Our café offers honest and delicious home-cooking - actually 'home-cooking' is a pretty close translation of 'eco-gastronomy'!
Ecogastronomy is defined as delivering a balanced diet of pleasure, health, sustainability and global justice.
Nourishment for the body and nourishment for the soul.
Slow Food is defined as good, clean and fair food. Set up in the late 1980's in response to the gathering momentum of the Fast Food, the Slow Food Movement believes that 'the food we eat should taste good; that it should be produced in a clean way that does not harm the environment, animal welfare or our health; and that food producers should receive fair compensation for their work.'

Our Menu and Suppliers

We aim to provide our customers with quality food at good value for money. Our menu changes seasonally so we can provide food which uses the best and freshest ingredients on offer. We also use our specials board to make the best of what is available day to day. Wherever possible we buy our ingredients from local sources including from the local farmers markets.
When it comes to choosing our menu, we do our best to offer something for everyone. Our menu has a range of vegetarian and vegan options as well as options for those who follow a gluten free diet.

.All meals are made to order, so it may take a little longer to reach your table, however because of our policy of buying from excellent quality, local providers, it is worth the wait!
We serve good food as quickly as we can.
Our suppliers include, but are not limited to:

WMH Meats, Allendale/Haydon Bridge
Allendale Bakery
Wheelbirks Ice Cream

Whenever we have the produce available, we get our vegetables and herbs from our own garden. We also have an allotment situated in the woods which we hope to develop over the next couple of years to provide the majority of what we need.

Relax in the garden

You can enjoy our refreshments outside in the garden too.