t do enough for you.

We called in today on our weekly trip to Matlock. It was a bit too cold for us to sit in the lovely outside courtyard, so we settled for inside and decided on a light option. I chose a cheese scone with cream cheese and smoked salmon - nice idea! My OH had a large sausage roll with chutney. It was just what we wanted and, of course, the coffee was good, as always!

We visited Zinc for Jacket Potatoes one lunchtime. The decor was nice and there looked to be a nice outdoor area at the back. As it is a gift shop too there was quite a large queue of people trying to buy gifts and order food so there was a bit of a wait. Despite only being 1pm they had run out of potatoes so I had a caesar salad. This was ok but seemed small for the price compared to the cafe over the roundabout. Customer service was good - friendly and food/drinks were served promptly.

Myself and a group of friends regularly visit zinc for coffee and a spot of lunch. Over the last few months we have tried a variety of specials from the menu and the food is consistently of a high standard! The menu is great, I alway head straight for zinc when taking people out of lunch, as there is always something for everyone, no matter what their taste! Great coffee, love the flat whites!

We visited this cafe in search of a good lunch and were not disappointed. The staff were friendly and helpful and the service prompt. Delicious lunch and good coffee. Outdoor seating for summer days and the added bonus of a gift shop.

Zinc is a stylish dog friendly cafe/gift shop with a secure garden area which is lovely to relax in with a drink when the weather allows.

This is a great little coffee shop/gift shop, with the added bonus of a really nice outdoor seating area for sunny days (looking forward to that).

A lovely gift shop and cafe. Found a quiet table for two even without booking on Mother’s Day. The cherry scones were scrumptious and the breakfast menu had a great choice including granola with Greek yoghurt and porridge with blueberries. Will definitely be returning next time we’re in Matlock. So much quieter than Matlock Bath and really easy parking in town.

Relatively new. Great place for coffee & cake. Good looking menu and not expensive. Super helpful staff. Dog friendly. Interesting gifts in the shop.

My lovely friend had bought me a voucher for afternoon tea so we booked and visited. My friend is vegetarian and they happily accommodated this. Lovely selection of sandwiches and scotch egg and sausage roll. This was the first one they'd done so far and we caused quite a stir with several diners watching and asking questions. the shop is also lovely and worth a browse.

Nice welcoming cafe, relaxed atmosphere with helpful staff. I’ve been each time just before closing but staff have still been welcoming. Not tried food here yet but the cake choice looks nice too. Also has a gift section so pleasant place to go. They also seem very dog friendly if you have a dog with you.

Had a lovely leisurely late lunch today with my husband at Zinc, this was our first visit and will definitely not be our last. I had the mushroom soup which was delicious, my husband had the Stilton quiche which he thoroughly enjoyed. Will definitely be recommending Zinc to my family and friends, not only for the great food and drinks, but also for the lovely gift section. Thank to all the friendly staff at Zinc for a lovely afternoon.

Have visited this great place on several occasions for a coffee or lunch. The atmosphere is very welcoming and relaxed.

After trawling round Matlock looking for somewhere to get a light lunch we stumbled across Zinc. After studying thr blackboard menu outside we went in & ordered two jacket potatoes. Sadly it would seem that not all the staff were aware that they had "ran out". Unfortunately there was nothing else savoury that we fancied, so we had to go elsewhere. A pity, as rhe place was very clean and attractive. We couldn't quite fathom why they had "ran out" of potatoes as surely there would have been supplies in for the following day.....

Visited Matlock and fancied an indoor seat with my dog and found Zinc. Beautiful shop with part sales and part café with indoor and outdoor seating. Lots of friendly staff with dog biscuits and newspapers to read. Lovely space, will definitely be back.

We have been several times now to Zinc and have thoroughly enjoyed sitting out in the courtyard eating brunch or lunch or just coffee. The coffee is good and the first time we sampled the delights, I had cinnamon toast, which was absolutely yummy, although last time we visited, I didn't see it on the menu. We always enjoy our visit, but last time I thought that the sandwiches seemed a little pricey.

Even though my wife and I live locally, this was our first visit to this recently opened Cafe

Have visited several times since they opened - never been disappointed - small menu but freshly prepared simple snacks and cakes. Lovely coffee. great to have an attractive outside space to sit in.