Success Leads To Extended Opening For Creamery Restaurant
Jul 22, 2011
The Wensleydale Creamery at Hawes, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, is responding to the success of its new-look Visitor Centre and extending the opening hours of its Calvert’s Restaurant into the evening.
For three nights a week, Thursday, Friday & Saturday, the restaurant will serve food, with last food orders being taken at 8.30pm. The restaurant previously closed at 3.30pm.
The restaurant, named Calvert’s after Kit Calvert, who saved the Wensleydale Creamery in the 1930s, has been given an extensive makeover with new furniture and fittings as part of an £800,000 makeover of the Visitor Centre. It offers a mouth watering menu with dishes featuring The Wensleydale Creamery’s range of famous cheeses.
As well as an interesting and tasty menu, which also caters for children, the restaurant boasts spectacular views of the Yorkshire Dales countryside with a large garden.
The Creamery’s Visitor Centre is already one of the largest tourist attractions in the Yorkshire Dales with more than 200,000 people a year coming through its doors. It is estimated the new-look Visitor Centre will attract an extra 50,000 visitors a year.
David Hartley, The Creamery’s Managing Director, said: “The Wensleydale Creamery is helping strengthen the sustainability of the Dales as a tourist.
“The new-look Visitor Centre has been a real success and Easter saw a record number of visitors.
“With the arrival of the summer holiday season and lighter nights we can build on this success and extend the opening hours of Calvert’s Restaurant to cater for people looking for an evening meal at the end of a day out in the Dales.”
