Visit us at our multi-award winning sister pub, The
Red Lion in Hinxton.
Food
We aim to offer something for everyone for every occasion, while keeping the dishes freshly prepared and locally sourced, where possible.
Our talented executive head chef, Chris Woodward, runs The Black Bull kitchen as well as keeping an eye on The Red Lion, where we have been awarded an AA rosette for a number of years now.
We have a Classic Pub and lunchtime sandwich menu for regular favourites, as well as frequently changing A La Carte and Specials Board menus. All menus are available throughout the pub and we encourage guests to eat or drink where they feel most comfortable – bar, restaurant or outside patio/lawn areas.
Please find current menus below. If you’d like to be kept abreast of new menus or special events, please sign up here. We do not have a specific children’s menu, however, we can offer most of our dishes in any size or adaptation requested. It is a diverse menu that satisfies most tastes. We also have a significant number of vegetarian and gluten-free dishes.
The majority of our suppliers are local - see below - and deliver daily, which allows freshly prepared food and a daily changing Specials Board.
Please call, email or complete our form for reservation enquiries.
We have regular Special Events, such as Chef Taster Menus, Wine Dinners and Pudding Club nights – see below for up coming dates.
Drink
Drinks are primarily locally sourced too. Three of the four real ales on the hand pumps are permanent fixtures: Woodforde’s Wherry (Norfolk), Greene King IPA (Suffolk) and Adnams bitter (Suffolk), with the fourth pump rotating between smaller local micro breweries, such as City of Cambridge Hobson’s Choice, Nethergate Augustinian, Brandon Rusty Bucket.
We have about 40 wines on offer, supplied by Cambridge Wine Merchants, H&H Bancroft and Matthew Clark covering most palates and pockets. At any one time 17 of these wines are available by the 175ml or 250ml glass, as well as 5 by the half bottle.
Suppliers
We are very fortunate to have some outstanding local suppliers who are fundamental to what we can offer here. Below is a list of a few:
Adnams Wines - Suffolk
Aspall Cyder - Suffolk
Brandon Brewery - Suffolk micro (Rusty Bucket)
Cabana Soft Drinks - Colchester
City of Cambridge Brewery (Hobson's Choice)
Denham Estate - Suffolk venison
Direct Seafood - Colchester
Fisher & Woods - fruit & vegetables - Saffron Walden
Flying Coffee - Great Abington
Glebe Farm Organic Flour, Huntingdon
Greene King - Suffolk
HMK Supplies Ltd - Cambridge
Humpty Dumpty Brewery - Norfolk
Infusions Ltd - Bury St Edmunds
Local Flavour - Bottisham Smokery
Nethergate Brewery - Clare, Suffolk
Northrop Butchers, Cambridge
Norths Bakery, Sawston
Woodefords Ale - Norfolk
Tastes of Anglia - Many of our suppliers are members (as are we) of Tastes of Anglia ("Proud to champion local food and drink from the eastern region").
Menus
Click below to download our latest menus.
A la Carte Menu
Bar Menu
Pudding Menu
Sunday Menu
Wine List