"Customers entering the elegant tea-rooms of Elizabeth Botham & Sons in Whitby, North Yorkshire, are greeted by a photograph of the woman who founded the company in 1865. A buxom Victorian lady, she looks as if she could lay on a good spread. In a sense, she still does, for 25,000 Christmas cakes are baked from her recipe each year. Mid-tan in colour, this fruit packed seasonal treat is wonderfully moist (the highest term of praise among Northern devotees of fruitcakes and pasties)..." (The Independent Magazine & Website 11/2003)

"Hovering outside Elizabeth Botham's tea rooms in Skiner Street, we find ourselves propelled inside on a warm gust of coffee and the accolades of passers-by..... Botham's Gingerbread comes with Wensleydale cheese, with Yorkshire brack, buttered, plum bread and Bakewell tarts and strong cups of Resolution tea. Resolution and a python-like constitution is what the determined holidaymaker needs for eating out in Whitby." (Daily Telegraph)

"Botham's is a rare British gem. Craft caterers and confectioners who bake the best from grandma's days." (Evening Gazette 08/04)