First Afternoon Tea of 2026 was for a special birthday 🎂 🥳

Chef Chris served up a delicate and delicious mix of finger sandwiches, warm scones with clotted cream and jam and a mix of mini sweet treats! All enjoyed with the customers choice of speciality tea!

A perfect way to celebrate.

If you have a special occasion coming up and would love enjoy one of our Afternoon Teas, check out the website for more information and a sample menu of what is included

www.coolrivercafe.co.uk

You can call us on 01629 580467 or pop in to make your reservation

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First Private Chef booking of the year!

Last night, Cool River headed to the beautiful Sydnope Hill Farm to cater for a surprise 30th Birthday for Daniel!

The group were spending a weekend celebrating in Matlock and this private dinner was just one of the things they had planned.

The 3 course meal consisted of starters of Buffalo Ranch Chicken Wings, Camembert with toasted foccacia and sweet chilli jam.

Mains were either Breast of Lamb with Potato Fondant and mint sauce or Chicken Supreme with Pomme Anna and thyme sauce, served with honey roasted carrots and savoy cabbage.

Desserts were Apple and Blackberry Crumble Tart and Creme Anglaise or Sticky Toffee Pudding, with homemade Vanilla Ice cream and Butterscotch Sauce!

Here is a snapshot of the evening and the food that was prepared by Chef Chris.

Really pleased you all enjoyed the night. Enjoy the rest of your time here and we hope Daniel enjoys the rest of his birthday celebrations!

For anyone interested in having a Private Chef experience, head to www.coolrivercafe.co.uk for more information and sample menus to explore what we have to offer!

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Back from holiday and Chef Chris is back in the swing of baking some of the delicious sweet treats you all know and love us for!

Just added the finishing touches to this BISCOFF S'MORES

A biscoff biscuit base, with a chocolate fudge brownie and topped with a perfectly torched Italian meringue. Finished off with drizzles of chocolate and biscoff spread! 🤤🤤🤤

This is definitely one of Chef Chris's favourites 😍

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WE ARE OPEN!!!

After a much needed holiday, all staff are back and Cool River is OPEN!!!!

Serving our ALL DAY BREAKFAST AND LUNCH MENU 😋 😍

Plenty of sweet treats aswell!

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Customer Notice...

We just wanted to remind all our lovely customers that the cafe is closed for staff holidays and will reopen Saturday 24th January at 9.30am.

Any messages/voicemail or emails sent will be responded to soon as we are back.

Thank you so much for all your support 🥰

We look forward to seeing you all when we are back! 🛫

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Cool River is OPEN today and we have plenty of hot drinks, homemade soup and our ALL DAY BREAKFAST AND LUNCH MENU is available.

If you do venture out, keep safe and take it easy as some paths are rather icy ❄️

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Due to the stormy weather overnight, Cool River Cafe will remain closed today.

We will plan to reopen tomorrow as normal.

Thanks for your understanding.

Stay safe and warm.

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We hope everyone had a lovely Christmas Day and Boxing day, Celebrating in your own special ways!

Cool River is open this weekend, for you all to get your Cool River fix.

Bookings are accepted so call us on 01629 580467 to make your reservation.

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As of next week, these are our opening times!

*Please note, we will be closing earlier than normal on Christmas Eve*

We do anticipate being very busy, so would recommend booking a table if you were planning to join us at all over the next couple weeks.

Just call us on 01629 580467, email us at events@coolrivercafe.co.uk or pop in and a staff member will happily sort the reservation for you. We do kindly ask for a deposit on large tables.

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