Wensleydale Creamery

My wife booked a Cheesy Festive afternoon tea , as a treat for me, we have been trying to go for ages, to have the regular afternoon cheesy tea. There is a factory tour as well but we didn't have time for that experience, free parking, unfortunately not dog friendly but I can understand that from a hygiene point of view. The festive tea was amazing, we also ordered a portion of deep fried Wensleydale with a dressed side salad, the festive tea included cheesy panko balls with Cranberries, Wensleydale and cranberries pigs in blankets with a tomato and chill chutney, beef bourguignon with a Wensleydale blue cheese crumble, pan fried new potatoes with caramelised onion and Njuda, mince pie with Wensleydale cheese and ginger parking with Wensleydale cheese, Yorkshire tea, full cheese experience, staff very friendly and welcoming, unfortunately not dog friendly

Great few hours visiting the site, free parking and everything clear and laid out well. The cheese experience was very interesting and made entertaining from the guide too. Love the fact you get unlimited samples in the main centre…the restaurant was fantastic and well priced! (Make sure you book the experience and restaurant in advance). Great visit!

Wensleydale creamery visitors centre and Calverts Restaurant is in Hawes, in literally the heart/ middle of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. The staff had spot on customer service/ hospitality. In shop, cheese shop and the restaurant. They have a small visiter car park,but the is a large car park 150 yds down the road, which is a pay car park. The Wensleydale creamery experience you need to buy tickets for online. In Calverts restaurant, we were lucky to get a table, many people turned away and had to book. For 2 meal,a side & 2 drinks cost £36. The meal was delicious 😋. I will post pictures. The cheese shop was very busyand wasnice to taste other cheeses. 🧀 😋 Will show also in pictures as well as the gift shop. The gift shop was like going in a candy shop as there was loads of items to buy and gifts. Some items was expensive but others not so bad. Ice-cream cost £3.50 each. I totally recommend. Wheelchair friendly and has blue badge parking.

Loved the Cheese Experience which was fun and informative. The shop and cheese room is full of delights to buy. However the restaurant really let it down. Overpriced for the quality received, tables available but told full initially and there seemed to be chaos amongst younger staff working out table spaces at front of restaurant yet ignoring those waiting to be seated or to find out if there is space. Restaurant was really completely disappointing.

It certainly looked like fun when reading about it online. But when we visited on Sept 27, the place was absolutely packed. There was no parking in the visitor lot, so we needed to use the Pay & Display lot located down the street. I had hoped for a lovely cheese type tea in the restaurant, but had not realized that booking was necessary. I would have had to wait an hour, and I wasn't willing to do that with so many people crowding around. We opted to go to the "fast food" counter and order cheese scones, each of which came with a walloping amount of butter. I ordered the cappuccino to go with it. I felt a bit like splurging. The scones were OK. I wouldn't say they were outstanding. So, overall, I'd say my experience was disappointing, and I'm one who usually gets excited by simple things!

Took the tour last year, was amazing. This year, was back for more cheese (after free samples in the tasting room!) Both times had a lovely meal in their Calvert's resturant. Totally recommend.

This was great fun. We didn't book in advance but it turns out that we didn't need to. The demonstration how to make Wensleydale cheese was very informative (And we used a 2 for 1 offer), full of information on the surrounding area and the instructor/demonstrator was a very likable gent. When we finished, we did have a booking in the restaurant and went for the tea for two which was a full on cheese overload! The staff did forget our drinks order so the wife had to go and reminded them, but apart from that the service was OK. It was a nice and relaxed atmosphere and reasonably priced for this day and age :-). The shop was chock full of nice gifts and I couldn't resist a new water bottle (Have you seen this chicken? IYKYK). The cheese shop was brilliant, being able to test all the cheeses before making a purchase. The surrounding area is beautiful and the drive to and from was a pleasure.

We visited the Creamery during Twixmas whilst visiting Hawes to see in laws. It's a great way to spend a couple of hours! We took part in the cheese experience and the host, Tim, really made it. He was friendly, engaging, funny and it was clear he was passionate about and enjoyed his job. He got members of the group involved and included the kids amongst the group and gave us plenty of laughs along the way. The various cheese samples afterwards were also generous and a good way to try something different. As we visited during school holidays the 12 year old was free, so for a grand total of just over £10 it was a great spend the morning. Seeing the knitted Wallace & Gromit figures and the photo ops is great for any W&G fans. We stopped for a coffee in the cafe afterwards; it wasn't the best coffee I've had but was reasonably priced in a nice setting. The on site cheese store and gift shop were really well laid out with various bits and bobs to purchase as well as a good selection of cheeses and other food items in store. Overall, it was a grand way to spend a few hours.

As a cheese lover, this was something of a pilgrimage for me, one of my most anticipated stops of my trip to the UK. The sample room offered up 20 samples of divine cheese; pure bliss for me. We then went to the Kit Calvert restaurant for lunch. It was crowded and service was a bit slow and disconnected, such as we had no salt and pepper on our table and were ever asked about drink refills. The food, however, was amazing. I went with the full Cheese Experience (3 courses) while my husband had two. We went with two different cheesy starters, both delectable. I had the chicken with smoked cheese. The breast was perfectly cooked in a lake of cheese sauce, with the rosti beneath it (like a thin hashbrown) added a nice crunch. For my dessert course, we shared the ginger cheesecake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Neither of us are cheesecake people but we declared this the best we have ever had. It wasn't as sweet as American cheesecakes, and had a pleasant cragginess with ginger warmth as a complement. The ice cream was also better than what you find most anywhere in America--fresh and creamy. What a glorious meal!

Touring England with family, a 10 minutes drive from the Stow House, where we stayed the night, is this great little creamery rich in history. Cafe, gift shop, toilets, and lots of parking. I recommend Wensleydale Smoked Cheddar or the pineapple :)

This is a great place to stop in. You can sample all the cheeses! The cafe and restaurant features their cheese and butter prominently and for a few pounds extra you can walk through their visitor's center and watch the cheese being made and get a cheese making demonstration. Everyone is friendly and informative and I learned a lot about their cheese history. It was a great time and a beautiful part of the country. I will definitely visit again next time I am in the UK.

Cheese heaven. That's the only way to describe this. I'm talking mainly about the cheese room, not even about the creamery itself and the museum-y bits of it. You know how when you're from an area, you never do the touristy things? For that reason I have not in my adult life been to see the cheese being made. However I have bought cheese and this is the place to be. You can sample and buy pretty much every incarnation of Wensleydale cheese and a number of other varieties, at pretty reasonable prices. My recommendations would be the smoked, blue, and with cranberries. They also do a Bishopdale cheddar which I hear tell is not sold anywhere else. If you want something a bit different I say get the salted caramel Wensleydale. It shouldn't work, but god damn it does. There is also a café serving nice cakes, teas, soft drinks etc, and an intriguing Wensleydale cheesecake which both tempts and disgusts me. There's also a restaurant which is supposed to be very good, and a gift shop selling lovely overpriced tat.

Unlimited free cheese samples of about 20 different cheeses! Got your attention now, don't I. The cheese samples were fab, had Wensleydale cheese with all manner of added extras...cranberry, apricot, onion and chive, strawberries, chilli. As well as normal Wensleydale in all different varieties. You can buy all different sizes of cheese which I quite liked as places like this can sometimes rip you off and make you buy massive bits. There is as wee gift shop selling lots of Yorkshire inspired merchandise and a cafe too. But the cheese is the star attraction.

This is well worth a visit if you are in the area. There is a small museum which explains the history of cheese making and has an old farmhouse kitchen to look around. There is a little Wallace & Gromit themed children's area with little tables and chairs and plenty of colouring in materials to keep the little ones amused. Of course Wallace & Gromit is playing on a screen too. There is also a new visitor centre with lots of cheesy facts and some excellent interactive installations to interest the kids. This area is still under development, so in the future I expect this area will be even better with windows to view the cheese making and butter making processes. Next there is a cafe/deli and gift shop. There is a cheese shop where you can sample a huge variety of Wensleydale cheeses before you buy! The cafe is a bright open space with a lovely outdoor seating area overlooking the beautiful Yorkshire Dales. There is a great selection of lunches and refreshments to choose from. We had the Yorkshire Wensleydale Ploughman's Deli Board which was delicious and the little ones shared some delicious soup and a Gromit Lunch Bag. This was an inexpensive place to visit with something to interest kids and adults alike.

Great products and fantastic customer service here at Wensleydale. We happened upon this cheese one day while grocery shopping near our home in upstate New York. I'll admit that we initially tried it because of the picture of Wallace and Gromit on the package. How could we resist? But we came back for more because it's some damn tasty cheese. We like to eat it with slices of green apple - yum! But sadly, our local grocer stopped carrying it, so we searched high and low for another merchant who offered this delicious cheese. Unfortunately, it was nowhere to be found. So, as a gift I ordered the Husband a bunch of his favorite Wensleydale direct from the source via their website. It took nearly three weeks to arrive, but it was worth every penny. After 10 days passed (their estimated delivery time to the US) I contacted Wensleydale because the cheese hadn't arrived yet, and they offered to send the order again. I told them to hold off, hoping the first shipment was just a little delayed. It arrived about a week later, and we've been in cheesy heaven ever since!

Unfortunately we had only time to take a short look at the shop. It contains a usual tourist presents: sheepish sourvenirs, shortbread, tea etc. But the real thing is in the little cold room on the left side. There they present their cheese variations. Little pieces to try and forget every praise of french cheese! Marvelous, fruity sorts and very tasty. Sadly very few opportuneties to get this cheese here on the continent.

Awesome selection of cheese. I am not very knowledgeable about cheese but I am sure they definitely have one that suit your taste. You can buy the whole roll of cheese or in wedges wrapped up nicely. I bought the red onion infused cheese and it was so flavourful. In hindsight, I should have bought the smoked cheddar as well. I arrived on a gloomy day after failing to hike to nearby waterfall because it started hailing like mad while I was halfway across a field. Thankfully this creamery was nearby or else I would have gotten hypothermia. Unfortunately, I arrived too late to join in the tour so I still have no idea how cheese is made. Nonetheless, the wide selection of cheese and the coffee in the restaurant cheered me up greatly.

While on a road trip, we randomly decided to stop in Hawes for the night and were surprised to see the great number of adverts featuring Wallace and Gromit. The next morning at breakfast, our host informed us of the Wensleydale Cheese place just up the road. Well, we had to try that! And what great fun! The best part of the tour is the sample room. The smoked Cheddar was out of this world amazing. And what a beautiful setting, too, right in the Dales. Great stop on our road trip!

Free wi-fi and ample tastes of their cheeses! Touristy with busses but worth the stop in.