Close to Walsingham Farms Shop, the Norfolk Riddle serves delicious locally sourced food, and has a great takeaway fish & chip counter.

The Riddle is part of Walsingham Farms Shop Partnership, established to support local farmers and promote local food.

Our food and drink philosophy

Local, fresh and seasonal, we try to get ingredients straight from the producer wherever possible. Wild game from Walsingham Estate Shoot is a speciality, with venison, pheasant and partridge in season, rabbit and pigeon as available, while we can get mussels or crab straight from the fishermen. Our chef-manager, Hervé Stouvenel, changes his menus almost daily as he responds to locally available produce.

We try to have a good choice of the many local Norfolk ales, and we offer cider from Whin Hill of Wells-next-the-Sea. Our wine list is short and modestly priced.

Why the Norfolk Riddle?

We named the restaurant after the riddles used to sort potatoes, a key crop here in Norfolk, and part of the answer to the riddle of sustaining farming in the 21st century! We use the finest varieties, grown locally. Some vintage riddles, looking like giant sieves, hang in the restaurant.