Tasty food and drink at West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms and tea-garden

At West Winds you can enjoy traditional Yorkshire specialities like Yorkshire puddings filled with Dales lamb hotpot, grilled Yorkshire gammon, local Dales cheeses, home-roasted Yorkshire ham, haverbread, Yorkshire curd tart, Dales cut-and-come-again cake, ginger parkin and brandy fruitcake served with Traditional Wensleydale cheese. Most things you’ll eat are home-made here at West Winds.

...Bone china...

Alternatively, choose from our regular range of fresh salads, tasty sandwiches, filling omelettes and tea-time favourites like chocolate cake, deliciously gooey carrot cake, coffee and walnut cake, egg custard tart and scones with cream and home-made jam. All washed down with fine teas, coffee or hot chocolate in bone china cups. (Please note our menu varies from day to day and that although we do our best to keep everything stocked up, all items are subject to availability.)

At West Winds we do our best to use locally produced, organic and Fairtrade food wherever feasible and we aim to make our meals and cakes as healthy and tasty as possible. Many of our dishes use in-season ingredients that are as fresh as things come. Some of the produce we use comes from our own garden and greenhouse. For example, this year we are growing more than 20 herbs, many of which are used in salads, casseroles and other dishes.

...Tea garden...

You can relax in the tea-garden in warm weather, or warm yourself by our log fire inside when it’s cold. Come to see us for Cakes and Sandwiches, Lunch, Afternoon Tea, High Tea/Early Dinner or just Tea or Coffee, and stay for as long as you like. We don’t like to hurry people and there is always a daily newspaper and the Dalesman for you to browse, or even read from cover to cover...

If you enjoy our cakes, you can take away a Presentation Box of Yorkshire cakes - including Yorkshire curd tart, made to our own 100-year-old recipe - tied with ribbon as a gift for a special occasion or a special person. Or you can simply eat them yourself when you get home, or even on the way home...

West Winds can also provide the perfect venue for a private group lunch, dinner or other special occasion, when we can relax our usual opening times and cater for your own particular needs. We’re not licensed to sell alcoholic drinks but you can bring your own favourite wine yourself. We’ll provide the glasses!

Normal opening times and special events

March to October 2010
Tearooms usually open daily (except Mondays, Tuesdays and summer rest periods), 12.30pm-6pm

Monday 20 September to Tuesday 28 September
Tearooms closed for late summer rest period. Reopen Wednesday 29 September

Saturday 23 October to Sunday 31 October Apple Tasting Festival at West Winds
More than 20 exquisite apple varieties to taste that you won't find in the shops, plus a special apple-inspired menu. Tearooms open daily (except Mondays and Tuesdays), 12.30-6pm

November and December 2010
Tearooms closed for wet weather

Please note that all payments should be in cash or by cheque supported with a banker’s card. We do not have the facility to deal with credit/debit cards on the premises – we’re far too old fashioned.

Sample items from our regular menu

West Winds was on the final shortlist for the Taste of Yorkshire Award 2009

You can choose from an all-day menu featuring main meals; sandwiches, scones and cakes; and hot and cold drinks. You can eat as much, or as little, as you like! The following all appear on our menu regularly...

Luxury Yorkshire Afternoon Tea, including four different types of sandwich, Aga-baked scones with jam, honey and plenty of fresh whipped Dales double cream, four traditional Yorkshire cakes, unlimited tea or coffee and a box of West Winds locally made chocolate truffles to take home

Cream Tea, featuring an Aga-baked scone with strawberry jam and fresh whipped Dales double cream with a pot of good tea

Grilled Yorkshire gammon steak with two fried eggs, baked tomato and fried mushrooms, served with freshly buttered brown bread

Casserole of Yorkshire venison cooked in Theakson’s Old Peculier ale, served in a giant Yorkshire pudding with cranberry sauce

Hotpot of Dales lamb, served in a giant Yorkshire pudding with mint sauce

Wharfedale pheasant and fresh rosemary pie, served with redcurrant jelly and a jug of hot gravy

Casserole of classic organic English vegetables in a tomato and herb sauce, served in a giant Yorkshire pudding

Roast Yorkshire farm ham with organic salad, home-made coleslaw, home-made haverbread and lavender jelly

Buckden Highland beef with organic salad, home-made coleslaw, home-made haverbread and apricot and walnut chutney

Seasonal vegetable and Wensleydale cheese quiche with organic salad, home-made coleslaw and home-made haverbread

Five Yorkshire cheeses with organic salad, home-made coleslaw, home-made haverbread and red onion marmalade

Freshly cut sandwiches filled with Yorkshire ham and apple and mint jelly, Yorkshire beef with redcurrant jelly, Wensleydale cheese with apple and raisin chutney, Maldive Islands tuna with mayonnaise or local farm eggs with mayonnaise and black pepper

Traditional Yorkshire cakes, including Yorkshire curd tart, Yorkshire parkin, fat rascals, Yorkshire brack, brandy fruitcake served with a wedge of Wensleydale cheese, Dales cut-and-come-again cake, Ripon spice cake and Yorkshire mint pasty

Teatime favourites, including custard tart, chocolate fudge slab, caramel slice, deliciously gooey carrot and walnut cake, coffee cake, gluten-free lemon cake and flapjack

You can download a sample menu below, under the heading Related downloads. Please note, however, that our menu varies from day to day and that although we do our best to keep everything stocked up, all items are subject to availability.

What people have said about eating at West Winds...

“That was the best gammon I’ve ever had. It reminds me of some I had in Yorkshire 53 years ago.” Anon

“Look at that. Beautiful. This is very good.” Harry Gration, BBC Look North (enjoying a piece of Yorkshire curd tart)

“Lovely place to end a walk! Sumptuous cakes, lovely coffee, lots of tea.” RB, Knaresborough

“Love the Aga. Great smells from the kitchen!” TT, Singapore

“I tried your Yorkshire curd tart and thoroughly enjoyed it. Over the next six days of my walk along the Inn Way, I subsequently asked for curd tart elsewhere but they were always disappointing – too dry, tasteless and lacking in fruit. Please can you tell me where I can find your recipe?” JB, Northampton

“Lovely food. First time inside West Winds for Peter since staying here with Mum in 1958.” BR, Essex

“The best carrot cake I’ve ever had. The thing that will bring me back above all else!” AP, Edinburgh

“Thank you for a warm welcome and fantastic cakes.” LZ, Twickenham

“Dales lamb wonderful!” KJ, Midlands

Related downloads

West Winds menu in Yorkshire dialect
Speaking in Dialect: A crash course in Yorkshire dialect
An Ancient Tongue: A factsheet on Yorkshire dialect
Yorkshire Post feature on West Winds, 28 July 2010
Tearooms Customer Charter - Our responsibilities to you
Sample standard West Winds Yorkshire Tearooms menu