Cheristow Tea Room

Tea Guild Award of Excellence

Cheristow Tea Rooms

Morning coffee, light lunches and afternoon teas are served daily from 1 March to 31 October.

The tea room is open from 11am to 6pm.

Lunch is served between 12 and 2.30pm,

Light snacks (local pasties and home made soups), teas, coffees and homemade cakes served from 2.30pm until 6pm.

The menu changes about 3 times a year, with hot homemade meals e.g. beef and ale pies, and burgers made with homereared beef being available in the Spring and Autumn months.
Homemade puddings are also available during the Spring and Autumn.

(Our small kitchen makes it impossibe to do our specials during the very busy summer season).

Tea and cakes at Cheristow

The Jinks and Dodds families enjoying a well earned Cream Tea, Cheristow Hot Chocolates, and home made cakes after walking 2 miles in the rain to visit us.

Cheristow Lavender Tea Room Menu

Where do we source our food from

Cheristow home grown, locally and regionally sourced food

Our tearoom reflects our commitment to serving locally sourced products, and has a strong emphasis on our lavender theme.

In this difficult climate we have had to strike a balance between providing quality local and regional produce and price acceptable to you, the customer. We grow as much of our own produce as possible, as well as support other local and regional suppliers.

All the cakes, scones, preserves and chutneys used in the tea room are made on the premises. We grow our own soft fruits, salads and vegetables which are reflected in our menu, thereby reducing air miles and increasing traceability. Our fruit and vegetables are grown as organically as possible. We compost all our kitchen waste, and buy green compost from Ecosci to use as organic mulch as it is full of nutrients, and environmentally friendly.

We rear our own Devon Ruby Red beef, which is made into burgers by Honey’s butcher in Parkham (a few miles away); and also rear our own lamb. (Meat and lamb only available in the Spring and Autumn.) We get our chicken from Honey’s who source it from Kelly’s of Copplestone. We keep free range chickens who provide us with lovely fresh eggs which are used in our homemade cakes and also our homemade lemon and lavender curd.

Parkham Farm (a few miles away) supplies us with deliciously rich mature cheddar cheese. Henaford Farm in Welcome (a few miles away) makes us Lavender Ice Cream using a special lavender extract that we developed together. From the outset we also supplied Devon Spring water from Torrington, and Devon apple juice from Westlake Orchards in Beaworthy.

Rodda’s from Cornwall deliver us their lovely clotted cream and this year have started to supply us with their own milk. If you try our special Sunday afternoon Tea, you will be treated to Scottish salmon, smoked by Tregida near Launceston.

We use Kittos of Plymouth supply premium ham from free range pigs, and West Country sliced ham from Camelot Fayre in Somerset.

Our dry cure bacon is sourced from Complete Meats in Axminister. It comes from free range pigs from farms within a 30 mile radius of Axminister.

And of course, we use Wyke’s butter from Somerset because they have purple wrappers!

This year we have changed our catering supplier and now buy our catering supplies from J&R foodservice and Ilfracombe foodservice – both of whom try to help us source local produce.

Gluten free, dairy free and vegan diets

We try to cater for people with varying dietary requirements whether it be an allergy to peppers, an intolerance to cucumbers, or allergies to wheat, gluten, dairy and soya.

Please ring at least the day before if you have any special dietary requirements. Michelle can make cakes and scones to satisfy most customers, but may not have in stock the ingredients to meet your needs. We usually have at least one gluten and dairy free cake on display, but cakes for vegans need to be made to order.

Our home made soups are suitable for vegans, and are gluten and dairy free. We can bake bread suitable for vegans given two days notice.

Tea Room Awards

19 April 2010 - We are delighted to announce that we have received The Tea Guild's Award of Excellence for 2010 -one of only three tea rooms in North Devon to have been awarded this accolade.

18 OCTOBER 2009 - We are delighted that Betty won the North Devon Super Service award for her front of house services to our customers. She works so hard to make everyone so welcome, and with her pleasant and professional manner runs the tea room with such enthusiasm.

24 AUGUST 2009 - WE HAVE JUST ACHIEVED A BRONZE AWARD FOR OUR LAVENDER SCONES, AND A SILVER FOR OUR BLACKBERRY AND LAVENDER CONSERVE (BOTH AWARDS FROM TASTE OF THE WEST)

STOP PRESS 15 JULY 2009 - WE HAVE JUST ACHIEVED A GOLD AWARD FROM THE GREAT TASTE AWARDS FOR OUR CHOCOLATE AND LAVENDER BROWNIES.