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Harrison Brockington was the winner of last year's South West Chef of the Year competition

Michael Caines launches South West Chef of the Year 2025

Renowned chef Michael Caines MBE DL has launched the 2025 edition of the prestigious South West Chef of the Year competition – a highlight of the region’s culinary calendar and a platform for recognising the best cooking talent from across the South West.

Michael, who is chef/patron at the Michelin-starred Lympstone Manor, co-founded the competition in 2004 with the aim of championing professional excellence, nurturing rising stars, and celebrating the world-class food and drink produced in the region. Now in its 21st year, the competition continues to spotlight the outstanding...

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Franco Manca builds on 40,000 Christmas pizza pledge

Authored by Paula_D
Posted: Tue, 12/10/2019 - 9:11am

Sourdough pizza pioneer, Franco Manca, has pledged to turn surplus dough into delicious fresh sourdough bread for those most in need this festive season and beyond. The initiative which will launch on the 9th December and continue throughout 2020 aims to help those going without food or shelter, with loaves being distributed to local soup kitchens, charities and shelters across the UK.

The project supports Franco Manca's plans to reduce food waste across each of its UK-based sites, a focus for the New Year. The business already employ a number of waste-reducing initiatives across...

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Step out of Christmas with a Comptoir festive feast

Authored by Marc Astley
Posted: Fri, 12/06/2019 - 5:45pm

If you want a festive feast with a flavour of the Middle East, step into Exeter’s Comptoir Libanais this Christmas.

You won’t hear Slade, Wizard or Mariah (thankfully) and the décor is refreshingly tinsel-free.

What is guaranteed however, is a tongue-tingling table full of treats.

The mixed mezze starter is a meal in itself and comes with two vegan and two meat dishes.

The vine leaves stuffed with rice, pine nuts and pomegranate seeds were surprisingly tasty, fresh and fragrant, as was the Aubergine with Tahina, which was laced with garlic parsley and Sumac...

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Sharpham Cheese Triumphs with Two Exceptional National Awards

Authored by HarryWild
Posted: Fri, 12/06/2019 - 9:43am

Sharpham Cheese has recently won two outstanding awards in the food industry: UK Supreme Cheese at the Global Cheese Awards and British Product of the Year in the Great British Food Awards.

UK Supreme Cheese – Global Cheese Awards

The Global Cheese Awards, hosted by Frome & District Agricultural Society, awarded Sharpham Cheese’s ‘Washbourne’ the overall prize of UK Supreme Cheese. Competing against an impressive 751 cheeses, Washbourne stood out for its smooth, creamy texture and distinctive flavour.

Washbourne is a unique ewe’s milk cheese. The curds are...

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Dining Devon Wins South West England Food Blog of the Year 2019

Dining Devon, a well-established online food blog, has been announced as South West England Food Blog of the Year 2019 by LUXlife Magazine, as part of their 4th annual Food and Drink Awards.

Founded in 2011, as Eating Exeter, the blog rebranded in 2017 due to its widening appeal and growing demand to visit establishments all over Devon to help with exposure for smaller independents as well as part of larger business PR campaigns.

Many featured venues are also just part of the three bloggers increasing appetite for the many tasty places they visit across Devon in their spare...

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5 myths about wines to bust

Wines are healthy alcoholic beverages help us loosen up from the pressures and stress brought by hustling hard every day. Drinking a glass of your favourite wine after a long and tiresome day at work is just heaven. However, in some cases, some of us get intimidated by drinking a glass of wine because it's still an alcoholic beverage that can adversely affect our health.

Take note that wines are made naturally from grapes. Unlike different types of alcoholic drinks, wines do not contain a lot of synthetic elements. In fact, most medical experts would recommend drinking a glass of...

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Riverford wins Rising Star of the Year award

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 11/27/2019 - 3:26pm

Organic veg box company Riverford has won Rising Star of the Year Award at a national awards ceremony recognising excellence among employee owned businesses.

Judges at the Employee Ownership Association Awards praised the new culture of co-ownership across the Riverford business, which they said had helped it secure the win, and a successful first year under the new ownership model.

“The award celebrates a business that already, in its early life, has an effective employee ownership culture where its commitment to engaging its workforce is driving a strong financial...

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There’s ‘naan’ denying that Denley’s Essence of India is the best in the West Country

Denley's Essence of India in Topsham has been crowned the winner of the Asian Restaurant of The Year (West Country) at the 2019 Asian Curry Awards. Jay Miah and Islam Khan, owners of the popular East Devon restaurant attended the awards ceremony on Sunday 17th November at Grosvenor House, Mayfair, London. The owners, together with their families accepted the prestigious award.

The Asian Curry Awards, now in its 9th year was attended by 700 VIP guests, including guest of honour, Sadiq Khan, Mayor of London. The awards were set up in order to recognise the huge successes by business...

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Costa Coffee expands partnership with Too Good To Go to tackle food waste in Exeter

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sun, 11/03/2019 - 8:40am

Costa Coffee, has expanded its partnership with Too Good To Go, the world’s largest food waste fighting app, from nine to 100 stores across the UK.

After a successful trial across nine stores, Costa Coffee fans are now able to select from 100 participating UK stores to save delicious unsold food from going to waste. With only the customer’s smartphone needed, consumers simply download the free app, purchase the food from a nearby store and collect at the designated pick up time. The collection can consist of three or more items which collectively would total £10, all reduced to the...

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Recycle Devon launches new online recipe book to help reduce food waste

Recycle Devon has launched a new online recipe book to help Devon residents waste less food and save up to £800 a year.

The free book “ Have Your Food And Eat It ” shares tips on buying, storing and preparing food and contains recipes for using up leftovers to help make food stretch further.

In the UK, we throw away 6.7m tonnes of food a year which is a third of the food we buy. Nearly half of that is fresh fruit and vegetables, bread, dairy, rice and pasta.

Research also shows that we throw away more food than we think we do, with common reasons including buying...

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Edward Marsh Wins 2019 South West Chef of the Year

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Sat, 10/26/2019 - 10:43am

The winner of this year’s South West Chef of the Year competition has been announced at a special awards ceremony at Exeter Golf and Country Club. Finalists faced their biggest challenge to date by designing and cooking a menu for some of the South West’s most notorious chef judges at Exeter College.

The 2019 overall winner of South West Chef of the Year was awarded to Edward Marsh, Sous Chef at the Manor House Hotel, Castle Combe. To compete for the title, finalists had to cook a three-course menu using a surprise box of ingredients presented to them just 30 minutes before and a...

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