Reviews The Waterfront Cafe

We went there on the Sunday and I was impressed with the size of the cafe and the range of choices available. There are sitting options inside and outside. Drinks are great, the salsa on the burger was not everyone's taste, but this is always personal preference, so other customers might also enjoy it. Staff work really well under pressure (it can get very busy) and are very polite.

This is a very nice large cool cafe, a very welcome respite on a hot day, clean and comfortable with toilets. All sorts of coffees, teas and cold drinks available plus sandwiches, cookies, cakes etc. The young staff were friendly. I didn't see any hot food on offer but there is a kitchen (maybe I was there at the wrong time) price of food and drinks reasonable, the sandwiches were very fresh and delicious.

Tasty food and drinks with friendly service. I was a bit disappointed to find there want anywhere to secure my bike, given Bewl Water is a an outdoor activity centre. However, the friendly staff let me secure it to the wooden fence outside.

Such a fabulous café! The staff are amazing and it felt so lovely sitting and relaxing 😌

It costs at writing £2 to park by the restaurant, which is at the top of a gentle slope down to Bewl Water. As you walk in, a room to your left has hot and soft drinks and some snacks to take away. Go past it to enter the restaurant. The airy, wood-floored restaurant has an unimaginative selection of the sort of food you could find in most schools in England at lunchtime. From my visit, I could recommend the competently done fish and beef pies, with which we took decent chunky chips (potato mash and thin-cut chips were options) and grilled vegetables (which were good). The hot vegetarian option was uninspiring cauliflower cheese. There is a cold selection (pasta, olives, coleslaw etc). But of course you do not come here for the food but for the lake. The Waterside Restaurant sits atop a gentle slope down to Bewl Water. There is outdoors seating with tables from which you can enjoy the prospect in good weather. There is a playground past the main entrance for the little ones and also a pirate-themed little "adventure" playground by the water, by where you can wade out. A water taxi on the hour will take you around Bewl Water in 40 minutes from the jetty (cost per head £6 at writing), and you can hire pedal boats. All in all, the Waterside Restaurant therefore is a good place to eat because of the amenities to which you will have access.

Lovely place to have a day, picnic and loads of activities