August 2025 by Megan Taylor
Amazing!!! Perfect in every aspect. Extremely friendly, warm and enthusiastic staff and top notch food. Recommended by our host and we will definitely be passing the recommendation onwards?if you?re thinking about eating here ?.do! Wish we had another day to eat here again. Thank you Steam!
July 2025 by Andrew Holdsworth
Excellent place for a drink and food. Staff were very friendly and welcoming.
January 2024 by Bhavana Peri
A wonderful and cosy place. The food and coffee were excellent. The staff are friendly and patient. They helped customise our order. Their patty with homemade ketchup and soup with 2 different kinds of bread were delicious. Highly recommend this placeKid-friendliness: Very friendly with the kids and swapped the burger fillings and also made the hot (warm) chocolate to his preferred temperature.
December 2023 by Brendan Hassett
5 stars are not enough to rate this amazing little family run bistro.We went for one of their pop-up evneing openings andI can honestly say that this was one of the best meals I have ever had.The pop-up menu consists of fixed price 3 courses with 4 choices for each course. The food that I had was simply brilliant.I can not recommend this charming & friendly restaurant any higher.
November 2023 by Michael Dewsbury
Cup of tea and a bacon butty before exploring Coniston
November 2023 by Amy W
Had the best hot chocolate of my life here and the breakfast was fantastic! I will definitely be going back for more next time I'm in Coniston.
November 2023 by 347MariaM
Delicious quality local produce, excellently prepared. We went for lunch after a bracing walk and thoroughly enjoyed the skills of the chef and the friendly service.
November 2023 by LesterB151
Stumbled upon this restaurant after a walk and was really surprised by the food on offer. The menu is mainly catering for variations on breakfast items but with Soup and a few other lighter lunchtime options. Decor is modern and bright and the service spot on. What marks this place as utterly unique is the detail and clever twists on the trad English Breakfast - I opted for their full English (forgot their name for it tho !?). Home made thick sour dough toast, Sausage Pattie (like a burger ) - local dry cured bacon, Special mixed baked beans (black beans, flageolet, pinto and butter beans in a chipotle sweet sauce-). Cubed potatoes and black pudding diced with a bit of onion, proper fresh egg and home made brown sauce - GLORIOUS and different yet traditional - hot and fresh (no buffet style ?left on a hot plate? food here - you may have to wait for it to be cooked .. but it?s worth it !)
November 2023 by Andrew G
Fantastic menu, local produce, delicious food, great service . Warm friendly place, best hot chocolate in years! Keep doing what you are doing!
November 2023 by Laura bond
Top quality food which was very reasonably priced. The bang bang chicken burger was incredible. By far our best meal in the Lakes so far and definitely the best place to eat in Coniston. Gutted we discovered it on our last day of the holiday!! Thank you so much for such a brilliant dining experienceParking: Great car park just opposite the bistroKid-friendliness: Great childrens menu and not just full of the standard nuggets, burger and fish fingers. Our boys had sausage and mash with a choice of vegetables. Sausages were sourced from a fabulous butcher, homemade mash potatoes and homemade gravy! Not a scrap was left.Staff were incredibly accommodating with the boys. Their meals arrived first (upon our request), they sourced some bread and butter for our youngest dispite being really busy, took time out to interact and speak with the boys. We had a 6yrs, 3yrs, and 6 month old. Whilst the toilet was quite small, I was offered space in the upstairs accommodation to change our youngest. We were made to feel incredibly welcome throughout our visit.
October 2023 by Lisa K
Fantastic coffee and delicious cake! Cosy & charming cafe in Coniston. Set in a quiet delightful village away from the tourists in the Lakes District!
October 2023 by David Birkett
Popped in for breakfast around 9:30 a.m. After driving up from Bristol in the early hours. We have been here before (5 years or so) in the evening when they did a full menu and BYO - the quality of the food then was off the chart! We had the full English Breakfast and were not disappointed - plenty of quality foods, beautifully cooked and presented. The beans were very different to your usual "heinz" ones - a homemade mixture with a bit of spice! They aren't doing evening meals now due to staff shortages which is a real shame - however the owners are hoping to do some pop up evenings! The cakes looked tempting as does the lunch menu - we may well return again during our stay this week!
October 2023 by Phil Graham
Very helpful,accommodating and friendly staff, we stopped for breakfast this morning, (24/09/2023) fantastic quality food and excellent coffee.I would highly recommend a visit.I'll Definitely re-visit whenever in Coniston.Thanks again for excellent service + quality food!
October 2023 by Tony Tanner
Called in today for lunch with my wife , great choice on the menu to suit all tastes, staff very friendly and nice . The burger was amazing highly recommended. Great choice of cakes
October 2023 by IanDay3101
We had seen the great reviews and wanted to give Steam Bistro for my mums 85th birthday. The menu is lovely. Not too expansive but certainly something for all tastes. It got busier as the afternoon progressed and the waitress was brilliant at keeping everyone up to speed with where she was up to so no one was left wondering when they would be served etc. A real skill and she was lovely and friendly without being intrusive. The food was really delicious. We had the burger with the brisket on top. Just what I wanted and seems so rare to get a great burger nowadays. Other meals were mushrooms and chorizo on sourdough toast with feta and salmon and scrambled eggs on sourdough toast. Really good portion size and lovely to see the list of suppliers for the different ingredients on the blackboard. We finished off with a coffee, also delicious and again sometimes hard to find. We would definitely return and recommend.
