Hearth & Hollow

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Café & bakery · Uphill, Lincoln

Worth the climb.

Speciality coffee, slow breakfasts and bakes from our own oven, at the top of the hill a few steps from the cathedral. Pull up a chair. You’ve earned it.

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Today at the counter

Fresh this morning

  • Cardamom buns, still warm £3.60
  • Leek, Lincolnshire Poacher & thyme tart £10.50
  • Guest filter: washed Ethiopian, peach & bergamot £4.50
  • Spiced pumpkin soup, seeded soda bread £6.95
  • Plum bread toast, salted butter £3.00
  • Brown butter & pecan blondies £3.20
  • Pear & ginger loaf £3.40

Hello, come in

A small café at the top of the hill.

Steps from the cathedral, right where the climb runs out, Hearth & Hollow is where uphill Lincoln comes to sit down. Speciality coffee, slow breakfasts, seasonal lunches and bakes that are still warm when they reach the counter.

  • Baked at six

    Croissants, buns and sourdough from our own oven, every morning we’re open.

  • Coffee, dialled in

    A seasonal espresso and a rotating guest filter from a small roaster in the county.

  • A sunny courtyard

    Sixteen seats out the back, tucked away from the wind that comes over the hill.

  • Dogs welcome

    Water bowls, a biscuit jar on the counter and a warm spot under the bench.

Our story

A small room with the oven on.

We opened Hearth & Hollow because the top of the hill needed somewhere to catch your breath: a proper espresso, a window seat, and something warm coming out of the oven.

The bakery starts at six. Croissants are laminated over three days, and the sourdough has been fed every morning since we opened. Our coffee comes from a small roaster in the county and is dialled in fresh each day; the milk comes from a dairy a few miles out of town.

It’s a small room, with twelve seats inside and sixteen in the courtyard when the sun’s out. So come early, bring the dog, and stay as long as you like.

“Nothing on the counter is older than this morning.”

Our one house rule
First bake of the day
6:00
To laminate a croissant
3 days
Inside and in the courtyard
28 seats
Water bowl, always full
1

From the bakery

Out of the oven this morning.

Everything is made here, in a kitchen about the size of a large cupboard. These are the ones people climb the hill for.

Butter croissant

Laminated over three days and baked at six. It should leave flakes on your jumper.

£3.20Best before 10

Cardamom bun

Knotted by hand, rolled in pearl sugar and gone by about eleven.

£3.60Our best seller

Lincolnshire plum bread

Our take on the county classic: spiced, fruity, sliced thick, toasted and buttered.

£3.00 a sliceLoaves £8

Celebration cakes

Whole cakes made to order with two days’ notice. Lemon drizzle, chocolate and cherry, carrot and walnut.

From £30Pre-order

Kind words

Overheard at the counter.

“I came in for one cardamom bun and left with four and a loaf. No regrets.”

A regular, Tuesday mornings

“My spaniel got a biscuit before I’d even ordered. We’ll be back every Sunday.”

Visiting with a spaniel

“Worth every step of that hill. Then I sat in the courtyard for two hours.”

First-time visitor, in the October sun

Quotes are illustrative. Hearth & Hollow is a concept café.

Visit

Find us up the hill.

Uphill, Lincoln, a few minutes’ walk from the cathedral. If you’re coming up from the lower town it’s a proper climb, so we’ll have the kettle on.

Tue–Sun · see our hours

Opening hours

MondayClosed
Tuesday8:00 – 16:00
Wednesday8:00 – 16:00
Thursday8:00 – 16:00
Friday8:00 – 16:00
Saturday8:30 – 17:00
Sunday9:00 – 15:00

The kitchen closes half an hour before we do. Bank holidays vary, so give us a ring.

Get in touch

Hand-drawn map to Hearth & Hollow A stylised sketch, not to scale. A winding street climbs from the lower town at the bottom left, past little houses and trees, to the café near the top of the hill. The café has a small courtyard beside it, and the cathedral sits just beyond, at the top right. Hearth & Hollow coffee · bakes the cathedral sunny courtyard the steep bit, worth it from the lower town N
Uphill, Lincoln, near the cathedral. Map not to scale (the hill is steeper than it looks).

Book

Save a seat, or a whole cake.

Walk-ins are always welcome, but if you’d like to be sure of a table (or a lemon drizzle with your name on it), drop us a line here.

  • We hold tables for fifteen minutes.
  • Cakes need two days’ notice and can be collected any time we’re open.
  • Bringing a dog? Say so in the notes and we’ll save the bench.

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I’d like to…

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We’re closed on Mondays.

Dogs don’t count, but they’re very welcome.

Allergies, a birthday, a dog, a pram. Up to 300 characters.

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