Please place your order and pay at the counter, then take a seat and relax with our story themed activities. Your food and drinks will be brought to your table.
There will also be seasonal specials, ice-creams and homemade cakes and bakes available on the counter. Hot food served 10am to 3pm (5pm on Thursdays).
If you’d like to order food to takeaway, please give us a call on 01709 829750 (option 2) to place your order.
We cannot guarantee our kitchen is free from allergens.
Key for allergens: ‘V’ vegetarian, ‘Ve’ vegan, ‘GF’ Gluten Free, ‘N’ contains nuts.
By dining with us today, you are supporting our charity’s work and enabling us to change lives, one story at a time. Thank you.
Mortal Menu
Hot Drinks
Americano £3.60
Espresso £2.90
Latte £4.00
Cappuccino £4.00
Flat white £4.00
Cortado £3.85
Biscoff Latte £5.00
Mocha £4.50
Peppermint Mocha £4.95
Iced Brown Sugar Shaken espresso £4.50
Darkwoods dark hot chocolate £4.50
Milk hot chocolate £4.00
+ Deluxe option (marshmallows/cream/sprinkles) +50p
Babyccino £1.00
Baby hot chocolate £1.25
Yorkshire Tea/Teapigs decaf brew £2.50
Speciality Teapigs Teas – see counter £3.00
Tea for Two (Yorkshire/Speciality) £3.50/£4.00
Chai latte £3.95
Super Matcha Latte £4.50
Strawberries and Cream Iced Matcha £4.75
Rov’rum Fog £3.95
Decaf coffee, oat milk, cream and flavoured syrups are also available (+50p for syrups)
Cold Drinks
Cawston press fruit waters £2.95
Cawston press sparkling cans £3.50
Fruit shoots £1.50
Sparkling water/Still water £1.50
Curiosity cola (Fentimans) £3.95
Victorian lemonade (Fentimans) £3.95
Glass of milk S/L £0.50/£1.00
Fruit juice cartons £1.25
Diet Coke £2.20
Hot Food – Served 10am to 3pm
Rarebit sourdough toast – with pickled shallots and salad. £8.50
Sourdough toast. GF option available. Served with butter and jam/
almond butter/marmalade/marmite. VE. £4.00
Eggs on sourdough toast (scrambled or fried) £6
Bacon Butty – smoked bacon served on a soft sub roll. £6.50.
Vegan Sausage bap. VE. £6.50
Breakfast Butty – sausage, bacon, egg and cheese. £8.50
Pancake Stack – Maple Bacon, Banana Berry or Cinnamon and Vanilla Yoghurt. V(o) £8.00
Baked Eggs (Shakshuka) – served with feta, herb yogurt, focaccia.
This may take a little longer to arrive. V. £10.50
Yoghurt and Granola with fruit compote (can be vegan). £5.50
Invisible rarebit (food for thought – this is a donation which helps to change lives one story at a time.) £5.00
The following items can be served as a meal with crisps and side-salad for an extra £2.50:
Sausage roll – served warm or cold. £4.95
Vegan Curry roll – served warm or cold. £4.75
BLT sandwich – dairy free. £8.00
Cheese and chutney sandwich – £7.50
Pastrami, pickle and cheese sandwich – £8.00
Ham and cheese toastie – £7.00
Chorizo and cheese toastie – £7.50
Pesto and cheese toastie. Vegan option available. £6.50
Croque Madame. £8.00
Brie, cranberry and bacon toastie. £7.50
Pasta bake – adults – served in a skillet with pangrattato crumb topping and
cheese. V. £8.00
Loaded Cheesy Potato wedges – served with jalapenos and bacon bits. V(o) £7.50
Falafel and Hummus wrap – Ve. £7.50
Soup of the Week. £6.00
Garlic bread. One slice £1.75. Two slices £3
Mini-Mortals Menu:
Pancake with chocolate sauce. V £2.00
Tomato pasta – served with grated cheese. V. £4.00
Chocolate toastie V. £3.00
Cheese toastie V. £3.00
Child’s sandwich – with cheese, jam, chocolate spread or marmalade V. £3.00
Pizza Bread – Margherita £2.50. Ham and Cheese – £3.00
Garlic bread. One slice £1.75. Two slices £3
Cheesy Potato wedges – V. £4.00
Child’s Sausage roll. £2.50
Lunch meal deal – choose one child’s sandwich or toastie, one child’s drink and a choice of snack. £5.00
Magical Menu
Hot Drinks
Americano: Boiled magic bean juice to liven the senses. May cause gentle awakeness and an urge to hop for 5 seconds. £3.60
Espresso: Condensed magic bean juice, causing instant awakeness, lasting up to 2 hours (the blink of a eye in other realms). £2.90
Latte: Magic bean juice with the milk of human kindness. A comforting warm glow may radiate from your ears. £4.00
Cappuccino: Magic bean juice with frothy overtones. May cause a sudden urge to open a delicatessen in Doncaster. £4.00
Flat White: Magic bean juice with stiff and sturdy froth. May cause instant desire to wear low-rise flares and grow a beard. £4.00
Cortado: Magic bean juice cut with steamed milk of human kindness. Beware of flamenco dancing. £3.85
Biscoff Latte: Magic bean juice fused with baked caramelised comfort. May cause smiles and sighs of satisfaction. £5.00
Mocha: A blend of two kinds of magic beans with milk from a cocoa fountain. Watch out for curly toes. £4.50
Darkwoods Hot chocolate: Minotaur hoof mud. May cause spontaneous mooing (usually mid-sentence). £4.50
Milk Hot chocolate: Mud off a mermaid’s dance floor. Warning – beware of flossing (the dancing variety), effective immediately. £4.00
Yorkshire Tea: Graham Grimm’s Glorious Gulp. Side effect: Only able to speak using alliteration. £2.50
Speciality teas: Griffin’s Glugs – may cause talking in rhyme, all of the time £3.00
Tea for two: Griselda’s Guzzle – Constant cackling in a Yorkshire accent. £3.50/£4.00
Chai latte: Bohemian’s Beverage. May cause spontaneous wandering £3.95
Matcha Latte: A drink for super-hero adventures. Caution: May cause immediate impulse to save the world. £4.50
Babyccino: A fairy’s hot tub from far-far away. £1.00
Milks with extra human kindness also available, although these may cause allotment envy.
Cold Drinks
Cawston Press Fruit waters: A drop from the fountain of funny jokes. Beware of impromptu telling of bad jokes. £2.95
Cawston Press sparkling cans: A drop from the fountain of love stories. May cause an itch to write romantic novels. £3.50
Fruit shoots: Bottled good behaviour, may contain newts. Causes sudden tidyness and persistent punctuality. £1.50
Still/Sparkling water: A quench of creativity from the Source, giving a wide and bountiful imagination. £1.50
Fentimans Botanical Bottles: Sorcerer’s Snort. Beware a weakness for tall hats. £3.95
Glass of Milk: Superhero Sip. May cause a compulsion for cape and eye mask wearing. £1.00
Fentimans Curiosity Cola: A drop from the fountain of mysteries, leading to an obsession for escape rooms. £3.95
Fruit juice cartons: Bottled distilled happiness, may contain saliva from a fairy kiss, causing infectious smiling and happy dreams. £1.25
Hot Food – Served 10am to 3pm
Rarebit: The curse of Cawthorne – forces the eater to speak forever with a posh Barnsley accent. £8.50
Sourdough toast: A Cutting remark. Beware of persistent telling of knock-knock jokes. £4.00
Bacon butty: Doom and Gloom remedy. Contains excessive optimism. £6.50
Vegan sausage roll: Alternative Doom and Gloom remedy. Contains excessive optimism. £6.50
Sausage butty: May cause excessive spitting and sizzling. £6.75
Pancake stack: A hearty heap of fluffy rounds topped with sumptuously sticky savoury or fresh and fruity sweet. May cause extreme comfort and a lovely nap. £8.00
Baked Eggs: Wise cracks and wittycisms. May cause uncontrollable laughter. Do not operate a hot cauldron within 46 seconds of consumption. £10.50
Yoghurt and Granola: Shavings of dried humour. May cause intermittent growling. £5.50
Legend in your lunchtime. May cause eating in your sleep. £5.00
Pork roll: The sausage of sarcasm. Made from the tail of a dark horse. £4.95
BLT: A bolt of bravery. Made with the twinkling of an eyeball and shavings from a knight’s leather boot. £4.75
Cheese and Chutney sandwich: Side splitting Slapstick. Contains grilled legs from a ticklish centipede. £7.50
Ham and Cheese toastie: Timeless Toasted Temporary Tongue Twister. £7.00
Cheese and Chorizo toastie: Timeless Toasted Temporary Tongue Twister seamlessly spliced with spicy sausage and skill – a savoury star! Warning: May lead to a touch of the heebie jeebies. £7.50
Brie and Cranberry toastie: Toasted Travels. Seasoned with salt from the tears of a lost adventurer. May cause unexpected yodelling. £6.50
Pesto and cheese toastie: A Mediterranean summer stroll. May inspire long walks by the sea and a relaxed attitude to timekeeping. £6.50
Croque Madame: A legionary’s lunch. May cause a compulsion to correct spelling and swap erroneous I-s for optimal O-s. £8.00
Pasta Bake: Euphoria. May cause a compulsion to read everything in search of unnecessary commas,,, £8.00
Loaded wedges: A perilous pile of perfidious potato: pop them on your palate and pontificate the peaks of piquancy. May cause a sudden outpour of tacky jokes. £7.50
Falafel and hummus wrap: A scroll of wisdom from a wizard’s wardrobe. Reading may reveal ancient and terrible secrets so probably just eat it instead. May cause mysterious consequences (nobody knows). £7.50
Soup: The plot thickens… stories in a bowl. What will it be this time? £6.00
Mini-Mortals Menu
Tomato pasta: The Plot Thickens. Stories in a bowl, made with strange characters, unbelievable settings and the potential for a cliffhanger crouton. £4.00
Chocolate toastie: Tooth fairy delight. Made from shaggy dog stories and bricks from an estate in candytown. £3.00
Cheese toastie: Suspension of disbelief – made from writers’ tears of joy. £3.00
Sandwich: Sunny disposition. Made with the beam of a ray of sunshine and a drop of rain. £3.00
Pizza bread: A toasty tasty sorcerer’s snack. Topped with whimsy and wonder and cheese. Can result in an immediate ability to pull a rabbit from a hat. £2.50/3.00
Cheesy wedges: Slices of wholesomeness. May cause a mouse-like squeaking and a sudden urge to eat more cheesy potato wedges at the next possible opportunity. £4.00
Sausage roll: Junior sausage of sarcasm for wits-in-training. Made from the trimmings of a dark pony’s mane. £2.50
Hot Food served from 10am to 3pm.
Smaller portions and Gluten free/Vegan options are available on request.
