The Leaping Hare Restaurant
RESTAURANT
‘it doesn’t put a foot wrong’ Jay Rayner – The Observer. Click HERE to read the full review.
Housed in a 400-year-old barn, The Leaping Hare marries rustic charm with refined cuisine. Our menus, inspired by the rhythms of the estate, feature produce from our gardens and meats from our pastures. Recognized with a Michelin Bib Gourmand for over two decades, we invite you to dine where every dish tells a story of place and season.
Alas, dogs are not welcome in our restaurant but you may like to bring them to sit on our terrace (where we serve our café menu & drinks), or in the café at our discretion.
Our Café is open from 10am (9am Saturdays), serving breakfast until 11:30am and our café lunch menu is available from 12pm – 4pm
OPENING TIMES
We are closed on Monday & Tuesdays.
Breakfast
Wednesday to Sunday: 10.00am – 11.30am
(From 9.00am on Saturdays)
No booking required.
Lunch
Wednesday to Sunday: 12.00pm – 2.30pm
Bookings recommended for the restaurant. We also have our café menu available, which we do not take reservations for.
Afternoon
Wednesday to Sunday: 2.30pm – 5.00pm
No booking required.
Dinner
Friday & Saturday: 7.00pm – 8.30pm
Booking highly recommended.
SUSTAINABILITY
The Leaping Hare is not just committed to food that reflects our immediate Suffolk landscape. We are dedicated to true and holistic sustainability. For example, we manage our SSSI ancient woodlands for biodiversity, and the by product is timber that supplies all of our heating and hot water for the business as well as venison for the menu.
We graze our wetlands to create the right habitat for endangered wading birds like lapwing, and in turn have rare breed beef on the plate. Orchids thrive in our wildflower meadows thanks to the light sheep grazing, giving us delicious lamb.
Our 22 miles of carefully laid hedgerows are the perfect home for yellowhammers and chaffinches, but also produce a sustainable surplus of wild game. Most of our electricity comes from our own array of solar panels. The list goes on, as we seek to enhance the complexity and resilience of the land we are lucky enough to call home.
To read more about our conservation and sustainability credentials, click here
WYKEN VINEYARD
OUR WINES
Planted in 1988 on a south facing slope that was the site of a Roman vineyard, our vines thrive in a terroir of sandy loam over chalk. Past awards include ‘East Anglian Wine Of The Year’ and ‘English Wine Of The Year’ for our Wyken Bacchus.
