The Tea Room
Stillingfleet Lodge Garden Tea Room
Welcome to our Tea Room, located in a beautifully renovated barn beside the garden. It’s the perfect spot to relax with a drink and a slice of homemade cake while enjoying the peaceful surroundings.
Opening & Admission
The Tea Room is open at the same times as the garden, and you’re very welcome to visit without paying garden admission.
You can also browse our plant nursery for free during regular opening hours.
Food & Drink
We serve a delicious selection of homemade cakes and refreshing drinks, with gluten-free and vegan options available.
Where possible, we use locally sourced products, including ice cream, chocolate and chutneys.
Relax & Enjoy
Take a seat inside our lovely barn to admire the art exhibitions, flick through magazines and gardening books, or simply enjoy a cosy space to shelter in if it’s raining.
Useful Information
- Free entry to the Tea Room and nursery (garden admission applies only if visiting the garden).
- Stillingfleet Lodge Gift Vouchers cannot be used for café purchases.
- We are open afternoons only and therefore do not serve lunches.
- Picnic tables are available in the grass car park — please note that picnics are not permitted in the garden.
Local Lunch Suggestions
If you’d like to enjoy lunch nearby before your visit, we recommend:
- The Waterfront Café – York Marina, Naburn
- The Fat Abbot – Escrick
- The Drovers Arms – Skipwith
Sustainable Tea Room
.Our ethos of sustainability is just as important in the tea room as it is in the garden. Here are just some of the ways we ensure an environmentally friendly tea room:
- the coffee and tea is Fairtrade
- we recycle all the glass, paper and organic waste
- we aim for a low food miles policy with no quality compromise
- cakes for the tea room are made locally and the Yorvale Ice Cream is made on a farm just 8 miles away
- we sell locally sourced food products from companies such as Brackenhill Fine Foods at Elvington, Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil and The Choc Affair in the tea room and of course there is our own honey for sale too.
- we also sell a number of locally sourced gift items such as beeswax wraps from Starfish Living, gorgeous greetings cards and packets of seeds from our garden.
- we do not use plastic cups and have sufficient cups available to limit the dishwasher to one cycle at the end of the day
- tea bags and coffee granules are added to the compost heap.
Art in the Tea Room
Our tea-room is used throughout the summer as an exhibition space for local artists all of whom are inspired by animals and landscape. We host a different artist each month to give you another excuse to come and visit. You can read the full list here.
If you would like to buy one of the pictures from the exhibition please ask at the entrance hut to arrange payment.
We also use the tea room for some of the workshops and a welcome cup of coffee (or tea) and a biscuit is included in the cost of the workshops.
