Tarbet Tea Rooms

Reviews

• Jane T.

  star star star star star_border 18 June 2026

  A few tables inside with clean plastic cloths and a lovely lady serving when we were there three weeks ago. Great as a stop-off place for light meals and nice snacks including all day breakfasts, panini, hot filled rolls, toasties, baked potatoes and macaroni cheese and chips. The home baking is delicious - scones, farmhouse cake and much more besides - and there's also ice cream available, and confectionery beside the entrance/exit.
  
  You can also buy string puppets which are hanging around the walls!
  
  The toilet is small and some may find it a little difficult to access but it was clean and the whole cafe was tidy and well looked after.
  
  There's a very small parking area at the front right in front of the tea room window. However, if there are no spaces it's possible to park at the tourist information centre where there is a large free car park.

• Isaac F.

  star star star star_border star_border 14 June 2026

  The Tarbet Tearoom, a much-celebrated little establishment in the cozy town of Tarbet a short distance from Loch Lomond where the A82 meets the A83.  This little tearoom is truly the epitome of adequacy.
  
  Situated on a popular accident blackspot, this little tearoom overlooks the main road and if you happen to be there at just the right time you may be lucky enough to witness two cars smashing into one another, occasionally with fatal results!  The staff will even brag about how the blind corner on which the establishment is situated is a deathtrap, maybe even quip about how it's only a matter of time before a car crashes through the front of the building and kills everyone inside.  Unfortunately, this little gem is the only exceptional feature the place has to offer.
  
  The food is adequate.  Dry, vaguely flavoured, somewhat overpriced but edible.  The tea is adequate.  I've had better at home but worse elsewhere.  The staff are mostly bland with an adequate smile, producing your order neither quickly nor slowly.  The seating is hard and uncomfortable, but it does the job.  The place is fairly popular, and if there aren't enough tables you can expect the staff to seat people at yours, sometimes without asking if you object to the intrusion, but overall it's...well...adequate.
  
  If prizes were awarded for adequacy, the Tarbet Tearoom would win each and every time.  You'll leave the place with no positive or negative feelings, unless perhaps you're "lucky" enough to witness one of their metal-grinding spectacles on the road outside, and within minutes you'll probably forget you'd even been there.
  
  In the sea of mediocrity, the Tarbet Tearoom is bobbing along quite happily.

• Glenda R.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 30 May 2026

  Pokey, poor service and right next to an accident blackspot. We witnessed a nasty smash up as we had our coffee. We didn't even get to have a second drink as we were shoved out because of a coach party. The seating is all very rickitey and the place looks like it hasn't been decorated or cleaned since 1970.