Food & Drink

RUBY Modern Diner on Exeter's Queen Street is celebrating having won a Taste of the West 2013 Gold award. These prestigious awards celebrate excellence among food retailers, producers and hospitality businesses across the South West.

RUBY has also been nominated in the Best Takeaway category at the Food & Drink Devon Awards . These awards celebrate the very best our county has to offer across food production, retail, hospitality and service.

Erin Allgrove, Joint Managing Director of Modern Diners Ltd said, “Its great to see the provenance and quality of our food...

The orchards at Killerton Estate, near Exeter, are full to bursting this autumn.

On the weekends of 5/6 October and 13/14 October, from 11am until 4pm each day, families are invited to head into the orchard to help collect up apples to be pressed for Killerton’s award-winning cider.

The ‘Big Pick Up’ is a free family activity, with mini wheelbarrows for the children and free cider tasters in the orchard for the adults. There is also an apple quiz and members of Killerton’s countryside team will be on hand to help with the answers.

Killerton’s medium-dry cider has...

Staff at national organic home delivery company Riverford are celebrating following a huge win at the 27th Soil Association Organic Food Awards. “Everything we grow and sell at Riverford is selected for flavour, and winning so many awards in a blind tasting reassures us that we’re hitting the mark,” said Riverford’s founding farmer and current BBC Farmer of the Year, Guy Watson.

Riverford started as a vegbox business but has been busy extending its food range to include picnic goodies, desserts and a creative new range of soups. “Enjoying and sharing good food is at the heart of...

A local restaurateur is making a major investment to meet the discerning Exeter market. City centre-based Lloyd’s Café and Bistro is re-branding and undergoing a dramatic and high-end refurbishment to create a London-feel restaurant.

The plans are to create a ‘mini-convent garden’ on Catherine Street which encompasses the open Piazza offering alfresco dining located parallel with the High Street and adjacent to the Roman ruins; popular as a meeting place for shoppers and visitors to the city.

In a survey of nearly 40,000 people undertaken by on-line retail estate portal...