Opening hours

Order by 11 am, collect from 3 pm · Local delivery Tuesday to Saturday

The deli & kitchen · Open whenever the shop is

Pies from the oven, ham off the bone.

Everything on the deli counter is made in our back kitchen or bought from people we know: hand-raised pies, our own air-dried ham, cheese from small dairies and bread from the bakery over the road.

A glass deli counter with hand-raised pork pies, wedges of cheese, a leg of air-dried ham on a stand and charcuterie on slate, warm lights

Breakfast baps

8 am to 11 am

Every day we’re open

Breakfast baps

8 am to 11 am

Every day we’re open

Sandwich hatch

11 am until sold out

Friday and Saturday

Deli counter

All shop hours

Tuesday to Saturday

01 — From the back kitchen

Baked here every morning.

Hand-raised pork pies, Scotch eggs with a soft yolk, sausage rolls and pies to bake at home.

Pork pie

£4.50 each · £16 large

Hand-raised hot water crust, Old Spot shoulder and a little mace. Baked every morning.

Scotch egg

£3.80 each

Free-range egg with a soft yolk, wrapped in our sausage meat and crumbed.

Steak and ale pie

£7.50 · serves 2

Feather blade braised in Ludlow bitter under a butter pastry lid. Bake at home.

Sausage roll

£3.20 each

Ludlow sausage meat in all-butter puff pastry.

02 — On the deli counter

Cheese, charcuterie and the larder.

Sliced and cut to order. Ask for a taste of anything.

Cheese

Shropshire Blue

£4.20 per 100 g

Creamy, orange-veined blue made in Nottinghamshire. Lovely with oatcakes and our chutney.

Mature Cheddar, cloth-bound

£3.60 per 100 g

Aged 18 months in muslin. Nutty, crumbly and sharp.

Wigmore

£4.40 per 100 g

Soft, rich ewe's milk cheese from Berkshire with a bloomy rind.

Hereford Hop

£3.90 per 100 g

Hard cow's milk cheese coated in toasted hops.

Charcuterie

Air-dried ham

£6.80 per 100 g

Our own Old Spot legs, salted and air-dried for 14 months. Sliced thin to order.

Fennel salami

£5.20 per 100 g

Coarse Old Spot salami with fennel seed and red wine, from a Herefordshire maker.

Bresaola

£7.40 per 100 g

Whitbatch topside, cured with juniper and air-dried for six weeks.

Coppa

£6.60 per 100 g

Neck of Old Spot, cured with garlic and black pepper.

The larder

Beef dripping

£3.50 per tub

Rendered from Whitbatch suet. The best fat for roast potatoes.

Bone broth

£5.50 per litre

Roasted beef bones simmered for 24 hours. Freezes well.

Hale's chutney

£4.80 per jar

Apple and onion chutney made with Corve Dale windfalls.

Sourdough loaf

£4.60

From the bakery across the road, delivered warm at 8 am.

A salt beef sandwich on rye being pressed together on an oak board

The hatch · Saturdays

Salt beef on rye, through the window.

A small wooden serving hatch opening onto a street, a hand passing out a salt beef sandwich wrapped in paper, chalkboard blank, sunny Saturday

03 — Through the hatch

Breakfast baps and Saturday sandwiches.

Breakfast

From 8 am, every day we’re open

Bacon bap

Three rashers of our dry-cured back bacon in a soft floury bap. Brown or red sauce.

£5.50

Sausage and egg muffin

Ludlow sausage patty, fried egg and Cheddar in a toasted muffin.

£5.80

Black pudding and egg

Our black pudding, a soft egg and brown sauce on sourdough toast.

£6.20

Lunch

Friday and Saturday from 11 am

Salt beef on rye

Hand-carved salt beef, mustard and pickles on rye. Saturday hatch favourite.

£8.50

Porchetta roll

Slow-roast Old Spot belly, crackling, salsa verde and rocket.

£8.00

Steak sandwich

Sliced sirloin, caramelised onion and horseradish mayo on ciabatta.

£10.50

Ploughman's box

Pork pie, Cheddar, ham, chutney, pickles and bread. Takes away well.

£9.00

Order lunch for collection

Catering & hog roasts

Pre-order · Collect from 3 pm

Lunch for twenty? Give us a day’s notice.

Ploughman’s boxes, grazing boards and sandwich platters, ready to collect or delivered in Ludlow.

Call 01584 000 123

Pre-order online