Rievaulx Abbey Cafe

Very nice cream teas here. Very clean areas and great service. Only a disabled toilet inside you need to go to car park for others

Handy and sizeable cafe. Accessible without paying for the main site, and you can browse the shop too. Lovely staff, good coffee. 10% off for EH members

Lovely food with fantastic views of the ruins. I am partially disabled and the staff were more than happy to deliver the food to the table. It was delicious! Ver carta

We stopped for a snack only. Cheese scone was lovely, I'm reliably informed the ice cream was also delicious. A nice coffee to round it off. Plenty of seating on the day we came, we sat outside. Very clean.

Having never visited before decided to relax with a small snack after a few hours round the abbey, drinks were great but the cakes were fabulous, good selection of other foods so not limited, pies looked very nice but had to stop at some point, well worth the visit.

Easily the best cafe of any English Heritage site. Visiting the abbey has become an excuse for going to the cafe. Always a lovely selection of handmade, traditional cakes and really nice tea. It's in such a nice building too. I had fruit cake with a chunk of Wensleydale, a pot of tea and it was perfect. Ver carta

We have visited this cafe before but just for a drink inside the modern cafe area. This time the extended family (8) decided on food as well. Sitting outside in a shaded area everyone enjoyed their food choices, with the Monk's Pottage being a bit of a highlight! If you are visiting the Abbey, be sure to stop and refresh in the cafe.

Rievaulx is a favourite outing for me and my elderly parents magical in all weathers, plenty of space and sufficient parking for the visitor numbers they have and a really lovely cafe with views of the Abbey. We visited again today and had a particularly good lunch they had the steak and ale hotpot (with gluten free bread available for my dad), and I had a really memorable sausage and mash with onion gravy. Both wonderful winter comfort food. My dad was also very happy to find there was a gluten free cappuccino cake. I was sorry not to try the pork pie and salad which looked very good but will save that for next time. We'll be back soon!

We visited Rievaulx Abbey on a warm Sunday morning in September in the company of some friends. We had driven here and there is a small (pay display) car park though this is free to English Heritage members who also run the abbey site. We combined our visit with the 3 mile walk from Helmsley Castle and took one of the cars to the (pay display) car park in Helmsley to walk back to the Abbey. After our walk, we visited the abbey café before touring the site. The café is reasonably large and has some lovely picture windows making the interior very light, airy and seemingly spacious. The windows also a give a marvellous view out over to the abbey. There was a reasonable choice of small meals, dr... Ver carta