The best restaurants in Bakewell Derbyshire Dales East Midlands

Like many other regulars I was more than a little apprehensive when the business was sold in July. Fortunately it's been business as usual under Lambton's new owner. The coffee remains excellent, the bread and cakes are excellent and there are a host of unique, quality food options on the shelves. It's my go to place for gifts for foodie friends.

Coffee great. Location great. Staff great. Toilets grim - needs a good deep clean ! Needs more attention to small details maybe.

We arrived in Bakewell for an overnight stay and was searching for some pastries to take back to our room and came across this wonderful bakery, The Cornish Bakery in Bakewell. What a wonderful pleasant visit . The person who served us is called Ayr. What a lovely young man so helpful kind and pleasant

Plenty of menu choices.Excellent food well presented and good value. Nice surroundings good views over the town and friendly staff

Amazing hot chocolate i had the baileys one and a toffee apple blondie, the blondie was out of this world,all the family enjoyed the visit, will be back again soon 👍👍

I was recommended Lovage by my sister, and I have to say.. it was amazing! We had wine & tapas.. sensational! My friend & I chose lots of dishes, all of which were beautiful. The wine was amazing too. The lady who looked after us was brilliant and attentive. Will be coming back!!

Before coming home from a short stay in Bakewell we called into the Jolly Fat Chef for a coffee. Lovely coutyard setting and nice coffees. Thank you.

Thanks so much for the perfect birthday lunch! Friendly staff, incredibly fresh food catering for veggies, vegans and meat eaters alike. Have been meaning to visit for ages and wasn’t disappointed. Thank you!

I was here on valentine's day and to be honest expected a subpar valentine's menu like restaurants do. They didn't have a specific valentine menu stick with their their normal menu which got me excited. The food was great and the staff very friendly. I would recommend to anyone. Great to see Bakewell at night too.

Great sammies and welcoming owner!

Booked a table here as we were staying in a little cottage in Sheldon, from the moment we stepped in every member of staff was so welcoming and friendly, we ordered the prawn pil pil and olives followed by the pie and fish and chips, the prawns and olives were some of the best we have ever tasted and the mains were absolutely delicious, the beef in the pie literally melted in the mouth, absolutely amazing service, will definitely be back next time we come to visit, can’t recommend enough would give more than five stars if we could 🤩

Friendly welcome, proper coffee. Spacious seating. Lovely staff, fresh cooked food. A very welcome & happy accidental find- would highly recommend 😀

A great experience, the food is very delicious, the service attitude of the restaurant staff is very good, and they are always observing the guests' needs!

Always go here when in Bakewell, chouce of decent beers

So cute. Travel back in time. Food was good.