When we planned our limited-edition gift box to accompany the new film The Railway Children Return, we knew we wanted a design filled with classic excitement and delicious adventure. Luckily, we knew just the person to create it.
How are Bettys' four varieties of ice cream made? What is the secret of their marvellous, majestic creaminess? Only one way to find out: we need to visit Archer’s Jersey Ice Cream in Richmond where their small team of craft chefs stir up desserts to die for. 
The phrase ‘afternoon tea’ comes replete with images of treasured rituals and traditional treats. Yet its real beauty is how you can make what was originally just a way to fill the hungry stretch between midday lunch and a late dinner into whatever most tempts your appetite.
If you’re busy, it can be a precious few moments in which to relax and reward yourself. Or if the afternoon is all yours, fill it with scones and sandwiches, good conversation and laughter, dainty fancies and endless refills from a steaming teapot. The only rule is to make it delicious.
Today is National Cream Tea Day, a day to celebrate the mouth-watering magic that happens when scones, jam, cream and tea come together. It’s the perfect excuse to enjoy an extra afternoon treat at home, or perhaps host a cream tea for your friends while raising money for charity. It’s no surprise that we’re fully behind a day dedicated to this most indulgent of treats, as Bettys has been a lover of cream teas – and all other types of afternoon tea – for decades.
Is your Dad difficult, even impossible to buy for? We’re here to surprise both you and him with the perfect Father’s Day gift. Because even the man who has everything will be thrilled to unwrap something from Bettys.
A much-loved story set among Yorkshire’s steam trains is about to add a new chapter – and with our limited-edition new treat collection joining the journey, it’s just the ticket.
With the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee nearly here, we thought we’d look at how Bettys marked royal occasions in days gone by and share a few treasures from our own archives…
You could say that every cup of tea bearing the Bettys name is worthy of the title Royal Tea. After all, it all comes from a distinguished family. Our teas are provided by Bettys’ sister company Taylors, whose experts have long travelled the world in search of the finest quality leaves to make up our exclusive blends.
It was learning the baker’s craft that first provided the young orphan Frederick Belmont with a way to escape his harsh upbringing in Switzerland more than a century ago. But it was confectionery – the creative yet demanding art of making and decorating cakes, biscuits and chocolates – that was to prove his real passion, taking him to France, then to England and the opening of the first Bettys café.
This is a summer like no other, with the sunshine and holidays joined by a very special occasion – the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. And while the focus is on honouring the Queen's 70 years' service on the British throne, you don't have to open Parliament, entertain world leaders at dinner or become an icon of coordinating hats, handbags and statement brooches to enjoy the celebrations. Whether you're throwing a street party with neighbours, having a garden gathering with family or just want to toast Her Majesty's reign over a majestic teatime spread, our new limited-edition Jubilee collection will add a royally delicious touch.
It may not yet be warm enough for alfresco dining, but you can bring the joy of spring indoors to your Easter celebrations with these styling suggestions from Bettys ‘Head of Beautiful’ Robyn Cox, the creative mind behind our Café Tea Room window displays. With these easy but eye-catching ideas inspired by the season’s flowers, leaf buds and new life, your Easter gatherings will look and feel more delicious than ever.
Writers from some of our favourite magazines and websites have been cracking open our Easter eggs and getting under the lids of our gift boxes and hampers. Read on to find out which of our treats made their lists of this year’s Easter essentials.
Mother’s Day is nearly here, and if you’re planning to spend precious time with Mum, you may be looking for ideas to make her day extra-special. Perhaps you already have flowers and a cake ready. So how about raising a toast to her with a delicious Bettys-inspired cocktail?
Robert Tomlinson’s family has been growing forced rhubarb on their Pudsey farm for over 100 years. Each year we devise a special menu that celebrates his uniquely Yorkshire crop. But why is Yorkshire forced rhubarb special?
With spring just around the corner, we’ve shaken our imagination awake from where it was curled up by the fireplace and set to work creating a host of new treats for Easter. 
Maybe it’s time to fall back in love with Valentine’s Day. Leave the grand romantic gestures to the films: who has enough vases to find room for a hundred red roses? Here at Bettys, we think of Valentine’s more as a day celebrating all kinds of love, a time to show kindness and understanding, whether that’s to your other half, beloved best friend, a special auntie or even yourself.
This year, we had the chance to see the lovely Fred Sirieix come face to face with our famous cake for the very first time, when baker extraordinaire and Bettys fan Nadiya Hussain brought him to visit us for tea.
In spring 2021 we made the difficult decision to close the first-floor café at our Little Bettys branch in York while keeping the ground floor shop open. In the autumn, with a heavy heart, we took the further decision to close the shop and with it the branch. 
It’s time to enjoy being together again – and with delicious food, jolly decorations and that all-important cake, a birthday provides the ideal excuse to make seeing your favourite people even more of an event. So we asked Bettys’ ‘Head of Beautiful’ Robyn Cox to work his styling magic and share some ideas for indoor and outdoor party spreads that look and taste as wonderful as the occasion deserves. 
Nadiya Hussain and Fred Sirieix visit Bettys as they tour the UK's most Remarkable Places to Eat. 
With spring in the air and new life all around, the natural world outside provides perfect inspiration for brightening up things indoors. As Bettys’ ‘Head of Beautiful’ and the magpie mind behind our lovely window displays, Robyn Cox has a wealth of crafty tips and styling suggestions up his sleeve. Now he’s turned his attention to beautifying your home with these easy but eye-catching Easter ideas.
Our Easter eggs have always had something of a sense of adventure. But these two go further than most. With their slim profiles, our Dark Chocolate Flat Egg With Glacé Orange and our new Milk Chocolate Flat Egg take the idea of a traditional egg and, well, flatten it.
