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.

Nearly ninety 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 rooms

Bettys Harrogate

Bettys Harlow Carr

Bettys Ilkey

Bettys York

Bettys Nothallerton

Despite countless requests we’ve firmly refused to open Bettys branches outside Yorkshire. Our commitment to keeping Bettys small and special means that we can keep a watchful eye on every detail – and make sure every visit to our tea rooms is a memorable one.

Frederick, traveled on the Maiden Voyage of the queen Mary's

He loved the splendor of the ship so much that he commissioned the queen Marys, designer and crafts men to turn a furniture store into his most sophisticated branch yet- an elegant cafe

This is an image from the Queen Mary's ship.

So Federick had mixed his love and experience of the queens mary ship and also his love for the Yorkshire outdoors which reminded him of his home country Switzerland and combined the two and created Bettys cafe and tea rooms.

Just a little secondary reaserch on Bettys

Tania