The Running Fox, Powburn, Powburn

The Running Fox, Powburn

The Plough Inn Powburn Alnwick NE66 4JW

Tel:

01665 660721

10.00am - 4.00pm

Set within The Plough Inn in the heart of Powburn, The Running Fox offers relaxed café and pub dining just off the A697 in the Breamish Valley. It's an easy stop whether you're heading into the Cheviots, exploring Ingram Valley, or simply passing through on the way to the coast.

The menu leans on local, homemade cooking — full breakfasts, lunches and afternoon tea, all served at an unhurried pace in a cosy dining room behind the bar. Fresh bread, proper butter and good coffee are the order of the day.

Good to know

Open daily from 10am
Breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea
Dog friendly
Good parking outside
Booking recommended, especially for a special journey

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About The Running Fox

Tucked inside The Plough Inn in Powburn, The Running Fox has quickly become one of our favourite breakfast stops in the Breamish Valley. We'd visited before for lunch and afternoon tea, but a recent early start gave us the chance to try breakfast — and it didn't disappoint.

From outside, and even stepping through the door, it feels like a proper old-fashioned country pub. Keep going through the bar, though, and you'll find a lovely dining area tucked away behind it, with a warm welcome for dogs as well as their owners.

Two full English breakfasts, made with locally sourced ingredients, arrived with thick home-baked bread and a generous dish of proper butter — no fiddly foil packets in sight. Nobody rushed us, and nobody made us feel the table was needed back in an hour.

It's easily among the best breakfasts we've had in Northumberland, and we'll be back. 🍳☕