Pantry Barn Cafe Bar
Pantry Barn Cafe Bar, Salisbury
At a glance
A family-run café and bar in the courtyard of the Breamore Estate near Fordingbridge, on the New Forest edge — alongside a farm shop and countryside museum, on walking and cycling routes. Made-to-order breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea.
Gluten-free options
Everything is plated to order and the kitchen describes its menu as completely adaptable across breakfasts, lunches and snacks, so what can be made gluten-free is a conversation with the kitchen rather than a short fixed list — and the published menu names gluten-free bread outright. When a gluten-free order comes in, staff ask whether the diner is coeliac as a matter of routine. There are always at least two cakes in made with gluten-free ingredients, baked by outside professional bakers rather than on site.
Before you order
The café has set out how it keeps a coeliac order apart: the gluten-free bread goes into a toaster bag rather than through the shared toaster, the food is put together in a separate preparation area, and there is separate cutlery with spreads kept aside for coeliac orders. Saying you are coeliac is what starts that routine, so it is worth being explicit when you order. The cakes are the one thing the café holds back on: they come in from professional bakers and carry a very low gluten label rather than a gluten-free one, because the café cannot vouch for airborne cross-contact in a bakery it does not run. If that distinction matters to you, the label on the day is the thing to look at.
Worth asking?
Which parts of the cooked breakfast can be plated gluten-free today? Are the cakes in today labelled very low gluten, or is anything in fully gluten-free?
What this means for coeliacs
The café has described how a coeliac order is handled rather than just saying gluten-free is available: staff ask whether you are coeliac, the bread is toasted in a bag, and the food is prepared in a separate area with its own cutlery and spreads. That covers the part most kitchens cannot answer — how the food is kept apart once the order is in — and the made-to-order kitchen means the menu can flex around it. The bought-in cakes are the honest exception, labelled very low gluten rather than gluten-free.
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This information is researched but not guaranteed — menus and kitchen practices change. Always tell staff you are coeliac.