Sour Cow in Derbyshire Dales

This is my favourite place, the food is amazing! Highly recommend the French toast with banana and maple syrup, mushrooms and cheese on toast and the cakes are just delicious! Emma is so friendly, she works incredibly hard as a small business and she always has a smile for all her customers!

It was very nice place and cakes was nice but the coffee was cold and the £5 Pot of tea was weak because she thought to do this as it was for the children but she didn't ask. Very expensive please cheaper across the road.

very cosy and friendly eatery.veggie breakfast is filling & tasty, good value!poached eggs on toast were really good(slight amount of water, from poaching, on one piece of toast caused some sogginess but did not detract from the experience.)also good valueTea is incredibly voluminous and excellent value.Beware of the cakes, they're very tasty and home made and more-ish!overall definitely worth a visit and excellent service/value.

We moved to Wirksworth January this year and found the Sour Cow to be highly recommended by the locals.Having decided we didn't want to cook this Saturday we took the dogs for a stroll and treated ourselves to a vegetarian breakfast, poached eggs on toast, a latte and a pot of tea.Just delicious! The veggie breakfast was HUGE! Well cooked and full of flavour (scrambled eggs, fried mushrooms and potatoes, beans, tomatoes with 2 fairly thick slices of toast). Be hungry if you order it - you have been warned. The paached egss were a little small in comparison to the toast but just equally tasty, tough the husband was a bit disappointed with some of the water making his toast soggy.A pot of tea which seemed endless and the latte stayed hot for ages.Happy dogs under the table and joyful bellied around it. Especially as we took a slice of the chocolate cake home (again a disappointed husband who didn't keep up as I ate most of it) and devoured it happily. Next time we might have to get a selection!Cosy, friendly, a team of bubbly staff and a menu which can and will be adapted as much as possible to suit your desires. What more can you ask for for the price? Very much looking forward to being regular customers.

This is a difficult review to post as the low rating isn't regarding the food, that is very tasty.It's regarding the arrogance of the lady in the kitchen. Her assumption of where I'm from I found highly offensive. I've been in the cafe several times now and this was my experience today.Apparently they have been trying to work out where I'm from. Today I got, oh no he's not South African, he's Australian which I'm not.... it's NZ. Upon correcting her I got " oh it's all the same isn't it? "Why don't you just ask if you want to know as now you have a very unhappy and disgruntled customer....I just don't get it....☹️☹️

Great cake, coffee and service.

I might be missing something here but the food was at best average, with a limited menu and very average coffee. The toasted sandwich was very greasy, with undercooked mushrooms and onion. Really wanted to like this place but Afraid to say we won't be visiting again.

Great black tea with oat milk & ham/cheese toustie.

What a lovely cozy place. Quaint decor and such friendly cheerful staff. A breath of fresh air & sunshine is the vibe. The food was great. We ordered pancakes with peanuts and vegetarian breakfast, delicious! Coffee, and hot chocolate superb!

What a lovely cafe! We arrived late in the day, around 4:15. Despite it being the end of the day, Emma (who is a *delight*) cooked us up a tasty, filling, and affordable late lunch!My wife and I split a carafe of French pressed coffee (dark and tasty), a toasted cheese and onion sandwich which came with a little side of salad, and the Vegetarian Breakfast.The veg breakfast is two pieces of thick toast done to a light golden brown topped with scrambled eggs and sauteed mushrooms. The eggs were perfect, still moist and not overly firm, but definitely cooked through. The mushrooms had a light sear on them - delicious, and I don't usually like mushrooms. On the side there were some barbecue beans and a roasted tomato.All of this came to £10.50! We left with full bellies and new knowledge about the area. Did you know there were once 72 pubs in Wirksworth?! We want to come back on a Saturday to try the Full English Breakfast (weekends only). Definitely recommend!