The Forest Cafe
For the time being, the Forest Café is only able to open with a limited offer of hot and cold drinks, as well as light snacks such as cake, crisps, chocolate bars and pre-packaged ice creams, so the perfect way to top up your picnic or a quick treat during you walk.
Our outdoor cafe usually serves fresh, locally sourced, homemade food. Whether you fancy a savoury or sweet treat, there's normally something on our menu for you, so please bare with us whilst we have a limited offer.
Normally, we'd have a range of sandwiches, paninis, soups sausage rolls, one pots, jacket potatoes and much more including our chips which come highly recommended by many. We've also branched out into soft serve ice cream.
Please keep checking here as we'll update this article as our menu is able to expand.
We look forward to saying hello to our regulars once more and welcoming or summer visitors back.
Thank you, The Forest Cafe Team.
Find out more about what it's normally like to visit the Forest Cafe:
The menu depends on seasonal availability.
The cafe is fully licensed and sells a range of bottled beers, cider as well as small bottles of wine.
A special cafe
The cafe has been awarded the Soil Association "Food for Life" Bronze certificate. To reach this standard, the majority of food on the menu has to be freshly prepared; free from undesirable trans fats, sweeteners and additives; cooked by trained chefs; and use ingredients from sustainable and ethical sources.
An outdoors cafe
The cafe normally has tables in a hard standing area. There is however no indoor eating area, although you can take cover in the Fisherman's Shelter, next to the Shell House. This has benches and tables, but for the time being these are not availbale to our visitors, so please bring your own picnic blankets and folding chairs if you want to relax in comfort.
Further Information
For more information, please call 01279 870579 (during opening times)
Our values
Sustainable production is at the heart of National Trust values today. The National Trust team are the winners of several awards for the pioneering use of sustainably produced food in our cafés. As a conservation charity we are unique in how we cater for millions of visitors every year by putting welfare and conservation, not profit, at the heart of everything we do.
Today the National Trust is the UK’s biggest farmer looking after over 600,000 acres of farmland with our tenant farmers. Whether it’s for the Bensons juices in your glass or the butter you put on your scones, we require all our farmers to use nature friendly farming techniques. For things we can’t produce ourselves we apply these same regulations to all our external suppliers too. That’s why you will see labels such as ‘farm assured’, ‘free range’ and ‘rainforest alliance’ throughout our cafés.
