Roskilly’s delicious farmhouse ice cream is made on their farm at Helston, Cornwall - you can meet the cows that provide the milk, and be tempted by a multitude of home made delights in their ice cream parlour.
Devon lanes sparkle with the earliest spring primroses and early lamb is cooked with style and offered alongside real ales in thatched pubs in sleepy villages. A cornucopia of smoked delights, from eel to garlic, awaits visitors to Brown and Forrest’s Somerset Smokery. Their adjoining restaurant is a magnet for ‘foodies’ - hot smoked salmon steaks flavoured with garlic and spices ooze flavour.
Local wines are crisp and dry, perfect with freshly caught mackerel pan-fried with herbs or soused in piquant vinegar and served with locally made farmhouse breads. Restaurants perch on harboursides, menus offering the best of the day’s catch and the finest West Country beef and poultry. Cornish Yarg, a unique, nettle wrapped cheese with the tang of green pastures, is the highlight of cheeseboards and the ideal prelude to a final regional treat - Julian Temperley’s very special apple brandy from Somerset.
An award winning Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday from 9.30-2.30 on Corn Street, in central Bristol. Local producers from a 40-mile radius sell a wide range of delicious food from cheese, fish, honey, cakes, vegetables to meat, game and traditional Christmas poultry. All the produce is grown, reared, caught, brewed, pickled, baked or smoked by the local stallholders.
The monthly Slow Food Market also takes place on Corn Street from 10am-3pm on the first Sunday of every month - it's a real treat for lovers of real food. Talk to the producers, sample and purchase a fantastic range of items, and find out more about Slow Food. Food for sale includes award-winning meat, game, poultry, specialist breads, handmade chocolates, organic spices, local vegetables and fruit wines, ciders and preserves.
Pieminister produces delicious handmade pies using only the finest ingredients sourced from the west country. The factory and shop/cafe is based at 24 Stokes Croft. Hot pies to eat in with mash and gravy or buy pies to take home for supper. Favourites include Thai Chook, Chicken of Aragon, mr Porky, Matador and Lamb Minty and all are accompanied by a large helping of mash, gravy and mushy peas. The award winning pies are supplied to restaurants around the UK, and have even been eaten by the Queen.
Winner! Best Savoury Product. ‘Ideas to Dine for! Food Expo 2006’.
Double Gold medal winners at the 'Great Taste Awards' 2005.
Silver medal winner at the 'Taste of the West Awards' 2005
Bordeaux Quay Restaurant is Barny Haughton’s newest project in Bristol. Haughton, one of the UK's most respected organic chefs, is working on Bordeaux Quay which will be a restaurant, bar, bistro, shop, bakery and cookery school that aims to reduce its impact on the environment. Bordeaux Quay aims to be zero-waste and carbon-neutral - in both the construction and the running of the restaurant - and to source the vast majority of its produce from within 50 miles. Opening soon.
Bristol’s Eastside is home to restaurants serving food from around the world and a fascinating range of specialist grocery shops including a Caribbean grocer, sweetmart, halal butcher.