Kimbridge Barn
Kimbridge Barn, Salisbury
At a glance
A cafe, tea room, and event venue on the banks of the River Test at Kimbridge, run by the Ideal Collection group. It serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and afternoon tea, with wood-fired pizza on Fridays. About 12 miles from Salisbury — an outer-radius destination suited to a combined visit with the Test Valley or nearby Mottisfont. It's a mile or so from Mottisfont, so a natural lunch stop if you're visiting the house and gardens.
Gluten-free options
The March 2026 menu labels several dishes gf or gfa: Kimbridge Fried Chicken (gf), Gammon Egg and Chips (gf), Bubble and Squeak (gfa), Soup of the Day (gfa), Spiced Vegan Koftas (gfa), and several Hasselback Potato toppings. The breakfast menu marks the Kimbridge Full and Kimbridge Vegan Breakfast as gfa. AfternoonTea.co.uk formally lists the venue as offering a gluten-free afternoon tea option with advance notice. The in-house pastry chef makes cakes, some of which cater for gluten-free preferences.
Before you order
Advance notice is stated as required for a gluten-free afternoon tea. The venue operates wood-fired pizza on Fridays and bakes its own bread and cakes on site, so flour is in heavy use in the kitchen — worth discussing cross-contact directly with staff, particularly on pizza nights. No allergen page or process statement is published on the website beyond the per-dish menu labels.
Worth asking?
Does the kitchen have a separate preparation area or dedicated utensils for GF dishes, and is this in place on pizza Fridays when flour is particularly heavy in the kitchen? Are the pastry chef's GF cakes baked separately from the wheat-containing baked goods, so there is no cross-contact from shared equipment? For the gluten-free afternoon tea — what advance notice is needed, and what substitutions are made to the standard menu?
What this means for coeliacs
The live menu labels several dishes GF or GFA, and a gluten-free afternoon tea can be booked in advance via a third-party platform — a genuine GF provision, though no cross-contamination statement or dedicated preparation detail is published, and the pizza and bakery setting increases the importance of asking about handling.
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This information is researched but not guaranteed — menus and kitchen practices change. Always tell staff you are coeliac.