Cranstons Latest News

We’re excited! Are you? We are pleased to announce Oswald’s is reopening this Saturday, 4th July! 🙌🏻 The new menus are available to view on our website and @oswalds_cranstons1914 story highlights The team can’t wait to serve you brunch and coffees again! 🍽☕️

We’ve got some brilliant news to share! Our 21 day dry aged Sirloin steak has been judged the Best naked steak in Britain by the Q Guild of Butchers🥩🏆😊 A big 🙌 for Alan here who works with our beef farmers, looks after the maturation and oversees our butchery team. Well done Alan 👌

Who’s ready for a Cranstons Full English and a decent coffee? Cafe Oswald’s is re-opening on Saturday 4th July. We will be posting details of our new menu and how we plan to keep our diners safe over the next few days. 😊😊😊

Our hot counters are open for breakfast + lunch until approx 2:30pm everyday! Our Cumbrian Food Hall in Penrith is trialling a new hot meal box at the counter + hatch on Thursdays + Fridays 😋 Choose... A hot pie or Cumberland sausage + mash or chips + garden or mushy peas Served with a rich onion gravy Only £4.50 per meal box

Great news ! Our much loved salad bars are back at our 4 food halls. They’re no longer self serve but our team are more than happy to serve you. Pop in for lunch 😊

The team at the Cumbrian Food Hall have been busy today making burgers and kebabs ready for the next few days of BBQ weather! 🔥☀️ Dave has: Steak, Topside + Cheddar, Beef, Pork + Apple and Lamb + Mint Burgers 🍔 Sharon at @fynefish has a freshly-prepared range of marinated salmon burgers and prawn kebabs! 🍤 We can surely say that we will be sunning ourselves in Costa Del Cumbria these next few days!

It's Monday again tomorrow! We have great availability on our ranges of hot and cold lunches! Our hot counters are open at all six of our sites, and the takeaway hatch is open at our Cumbrian Food Hall for those of you who wish to buy a hot meal, cold drinks and crisps etc! We look forward to seeing you all soon!

We're rounding the thank you tour off with a massive thank you to our team at the Cumbrian Food Hall in Penrith 🙌 The whole team has really taken the changes in their stride and worked incredibly hard to keep up with the demand we've seen - always with smiles on their faces! All of you have been superstars! 👏⭐️ Pictured are: Caroline, Abbie, Sharon (Fyne Fish), Connor and Phillipa.

We have good availability on mail orders at the moment! 🚛 There's lots of our most popular lines on there including traditional Cumberland Sausage, 21 day dry aged steaks, and meat selection boxes! Why not have a browse of our online shop and see our ranges for yourself? 🖱http://cranstons.net/store/

Our limited edition Father's Day pork pies are in the shops from tomorrow until Sunday! 🙌🥧 If you're looking for a last minute gift, why not create your own hamper? Alex put this one together at our Cumbrian Food Hall and it's full of Cumbrian goodies including a box of toffee and fudge from The Toffee Shop, Peppermint sharing slice from Traybakes Ltd, whisky miniature from The Lakes Distillery, Loweswater Gold from Cumbrian Ales and cider from Cumbria Cider Co. 😋

How well do we serve you? What changes could we make to improve? Cranstons would love to hear your views, the link to our customer survey is in the bio. 2 respondents chosen at random will receive £50 of Cranstons vouchers.

As more and more of us are heading back to work, we've added an additional in-store collection time slot to our click + collect service. 🙌 The existing 10-11am and 2-3pm car park collection slots remain an option but we now also offer an in shop 5-6pm collection ideal for collecting an order on your way home from work. Collect from Tuesday - Saturday at Brampton, Orton Grange + the Cumbrian Food Hall.

The hot counter at our Carlisle Food Hall is back open for business! Hot food available for breakfast + lunch to takeaway from Fisher Street 🍴

Treat Dad this Father's Day! 🙌 From Thursday - Sunday this week we will have these Limited Edition 'Dad' pork pies in all of our food halls and shops. 🥧 We have a wide selection of gifts available too include fudge and toffee from The Toffee Shop, beer gift packs from the likes of Cumbrian Ales, Brack'N'Brew Brewing co., Eden River Brew Co and Hesket Newmarket Brewery. 🍻 You could even treat Dad and Grandad to their very own bespoke hampers! 🎁

We found ourselves back in the production area this week! 😅 Without the teams over here, we wouldn't have anything in the chillers! 😨 Huge thank you to everyone who's worked their socks off over the past 11 or so weeks! You've definitely put some hard graft in. 🙌👏 Pictured we have Nathan, who is usually in the Oswald's kitchen, Zbi, Janice + Gary, and Shaun + Liam. 📸 The thank yous also extend to those who weren't caught on camera! 😃

We ❤️ our rustic sausage rolls! Handmade and perfect for sharing, they are great for picnics now we can have socially distanced meet ups! ↔️ Choose from Caramelised Onion or Hog Roast 😋

The hot food takeaway hatch is fully up and running at our Cumbrian Food Hall in Penrith! 🙌 It's open 8am-2.30pm Our hot counters at all our sites: Orton Grange, Brampton, Hexham, Carlisle city centre and Penrith town centre are all open too for breakfast + lunch

Our takeaway hatch opens at the Cumbrian Food Hall tomorrow morning! It's all ready and waiting for you! - There is a limited menu - Contactless payments only 💳 - Please bear with us, it's a new venture and they're not without teething issues! 😅🤞 See you all tomorrow!