August 2025 by Lorna Henry
Last Sunday. Cheese scones , dense, hard, tasteless. No flavour of cheese whatsoever. Pretty awful
August 2025 by Granny Gloom
Had a small slice of cake at £4.70! Yikes. It was very good cake.
August 2025 by Nuno Pessanha
Excellent slice of cake and cappuccino
August 2025 by Robert Humphrey
Good friendly and efficient service. Food ordered at the counter and brought to your table.
Good selection of light lunches at reasonable prices.
July 2025 by Steve Pilfold
Every time we visit here we are disappointed. I don't like to leave a bad review, but the NT really need to get a grip here.
Always out of something: today was not a busy day, Monday 1pm. Sign says lunch served 11:30-2:30 so smack bang in middle. Already run out of jacket potatoes, pasties, coffee cake, and all but ham or tuna sandwiches. This is not the first time either.
The tables are often dirty: I guess the self clear trolley for trays means people take their dirty stuff up and the tables then don't get wiped. The high chair was dirty and needed several baby wipes to clean it.
Secret charges for salad: ordered a sausage roll (one of just left!), asked if we wanted side salad with it, no mention this is £2 extra! We aren't talking a bowl either, literally a few leaves.
Always a queue due to bizarre way of serving: you order and they make you wait around for drinks at the end of the till, yet food comes to your table. The problem is there is no space to put your tray down, the area is small, and you might be waiting 5 or more mins for drinks when they are busy, with a tray that has cakes, cans and other things on.
What we had was OK, but it wasn't special. This is not just a one off, it is consistently bad here compared to other NT properties.
June 2025 by Lara Jo
It's a lovely little place to visit quite expensive but the Cornish cauliflower pasties I would highly recommend. They were absolutely delicious. Cake seems to be very hit and miss the last time we attended it wasn't great. Very sweet not a lot of flavour. But when we previously attended hot food wasn't great at all. But cake was delicious. Staff are friendly and polite. You will however be expected to queue for quite some time. Service is rather slow. So wouldn't it advise if you're in a hurry to get in and out.
May 2025 by Sarah
Very poor cafe compared with other national trust. Poor choice of food long wait, Poor layout to get food slow and not helpful at all. Plenty of seats but dirty, sticky tables, unhelpful staff water run out after 10 mins needs more than one jug.
Shame used to be better
April 2025 by Natasha Miller
Visited Sheffield Park yesterday for the first time. A beautiful place but the cafe was such a disappointment. The set up is terrible which meant queuing for a long time into a small room. There appeared to be lots of staff hanging around the kitchen whilst customers were waiting to pay/get their hot drinks. I ordered a beetroot and goats cheese quiche, served with salad leaves and coleslaw. It was terrible. Couldn't taste the goats cheese, the beetroot wasn't fresh and it looked like it wasn't homemade. Dry salad leaves and a blob of coleslaw. This establishment could be incredible considering its surroundings but next time I go to Sheffield Park I'll take a picnic.
April 2025 by A M
One of our orders was completely forgotten, asked the waiter to find out what happened to the order, who proceeded to forget to find out.
The soup tasted awful.
October 2024 by Chris A
Nice, but pricey
September 2024 by Matthew Moore
Annoyed with NT due to Saturday Ago policy (none before 1pm at Sheffield Park). Add to this a very overpriced Cafe (£35.00 for five drinks and three iced lolly's). Massive cafe cue and dog owners segregated (even outside). First time I've given a poor review to a NT property.
September 2024 by Yvonne Bowen
Very organised cafe. Busy but food was excellent and quickly served. Tables cleared swiftly and some lovely tables outside.
September 2024 by Felicity Gardiner
Awful cafe. Only gluten free cake option was a pre packaged processed thing. Out of 10 cakes you?d think they could just make one gf. Also boiling hot inside
August 2024 by Tracey Cox
Visited today tuna sandwich was fab. The chocolate brownie was under cooked and very stodgy .
August 2024 by Sue Howe
Slow service and most of the tables were dirty. I watched a member of staff remove dirty crockery from tables but no tables were wiped down. I cleaned the table I used myself with a tissue. Would not recommend.
