Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms Northallerton

Sandwiches tasted incredible, but could have had something like chickpeas to make more filling and nutritious. I would also like to have more vegan sandwich fillings available. The service was quite fast, but can wait for a table 30-40 minutes. Updated by previous rating on 2021-10-23

I had the vegan eggplant carving with new potatoes, rocket, well-kept onions, capers, dill and oat milk dressing, and it was really nice. Light and fresh, but satisfying. I will definitely have it again. My Carnivore father could not believe how pretty and colorful it saw you offer oats or soy milk with coffee, although there are many specialties teas to choose from. They also offer a vegan club sandwich with red pepper and mushroom, vegan soup (lentil and sweet potato the day I visited), avocado toast, spinach and avocado salad and a handful of vegan secondary dishes. There are many vegetarian options. Most people come for pastries and afternoon teas that are not vegetarian vegan. The only vegan cake listed on the menu is a carrot gugelhupf that looked good. Would like to have seen more vegan cakes/desserts as they are easy to offer.

Not a huge number of vegan choices on a large menu but I went for the ‘roasted red pepper sandwich with pickled onion, pine nut pesto and oat fraiche’ and confirmed I had no allergies. The sandwich came with no pesto or oat fraiche, but this wasn’t mentioned when it arrived. I basically paid £8.75 for a small salad sandwich. When I queried it, they said they had no oat fraiche and therefore wouldn’t put the pesto on either ‘because of allergens’. I’d already said I had no allergies but asked which allergen they were worried about. ‘Gluten’. It was a wheat bread sandwich. They remade the sandwich with the pesto so it was tastier, but the whole thing was odd and awkward and I wished I’d not done a detour to visit. They took the tea off the bill, but to be honest the tea was fine.

My treat to me this xmas eve, vegan afternoon tea with spiced Christmas tea, from walking through that door, the welcome, being seated, allergy check, wonderful experience worth every penny…and then my order came!!!!!!!! And it got better!!!! In fact, I had to double check if this was all VEGAN, fresh fresh fresh!!! Superb, a huge thank you to all, fabulous memory for me my first Christmas in this region x x

Sandwiches tasted incredible but could have had something like chickpeas to make more filling and nutritious. I would have also liked more vegan sandwich fillings to be available. Service was fairly quick but waiting for a table can take 30-40 minutes. Updated from previous review on 2021-10-23