Welcome

Welcome to The Apple Tree, Ockbrook. A cosy, welcoming, multi award-winning, quintessential teahouse and gift shop offering beautiful breakfasts, brunches, lunches, traditional cream teas, afternoon teas and a cake counter full of cakes that we bake ourselves in our in-house bakery.
We have a vast coffee, loose-leaf tea, hot chocolate and milkshake menu as well as being fully licensed to offer you fizz or cocktails with your breakfast or brunch.
A new addition to our offering in 2020 was our rustic undercover barn. Here we have outdoor and undercover seating.

The barn has proved extremely popular with walkers, dog walkers, cyclists and al fresco diners.

Our gift shop offers a treasure trove of unique cards, jewellery, homeware and gifts that are carefully sourced by us from across the world.

Our Teahouse

  • Breakfast & Brunch

    They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day so we’re proud to offer Derbyshire’s largest and varied all day breakfast menu.

    You’ll find young families, couples, walkers, cyclists, ladies lunching and hangover nurses, all sat shoulder-to-shoulder enjoying the all day breakfast. If the Belgian waffles straight off our waffle press with crispy bacon and lashings of maple syrup are too sweet for your palate, the big breakfasts, breakfast burrito or more elegant Eggs Benedict to name a few, might be more up your street.

  • Lunch

    If an all day breakfast isn’t for you we offer doorstop toasties, homemade quiche, super salad, ploughman’s boards and dirty fries after 12pm. See our menu below.

  • Cakes

    We are proud to be renowned for our in-house bakery and have a team of talented bakers who make layer cakes, light as a feather loaves, indulgent traybakes and giant scones. We work with the seasons to produce different flavours and combinations each week.

    Cake slices can be purchased as a takeaway too and make a great gift if you’re visiting a friend.

    Find this weeks bakes in a highlight named in the counter’ on our instagram story.

    Full cakes are available to pre-order via the link below.

Do I need to book?

  • Inside the Teahouse.

    The teahouse is very popular and quintessentially cosy and we always recommend that you book especially if you're travelling to us. We have been known to be booked up 3 weeks in advance.

    Please call us on 01332 987001 for reservations.

    We regret that we don't cater for parties larger than 6, this is simply down to the size of our kitchen. We pride ourselves on quality, service and make all our food fresh to order and are unable to guarantee we can maintain our standards for larger groups.

  • Outdoor Barn

    Covid19 forced us to think outside the box and figure out a way to provide undercover outdoor seating with plenty of ventilation for our customers.

    That welcomed the opening of our barn located at the back of the courtyard. You don’t need to book a table in our barn, just turn up and choose a table. We recommend you dress for the outdoors but the barn is equipped with a roaring log burner, an over head heater, complimentary blankets and hot water bottles. To order from our barn please place your order at the open-air hatch and our waiting-on staff will do the rest. We serve our full menu in the barns and we also welcome dogs.

  • Takeaway & Outside

    In the courtyard you’ll find our takeaway hatch and a few tables ~ weather dependant.

    You don’t need to book our courtyard tables just turn up and sit at a empty table.

    To order from our outside tables please place your order at the open-air hatch and our waiting-on staff will do the rest.

    The takeaway hatch is ideal to grab takeaway drinks, cakes and food if you don’t have time to sit down or want to eat or drink on the go.

Enjoy the finer things in life.

  • Afternoon Tea

    Afternoon Tea £22 pp ~ includes a flute of fresh orange juice, a tiered rustic stand with a selection of freshly made sandwiches, homemade fruit scones with Cornish clotted cream and jam and a selection of our homemade dainty cakes. All this is washed down with endless tea or coffee.

    Prosecco Afternoon Tea £27 pp ~ as above exchanging the orange juice for prosecco.

    Vegetarian sandwich fillings available on request 24 hours prior to booking.

    Bookable in advance and we require a 50% deposit when booking Afternoon Tea.

    Afternoon Tea vouchers are available in our shop.

    We take allergies and autoimmune diseases very seriously and regret that due to the size of our kitchen and how busy we are, we can’t cater for free from gluten or auto immune disease afternoon teas. Your safety is our priority.

    Price excludes Mother’s Day and Christmas Afternoon Tea.

  • Prosecco Breakfast Experience

    The perfect celebration breakfast! £24pp bookable in advance.

    Sit back and relax whist enjoying a three course breakfast with us, washed down with a flute of Prosecco!

    Please allow 2 hours.

    £20 for non-alcoholic.

    Bottomless option available.

    Should you wish to have a celebratory breakfast with us but don’t think you can manage the full 3 courses, Prosecco or Cocktails can be added to our standard breakfast menu items too!

  • Cream Tea

    Enjoy one of our home-made giant sultana scones served with a generous amount of Cornish clotted cream, strawberry jam washed down with a traditional china pot of tea or coffee.

    £6.95 for one ~ £11.95 for two.

    Please see the days specials board for alternative fruit and cheese scones available on the day.

    Cream Tea vouchers are available in our shop and can be used for sweet and savoury scones.

Please note: Please don't bring in your own food, drink or celebration cakes. If you have any special requests please feel free to contact us in advance of your booking.

Party Sizes: Unfortunately we don't cater for parties larger than 6, this is simply down to the size of our kitchen. We pride ourselves on quality, service and make all our food fresh to order and are unable to guarantee we can maintain our standards for larger groups.

Veggies & Vegans: We make all our food fresh to order, and being independent enables us to change and adapt our menu as often as we like and we're happy to adapt our menu to suit your needs too.

Autoimmune Disease and Allergies

We are a small business that handles gluten, nuts, eggs and many other allergens. Please note we take allergies and autoimmune diseases very seriously and where possible we are happy to cater for them however during busy periods we may tell you that we are unable to cater for allergies and autoimmune diseases due to the space available in our kitchen, keeping you safe is our priority.

Children and Babies: We have limited space inside the Teahouse and have a limited number of highchairs and floor space so please let us know if you’ll be bringing in a car seat or require a highchair. We regret we don’t have room for pushchairs inside the Teahouse.