Pipistrelle Café, Grindon

03/10/2026

It's a beautiful morning in Grindon. Today we begin our winter menu with the return of our Moorlands-Provençal beef stew.

23/09/2026

18/09/2026

Raising the last Pipistrelle Pork Pie of the summer. On sale this weekend. Hot stews start in October 😋

18/09/2026

Homemade Grindon plum bake 😋 Thank you to the lovely lady up the road for giving us some of her plums 🙏

18/09/2026

As summer turns to autumn, out goes our elderflower cordial and in comes the elderberry. You can have this cold with sparkling water or hot in a mug.

14/09/2026

Join our Strava club for the chance to win a coffee! Every week! If you're the club's KOM or QOM up Weags Bridge Road over the last week, you get a free coffee (or hot chocolate or pot of tea). Come straight into the café after your effort, upload and see if you've won... (or swing by later).

Times are based on the 'GRINDON' segment: https://www.strava.com/segments/6860546
(We may change the segment for future weeks)

Join our Strava club here: https://strava.app.link/XsAbkOdXq6b

12/09/2026

Local Peak District bylaws forbid the trapping of wild, hand-raised pork pies during mating and hibernation (autumnal to spring equinox). So, you only have two weekends left to enjoy these beautiful wild Grindon specimens (not to be confused with moulded, farmed breeds).

11/09/2026

Our kale is ready for us to harvest some tomorrow morning to go straight into this weekend's soup 😋

10/09/2026

As we journey through autumn, our menu will be changing. Here's a rough diagram showing how we will adjust according to the orientation of Earth's axis wrt the Sun.

05/09/2026

We now have very local honey from Manor Farm in Grindon. You can have this on our granola and toast, or in your tea 😋 We also have jars for you to buy and take away🐝🍯