Welcome to Bettys

When Bettys opened its doors for the first time in 1919 it was just as our founder, Frederick Belmont, had visualised – customers were greeted by a tempting array of delicious Yorkshire and Continental confections in the shop, and an elegant Café Tea Room served teas and meals in the traditional English style. It was an immediate success.

Over eighty years later and we welcome more than one million customers a year to Bettys. We’re still a family business and continue to stay true to Frederick’s founding principles that everything should be ‘fresh and dainty' and that ‘if we want things just right we have to do them ourselves’.

There are six Bettys Café Tea Rooms to explore: the spa town of Harrogate has two branches (one in the town centre and a second at the RHS garden at Harlow Carr) as does York (Little Bettys is just around the corner in Stonegate), and you’ll also find Bettys in the market towns of Northallerton and Ilkley.

Using traditional skills, handed down through the generations, our range of cakes, breads, biscuits and chocolates are made at our own Craft Bakery in Harrogate, and our extensive range of teas and coffees are selected by our sister company, Taylors of Harrogate. We hope you enjoy your visit to our site… and that you’ll be tempted to come and visit us soon. Of course, if you’re not visiting Yorkshire you can still enjoy a taste of Bettys thanks to our mail order service, Bettys by Post.

What better place to take Afternoon Tea than upstairs in the splendid surroundings of the Imperial Room at Bettys Harrogate? Learn more...