The Hepworth Wakefield Café
Welcome to The Hepworth Wakefield Café
Catch-up with a friend over coffee and cake, enjoy brunch before visiting our exhibitions, or spend a leisurely lunch with your family.
All food is produced in-house by our team of chefs who offer a sustainable and season menu which highlights locally-sourced produce and ingredients.
Every purchase supports the work of The Hepworth Wakefield and is directed towards our ambitious exhibitions and learning programme.
Opening hours
The Hepworth Wakefield Café, situated within the main gallery, is open Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 5pm.
Brunch is served from 10am – 12pm and lunch from 11am – 3pm. You can also buy hot and cold drinks and cakes until 4.30pm daily.
Please note, on Friday 16 May The Hepworth Wakefield café will be closed all day. Our garden café will be open 10am until 4pm for coffee, cake and sandwiches.
Delicious events
About The Hepworth Wakefield Café
Our Suppliers
We use local suppliers which ensures that we are able to provide the freshest and highest quality ingredients for all of our dishes and drinks.
By sourcing many of our ingredients locally, we are able to reduce our carbon footprint, support local farmers and businesses, and promote sustainability as well as contributing to our community.
Using local suppliers allows us to create a unique and constantly evolving menu that reflects the seasons and the changing availability of ingredients. This means that we are able to offer our customers a truly authentic and fresh dining experience throughout the year.
Check out our suppliers below:
Acorn Dairy
Canton Tea
Cryer and stott
Decent Packaging
Folkingtons
R&J
Square Mile Coffee Roasters
Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil
Wildfarmed
Food Waste
Since August 2022, the café has had weekly food waste collections through ReFood, which is based in Doncaster.
ReFood filter what we send to them and the food is processed to create Biogas for fuel and fertiliser for soil. These products are then put back into the system to produce renewable energy and to grow more crops.
So far this has fit neatly into our operations and the staff have been excellent at complying with the guidelines we have for what we can or cannot put into the food waste stream.
By mid-September 2022, we were pleased to see the impact we have made through a simple change. After 5 weeks, 105.30 KW hours of energy was produced through our waste alone, this is then fed back into the National Grid. As well as 0.18 tonnes of CO2 saved by displacement of fossil fuels and through diverting waste from landfill.
We have also noticed a drop in the amount of rubbish we are now sending to general waste which is positive with regards to our climate impact as well as reducing the impact the cafe specifically has on the waste of the building as a whole.
Ideally, we would aim to send out as little waste as possible to further reduce our environmental impact as well as making sure we use as much produce as we can but with this new system, we can feel confident that it is not a futile gesture.
