Meet n Marrow

Meet n Marrow Feeding people the truth. Let’s relearn what healthy eating is together

Apparently it’s quite warm today. In case you hadn’t heard… only the other 847 people have mentioned it 😂😂🫠Please bear w...
25/06/2026

Apparently it’s quite warm today. In case you hadn’t heard… only the other 847 people have mentioned it 😂😂🫠

Please bear with our kitchen team over the next couple of days. They’re currently cooking your breakfast whilst also slowly becoming part of it. At this point we’re fairly certain the surface of the sun is running a cooler service than our kitchen.

We’ll still be serving the same proper scran with the same love; it just might take a tiny bit longer while the team try not to evaporate 😂

A massive thank you to everyone who’s already been so patient; understanding and genuinely lovely with the staff. Those little comments of kindness honestly make a huge difference when they’re grafting in this heat.

See you soon; if we haven’t all melted into a puddle by then 💚

Two years ago Michael Harvey organised a beach event and four people turned up; 1 was Michael. Which is the kind of atte...
24/06/2026

Two years ago Michael Harvey organised a beach event and four people turned up; 1 was Michael. Which is the kind of attendance figure that would normally make most people pack it in and take up golf

Instead; he kept going.

Last night there were 320 people on that beach doing yoga; meditating; breath work; supporting independent businesses and eating steggs

People LOVE to tell you why something won’t work….too niche; wrong time; wrong place or that nobody will come.

Turns out sometimes you should politely ignore those people and crack on anyway

At the cafe we spend a lot of time talking about the food we consume with good ingredients and real food; things your body actually recognises. But last night was a reminder that the energy we consume matters just as much.

The people around us; the conversations we have and environments we put ourselves in and there was some seriously amazing energy on that beach.

Massive thank you for inviting us to be part of it. To Emily for somehow feeding hundreds of people from a BBQ without having a full scale breakdown. To Inna for serving so many people I genuinely started wondering if she’d cloned herself and to Scott and Glen for helping us transport what appeared to be an entire cafe to a beach. Also couldn’t forget the huge high five to our amazing butchers for consistently supplying us with the best meat ever 💚

Now if you’ll excuse me;I’m off to spend the rest of today finding sand in my clothes;my shoes and somehow my bank account.

Until next month guys 💚

Apparently one beach event wasn’t enough; so we’ve somehow been trusted to do it all again tonight 🥹We’re genuinely hono...
23/06/2026

Apparently one beach event wasn’t enough; so we’ve somehow been trusted to do it all again tonight 🥹

We’re genuinely honoured to have been asked back. For a little cafe that only opened a few months ago; opportunities like this still feel a bit surreal. So tonight we’ll be serving grass fed steak; smash burgers and trying our very best not to get sand in absolutely EVERYTHING

A massive thank you to our amazing team who’ll be holding the fort back at the cafe while we’re away; Meet n Marrow genuinely wouldn’t be what it is without them 💚

If you’re heading to the beach; come and say now then. If you’re not; don’t worry; the cafe is open as normal and being looked after by the dream team.

Wish us luck 🥳

Tonight was a reminder that health aint always found in a meal planDon’t get me wrong; I’ll still happily spend 27 minut...
19/06/2026

Tonight was a reminder that health aint always found in a meal plan

Don’t get me wrong; I’ll still happily spend 27 minutes explaining why your breakfast shouldn’t come out of a packet and why protein matters but sitting round a table with people you genuinely love being around? That’s up there too

Modern life has us inhaling food in the car; eating lunch over a keyboard; answering messages while we’re chewing and somehow convincing ourselves that’s just life

Tonight we did the complete opposite; we shut the door; celebrated our head chef getting another year older and spent a few hours eating far too many chicken wings; taking the p**s out of each other and solving precisely zeroooo of the worlds problems.

When you feel safe; connected and relaxed; your body literally shifts into a state that’s better for digestion; recovery and overall HELF. Turns out humans weren’t designed to eat a chicken salad whilst checking WhatsApp; replying to emails and ordering dog food

We were designed for sharing scran; for howling at each other; for creating communities and for making people feel like they matter

HUGGEEEE shoutout to for an absolutely ridiculous spread. you guys never fail 👏

Watching someone we care about feel celebrated and loved for a few hours was probably the healthiest part of the eve tbh

Now if you’ll excuse me; am off to pretend cheese boards count as a wellness intervention

The Steggs 🥩🍳Grass fed steak; scrambled eggs and cooked in grass fed beef dripping. Raw local honey drizzled over the to...
16/06/2026

The Steggs 🥩🍳

Grass fed steak; scrambled eggs and cooked in grass fed beef dripping. Raw local honey drizzled over the top; plus some beautiful sourdough from our local baker.

No ingredient list longer than a Harry Potter novel and zero seed oils. Just real food.

Because when your body recognises ingredients; it knows exactly what to do with them. Tastes like a dream and; hand on heart; I’m so proud that every day we get to put meals like this in front of people 💚

To-marrow, to-marrow…we love ya to-marrow…Grassfed steak; bone broth gravy and Parmesan rosemary mashed potattys Availab...
13/06/2026

To-marrow, to-marrow…we love ya to-marrow…

Grassfed steak; bone broth gravy and Parmesan rosemary mashed potattys

Available only on Sundays folks

10-3 🥳

Bookings recommended; blind optimism also works 😂

Let’s talk about baked beans. Not because it’s a topic anyone expected to be discussing at length on a Thursday but beca...
11/06/2026

Let’s talk about baked beans. Not because it’s a topic anyone expected to be discussing at length on a Thursday but because most people have absolutely no idea what’s actually in them.

The average tin contains more ingredients than Roy has brain cells. Sugar; modified starches; flavourings; preservatives; extracts; concentrates and enough mystery to keep a forensic team occupied for weeks. So naturally; we decided to make our own.

Because if we’re going to serve baked beans, we’d quite like them to contain…beans 🫠

These are slow cooked in house from proper ingredients with no seed oils; no strange additives you can’t pronounce and nothing that requires a quick Google search halfway through reading the label

The result? Baked beans that taste like baked beans probably tasted before food companies collectively decided everything needed to be sweeter; cheaper and shel stable until the next ice age

They’re currently sat on one of our sweet jacket potatoes (unless you request a normal potato) hiding beneath what can only be described as an irresponsible amount of Parmesan.

Toppings vary but the obsession with real food doesn’t

Monday and rain; what a combo Anyway here’s some banging food Open 9-3 🥳
08/06/2026

Monday and rain; what a combo

Anyway here’s some banging food

Open 9-3 🥳

Today was busier than our opening day 😂😂😂Which is absolutely mental considering by 9:06am our convection oven had decide...
06/06/2026

Today was busier than our opening day 😂😂😂

Which is absolutely mental considering by 9:06am our convection oven had decided it no longer identified as an oven; a few mins later the electrics tripped; then the internet joined in. An absolutely phenomenal team effort from the equipment

Meanwhile the cafe was filling up; people were settling in; Steggs orders were landing left; right and centre and internally I was somewhere between ‘we’ve got this’ and “I wonder if anyone would notice if I simply walked into the sea?’

The chefs however, were having none of it
‘Mate; we’ve got this’

And somehow they actually did

The oven was deceased; the internet had left planet Earth; the steaks were disappearing at an alarming rate. FOH was moving like we had rockets strapped to our arses and I got matcha in my eye. I don’t think I’ve said the word ‘Steggs’ this many times since I first scribbled it onto a menu before we’d even got the keys. Then the steaks really started to vanish. Before I’d even finished saying ‘we need more meat mate…’ Axel was halfway to Yarm.

The thing is; days like today make me realise something. Almost every day now somebody comes through the door because somebody else told them to. A friend; a family member a work colleague or someone online

The other day a loveky lady came in cos her specialist nurse had actually recommended she eat our food due to the ingredients we use and the way we prepare it 😭💚

That’s incredible that cos when me and Axel sat talking about this place before we’d opened; we weren’t dreaming about having the biggest cafe or the fanciest cafe. We just wanted to create somewhere that proved real food CAN taste incredible and actually make people feel good too.

The fact that word of mouth is spreading the way it is means more than we can explain

So here’s a photo of me stealing approximately 34 seconds to inhale my breakfast on the floor at 1pm because if you’ve ever wondered what owning a cafe looks like; this is it 😂

And swear down I wouidnt change a second of it
To every person who came through our doors today; Thankyou. To everyone who tells their friends about us; thank you.

And to this ridiculous team who somehow survived a dead oven; disappearing internet; tripping electrics and a near steak emergency whilst producing what felt like 17 million Steggs…

Weve never been prouder guys

To the people who think healthy food is boring…Respectfully…Look at this 😏Gluten free pancakes topped with creamy Greek ...
05/06/2026

To the people who think healthy food is boring…

Respectfully…

Look at this 😏

Gluten free pancakes topped with creamy Greek yoghurt; our in house berry compote and now finished with a generous handful of house made granola because apparently we don’t know when to stop

Tastes like a treat; made from actual food. A concept that continues to upset the ultra processed food industry.

No bloating; no food coma and no feeling like you’ve swallowed a mattress and need a lie down by 11am

Just proper ingredients; proper flavour and pancakes that leave you feeling human afterwards.

Have a lovely weekend; you wonderful lot and thank you for keeping us so busy. We genuinely appreciate every single one of you 💚

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Darlington
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Monday 9am - 3pm
Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm
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