Food & Drink

Enjoy fresh Heligan produce, the finest home reared meat and locally sourced ingredients in our home-cooked dishes.

There’s Free Entry to the Heligan Kitchen, Garden Bites Takeaway, Shop and Plant Centre all year round so even if you’re not visiting the gardens, we’d still love to see you.

Whether you’re looking to experience some traditional Cornish fayre, or sample the heritage fruit and vegetables grown onsite, the Heligan Kitchen, Stewards House and seasonal outlets can provide the perfect treat for you.

Current Hospitality Opening Hours

Current Hospitality Opening Hours
Location Hours
Heligan Kitchen and Bakery
Breakfast and lunch options, with produce from the gardens, hot and cold drinks, Heligan Bakery cakes
9am-4pm / Breakfast 9am-11.30am (Monday – Saturday) 9am-11am (Sunday) / Lunch 12noon-3pm
Steward's House
Breakfast and lunch options, with produce from the gardens, hot and cold drinks, Heligan Bakery cakes
10am-4pm / Breakfast 10am-12noon / Lunch 12noon-3pm
Meadow Kitchen
Pasties, sausage rolls, ice cream, hot and cold drinks.
10.30am-4pm

Our Menus

Heligan Kitchen

Breakfast pastries (V) £4
See specials board for today’s selection

Heligan bakery toast (V) (VGO) (NGO) £4
With Boddington’s jam or marmalade

Breakfast roll (VO) (VGO) (NGO) £8
Choose any three items in a Heligan bakery roll: Pen ‘n’ Tinny or vegetarian sausage,smoked bacon, mushroom, tomato, hash brown or fried egg.

Baked eggs with sourdough (V) (NGO) £12
Cornish Kern and Gouda, crème fraiche, garden greens

Eggs Benedict (VO) (NGO) £12
Smoked bacon, poached eggs and hollandaise cream on a toasted muffin.

Eggs Royale (NGO) £13
Smoked trout, poached eggs, spinach and hollandaise cream on a toasted muffin.

Kitchen garden breakfast (V) (VGO) (NGO) £12
Vegetarian sausages, hash browns, mushroom, tomato, beans. Fried, scrambled, or poached egg. Heligan bakery toast.

Full estate breakfast (NGO) £13
Pen ‘n’ Tinny sausages, smoked bacon, hash browns, mushroom, tomato, beans. Fried, scrambled, or poached egg. Heligan bakery toast.

Extra breakfast items £1.50 each
Choose from Pen ‘n’ Tinny sausage, vegetarian sausage, smoked bacon, hash brown, mushroom, tomato, beans. Fried, scrambled, or poached egg.

Little gardeners

Dippy eggs (V) (NGO) £6
Two soft boiled eggs with soldiers

Cheesy beans on toast (V) (VGO) (NGO) £6

Menu Key

VG – Vegan
VGO – Vegan Option available upon request
NG – Non-gluten containing item
NUT – Nuts
V – Vegetarian
VO – Vegetarian option available upon request
NGO – Non-gluten option available upon request

Small plates

Heligan bakery bread (V) £5
With butter

Soup of the day (V) (VGO) (NGO) £8
Heligan bakery bread or seasonal scone

Corn ribs (V) (VGO) (NG) £8
Spiced honey, toasted seeds, crispy onions

Ham hock pie £9
Pickled salad, Heligan seasonal chutney

Grilled sardines (NG) £9
Salsa verde, Fowey Valley olive oil, lemon and saffron cream

Heligan faggots £9
Root vegetable mash, leek and cider sauce

Cornish mussels (NGO) £10
Pumpkin pesto sauce, crispy sage, samphire, sourdough

Baked eggs with sourdough (V) (NGO) £12
Cornish Kern and Gouda, crème fraiche, garden greens

Large plates

Cornish mussels (NGO) £18
Pumpkin pesto sauce, crispy sage, samphire, sourdough

Trio of beetroot salad (V) (VGO) (NGO) £14
Candy, golden and red beetroot, Gouda pangritata, spiced seeds, blood orange dressing

Autumn squash flatbread (V) (VGO) £15
Miso roasted squash, pickled apple, buffalo mozzarella, toasted seeds, sesame oil

Add Cornish Charcuterie £3

Braised rare breed beef (NG) £18
Sweet potato mash, buttered greens, Cornish ale jus

Woodfired pizza

Margherita (V) (VGO) (NGO) £15
Basil, tomato, fior di latte mozzarella

Wild mushroom (V) (VGO) (NGO) £18
Ricotta, chicory, sage

Spianata salami (NGO) £19
Fennel, tomato, fior di latte mozzarella

Heligan blackberry pizza oil to drizzle £1.50
Non-gluten pizza base +£3

Little gardeners

Buttered corn ribs (V) (NG) £6

Pen ‘n’ Tinny sausages (NG) £6
Sweet potato mash, garden peas

Margherita pizza (V) (VGO) (NGO) £10
cheese, tomato

Cornish pepperoni pizza (NGO) £11
cheese, tomato

Desserts

Heligan bakery cakes From £3

Please view our cake display for today’s cakes

Menu Key

VG – Vegan
VGO – Vegan Option available upon request
NG – Non-gluten containing item
NUT – Nuts
V – Vegetarian
VO – Vegetarian option available upon request
NGO – Non-gluten option available upon request

Steward's House

Selection of Freshly Baked Pastries £4

see specials board for today’s options

Crumpets [V] £4

Netherend butter

Teacakes [V] [VGO] £4

Netherend butter

Bacon Breakfast Muffin [NGO] £7

Smoked back bacon, Heligan tomato or brown sauce

Upgrade your muffin to a teacake £1

Menu Key

VG – Vegan
VGO – Vegan Option available upon request
NG – Non-gluten containing item
NUT – Nuts
V – Vegetarian
VO – Vegetarian option available upon request
NGO – Non-gluten option available upon request

Soup of the Day [NGO] [VG] £8

Heligan Bakery bread or scone

Pasty and Salad £8

choose from today’s specials

Coronation Baguette
choose from,
Coronation Chickpea £12 [VG] [NGO]
Coronation Chicken £14 [NGO]
raisins, mango chutney, Autumn salad

Harvest Galette [V] £13
Garden vegetable pastry parcel, watercress, Autumn salad

Maple Roasted Squash Salad [NG] [VGO] [V] £13
carrot ribbons, sage cream cheese, pickled berries, toasted pumpkin seeds, Heligan leafy greens

Pork, Pear and Cornish Blue Cheese Ciabatta [NUT] [NGO] £14
pear chutney, pork crackling, crushed walnuts, Autumn salad

Little Gardener's Lunch (VO) (NGO) £9

choose from,

Pork & Apple Roll or Cup of Soup with bread with a Pip Organic Pipstick and a Heligan Bakery treat

 

From our Bakery:
see our cake display for today’s options

Autumnal Scone [V] £4.50
maple squash butter, caramelised red onion

Cornish Fairings [V] 2 for £3

Cornish Hevva Cake [V] £4.50
Mixed fruit, clotted

Menu Key

VG – Vegan
VGO – Vegan Option available upon request
NG – Non-gluten containing item
NUT – Nuts
V – Vegetarian
VO – Vegetarian option available upon request
NGO – Non-gluten option available upon request

Foodie events in the Heligan Kitchen

  1. Sunday Roasts

    • 26th Oct 2025, 2nd Nov 2025, 9th Nov 2025, 16th Nov 2025, 23rd Nov 2025, 30th Nov 2025

    Our much loved Sunday Roast lunches are back on the menu in the Heligan Kitchen. You're invited to join us to enjoy a homemade roast, comprising of the finest Heligan reared meat and local produce.

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  2. Christmas Lunches

    • 1st - 22nd Dec 2025

    Join us this December to enjoy a traditional Christmas Lunch with all the festive trimmings in the Heligan Kitchen.

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The Lost Gardens of Heligan Food Story

STARTERS

Taster – It all began in 1990 when Tim Smit moved from London to Cornwall and needed somewhere to graze his rare breed pigs.

Sharing Plates – Discovering the ruins of a historic garden and estate, he vowed to restore the gardens in the name of those Heligan gardeners who were lost in the First World War.

Garden Bites – A heritage treasure hunt followed to find the seeds of vegetables, fruit and flower varieties that would have been grown in this Victorian Era. In 1992, after a mammoth restoration project, the gardens opened to the public.

MAINS

Greens – Today there’s only 157 yards from Productive Kitchen Garden to plate. Our produce goes directly to the kitchens to be included in the seasonal menus. The gardens produce 4.5 tonnes of fruit and vegetables each year, If we ever have an abundance of produce, we share this with our visitors who can enjoy these treats at home.

Meat – in 2018 Heligan secured Rare Breed Survival Trust accreditation status, becoming the first and only farm in the South West to do so. We have over 28 breeds of animals, used to work our land, manage the estate and provide high welfare, traditional meats.

Daily Specials - We’ve taken a restorative, low impact approach to growing our soil health and biodiversity too. By farming our land regeneratively we are improving carbon sequestration, helping to mitigate flooding locally, and able to support animal re-introduction projects such as beavers, glow worms and water voles.

SIDES

Foraged Feasts – once a month we create a fine-dining tasting menu, known as Lost Suppers, celebrating the flavours and bounty of each season.

Local Suppliers – If there’s a hungry gap between crops, we work collaboratively with our local suppliers and producers to source our produce. These suppliers share many of our values around sustainability and social responsibility. 

DESSERTS

Apple of the Day – the next adventure in productive gardening is happening just around the corner in Lostwithiel, at Gillyflower Farm. The Team behind Heligan and the Eden Project are growing a legacy orchard with over 14 different varieties of apples, cherries, gages, mulberries and more. We’re prioritising quality and flavour over quantity and uniformity, challenging convention as we regenerate the land around us.

Food and Drink events

  1. 200 Acres: A Celebration of Heligan’s Wildlife

    • 3rd May 2025 - 4th Jan 2026

    Step into the extraordinary world of wildlife at Heligan with 200 Acres, a captivating new exhibition celebrating the natural world at Heligan.

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  2. Sunday Roasts

    • 26th Oct 2025, 2nd Nov 2025, 9th Nov 2025, 16th Nov 2025, 23rd Nov 2025, 30th Nov 2025

    Our much loved Sunday Roast lunches are back on the menu in the Heligan Kitchen. You're invited to join us to enjoy a homemade roast, comprising of the finest Heligan reared meat and local produce.

    Read more

  3. The Spirit of Harvest

    • 18th Oct - 2nd Nov 2025

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  4. Heligan Rangers: Beaver Detectives

    • 30th Oct 2025
    • 10am - 11:50am

    Beaver lodges, gnawed branches, dams, felled trees, beaver tracks… Can you become a Heligan beaver detective and spot the signs that beavers are living in the area?

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  5. Heligan Rangers: Holiday Club

    • 29th Oct 2025
    • 8:45am - 3pm
    This half-term, your child is invited to become a Heligan Ranger — a unique, enriching day experience set in the heart of the iconic Lost Gardens of Heligan. 

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Our Trusted Suppliers

If there’s a hungry gap between crops, we work collaboratively with our local suppliers and producers to source our produce. These suppliers share many of our values around sustainability and social responsibility.

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