The Menus
In our continued commitment to sustainability and hyper local sourcing, our chefs focus exclusively on land-based ingredients for our tasting menu. Tommy Banks works closely with Executive Chef Callum Leslie and Head Chef Alice Power to bring together everything from our own farm and garden, foraged wild ingredients and preserved seasonal produce. It might be something outwardly simple but really fresh and delicious or perhaps an incredible flavour developed by fermenting, pickling or prolonged ageing.
We look forward to sharing our unique expression of Oldstead and North Yorkshire with you.
Dinner:
| View Sample Tasting Menu | £195
Dinner is served Tuesday – Saturday with tables available to book from 6.00pm – 7.30pm
Lunch:
| View Sample Lunch Menu | £135
Lunch is served every Saturday with tables available to book from 12.00pm – 1.30pm.
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Dietary Requirements:
Before making a booking, please contact our reservations team at reception@blackswanoldstead.co.uk for further information on our menus and the adaptations that can be made in the event of an allergy.
When making a booking, please inform us of any dietary requirements so we know well in advance and can prepare a tailored menu where possible.
For guests who do not eat meat we are able to offer vegetarian alternatives only. Please note that seafood is no longer featured on the tasting menu.
With notice, we can usually adapt to most allergies but as our food includes dairy products throughout, we are not able to cater for guests with severe lactose allergies or those who require a dairy-free diet. We are, however, able to prepare a menu containing ingredients from sheep or goats instead.
Due to the layout of our kitchens we are unable to offer a menu which is safe for coeliacs, however we are able to offer gluten free options for guests who have a gluten intolerance.
In the Glass
It’s not just the food; developing the drinks list is work that’s truly steeped in passion. There’s constant experimentation. It’s about preserving and enhancing flavours; it’s fruit, vegetables and herbs; its juices, cordials, liqueurs and essences; it’s pressing, filtering, distilling, drying, fermenting and ageing. And then it’s there in a cocktail glass – sweet, sour, spicy, spirity and special. Designed and made in Oldstead.
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Our Roots
“When you work somewhere that your family has lived and farmed for centuries you just feel like you have ‘roots’; it’s like the place belongs to you and you belong to it. Once you get to know what’s there and learn how to use it, you just want to build on it.”
Adjacent to the restaurant are the rolling pastures of our farmland; home to our livestock and field-scale crops, with the herbaceous Eden of our kitchen garden showcasing seasonal exhibitions of perennial plants, edible flowers and our colony of honeybees. And in the hedgerows and woodland around Oldstead you’ll find wild fruits, flowers and herbs, nature’s bountiful larder of foraged ingredients.
Saturday Lunch & Garden Tour
From May through to September 2026 we’re offering guided Garden Tours to guests who book a 12pm or 12.30pm lunch reservation on Saturdays.
Explore our kitchen garden and learn about the sustainable, regenerative growing techniques and preservation methods we’ve adopted and developed over the years here in Oldstead.
Our Lunch Tasting Menu is available every Saturday and is priced at £135 per person. Arrive in the bar for your tour of the kitchen garden, followed by lunch from our tasting menu.
Enhance Your Experience
Make the most of your time in Oldstead by adding an overnight stay in one of our 9 luxury bedrooms. Retreat to your room after dinner for a relaxing night’s sleep and then set the day off right with a proper Yorkshire breakfast, Black-Swan style.
Straight to the plate
Farming, foraging and growing our own gives us incredibly fresh produce and exciting rare ingredients. With field-scale crops on our farm and two acres of growing beds and terraces in the garden adjoining The Black Swan, Tommy and the team produce wonderfully diverse seasonal menus with a real connection between field and plate.
Dine at The Black Swan Oldstead
The Black Swan is a 1 Michelin-star, a Michelin Green Star and 4 AA Rosette restaurant with rooms by chef Tommy Banks.
Experience a tasting menu that is inspired by the ingredients that we grow and forage ourselves in and around Oldstead. The tasting menu is priced at £195 per person for dinner and £135 per person for Saturday lunch.
Stay at The Black Swan Oldstead
We offer 1 night stays Tuesday - Saturday which include the tasting menu, overnight stay and breakfast in one of our nine beautiful rooms. When The Black Swan rooms are full we offer our packages at our sister site, The Abbey Inn at Byland (located 1 mile away). Please note The Abbey Inn is closed on a Tuesday and Wednesday; check in would be at The Black Swan on both these days.
We also offer 2 night packages arriving on a Saturday or Monday only. Guests will enjoy our tasting menu on Saturday/Tuesday and can experience our sister restaurant, The Abbey Inn, on the Sunday/Monday.
If you would like to make a room booking using a gift voucher, please contact our reservations team via reception@blackswanoldstead.co.uk.