Station Buffet

Station Buffet

A charming café inside Alnwick's old railway station building, alongside Barter Books, serving hearty breakfasts and sandwiches - can get busy at peak times.

Address:

Alnwick Station, Alnwick, NE66 2NP
Call:
01665 604888

Hours:

Daily: 9am - 6pm

Map

Good to Know

The Station Buffet is the café inside Barter Books, in Alnwick's grand old Victorian railway station, one of the largest second-hand bookshops in the country. It serves homemade food from soups and bacon sandwiches to Northumbrian rarebit and baking, plus barista coffee and even wine.

Why it's on our list: a coffee among the books, with model trains running overhead in the shop, is one of Alnwick's simple pleasures, and it's easy to lose an afternoon browsing.

Worth knowing: it gets busy, especially at weekends and in the school holidays, so arrive early for a table.

A Little Note From Heather & Sand

We haven't quite made it here ourselves yet, but it's on our list!

We're working our way around Northumberland, personally visiting and reviewing as many of the places featured in our Listed section as we can. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do it.

In the meantime, we do our homework. Before adding somewhere to Heather & Sand, we research it, look at what other visitors have to say and check that it has a good reputation. If the feedback isn't encouraging, it generally doesn't make our list.

Of course, a little online research is no substitute for muddy boots, a decent coffee and seeing somewhere for ourselves. So until we've visited, we'll leave the personal review to one side.

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