Afternoon Tea is coming to the Guardhouse!
This month we will be introducing afternoon tea to the Guardhouse. A combination of sandwiches, our amazing cakes, warm scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam, plus some special creations from our chefs, with your choice of hot drinks. Served with a smile by our friendly team.
Initially this is available on three Thursday afternoons…
We were delighted when we opened the Telegraph back in February and found that we were featured in their ‘best things to do in Devon in 2016’! Check it out for yourself here!…
We are looking for 1-2 wonderful new kitchen assistants to work with us from May to October. This is a great opportunity to work alongside our talented chefs with an ever-changing menu in a wide variety of situations, from a busy breakfast service to a 3-course home-made evening meal. It would be a perfect role for any young chefs hoping…
It’s just a week until Easter! And we have some special events going on all weekend on Berry Head…
Once again we will be hosting a FREE Easter Egg Hunt around Berry Head. All day Good Friday to Easter Monday, just turn up at the cafe to collect your instructions. Free chocolate eggs for all children. We don’t charge for this…
We have three more evening events in early April. The menus will be announced nearer to the time, but we are now taking bookings for all three:
Friday April 1st: Brixham Fish
Friday April 8th: Brixham Fish
Friday April 15th: Indian
These events will be the first time our new chefs Vicky and Ben take command of one of our themed evening meals! Ably…
Nigel Smallbones was the head ranger at Berry Head for 27 years between 1985 and 2012. We asked him to share his favourite memories.
Nigel, you lived and worked on Berry Head for half your life. What are your strongest memories?
My first visit to the headland still sticks out in my mind. I was driving in for an interview and I’d…
With thanks to Mike Langman, local ornithologist and illustrator
Berry Head is one of the richest and most rewarding locations in South Devon for bird watching. The headland overlooks a wide sweep of deep ocean and contains a mixture of varied habitats, all of which combines to attract a wide variety of sea and land birds.
The guillemots are perhaps the headland’s…
We are delighted to announce another award for the Guardhouse. After our success in the Visit Devon awards we were encouraged to enter the national “Taste of England” awards. There isn’t a cafe category at this level so we were up against restaurants from all over the country. Incredibly we made it into the top 5, the only cafe to…
We had some incredible weather on Berry Head on March 9th: 91mph Northerly winds, blasting up over the quarry and smashing into the Guardhouse! It was windy enough to have difficulty standing up, to be blown sideways when you jumped in the air, and for at least a hundred roof tiles to come flying off the roof. Sadly we had…
We’re delighted to announce our 2016 Italian regional evenings. Following the success of last year’s events Lucy has been hard at work developing another group of evenings from different regions, inspired by her time working, travelling and living all over the country.
Each evening starts with a welcome drink and a short informative lecture about the region, it’s culture, food and…