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At Helm you will experience seriously good food!

Fresh ingredients are bought daily from the best local suppliers - meat from a real butcher, fish from a real fishmonger and vegetables and fruit from a real greengrocer! - and prepared in our own kitchen to exceptionally high standards. Imagine the aroma of our fresh bread, baked to perfection in the Aga, greeting you as you return from an invigorating dales ramble!

John & Barbara

Dining room

The Helm Breakfast 

It will take you a couple of weeks to try everything on our breakfast menu!

While you are helping yourself to cereals, yogurt, fruit juice and fruit compote from the sideboard, we'll be busy in the kitchen preparing your choice from the following:
  • Porage
  • Fresh grapefruit

- followed by a choice of -
  • Eggs, scrambled or fried
  • Traditional, Yorkshire cured bacon
  • Tomato
  • Cumberland sausage
  • Venison sausage
  • Hog & Hop sausage (with herbs and Black Sheep Ale)
  • Pork breakfast sausage
  • Hot & Spicy sausage
  • Lamb & rosemary sausage
  • Chicken, mushroom and smoked bacon sausage
  • Wild boar with country herbs sausage
  • Toulouse sausage
  • Very good black pudding
  • Mushrooms

- or -

  • Kedgeree
  • Oak smoked Whitby kipper
  • Oak smoked haddock fillet with poached egg
  • Smoked salmon and scrambled egg
  • Devilled kidneys on toast
  • Scrambled egg on toast
  • Poached egg on toast
  • Boiled egg with toast (soldiers optional)
  • Mushrooms on toast
  • Welsh rabbit

- or-

The 'Yorkshire Continental'
A platter of local ham, Swaledale and Wensleydale cheeses with homemade bread.

- followed by -
  • Toast made from our own home-baked bread, served with butter and the day's selection of our own prize-winning home-made preserves

- and accompanied by -
  • Freshly brewed tea, coffee or chocolate

In our rooms we have a list of recommended places to eat
and for daytime food we recommend:

Sticky Ginger
Deli and tea room in Askrigg with high quality homemade food to eat in or takeaway.

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