Food & drink
Baldersons Bakery, Cafe & Tea Garden
By Jon Cosson · Last checked
Bakery, sandwich bar, cafe and gift shop in one building on Chestnut Avenue. You take a table and order at the counter, and the food is brought out to you. There is an indoor room and a large tea garden at the back, part of it covered and heated, so it stays usable outside the summer. Breakfast and lunch, a substantial vegetarian choice, and a gluten-free menu. No fixed opening hours are published, so check before travelling.
Details
At a glance
- Address
- Chestnut Avenue, Thornton-le-Dale, Pickering, North Yorkshire YO18 7RW
- Phone
- 01751 474272
- Website
- Baldersons Welcome Cafe & Bakery on Facebook
- Category
- Food & drink
More on Eating & drinking.
Baldersons Welcome Cafe & Bakery, Facebook page (address and telephone); Visit Thornton-le-Dale, Baldersons Welcome Cafe listing; our directory entry and the editor's own visits, September 2026. Spotlight sources checked 11 October 2026.
Food and bakery
A full English breakfast served before noon; lunches, main meals and snacks; cream cakes and hot pasties.
Breads, cakes and pastries made on the premises, sold at the counter to take home.
Tea garden and groups
A children's play area and room to leave bikes. Dogs are welcome in the tea garden.
Groups and coach parties are catered for with a party menu, so ring ahead if there are a lot of you.
Two Baldersons on one street
Baldersons Ice Cream Parlour, a little further along Chestnut Avenue, is a separate business. It makes its own ice cream and opens from March to October.
Opening and parking
Open seven days a week, all year round, by the Visit Thornton-le-Dale listing. No opening times are published, so ring before a special journey.
The National Park car park off Maltongate (YO18 7SD), a short walk away.
Find it
Postcode YO18 7RW. Directions on Google Maps.
Mentioned in this guide
Nearby in the directory
Eaten here
I have eaten at Baldersons twice. The first was breakfast with my cousin, who has mobility issues, and her husband. We sat out in the tea garden at the back and it was a good breakfast, brought to the table by staff who were friendly without making a performance of it.
The second was lunch. My wife and I are vegetarian, and there was a real choice rather than the one obligatory dish, cooked properly and put on the plate with some care, which is less common than it ought to be.
The tea garden is the thing worth knowing about. It is large, well laid out, and partly covered with heaters, so unlike most of what the village offers it works in the cold months as well as in August.
– Jon Cosson, September 2026
A personal account of one visit, not a review, and not part of the checked details above.