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-5pm / Breakfast 9am-11.30am / Lunch 12pm-3pm
Steward's House Breakfast and lunch options, with produce from the gardens, hot and cold drinks, Heligan Bakery cakes	10am-5pm / Breakfast 10am-12noon / Lunch 12noon-3pm
Meadow Kitchen Pasties, sausage rolls, ice cream, hot and cold drinks.	10:30am-5.30pm
Heligan Takeaway Serving hot and cold drinks, scooped ice cream, pasties, sausage rolls, and cakes	11am-5pm
BBQ Hut Serving burgers, fish, kid’s options, St Austell Brewery on Tap, hot and cold drinks	12noon-3pm

Our Menus

Heligan Kitchen

Breakfast Pastries (V) £4

croissant or pain au chocolat, Boddington’s jam

add croissant butter £2

Heligan Bakery Toast (V) (VGO) (NGO) £4

with Boddington’s jam or marmalade

Breakfast Oats (V) £7

surplus summer fruit coulis, clotted cream, crunchy scone crumb

Breakfast Muffin (VO) (VGO) (NGO) £8

choose any three items in a toasted muffin: Pen ‘n’ Tinny or vegetarian sausage, smoked bacon, mushroom, tomato, hashbrown or fried egg

Breakfast Waffle (V) £10

whipped peanut butter caramel, banana

Eggs Florentine (V) (NGO) £10

poached eggs, spinach, hollandaise foam, on a toasted muffin

Eggs Benedict (NGO) £12

poached eggs, smoked bacon, hollandaise sauce, on a toasted muffin

Trout Eggs Royal (NGO) £13

smoked trout, poached eggs, spinach, hollandaise foam, on a toasted muffin

Kitchen Garden Breakfast (V) (VGO) (NGO) £12

vegetarian sausages, hash browns, mushroom, tomato, beans, fried, scrambled or poached egg, and Heligan Bakery toast

Full Estate Breakfast (NGO) £13

Pen ‘n’ Tinny sausages, smoked bacon, hash browns, mushroom, tomato, beans, fried, scrambled or poached egg, and 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 Breakfast

Dippy Eggs (V) (NGO) £6

two soft boiled eggs, soldiers

Breakfast Waffle £6 (V)

whipped peanut butter caramel, banana

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 of the Day (V) £5

with whipped butter using surplus ingredients, see specials board for details

Baba Ghanoush (VG) (NG) £7

Heligan crudites, sumac, Fowey Valley olive oil

Soup of the Day (V) (VGO) (NGO) £8

Heligan Bakery bread or a seasonal scone

Tempura Summer Vegetables (VG) (NG) £8

Heligan chutney, micro coriander

Buffalo Corn Ribs (VG) (NG) £8

piri piri sauce, lime

Cured Trout Tatar (NGO) £9

shallots, fennel, capers, micro salad, Heligan Bakery toasted bread

Bacon Caesar Salad (NGO) (VGO) £12

bacon crumb, cheese, tarragon, surplus bread croutons

Brown Butter Heligan Courgette (V) (NG) £15

burrata, salted courgette, micro basil

Large Plates

Hot Smoked Aubergine (VG) (NG) (NUT) £14.50

rose harissa yoghurt, burnt shallot puree, baba ghanoush, toasted nuts, micro coriander

Trio of Beetroot Salad (V) (VGO) (NG) (NUT) £15

candy, golden, and red beetroot, Heligan smoked feta, apple, toasted walnuts, balsamic dressing

Open Panzanella Sandwich (V) £15

heritage tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella, olives, garden herbs, Fowey Valley olive oil

Add Cornish charcuterie £3

Sous-Vide Pork Loin (NG) £18

coppa ham, chard, cider braised leeks, crispy kale, pickled apricots, mustard sauce

Woodfired Pizza

Margherita Pizza (V) (VGO) (NGO) £14.50

basil, tomato, fior di latte mozzarella

Garden Vegetable Pizza (V) (VGO) (NGO) £16

see specials board for today’s toppings

Cornish Pepperoni (NGO) £18

tomato, fior di latte mozzarella

Cornish Coppa Ham & Roasted Peach (NGO) £19

honey roasted peach, spring onion, tomato, fior di latte mozzarella, rocket

Garlic Bread (V) (VGO) (NGO) £10

Non-Gluten Pizza Base +£3

*please note your pizza will be served to the table when it is ready, and may come separately to the rest of your order

Little Gardeners Lunch

Open Panzanella Sandwich (V) £8

heritage tomatoes, buffalo mozzarella

add Cornish charcuterie £2

Bacon Ceasar Salad (NGO) (VGO) £8.50

surplus bread croutons

Margherita Pizza (V) (VGO) (NGO) £10

cheese, tomato

Cornish Pepperoni Pizza (NGO) £11

cheese, tomato

Menu Key

Steward's House

Toasted Teacake (V) £4

Netherend butter

Savoury Scone £4.50

cream cheese, curried peach chutney

Granola (V) (VGO) (NG)

natural yoghurt, seasonal fruit

Bacon Roll (NGO) £7

smoked back bacon, ciabatta roll

Something on Toast (V) (NGO) £8

baked beans, scrambled egg or poached egg

Menu Key

Soup of the Day (V) (VGO) (NGO) £8

choose a savoury scone or Heligan Bakery bread, Netherend butter

Pasty and Salad (VO) (VGO) £8

choose from traditional, cheese & onion, vegan

Garden Vegetable Quiche (V) £12

mixed salad, balsamic glaze

Ploughman's (VO (NGO) £15

Cornish Yarg, Kittow Cooked Ham, Heligan Bakery bread,

Netherend butter, pickled gherkin & onion, Heligan red onion chutney, mixed leaf

Salads £14

garden leaf, cos lettuce, garden herb heritage tomato choose from...

Smoked mackerel, pickled cucumber, radish, lemon dressing (NG)

Carrot, feta, red onion, olives, toasted dukkha (NG) (NUT)

Sandwiches £15

garden leaf salad, lemon dressing, crisps choose from...

Rare Breed Beef Minute Steak Sandwich (NGO)

onion, rocket, pickled gherkin, mustard mayonnaise

Croque Monsieur (NGO)

sliced ham, Emmental cheese, cheddar cheese, Dijon mustard

Little Gardener's Lunch (VO) (NGO) £9

choose from...

Little Croque Monsieur or Sausage Roll

with a Pip Organic Pipstick and a Heligan Bakery treat

Menu Key

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

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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.