York Cafés
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Our York Cafe reviews are split into two simple categories, those cafes where you pay for your meal afterwards and York Cafes where you pay first. York has many kinds of cafes, and there's no way to tell if you're meant to pay first or afterwards without asking when you arrive.
Sometimes people prefer the quicker Pay First approach to cafes if they're in a rush and don't want to wait for a bill to arrive afterwards, while others are not in any particular rush and prefer to take their time in choosing from the cafe menu.
All York cafes are rated from one to five, one being utterly terrible and five being faultless.
When rating the cafes we use five criteria, and we hope you will consider the following when you rate the cafes yourselves: Price: how does the price compare to other York Cafes, bearing in mind the size of your meal and its quality; Decor: does the decor look stylish, not necessarily to your taste but is it well maintained and not falling to bits? Cleanliness: Is the cafe clean? Were your knives and forks clean, your plates and cups etc? Service: Were you well treated, were the staff friendly or were they apathetic misanthropes? Food: Was your food nice, well made and well presented. Could it have been better?
This nice little tearoom style cafe is just outside York city walls on Lord Mayor’s Walk, so it was a bit of a lucky discovery by one of our team.
Being more of a tearoom they do not serve large cooked meals, but are rather more focused on soup and sandwiches (which can be toasted) and tea and cakes, which they excel at.
The decor is light and airy, and in fact it has a summertime kind of feel inside so it’s quite a nice little place to go and brighten your mood in the dark winter months.
As well as being a cafe, Mr and Mrs Fisher is also a craft shop and craft workshop where one can join short courses to learn how to sew, crochet and knit etc – all useful and enjoyable skills that have been lost to a lot of people these days.
The staff/owners were all very pleasant and smiling, which is always nice to see.
The cost was slightly above average, however they do use locally sourced fresh ingredients and you won’t get the same cakes anywhere else.
18 Lord Mayor’s Walk, York, England, YO31 7HA – TEL: 01904 656566
