THE BRETHREN'S KITCHEN

The Brethren’s Kitchen has served food to Kings, Tudor nobles, Guildsmen, monks and the Brethren for 500 years.  In by gone years, vegetables, herbs and fruit were grown in the Masters Garden, cooked in the Brethren's Kitchen and served in the Great Hall at lavish banquets.  Today the Brethren's Kitchen is open to visitors of the Lord Leycester, as well as the general public, for breakfast, light lunch and cream teas. Food is home made, fresh and when in season, uses produce from the Master's Garden. Opening hours are Tuesday through Sunday 1000 to 1630. Contact Nick at 07876333520 or nicuisine@hotmail.com, if you want to book a table or discuss special events.

There are some interesting historical artefacts in the Brethren's Kitchen and as such  it is part of the Lord Leycester Guided Tour. The room itself has been at the centre of cooking and preparing food at the Lord Leycester for five hundred years. The range inserted in the open fireplace was invented and installed by Flavels of Leamington Spa in 1854 at a cost of just over £21. The Brethren cooked and ate together here until restoration of the Hospital in 1966 provided them with self-contained flats. Look for the 16th century oak cupboard at the back of the Brethren’s Kitchen.  The cupboard is from Robert Dudley’s home in Kenilworth and reputed to have once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I. The story goes she gave it to Dudley for the Brothers to hang their robes in.  Inside the front door on the right hand side as you enter is a 16th century padlocked ink well - its not easy to find so look carefully!​