Eating at Blickling Estate

National Trust Vegetable Curry

Throughout the year The Stables, Muddy Boots and The Farmyard cafés serve a variety of options for a quick snack or a tasty meal...

The Stables

You'll find plenty of choice at The Stables, from hot and cold dishes to soup, sandwiches and cakes.  We use local, seasonal produce wherever possible and have a continual supply of fruit and vegetables from the walled garden.  

Produce regularly includes beetroot, carrots, basil, cucumber, leeks, potatoes, courgettes, garlic and red onions (when available).

Muddy Boots

You'll find wholesome, hearty snacks served all day, in a relaxing environment, and it's the ideal place to warm up after a blustery walk. Muddy Boots is next to Visitor Reception in the main car park and offers a cosy atmosphere, whatever the weather. Dogs are welcome.

The Farmyard Café

The perfect spot for a quick break whilst on a walk around the estate with your four-legged friends*. Grab a snack or hot drink and continue with your visit. You'll find the café in the Farmyard, by the bookshop, stamp shop and plant centre.

*Dogs are welcome in Muddy Boots and the Farmyard, but are not permitted on the main driveway, in the East Wing, house or formal garden.

Keep warm with some of our hot and tasty food to takeaway
National Trust pot of food
Keep warm with some of our hot and tasty food to takeaway

The Bucks Arms

You'll find this seventeenth century traditional pub and former coaching inn, on the walk down from the main car park to the house.  A pub and restaurant with rooms, it's the perfect place to start or end your day at Blickling Estate or plan for a romantic winter break.  

The Bucks Arms offers real ale and hearty meals
The Bucks Arms
The Bucks Arms offers real ale and hearty meals

Catering for your needs

If you have an allergy or intolerance and would like ingredient information about the food and drink served in our cafés, please ask a member of staff who will be happy to help.

The latest addition to our menu is a vegan cream tea, so next time you're with us, why not try it out?

We also have vegan and gluten-free dishes as well as a variety of options for lactose intolerant. Soya and oatmeal milk are available on request.

Just ask on arrival for further information. 

A tasty vegan cream tea with scones, vegan clotted cream and jam
Vegan cream tea with jam and vegan clotted cream
A tasty vegan cream tea with scones, vegan clotted cream and jam

Try making one of our dishes at home...

Shredded sprout, bacon and chestnut salad

Shredded sprout, bacon and chestnut salad 

Looking for something different to do with sprouts? Then try this tasty winter salad recipe which combines sprouts with the traditional Christmas flavours of chestnuts and cranberries.

Using vegetables from the walled garden

Beautiful allotment-grown onions fresh from the ground
Our produce stall with carrots, tomatoes and beans for sale
A child and her mother planting in the walled garden
Chillies from the walled garden at Blickling Estate

Walled garden produce 

With fruit and vegetables growing in abundance, you can enjoy eating much of our walled garden produce in our cafés...

Have you found our walled garden produce stall?

Now you've sampled our produce in the cafe, why not take some home to enjoy and make a donation to help us continue the work we're doing.

Sow and grow 

Join us in Blickling's walled kitchen garden and have fun watering flowers and planting seeds in pots...

Hot, hot, hot

Our Cheyenne and Jalapeno peppers have done well in the walled garden this year, but they aren’t for the faint hearted...