WHEELWRIGHTS

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LUNCHES AND TEAS

We’re open from Saturday through to Wednesday ~

10.30 to 5.00 from April to October ~
11.00 to 4.30 in November, December, February and March.
(In other words we close on Thursdays and Fridays!)

But we open on Bank Holidays other than Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

We serve light lunchtime snacks from 12.00 to 2.00, including a choice of home-made quiches, ploughman’s lunches with Cheddar, Stilton or the local Blue Vinny cheese, cheese rolls, and a selection of hot home-made sweets. We celebrate winter with home-made soup, served with our famous savoury scones,

Throughout the day, we serve Cream Teas (two home-made scones, clotted cream and strawberry jam), an ever-changing selection of home-made cakes, ice cream sundaes, freshly ground coffee or tea made from proper leaves (no tea bags!), as well as fruit teas, and espresso, cappuccino or latte coffee.

Let our customers speak for themselves ~
"Scones and clotted cream and also tea is more delicious than Savoy Hotel of London" (Sudhana and Raj Sheth, Chelmsford)
"Always pop into the Wheelwrights for a scone and clotted cream - best in the South" (Gill, Brian, Joseph and Katie Martin, Hong Kong)

In the summer ~ and even in the winter if the weather's fine ~ we serve teas, coffees and cakes in our magical garden. We've grown the grasses, grape vines, trees and shrubs so that they make a series of open-air rooms, all with views out over the village to St Catherine's Chapel and the hills that shelter us.

We have put a motto on our menus which sums up our aim ~

"There must either be a puritanical renunciation of the pleasure to be found in savouring food, or a jadedness arising from too many competing calls for our attention - or both - for us to prefer eating fast: we have to want to settle for less."

Perhaps that's why we were nominated for a "Traveller's Choice" award in 2001 by the prestigious American magazine "British Heritage" as one of the top six "hidden treasures" of Britain ~ alongside the Norfolk Broads and the Northumberland coast! And why we are featured in several "teashop trails" and the AA/Tea Council guide to the country's best places for afternoon tea.

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