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Making life lovelier since 1919.

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Bettys
3 years
We’re sorry if you’re having trouble getting on our website. It seems like the entire population of the UK would like to buy some Fat Rascals. Bear with us - we’re switching it off and back on again.
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5 years
Exactly 100 years ago today a young Swiss called Frederick Belmont opened a little café in Harrogate. He furnished it beautifully, filled it with treats & hoped people would like it. Thank you, Frederick, for having a dream. Thank you, all of you, for liking Bettys. #Bettys100
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Bettys - making January a little brighter since 1919. 📷 by @DaveZ_uk
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7 years
Christmas at Bettys isn't just delicious - it's a little magical too. Step inside the Enchanted Forest #BeEnchanted
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10 months
Happy Yorkshire Day!
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3 years
This completely delightful napkin artwork was left for our staff by a very lovely customer.
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5 years
We wanted our windows to celebrate 100 years of Christmas magic, so we set our cake decorators their biggest challenge yet - to recreate the whole of Bettys! Shop our Christmas collection and order online for delivery to your door: #100Christmases
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3 years
Tune in to Remarkable Places to Eat tonight on BBC Two when @BegumNadiya and @fredsirieix1 will be visiting Bettys as part of a food tour of our beloved Yorkshire. Tue 30 Mar @BBCTwo 8pm.
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6 years
Everything at Bettys is crafted with love, care and skill. That's what makes our eggs the most beautiful gift you can give this Easter. Shop our Easter collection: #BeautifulEggs
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3 years
We're happy to say that having spoken to it gently and pushed a few fondant fancies into the USB port, our website is now live again. Head to to order your Fat Rascal and Fondant Fancy fix.
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6 years
@emyarbs @StopFundingHate Hi Emily, we're reviewing the websites on which our adverts display to ensure that we don't appear alongside any content that is not consistent with the things we stand for.
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3 years
If you’re watching @BegumNadiya and @fredsirieix1 tucking into Fat Rascals on BBC Two we have some good news: we deliver:
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3 years
Happy Yorkshire Day!
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4 years
We've been looking forward to telling you this: we're reopening our shops soon! Dates for your diary: Mon 22 Jun: Harrogate & Northallerton Mon 29 Jun: Ilkley, Harlow Carr (inc Tea House) & York St Helen's Square Mon 6 Jul: York Stonegate (Our cafés remain closed for now.)
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5 years
What do cycling world champions do after collecting their medals? Like all sensible folk, their priority is a spot of tea and cake. Congratulations Rohan Dennis, @QuinnSimmons9 and @MagnusSheffield - and thanks for popping by. @Yorkshire2019 #Yorkshire19
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This weekend, for the first time in our 100-year history, you can order and collect a takeaway afternoon tea from Bettys! With freshly made cakes and sandwiches, and a scone with jam and clotted cream, it’s a perfectly pretty and delightfully delicious take-home treat. 1/3
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4 years
Today we reopened our Harrogate & Northallerton shops! It's so good to be back - it's been awful having to eat all these vanilla slices ourselves. Things are a little different to normal, of course, and it will probably take longer to shop. But it's all part of keeping you safe.
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3 years
In celebration of #YorkshireDay , here's a Flat Rascal.
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5 years
Thank you to all those who joined us for our big Christmas window reveal in Harrogate this evening. And if you missed it, don't worry - Christmas has landed in all six of our branches, so pop along any time to get your festivities off to a magical start. #100Christmases
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We really must apologise for not creating Black Forest Trifle until 2023. Can you ever forgive us?‌
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4 years
It's OK - today doesn't really exist. Eat as much chocolate as you like.
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4 years
She said yes! All the very best of our wishes to newly-engaged Tom and Jess - and thank you to Tom's mum June for sharing the photo with us.
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5 years
Terribly excited to hear @philtufnell , @Aggerscricket and the @bbctms team discussing the Fat Rascal. We'll arrange a fresh delivery for you all for the Headingley test.
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2 years
@jayrayner1 Commit to the fondant fancies and you have our full support!
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3 years
You may have spotted us on @BBCTwo this afternoon. If you'd like to try some Bettys treats, the good news is that we can deliver our Fat Rascals (and much more) to your door:
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16 days
There's no way to improve a vanilla slice. Unless... Meet the Chocolate Vanilla Slice! A scrumptious new creation by Aizlynn Johnston from our confectionery team. (It's only available in our shops, and just for the next month or so).
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3 years
We wanted to say thank you. Thank you to everybody who bought a Bettys treat online this year. Thank you to everybody who joined us in our branches. And thank you so much to all our staff, for being amazing in the year everything kept changing. Here's to a brighter 2021!
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5 years
We always thought that a Fat Rascal would be perfect race preparation. Now we've had it confirmed! A pleasure to welcome cycling superstar @AvVleuten - along with her mother and uncle - to Bettys. @Yorkshire2019 #Yorkshire2019
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We've just turned 100! There's all sorts of fun planned for our Centenary year - and because it's us, that includes some lovely new things to eat and drink. Come along and start exploring. #Bettys100
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10 years
If this doesn’t bring Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry to their senses, nothing will. #JusticeForIain #GBBO http://t.co/DkbQmyui1N
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3 years
Happy Halloween!
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8 years
Fuelled by Fat Rascals they work through the night, To bring you this window, of wonder and delight.
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6 years
Snow has the curious effect of making Bettys Stonegate look even more like something from Dickens. #York
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5 years
This is a public service announcement: you are now officially allowed to eat hot cross buns.
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5 years
Bettys York in the 1970s - and one of the final sightings of our apostrophe. We think of it sometimes, looking down at us from Grammar Heaven with a mild frown. #Bettys100
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3 years
'Tis the season!
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7 years
Happy #YorkshireDay ! To celebrate, here are the secrets of perfect Yorkshire pudding, with @lisabwitched . Recipe:
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5 years
We're closing a little early this Friday. It’s a very special occasion for us - we’re having a party for our staff to celebrate our centenary at a secret location in Yorkshire. We're very sorry for any inconvenience. Harrogate & Harlow Carr: 4pm All other branches: 3.30pm
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3 years
2020 has been topsy turvy - but the world kept on turning and the seasons changed as they always do. We changed our windows right along with them.
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8 years
#HappyBirthdayYourMajesty . We baked these for you.
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5 years
Lonely Planet has named England the second best country to visit in 2020 and picked out Fat Rascals at Bettys as a must-do experience. Better pop a few more in the oven...
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4 years
Update! We’ve been so busy that we can no longer deliver before Easter. However, we’re restocking and we can deliver treats, including Easter eggs, after 15th April. The world is so topsy turvy at the moment that eating Easter eggs for the whole of April feels entirely acceptable
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3 years
Our hearts are melting.
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3 years
From Monday, July 19, we'll be continuing our efforts to keep our colleagues and customers safe. Our serving staff will still be wearing masks - and we'll be encouraging customers to socially distance and wear masks when not seated at a table.
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5 years
In our branch windows this season, you’ll spy the Bettys Express - a celebration of our founder’s train ride from Switzerland to Yorkshire over a century ago. We hope it brings a little magic to your own Christmas journey. Stop off at our Christmas range:
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8 years
There's something magical happening in our window… Win a £500 Swiss Alpine Village as featured in the film:
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5 years
From tomorrow until Sunday the world’s best cyclists will be racing around the hills, dales and moors of our beautiful county on @letouryorkshire , and to celebrate we’ve made this Butter Biscuit Bear in the race leader's jersey. Available exclusively in our six shops. #TDY
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You know what they say about Fondant Fancies - 16 are better than one! Shop online:
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3 years
*Starts brushing up on general knowledge*
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Very excited to be heading to Harrogate this weekend, both for the @HarrogateFest crime festival, and to hopefully score a world-class cream tea at @Bettys
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10 years
The Harrogate finish line from above our Cafe Tea Room. @letouryorkshire #tdf http://t.co/btYhE5KK5f
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4 years
Happy Halloween!
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3 years
We have some sad news to share. We're going to be saying farewell to our café at Bettys Stonegate – though the shop will be staying. You'll probably want to know why, so we've written this to explain:
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2 years
Happy Easter!
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7 years
Welcome to our Christmas windows. We hope you like them. We hope they make you smile. We hope you'll be enchanted. #BeEnchanted
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Who's up for something frivolous? You can’t come to our tea rooms right now, but our tea rooms have come to you in the shape of takeaway afternoon tea & mail order treats. Share your #BettysAtHome photos - it will brighten our day, and maybe other people's too.
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5 years
Happy Easter! Today you may eat as much chocolate as your heart desires - and if anybody suggests otherwise, tell them we said so.
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6 years
Happiness: a portrait. 📷
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2 years
On behalf of everybody at Bettys, and especially our Harlow Carr team, thank you so much to the lovely customer who presented us with this plaque. Your kind gift - and the words engraved upon it - mean a great deal to all of us.
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3 years
It's Bettys in miniature! This tiny version of the Harrogate branch is part of @BidHarrogate 's Lego Trail, which features ten mini-models displayed around the town. Thank you to @fairybricks for building it (it took 60 hours!) and to @Silverginger for the photos.
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We're very, very excited about #Yorkshire2019 . If your friends are visiting, please do encourage them to pop in and see us. We'll be sure to give them a warm Yorkshire welcome.
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The Grande Raspberry Macaroon. It's like a normal macaroon, but bigger. And raspberrier.
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It's the end of an era for two Harrogate legends today - the last @strayfm radio show by @NickHancock and @willsmithyorks . Thanks Nick and Will. We’ll miss your jolly voices on the radio and want to say thank you for being so lovely. You’ll always be friends of Bettys.
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This cheeky fellow seems to have ideas above his station. Just goes to show what happens when we don't lock the biscuit cupboard. Enjoy tomorrow's ceremony, everybody!
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3 years
Not long to go now, Santa!
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6 years
We've moved from plastic to paper straws. They're sustainably sourced and compostable too - so every slurp of our heavenly milkshake now comes with a free halo. 📷
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3 years
Hunting for crumbs. (Thanks to Jasmine and her dog, Fox, for the photo)
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8 years
A photo from our Royal visit yesterday - The Prince of Wales tries his hand at piping Easter eggs! @ClarenceHouse
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4 years
Meet our Chocolate Teapot! This special gift includes Afternoon Tea for 2 - and 1 lucky winner will find a golden ticket inside for a chocolate course at our Cookery School. They're only available in our branches & we've only made 28, so please do pop in soon if you'd like one.
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8 years
The blinds are down at Bettys Harrogate & elven shadows keep appearing. Could this be the magical night that Christmas windows are created?
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3 years
We'd just like to thank you for all the lovely, supportive replies about our shop closure. The saddest thing about all this is we won't see you for a while. If you need a spot of deliciousness to raise your spirits we're still open online for home delivery
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We have a TV cameo tonight! If you tune into All Creatures Great and Small on @channel5_tv at 9pm, you'll spot a Bettys van delivering Yorkshire curd tarts. (Eagle-eyed viewers may also spot our long-missing apostrophe, which was still with us in the 1930s). @AllCreaturesTV
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The blinds are down at Bettys. It can only mean one thing. The windows Elves are here - our Christmas windows are coming! #BeEnchanted
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Treats on the train. 📷 @andrewdunning
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Game, set and mac! Our Tennis Ball Macaroons have returned. Find them in our branch shops until around July 15th. Not available online.
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1 year
This Easter pop to Bettys for treats that will most definitely take your fancy.
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5 years
The Christmas season is about to begin at Bettys! And as it's our Centenary Christmas, there's something rather special behind those blinds...
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6 years
We can’t help noticing that the route planners have managed to take in all six of our Tea Rooms. We’d better bake some extra Fat Rascals.
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9 days of World Class racing are coming to Yorkshire in September 2019 as the UCI Road World Championships & Para-Cycling Road Races (C1 Event) come to town. Here's the all important routes that will decide who will don those iconic rainbow bands. #Yorkshire2019 .
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If your sign isn't a giant teapot, why even own a shop? 📷
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5 years
We're celebrating our 100th birthday - and everybody's invited to join us! #Bettys100
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10 months
Meet our brand new Mocha Fondant Fancies. Inspired by the milky Latte Latinos served in our Café Tea Rooms. Available in our shops and online from August 9th - and to pre-order online now:
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Happy Yorkshire Day!
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Don't think of our new autumn-winter menu as a goodbye to summer. Think of it as a hello to Black Forest Trifle. Available in our cafés from today.
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7 years
Today we met a national treasure. Thank you for being you, Alan Bennett. #ILF17
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4 years
If only you could see the smiles on our faces as we say, we're reopening our cafés soon! Dates for your diary: Mon 27 Jul - Harrogate & Northallerton Mon 3 Aug - Ilkley, Harlow Carr & York St Helen's Square York Stonegate café will stay closed but the shop is open
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In 1919, there was just one little Bettys on Cambridge Crescent - and now we've grown to a family of six. Or rather, a family of hundreds! Here's a big birthday hello to you from the staff at our Stonegate, Ilkley and York branches. #Bettys100
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It’s almost time… (No peeking!)
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Bettys has been around for 100 years, and once this passes we’ll still be here; kettle on, cakes freshly baked, with a smile for all who visit us. 5/5
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How much use is a chocolate teapot? Well, ours contains two vouchers for Traditional Afternoon Tea, so you can enjoy a treat when our cafés re-open on May 17. Until then, you can pass the time by eating the teapot. (Available in our shops only).
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8 years
We're honoured to say that HRH The Prince of Wales is visiting on Thursday! We have happy memories of his 2003 visit
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Following yesterday’s Government advice about social venues, we’ve taken the decision to close our six cafés and Bettys Cookery School. Our shops will remain open as usual for the time being, as will our mail order service (). 1/5
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4 years
Diet experts agree - it's extremely important to eat a very big scone at least once a month. Don't ask us why. We don't make the rules.
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It's rhubarb season! We're celebrating with some special creations - from sundae to crumble to our lovely fragipane slice. Oh, and look out for rhubarb pancakes on Shrove Tuesday, too!
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3 years
We’re very sorry to those of you who like being able to shop in person but we’ve decided to close our shops until further notice. The good news is that you can still order a delivery of happiness from our website . Stay safe – brighter days are coming.
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We've marked 100 years of Bettys with this new mosaic at our Ilkley branch. It’s made to be walked on, but it has been crafted with as much love as our most ornate Easter eggs - because we believe even the ground beneath your feet deserves to be beautiful.
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1 year
The sign of a good day.
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5 years
A 100th birthday needs a very special cake. That just happened to be a speciality of our founder, Frederick Belmont – and to mark our Centenary, we’ve brought one of his most spectacular creations back to life. #Bettys100
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We pack every parcel with love and care to make sure your treats arrive safe and sound. And for a chance to win a delivery of beautiful Bettys Easter eggs, watch our film and count how many times you spot a pair of scissors. Enter here: #BeautifulEggs
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7 years
Thank you so much to everyone who came along to our grand Christmas window unveiling in Harrogate tonight!
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8 years
36 fondant fancies? This challenge is right up our street! #GBBO
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