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Yarde Cafe
 Yarde Cafe was converted in 2002 (from a former chicken shack) supported by a small grant from the Department for Transport's "Cycling Projects Fund" Located at the highest point on the Tarka Trail, the cafe offers fairtrade teas and coffees, organic soft drinks, home-made cakes and pies, healthy and/or fairtrade snacks, local ice-cream, filled rolls, salads, home-made pizza, and a couple of specials made on the premises. We have a licensed bar offering local real ales, farmhouse cider and a selection of affordable wines. The Cyclist's Breakfast combines local and organic ingredients including free-range organic eggs from 4 miles away, real bacon from the Cornish Bacon Company, local butcher's sausages and organic baked beans.
Seating is available for 30 in the cafe with outside tables on the terrace or in the orchard. The emphasis is on local and seasonal food, with some organic ingredients. Opening times: The cafe is normally open everyday 10.30am to 5.00pm during May, June, July, August and September bank holiday weekends and during half term weeks. Outside the summer season, the cafe is open on Saturdays and Sundays 10.30am to 4.00pm - and on some weekdays, weather permitting ( Please phone or e-mail for confirmation of opening times out of season). Open any time for private bookings (breakfasts, lunches, suppers, parties, small conferences and meetings) To make a booking for a private event please call us on 01805 601778.
Our suppliers include: Essential Trading - the Bristol based ethical co-operative supplying a range of mainly organic ingredients including fairtrade coffee beans, chocolate bars and geobars. Local Meat We have an excellent butcher in Torrington (Alan Holly at Farm Fresh Produce) who sources all his meat from Devon farms and makes excellent big meaty sausages.
Just up the road is Hallwood Farm who produce glorious lamb, beef and pork which we offer as Sunday roasts when available (booking required) They also provide great veg boxes containing a wide range of seasonal fresh veg and salads. Dunstaple Farm Ice cream - real farm ice-cream made from double and clotted cream (8 miles away) Salad crops and vegetables in season -
Some are organically grown on our own smallholding at St Giles-in-the-Wood (5 miles away)
The Jolly Gardner provides us with some very local salads (about a ¼ mile up the road) as well as delicious jams and chutneys - available in the cafe and to take away by the jar. Other fresh fruit and vegetables are supplied by the Stacey family at Xanadu in Torringto Local Ales The Forge Brewery in nearby Hartland produces a lovely range of cask conditioned real ales ranging from the richly flavoured IPA to the light summery Hartland Blonde and the award-winning Litehouse. |
