Home Farm Shop And Cafe - Hambleton

Excellent cafe. Steak nights on Friday each month were rather special. Fabulous breakfast and cafe. Brilliant locally sourced and home made produce. Well run and fabulous venue. Will be missed

Special afternoon tea with family. Great value and service. Selection fantastic with just the right amount of savory and sweet. Staff very pleasant and accommodating.

Home farm has long been a go to breakfast/brunch venue for my family and we have been throughout the year and seen the shop evolve, close down and visited when possible around covid. But I’m disappointed to say that we won’t be returning for a long period of time. “Sit where you want” was an unusual greeting especially when the only suitable table was full of dirty pots.. after 15 minutes we asked to order.. the order was unfortunately wrong but we accept mistakes happen.. but the whole atmosphere wasn’t right. Items dropped on the floor by a server were ignored, the gritty black bits on the food were a concern, and we heard who we presume owns the place moaning about staff something we have unfortunately heard before. As others have said… this is a beautiful spot, with quality produce.. but too many things let the place down, and it’s priced similar to quality places where you can get the service you are paying for. We wanted the opportunity to give the feedback in person but were virtually ignored paying the bill.. embarrassment perhaps?

The service here is very poor. On entering we were advised that there was a 20 minute wait for hot food, we explained we were wanting tea and cake. We were told that wasn't a problem and shown to a table. We waited for 20 minutes and no one came to take our order although others arriving later were having orders taken. Eventually I went to the counter to enquire and our order was taken and paid for. Big mistake, we should have left before then. We waited and waited, we asked two separate people about our order and eventually received our tea and cake 25 minutes later. The tea was fine but we had to ask for milk, the millionaire's shortbread good, don't order the oreo cake oversweet, dry and no flavour. During our long wait we watched the most mis managed cafe I have ever been in. Customers chuntering because their orders not arriving and others who came in later getting their food first. Some tables being asked if they would like to order several times and others, like ourselves being completely ignored. Food being brought out from the kitchen and served to the wrong table. It appeared that no one was in charge and management seemed to be non existent.

So we decided to go back and try the cafe again as we are regular visitor due to the nice walks etc. Sadly things just haven't changed, probably worse than before. Definitely over priced. We were charged £3 for one slice of toast and a small pot of jam (which we didn't ask for) . YES £3 for a slice of bread. We ordered the breakfast again £14 do not cheap but they are worse than the local greasy spoon cafe. Very poor and STILL full of black bits because they simply don't clean the griddle when cooking, it's disgusting. Your breakfast and eggs etc just come out with black griddle bits all.over it. Its horrible. Foe the price this is not acceptable just go elsewhere if you want a nice breakfast for the price. It's just poor overpriced food taking advantage of visitors. Fine for a coffee and cake (albeit expensive) but actual cooked food avoid. Its awful and poor. Such a shame this could be really good it's simply not ans we won't be going again. Twice bitten. Clean your griddle it's disgusting you serve breakfast like that! And stop ripping people off with £3 for a slice of bread for instance.