Enjoy delicious Yorkshire Dales food and drink - recommended by locals

Why buy food from faceless supermarkets when you can buy from people who care about what they do, who know their customers and their suppliers and who take proper pride in serving high quality food at really reasonable prices? 

Cafes & tea rooms

Try our favourite cafes & tea rooms 

Fine dining

Enjoy Yorkshire Dales fine dining

Favourite pubs

Relax in our favourite pubs

Our favourite six Yorkshire Dales food shops

Chocolate!
  1. The Town End Farm Shop at Airton by Malham is a great place to buy local food, as well as to enjoy excellent cakes, coffee and meals. Upstairs you'll find a really fantastic selection of gifts and home wares, many of which are lovingly created in Yorkshire.
  2. ​If you like cheese, you'll love the award-winning Courtyard Dairy where Andy & Kathy Swinscoe carefully select, mature and sell distinctive cheese from small farms and cheese-makers. 
  3. Keelham Farm Shop near Skipton has a fantastic selection of carefully sourced foodie treats, with a red tractor for a real wow factor! 
  4. Country Harvest at Ingleton is a veritable emporium of food and gifts, with a great programme of demonstrations and events. 
  5. Campbells in Leyburn is an unexpected delight – unveiling foodie delights and with a very extensive selection of fine wines. Ideal for picking up a picnic to enjoy on the Shawl when the sun eventually shines! 
  6. ​​Look out for the assortment of animals near Berry’s Farm Shop at Swinithwaite or walk down the hill to see the waterfall before enjoying a meal or snack in the cafe. 
When you've slogged to the top of a hill in the Yorkshire Dales, or just want to treat yourself, it's natural to reach for chocolate. The result of extensive research, here are my favourite Yorkshire Dales sweet treats

Yorkshire Dales farmers' markets & market days

These are the dates of the regular markets around the Yorkshire Dales. Please double check details before starting your journey. Some markets are bigger at certain times, or only take place during the summer months. Changes are sometimes made at the last minute so it's essential to double check. 
​
​​Monday: Skipton market, Kirkby Stephen market

Tuesday: Bedale market, Hawes market, Settle market

Wednesday: Sedbergh market, Bentham market, Skipton market
Masham market (small)

Thursday: Ripon market, Kirkby Lonsdale market, 2nd Thursday of the month - Harrogate farmers' market

Friday: Ingleton market, Skipton market, Leyburn market

Saturday: Skipton market, Masham market, Richmond market
4th Saturday of the month - Leyburn farmers' market
3rd Saturday of the month - Richmond farmers' market

Sunday:
1st Sunday of the month - Skipton farmers' market
3rd Sunday of the month - Grassington farmers' market
3rd Sunday of the month - Masham farmers' market 

Ice cream

Picture
Treat yourself to a trip to Brymor Ice Cream in Wensleydale or Billy Bobs set in an old-fashioned diner, with a great children's playground. You can enjoy an ice cream from ​Archers in Richmond, then wander along the river to walk off the calories. Birchfield in Nidderdale sometimes has events on their working farm. You can't miss the colourful building of G&T Ice Cream Parlour near Ripon. I loved this 'famous five' ice cream. 

Where have we missed? 

Which are your favourite cafes, farms shops and places to buy, eat and enjoy food in the Yorkshire Dales? What have we missed? If you have suggestions to be added to this page 
please email