Breakfast

Breakfast At Wren House

Breakfast at Wren House is informal and relaxed. A cereal and fruit buffet is laid out for you to help yourself  which includes homemade muesli, cereals, seasonal fruit compotes, fresh fruit, fruit juice and creamy Greek yoghurt. For those who would like it, a full ‘English’ breakfast of crispy bacon, local Cumberland-style sausages, on-the-vine tomatoes and free-range or organic eggs is also available.

All breakfast ingredients are carefully selected for taste and quality and Wren House has recently achieved an Ethical Collection Food Award from Alastair Sawday. Where possible these are organic and local.

Milk is delivered to the door in traditional glass milk bottles from the Jersey and Guernsey dairy herd at the end of the village only quarter of a mile away: every cow is known by name and animal husbandry is of the highest standard. Deep yellow yolk free-range eggs are also delivered from a local farmer and sometimes provided from Daylesford Organic or Barrington organic eggs. When available, Daylesford organic sourdough bread is also served. The ground coffee is organic as are some of the teas and infusions. Wren House Seville Orange Marmalade – made with organic fruit and fair-trade sugar – and homemade Damson jam from the Donnington hedgerows are also popular. Jars of the marmalade can be purchased if stocks permit and is also available at Finns of Chelsea Green in Elystan Street, London.

Breakfast is served in the large, vaulted kitchen at 8.30 a.m. – a little later at weekends. In summer, if the weather permits, it can be taken al fresco in one of the sitting areas in the garden.

Guests are invited to sit at one table. This gives those who wish it the opportunity to chat with people from an entirely different sphere of life, to share information and, in particular, their Cotswold experiences. Exciting itineraries are often the result!

Kiloran can offer advice and there are books and a basket with local information and maps to look through.