"There is no love sincerer than the love of food..."

...and we love to provide the very best food here at St Cuthbert's House. We're passionate about what goes on your plate.

If you fancy treating yourself to a Big Breakfast whilst you're here, you'll find the highest quality ingredients, beautifully prepared and elegantly presented.

We source award-winning sausages from our local butcher, and quality back bacon too. His meat comes from locally-reared and fully traceable stock. He firmly asserts that an animal's welfare, and the number of miles it has travelled, have a bearing on how good it tastes. And we believe him.

Our eggs come from free-ranging hens on a local farm, and the yolks are so bright and yellow you almost need sunglasses. We never fry them - they're much too good to do that to them - so you'll enjoy their mouth-watering splendour when lightly poached or gently scrambled.

Also on the menu you'll find delicious kedgeree, made with oak-smoked haddock from Swallow Fish. Of course, since this smokehouse is the birthplace of the original kipper, our breakfast menu includes home-made Seahouses kipper pate too.

We can cater for special diets, so just tell us if there are things you likeor don't like to eat.

We also prepare a well-stocked buffet table with fruit, cereals and juices too. It includes home-made jams from the monastery-kitchen of the Northumbria Community, and marmalades made by our friend Les Parsons, who's been making marmalades throughout all of his long life. Although - he has recently extended his repertoire since we asked him to provide us with a chilli marmalade!

Our honey comes from the local Chain Bridge honey farm (which is well worth a visit, it's fascinating)

And when our bread arrives each morning, delivered fresh from Trotter's Bakery just around the corner, it's often still warm.