We have begun measuring the activity of our local Greater Horseshoe Bat colony with the help of a wonderful customer Mark Thomas, who has loaned us a bat detector for a few months. It looks like there are 4 species of bat using the moat near the cafe.
We are also undertaking a number of surveys of light and sound…
Our evening events have been on hold recently, as we have been in discussions with Natural England to see whether we may accidentally cause stress for the local colony of Greater Horseshoe Bats. That situation continues but as the days get longer we are able to hold early evening events, as long as they finish by sunset.
Join us on Friday…
Berry Head is home to a colony of Greater Horseshoe Bats, a rare and threatened species. As another inhabitant of this special headland, we have a duty to ensure that we do not inadvertently cause harm to this species.
This spring and summer we had planned to expand our series of themed restaurant evenings. However when we discussed this with our…
Join us at the Guardhouse Cafe in early 2015 for a gastronomic tour of Italian regional food and wine…
Before moving to Devon and taking over at the Guardhouse Café in 2014, Lucy studied, walked, worked, skied and cooked in Italy. Most recently she was a tour guide for walking tours featuring authentic local cuisine from the tip to toe of…
We are proud to have been accepted as a member of Food and Drink Devon, a not-for-profit organisation promoting quality, freshly-prepared, locally-sourced food and drink within the county. To become a member we had to undergo an audit of our suppliers, policies for sustainability, approach to food, and our general culture, which was followed by a vote of the organisation’s…
We have thoroughly enjoyed hosting our series of evening events this Autumn. From vegetable skeletons at Halloween, to home-made Middle-Eastern baklava, to lectures about William of Orange, we have served a lot of tasty food and learned a lot of new styles of food!
We look forward to restarting these evenings in February 2015, with a gastronomic tour of Italy.…
Paella night at the Guardhouse Cafe!
Our first two Paella nights have been hugely successful. Thanks everyone for coming and joining our Fiesta! We will be repeating the paella nights every Sunday and Wednesday in August at 7:30pm – click here for more details…
In August we will be opening late on Sundays and Wednesdays for food, drinks and a friendly atmosphere! The first events are Paella evenings on August 3rd and 6th; check out our events page for details of each evening.…
The baby guillemots – known as Jumplings – have jumped and left us for another year! sadly we missed the big event, but fingers crossed for next year…
It was a fairly good year for the guillemots, with 1400 adults seen regularly on the cliffs in June.…
We were understandable nervous about our first event in the cafe, but thoroughly enjoyed both the morning and evening parties. It was a magical experience watching the sunrise over the sea at 5.02am on Saturday 21st June. Some porpoise even obligingly swam through the path of the sun. 26 of the early risers then came back to the cafe for…