The White Bull

Named after Grandpa Nicholson’s prize winning bull Sam, who enjoyed a pint in the beer tent after winning a prize at local shows, the newly refurbished and extended White Bull restaurant serves a range of hot and cold homemade food.

Keeping You Safe – COVID-19 UPDATE

Our restaurants are open but here’s some useful information to help you plan your visit.

Booking is NOT required, staff will greet you outside The White Bull and will constantly monitor the queue at busy times.

Please sanitise your hands on entry and exit, avoid unnecessary contact with surfaces and objects. Masks must be worn except for when you are eating your meal.

You will be allocated a table, please take note of the table number as you will need to quote this as you place your order.

Condiments can be purchased at the till point and pre-packed cutlery will be provided.

All our card machines are contactless for payments £45 and under, we strongly advise you try to use this when possible.

Opening times and menus

Opening Hours

WEEKDAY: 9am-4.30pm (last food is 4pm)

WEEKEND: 9am-5pm (last food order is 4.30pm)

Prebooking is not required!

Booking is NOT required, staff will greet you outside The White Bull and will constantly monitor the queue at busy times.

To comply with the governments track and trace scheme, you will be required to provide your telephone number, email address or your home address at the till point.

We will only keep your details for the required amount of time.

Eat Out To Help Out

We are thrilled to reveal that we are taking part in the government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme. The discount will apply in the White Bull, Hungry Llama, and the Lucky Pup.

Customers will get:

a 50% discount on food or non-alcoholic drinks (up to a maximum of £10 discount per diner)
every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday between 3 and 31 August

Go here for full terms.

We've made a safe space!

Some tables have been removed to enable us to adhere to social distancing. Unfortunately we can not allow the joining of tables and chairs.

Please be respectful of the rules we have put in place and only ONE person from your table to the till point to place the order.

Very soon you will be able to order online straight from your table.

About The White Bull

The story

In the 1950’s Charlie Nicholson bought a white dairy shorthorn bull called Sam and he won prizes far and wide with him. Whenever he won a prize Charlie would take him to the beer tent and buy him a pint of stout. He would open his mouth and Charlie would pour the beer down. Sam became known as the beer drinking bull and even appeared in the local press.

When the Nicholson family decided to redevelop and extend their existing tearoom and add a bar they decided to remember Charlie’s white bull in the restaurant name.

The White Bull serves really delicious home cooked food using beef, pork and lamb from our farm shop next door. It’s another part of what is a completely joined up food business.

Spacious and modern

With 250 seats indoors and lots more outdoor we’ve lots of space even on busy days.

Roger Nicholson, who owns the farm says “The most important part of any business is the people in it and here at Cannon Hall Farm we have some really great, professional staff who go above and beyond what is expected.”