Hassop Station Cafe & Monsal Trail Cycle Hire in Derbyshire Dales

We came here on a Thursday, in late March, without booking, and very little prep. Drove in, parked up, (£5.50 all day) hired a bike (£22 half day, £25 full day) had a steady ish ride to the end of the trail and back, could have easily made it into Bakewell and back too before our 4 hours were up, but decided to had the bikes in and have coffee and cake in the cafe, cafe had lots of tables inside and out, and a well populated menu. Name your table number and your drinks are brought out. All in all a very smooth service on both counts.

A very posh cafe / restaurant lovely food x

We met these sociable Macaws in the Hassop Station Cafe, whilst enjoying an excellent flat white coffee and gluten free brownie. The cafe is a very well appointed, light and airy space to warm up after a wet cold bike ride along the full length of the Monsal Trail. Thoroughly recommended

Good cafe with great choice of food, ideally, located on Monsal trail so ideal for Cyclists and Walkers alike.

Took two friends who were visiting us in the Peak District, and although busy (it was a Sunday) the service was quick and the food choices were extensive. We then took a leisurely stroll to Monsall viaduct to walk of a few calories. Would definitely recommend, but if you can avoid weekends as it is extremely busy.

A welcome sit down with lovely piece of cake after a long walk on Monsal trail

Great food and variety, it was so busy but parking was still available and a table inside to eat. Food didnt take long either The shop inside is lovely too , worth a visit. Good venue for dog people too as there is spacious outside seating

Stopped off briefly while walking along Monsal trail cafe with indoor an outdoors seating with toilets, if your looking to hire a bicycle this is the place helmet and 🔐 included in the price also has decent size pay and display car park.

Parking for a bit of a longer walk into Bakewell.

Little pricey on a few items but nice place

Great cafe when you have done a lot of walking and need to refuel. Could do with some benches to sleep it for a while. (Joking). I really enjoyed this place.

This used to be a railway station many years ago and is the perfect place to park and walk along the Monsal Trail ( the old railway line ) There is a large carpark and the cafe / gift shop has a small area with free parking. If you intend to walk park in the other areas. They provide a large out-door seating area half of which is covered for less sunny days. There are toilets and dog bowls with a supply of fresh water. Indoors the building Is divided in two. One side is cafe the other half is gifts. The cafe serves delicious home made food and a good variety of drinks, both hot and cold. There is indoor seating and it is dog friendly. The gift shop is full of delightful things and plenty to tempt. Staff are friendly and helpful. Overall the perfect place to start or end your walk. ENJOY

This place is just beautiful the cafe serves an excellent food menu. Fresh homemade soups and a selection of cakes. The shop has a gifts and cards. I can’t speak too highly of this place. Pop in for a brew and see what you think.

Great place to stop off at and have a bite to eat and a drink after walking the Monsal Trail. Great food, friendly staff and plenty of seating indoors and out.

Something for everyone on the menu here! Delicious food, cakes to die for & excellent beverage options. Not a budget option but good value for money. Now open on Friday and Saturday evening as well. Pizza van & quick serve kiosk outside cafe now but neither open when we visited on a weekday lunchtime. Large seating areas indoor & out (covered). Friendly, speedy service. Next door is a large book shop & there is also cycle hire on site. Big car park, reasonable charges. Great start/end point for walking or cycling on the Monsal Trail.

Old rail line footpath very crowded.

used as start point for walking part of monsail trail - finished walk with hot chocolate and cornflake cake (moved car to take advantage of free parking area whilst in picnic area)

Brilliant breakfast and service.

A lovely stop along a beautiful trail. Great bakes and coffwe

Lovely food and staff, in lovely surroundings

Popped in off the Monsal Trail what a delightful find. Had special hot chocolate of the day yummy even pet Pooch had to have some 🤣 lovely shop & plenty of choices for food & drink

Friendly staff and great food and drink

Nice place to stop when you've been for walk. The staff are very friendly and helpfully

Friendly staff, efficient service. Sausage rolls were great!

Has the atmosphere and character of a busy motorway service station. The staff are rude unfriendly and don't care about customer service. I was asked for my table number at the café, which I didn't know, so I pointed to the table my partner was on, which was 5 metres away. The lady just shrugged her shoulders and said "I'm not serving you until I have your table number" So I said "ok give me 5 seconds I'll go and check it" and ran to the table and back. In the 5 seconds I was gone she had already started serving the next person and I was expected to go to the back of the queue of 7 people. I was absolutely gobsmacked how unreasonable she was. Needless to say we walked out and drove up the road to Thorbridge Hall cafe, which was every bit as good as this place was bad.

Absolutely fantastic. Great location, excellent rooms and facilities, free parking, great food at the cafe. Montal trail is right outside.

Lovely stop on a fab walking route! Highly recommend the bacon butties and cronuts 😍

Great little cafe and snack place food looked amazing but didn't try it! Also sell alcohol and cards and other novelty stuff 😀

Great fab and location. Service was friendly too

Cafe and cycle shop on the Monsal Trail. We'll placed for parking, walking, cycling and eating .

Lovely spot after a walk from Bakewell. Great cream scone

Decent food and price for a place that could charge anything due to a captive market.

I wouldn't recommend it to my friends. It seems just a job to some staff but I shouldn't worry it's like that in most places nowadays. I will visit again just in case it was me having an off day!!

Great cafe, lovely food and coffee. Friendly staff, very dog friendly. Fantastic

Very busy when we first arrived but quieter a couple of hours later. Nice cafe serving a variety of foods. There was also a pizza wagon and a kiosk just outside. The cafe is dog friendly. We just had coffee. It was freshly made and tasty. Slightly smaller than expected serving

Excellent food, service and location.

Jacket potatoes Chillie & cheese. Loads of filling. From ordering this to the table it took all of 5mins. Fantastic service! What an amazing place. Thankyou! Beautiful food. Exceptional presentation to say how busy you were. 😘

Lovely place, went to see the Waxwings, coffee from the hut, lovely walks. One negative all drivers need to know. The car park ticket machine appears to be connected to a 56k modem plus years of hardened usage means some buttons respond better than others. Particularly the button to link up to card/contact less payments. This results in much frustration, queueing, delays etc. One saving grace is by the time you've seen three users in a row tearing their hair out after several failed transactions, you know its the machine and not the user. The owners should have serious words with whoever runs the car park and get it sorted.

My partner and called for a sandwich and a coffee.We asked for one gluten free cheese and ham toastie..Unfortunately, I was given ordinary bread...NOT,GLUTEN FREE. Anyone knowing the outcome of this dilatory mistake will understand just how ill I have been.The after effects of eating Gluton causes so much disruption to your body,It is unbelievable..After all the allergy training these so called chefs have, to make this kind of mistake is absolutely diabolical, and, could be fatal.....Simply not good enough.... I also agree with a previous review relating to the toilets.. I appreciate you are busy, but that is no excuse for grubby loos.. The moral of my review is....BEWARE TO ANYONE WITH AN ALLERGY..

Fabulous cafe and reasonable prices, great quality food too. Lovely staff. Waxwings on the trail at the back of the cafe, and lots of 🐦 🐦‍⬛ great wildlife spot and walking route also.

Often go there for a ride out , great cafe and outdoor covered eating area as well , lovely food and drinks, dog friendly and the cycle hire is good value if you want to pedal along the railway path to see the amazing views of the surrounding countryside! Winter or summer it's a great place to go !

Very good place to stop on the Monsall Trail. Lots of options open on the day we visited. Only had coffee and cake. Both were very good. The added bonus of so many waxwings right there was fabulous.

We only used the Cafe, the coffee was delicious as was the sausage and egg roll, I didn't notice any accommodation

Maybe being a bit harsh because they were busy but we ordered 2 bacon rolls and 2 coffees. The coffees turned up 10 mins after we'd eaten our rolls !! On the whole though it's a very nice cafe if expensive on the coffee (bacon rolls were excellent value)

Went to see the waxwings that were there. A nice walk with the dog but gave up with buying a drink as the queues were terrible.

Always lovely, super busy but still quick & lovely

Good food and cycle hire was excellent

If this is for the guest house it was lovely and comfortable. Bed could do with fixing together better and headboard. Dressing gowns were a lovely touch to walk to the separate gorgeous bathroom down the hall. Could do with extra coat hangers or hooks on back of the doors to hang coats etc. Also some type of air freshener for the damp/ wet dogs smell in the room. Beautiful views out of the windows if you look beyond the roundabout. Not totally soundproof but traffic doesn't disrupt your stay. Nice having a parking space outside and very handy being right next to the cafe with the beautiful trail on your doorstep. (Was exceptional place and very pricey so you would expect the place to be clean especially the toilets). The food and service was excellent and big portions. We would definitely recommend staying here and would go again. Also check out the lads at the bike hire shop, well recommended for an e- bike made life alot easier as I had disabilities.

Great place for walking especially with the wildlife around

Excellent sausage sandwich could maybe do with another sausage as the cob is hugh but tasty. Had to wait for tea to come but apparently dishwasher issues otherwise good.

Very busy straight after parkrun Service was under pressure with a que through the door, nice coffee in pleasant surroundings

Visited for the Waxwing influx. Great place, plenty of space, friendly staff, large car park with fair charges. Will be returning for sure.

Gorgeous location and the menu is awesome... recommend hot pork sandwich and ANYTHING of the dessert list

Fantastic place for food and good parking.

Popped in for a coffee and a bite to eat after a walk along the old railway line. Very enjoyable

Great place for a good walk, dogs love it. Good variety of food and drinks, and toilets at the station. Also bike hire.

A second time visit for my nipper and I. This time to photograph the visiting bohemian waxwing. We were not to be disappointed, either - upwards of a hundred birds here, feeding on an abundance of hawthorn berries. The cafe itself is very popular indeed, due not only to its great service but it's location on the old railway line trail. Site has a very large car park, but fills quickly. Good food and drinks.

Beautiful place, great food, drinks, facilities and shop.

We sat in the gardens with our own picnic so can't comment on food, drinks or service. However, the food that was being served looked delicious and tempting. What a lovely place in a superb setting

Very slow service but nice food and coffee a little expensive

Perfect location and really nice food 🍲

Waxwings fabulous. Walk fabulous. Coffee fabulous. Lunch fabulous.

We have visited a couple of times recently. I am pleased that you have reverted to the original menu. The food has been excellent. However, on both occasions I have noticed that the standard of cleanliness in the ladies toilets and in the cafe has been poor. Lavatories had not been cleaned recently and ran out of toilet rolls despite space for several refills. Obviously people will wear hiking boots but the floor in the cafe was filthy and the table was sticky and had not been wiped . Cutlery was also not very clean. Your way of putting cutlery out for guests to rummage through is not hygienic. The stall were friendly and helpful though run off their feet. I would rather pay more for the food if the increase went towards pay for efficient cleaners who attended on a daily basis.

A little bit busy because of the Waxwing visitation but staff coping well 👍

Food is great, ideal location outside of Bakewell to get away from all the crowds.

First time I've ever been it was a great setting a great cafe everything was perfect with Hassop station cafe a great walk on the monsal trail to bakewell definitely go back again in the next few weeks

Came with a group for a walk on the Monsal trail. Parking is limited and was full. Probably best to get there early. Great selection of food on offer. Hot chocolates were amazing! Great starting point for walks. Indoor and outdoor seating and lots of runners walkers and cyclers around. Plenty of toilets for customers too.

Good food and friendly staff. Able to reserve a table with a quick phone call. Prices on the high side.

Amazing place to stop and have a warm drink or something to eat while on the Monsal trail. Would recommend 1000%

Lovely cafe and shop and great for walking and birdwatching.

Great walks, lovely countryside ( too many people for me but ...a week day would be better ). I went for the 350+ waxwings that had settled there for the over winter period in the uk, they were fascinating to photograph and watch

Fantastic place for Bird life. 300 waxwings, bullfinch, red wings on the day we visited. Lots of parking, but get there early if there are unusual wildlife visitors! Good cafe and toilets.

Great cafe and shops, perfect location for walking on the Monday trail, and the food we had was wonderful. Will certainly be back!

Great place. Coffee food and bird watching.

Coffee, cake and watching waxwings - what more could you ask for?

Cafe has an extensive range and portions are generous!

Toilets are always dire, and prices are a bit heavy for common people !

Great café. Lots of indoor & outdoor seating. [Dog + muddy boot friendly] Efficient friendly staff. Really fresh & local producer menu. Beautiful location with walking on doorstep.

I am giving a one star because after a visit with our baby and needing to use the changing facilities I was unhappy with the cleanliness of them - someone was in the disabled so went to the ladies and the pull down station which is right by the door as people walk in was filthy and looked like it hadn’t been cleaned for months - I went back to the disabled and it wasn’t much cleaner but needs must- we also asked for a high chair and were told to get it ourself from a high stack and the chair was also filthy - we won’t be returning which is a shame as it could be nice but cleanliness is a major no no

Because we are socially distancing we ordered food and drink to take out (it was a cold day so we wanted to sit in our car to eat it) The hot drinks were served a long time ahead of the food meaning my husband took the drinks to the car and by the time I joined him with the food my drink was already starting to go cold. It was a gingerbread latte, served with a tiny biscuit in the cream topping. The biscuit had sunk and was a soggy mess in the bottom when I finally got to drink it. The food was lovely but when ordering to take out food and drink should be served together

Excellent food choice. Polite staff and plenty of parking

Only had a coffee, everything looked good.

Slightly pricey for what’s served ! But overall nice place to stop and visit.

Arrived to have lunch, got to the front of the queue and was told they weren’t serving food even though there was a menu on the table and others were eating food. Hoping for a more positive experience next time.

Often call here when on motorcycle ride out with friends. Always good food and service and friendly staff 👏

Lovely place!!! Great food, comfortable surroundings and friendly staff

The food and service is excellent... But I really, really hate and object to having to PAY to park just to use a cafe! Apparently there is free parking just by the cafe but it isn't clear how big this area is.

Great stop off if you’re doing a longer walk

Had a cheese sandwich and a hearty chicken soup it was beautiful

Coffee was really good. Prices I guess are the new normal. We went when it was snowy so it was pretty quiet. Service was quick and efficient. Big menu, there'll be something for everyone I think.

Tasty meal in the dining room which was seasonally decorated. The only criticism was that both the Victoria sponge cake I had and the chocolate flake cake consumed by companion were a bit dry. We enjoyed out steak and ale pie / fish, chips, mushy pea meals immensely. The mulled wine hit the spot on a wet, grey drizzly late afternoon. I probably would have spent more time looking in the giftshop and might have made a purchase if it had been a little warmer (I just wanted to get to a big cup of tea.) The ladies restroom was impeccably clean.

Beautiful food - amazing selection and delicious!!! The best greetings cards selection I have ever seen🤩🤩 worth the visit to stock up on years supply of gorgeous birthday cards. Lots of other lovely gifting ideas too🎁 books, clothing accessories etc. Fab all round🫶

Cafe serving hot and cold food, plenty of drinks choice too! Lots of seating and it's next to a little shop, would recommend it here, food served quickly and homemade fresh to order.

Bike hire is available and it's right by the Monsal trail. There is outside seating which is perfect if you are taking a break with a dog. There is also a lovely giftshop

Great place to begin many walks including Monsal Trail. Very good cafe. Nice clean facilities.

Great place to ride from or walk

Nice place to visit before or after tackling the Monsal trail. Relaxing cafe with nice selection of food

Would have got 5 stars but I had to send my winter vegetable soup back as it was cold 🥶

Cafe visit. Great food, good selection and good coffee. Friendly and helpful staff.

Great location for monsal trail, used for Bakewell to Chatsworth House circular. Plenty of seating and reasonable prices.