Calvert's Restaurant — Restaurant in England

I've been wanting to go here for years because I love cheese just as much as the next person. We travelled over an hour to get there and pre booked our table during the week for Sunday.

It didn't start well, the lady couldn't find our reservation and made us feel like she was annoyed at us, another server had to come over and find it, we got seated with out backs to the rest of the restaurant, didn't get told about any specials, had to ask for clean cutlery and didn't get an apology for it being dirty in the first place. We ordered our food and drinks, our food came and then they decided to go make the blackcurrant squash my partner ordered but they only brought a half pint out rather than the pint he asked for. I was about 3/4 the through my meal when my coffee finally arrived, again with no apology for it being so late. I ordered the sausage and mash and it was a bit bland, nothing really special about it, however my partner did enjoy his Sunday roast. We had barely put our knives and forks down before they were taking the dishes away whilst asking if we were finished. We were asked if we wanted anything else but we could barely finish answering before the server said, just the bill then. The bill came much faster than our drinks however it was wrong, so had to get that corrected.

From walking in the door of the restaurant to walking out was less than 40 mins, we felt rushed and like we were interrupting their day and being an inconvenience by being paying customers. If you're travelling to visit the cheese factory, I'd recommend going into Hawes to find something to eat and avoiding Calverts restaurant...

This is a strange cafe. I ordered cheese on toast and it came on the cheapest, most basic supermarket / mother's pride style bread. OK fine, but it really wasn't cheap. Next I ordered the soup - It came with slightly better bread but a tiny, miniscule, stingy slice (I'm refraining from any jokes about people from Yorkshire being tight). As for the soup itself, it was inedible. This was by far the most salty broth I've ever encountered in my entire life. I don't even know what it was supposed to be - it just tasted like sipping on hot seawater. Had the chef oversalted, or actually just dropped a tub of salt in pot and though 'eh well'? Maybe that's how it's supposed to be and they just live with high blood pressure. Who knows. Carrot Cake was decent, but I walked away hungry, £20 worse off.

Oh, nearly forgot the best bit. WASPS EVERYWHERE! Dirty plates had accumulated on many of the tables. Wasps had swarmed over to feast on the leftover jam. At one point I observed a young staff member walk over to collect some of the dishes and upon noticing the swarm, she did a 180 and noped out of there. It'd be pretty funny if it wasn't for that that I and several other customers weren't dodging the swarm (which had by now turned it's attention to my...

Second time in Calvert’s, and will be the last! Cavernous empty room, dotted with tables, breakfast menu woefully dire, if you like pork no problem, if however you don’t eat it, its a problem. Breakfast menu consists of baps, with combos of egg sausage bacon, no veggie sausages, only an egg bap as veggie choice ,although they did offer me cheese on toast, which strangely is only served from 11 onwards, ( it was 10.45 so I just scraped in) husbands sausage bacon and egg bap wasn’t a bap, filling arrived between two soggy slices of cheap thin white bread ( run out of baps) making it virtually impossible for hubby to pick up his breakfast sandwich as contents tore through bread. My decaf coffee was very good, but poor husbands earl grey tea tasted of hot water, even after stewing. Service friendly and prompt, but Calvert’s reminds me of a works canteen, friends and family of kitchen staff, popping in and out, friendly place, but felt as if we were a bit of an inconvenience, won’t be returning to Calvert’s, but will continue to use creamery cafe next door, ( which now only serves sandwiches and cold food) as have never been...