Bread at dawn, soup by noon
The ovens are warm long before the door opens at eight. From the first laminated pastry to the last bowl of soup, Lantern Table Kitchen cooks honest seasonal food for Lantern Row, with every price on the menu.
Early morning in the Lantern Row kitchen, with the first bake of the day under way. The film rests on a still image when reduced motion is switched on. Picture and film credits
Menus, the counter and the long table
Settle in for a cooked breakfast, catch the day’s lunch plate, take a warm pastry and a cortado to go, or gather friends around the long table at the back. The price you read here is the price you pay at the table.
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Seasonal breakfast
$16 per person
A hot plate built on the week’s market harvest, served with naturally leavened toast, a house preserve and your choice of coffee or tea. From opening until eleven, Tuesday to Sunday, walk-in only.
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House lunch plate
$19 per plate
Midday cooking that leaves you nourished, not weighed down: a cooked centre, two seasonal vegetable dishes and house bread. Chef writes it each morning and chalks it up at the counter by eleven.
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Soup and bread
$12 per bowl
A slow-simmered soup made from scratch that morning, ladled out with a thick slice of the house loaf and salted butter. One pot a day, served until it runs out, with every ingredient listed at the counter.
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Pastry selection
From $5 per pastry
Butter-laminated croissants, fruit danishes and cardamom knots, baked in-house before the door opens. The line-up changes daily, a box of four is priced at the counter, and larger orders need two days’ notice.
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Coffee service
From $4 per cup
Pour-over filter and precisely dialled espresso from a single small-lot roaster, with whole milk, oat milk or neither. Brought to your table with food or poured at the counter until fifteen minutes before close.
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Private table enquiry
Custom quoted in writing
The long table at the back seats ten, for birthdays, small work lunches and family gatherings. Tell us the date and your group size, and we reply with a written quotation before the table is yours.
Scratch pastry at dawn, one plate by noon
We keep the menu short on purpose. Our bakers shape and laminate dough by hand before sunrise, the soup goes on while the ovens are still warm, and Tomás writes the lunch plate around whatever the week’s growers have brought to the back door. No freezer trucks, no year-round menu, and no surprise charges at the bottom of the bill.
From the bake, the bar and the dining room
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Dining roomUpholstered seats and tall windows onto a quiet street, ready for the morning regulars. -
BreadA scored sourdough round cooling on the rack, later sliced thick for soup and bread. -
CoffeeVelvety micro-foam on a milk drink, poured to order at the morning bar.
Meet the kitchen and floor team
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Eleanor Pryce
Founder and host
Eleanor opened Lantern Table Kitchen and still sets the rhythm of the room, greeting walk-ins by name and planning every long-table gathering herself, from first message to final toast.
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Tomás Reyes
Head chef
Culinary Institute of America-trained, with fourteen years in seasonal, farm-to-table kitchens. Tomás writes the lunch plate each morning, bakes the house loaf and keeps the allergen-safe prep stations in order.
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Nadia Ferrante
Pastry and coffee lead
Classically trained in French pâtisserie, Nadia rolls the morning croissants and danishes before sunrise, then turns to the espresso bar, choosing the small-lot roasts and tasting every delivery.
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Jonah Whitfield
Guest experience coordinator
Jonah answers every message, talks guests through the day’s menu and makes sure allergy and dietary notes reach the kitchen before you arrive, so nothing has to be explained twice at the table.
Notes from regulars and neighbours
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Seated within a minute on a busy Saturday, talked through the week’s plate and never rushed. This is the breakfast I keep coming back to.
Anouk G. Seasonal breakfast
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Told the soup had sold out before I even ordered, so I came back early the next Saturday. That bowl and the warm sourdough were worth it.
Percy T. Soup and bread
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One plate, chalked up that morning and described properly. Lunch that leaves you nourished, and the price beside it was the price on my receipt.
Miles K. House lunch plate
Good to know before you come
Lunch plate or soup: how do I choose?
Go by appetite. The house lunch plate is one generous dish, chalked up by eleven from that morning’s harvest, while the soup is a single pot made from scratch and served until it runs out. Both come with bread from our own oven. Neither is set aside in advance, so if your heart is set on one, come early rather than late.
Are the menu prices final?
Seasonal breakfast ($16), the house lunch plate ($19) and soup and bread ($12) are fixed prices. Pastries start at $5 and coffee at $4, with each item priced on the board, and the long table is quoted in writing for your date and group before anything is agreed. No service charge or surprise surcharge is added to the bill, and nothing is paid through this website.
What should I know before my first visit?
We seat twenty-six, and every seat except the long table is first come, first served. The door opens at eight and the pastry counter is at its fullest in the morning; by two it is thinning out, and we will always tell you what has sold out rather than swap in something else. The room is on one level, flush with the pavement on Lantern Row, with a counter down one side and the long table for ten at the back.
Can we book the long table for a group?
Yes, and it is the only table we hold in advance. It seats ten: send us the date, your headcount and anything the kitchen should know, and Eleanor replies in writing with the date and a quotation. The table is held once that reply has been sent. The other sixteen seats stay open for walk-ins all day.
Just before eightThe corner table laid for two, minutes before the door opens and the first regulars come in from Lantern Row.
Contact
Planning a visit or a gathering?
Walk in for breakfast or lunch any day we are open. For the long table, a large pastry order or a question for the kitchen, send us a message and we reply by email during opening hours, with nothing held until that reply arrives.