This place was such a find!! My friend and I were hiking Hadrian's Wall and had spent the night at Winshields. We were about 3/4 of the way though the trip at this point and a little low on energy. Well, a breakfast at The Sill set us right! We also bought packed lunches to go while at The Sill and they were absolutely delicious. Pretty sure we only made it through this day of hiking because of this place!

Visited The Sill on our way to Alnwick. Beautiful place to stop, scenery magnificent, but oh what a disappointment the restaurant is. Has quite an extensive menu of small bites, cakes, sandwiches. We ordered Leek and Potato Soup with a cheese sandwich. I asked my self how is it possible to make a Leek and Potato Soup tasteless, well I can tell you it is ! It tasted like water, obviously no stock used to make it (could easily be vegetable stock to suit vegetarians), dark green in colour just yuck ! As for the cheese sandwich/roll this consisted of cheap white bread roll spread with something which obviously wasnt butter with two chunks ( and I mean chunks) of cheap Red Leicester Cheese. This with a pot of Tea and a Latte was £25.70 !

I had been looking forward to visiting the Sill for quite some time, however I found it quite underwhelming. The exhibition displays were a bit bizarre, too low down to see them or interact with them as an adult (they were designed to be at that height for kids I guess) and many of the touch screens seemed to have problems in that they were not responsive to finger touches. Those that did respond were very slow to display each subsequent screen of info and as such I found that I generally lost interest in each one very quickly. The touch screen in the special Lynx reintroduction exhibit would only respond if a special touch pen was used but was still incredibly slow resulting in its use being rapidly abandoned too. At the request of the Lynx reintroduction exhibition volunteer, I completed the online questionnaire via the QR code link, but I did find it far too long so eventually I was probably just clicking on answers without giving them any real thought in order to get the questionnaire finished. The limited fayre offered in the cafe was disappointing too. The only saving grace was that there’s no admission fee to visit the Sill.

Went for breakfast. One of the best breakfasts we have ever had. Food all locally sourced, very tasty sausage and bacon from the butcher in Haltwhistle. Perfectly cooked eggs and other ingredients which made up the large breakfast (we asked if we could swap the beans for mushrooms on the one and the tomatoes for mushrooms on the other, this was accommodated with ease and pleasantness). Good price, good coffee and a cake to take home for afternoon tea. Not sure about the negative reviews about the cafe, we found it clean, friendly staff, great food and tasty coffee. Perfect view of the Northumberland countryside. Would recommend and return.

Great place of discovery, they have a little cafe which serve great food at a great price. The car park was £8 all day. we parked up there and went for walk to Hadrian's wall and came back later that afternoon.

Perfect place to start and finish our walk to Sycamore Gap along Hadrians wall . The cafe was light and welcoming . Staff friendly and service was quick . We had a breakfast before setting off on our walk . We also visited the shop which had some lovely gifts and fabulous local heritage books . The lady on the info desk in the foyer was very helpful giving us a map to aid our walk . All in all a great experience . You must pop up to the viewing gallery on the roof !

The quality of the food was good. The tea was poor. Either too big a pot , too few tea bags or just poor quality ones. Most of the cafe staff gave the impression of not really wanting to be there.

We were camping in heddon on the wall and decided to use the sill as our base to explore hadrians wall. We parked in the carpark easily around 9am and went to the cafe for breakfast, the breakfast sandwiches were gorgeous, the best we have had for a long time! I had the vegan sausage, mushroom & brown sauce.. highly recommend, the tea we ordered was more than enough for 4 people, we got 2-3 cups each! Only thing that stopped me giving 5 stars was that there was no dog friendly area inside the cafe so we had to sit outside and that morning was cool for the time of year. Maps for the wall are available in the visitor centre and the toilets are very clean. The beginning of the walk is literally across the road so that was ideal. We did a 4 hour walk that looped us back to the sill and when had afternoon tea which was very nice and plentiful.

Visited on route from Northumberland to the Lake District. Initially stopped at one of the other ‘stops’ but disappointed by food offered so came back to The Sill. Friendly service and good food. Lovely location. Weather a bit too yuck for exploring Hadrian’s Wall on this occasion. Just be aware you do need to pay to park.

Always enjoy our visits to The Sill. On our last one there was the Shaun The Sheep trail which our daughter loved! Loads of informative and interactive activities within that are great for kids and adults alike. The living roof, and the information boards explaining each aspect, is fascinating and the views from the top are amazing. The food in the cafe never disappoints and the (giant!) pots of tea are an absolute bargain, I swear you can get about 15 cups out of them! 😁