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Love Local Food Festival Returns to Exeter Castle

The Love Local Food Festival returns to the historic grounds of Exeter Castle on Saturday 15th August, uniting the region's top producers for a day-long celebration. Hosted by the award-winning Greendale Farm Shop in collaboration with Food Drink Devon, this free-to-attend event invites food lovers to explore the best of the West Country from 10am to 6pm.

Set in the heart of the city, the festival promises a day filled with delicious local food, live entertainment and family fun, all designed to champion the incredible growers, producers and makers that make Devon a culinary...

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Hat Trick of awards for The Grapevine Brewhouse

Summer brings award success to the shores of Exmouth with the Grapevine Brewhouse, on site brewery Crossed Anchors and resident Ruby Kitchen all winning regional awards.

At the Taste of the West Awards Crossed Anchors won four GOLD product awards for their craft beers. Paddy O’Riordan said “ We are over the moon with these awards, it’s our first year of mainstream production and to win four such important awards is a huge endorsement of our beer, its great news for the brewery and also for Exmouth”

Ruby Kitchen, in residence at the Grapevine, also won a Taste of the West...

Entries open for 2017 SW Chef of the Year

The 2017 prestigious South West Chef of the Year competition is open for applications.

The highly anticipated culinary contest is the only one in the UK with the aim to find the very best regional talent from not one but five categories including professional and young professional chefs, students and apprentices, junior cooks under 16 years and home cooks.

The South West’s culinary reputation has long been lauded, shaped by its bountiful lands and coastline that create outstanding produce and in turn inspire an increasingly long list of home grown Michelin starred chefs...

Dessert options for your next celebration

A celebration is a time to gather and have fun. It’s about being together and acknowledging a special moment.

However, with every party comes a checklist of what needs to get done; one of the major tasks to tackle is the menu. Here are a few dessert options for your next celebration that’ll satisfy your sweet tooth.

Cupcake Tower

Cupcakes are a cute alternative to one large cake. They come in all different flavors, and this includes having various frosting choices. Plus, they’re individually wrapped so everyone can just grab one whenever they’re ready and take...

Ottery Food & Families Festival launches

The 2017 Ottery St Mary Food & Families Festival has been officially launched with an event at Tickety-Boo in the town centre.

Festival organisers, sponsors and friends gathered to toast the fifth annual festival, to be held on Saturday, June 3.

Each year, the town becomes a melting pot of producers, traders, chefs, young cooks, real ale fans, locals and visitors, enjoying a day of celebration of all that is good about East Devon food.

This year, the festival features cookery demonstrations from The Deer Park Hotel, The Pig at Combe, Exeter Cookery School, Tina...

Budding Cranbrook chefs cook-up a feast at ‘Cranbake’

A group of students aged 11-13 and their families from Cranbrook Educational Campus have taken part in a ‘ready, steady, cook!’ style series of healthy cooking sessions provided by Axminster charity HALFF (Health and Local Food for Families).

Funded by East Devon District Council via NHS England’s healthy new towns programme, ‘Cranbake’ gave students and families a chance to cook a variety of meals together as part of a four week course.

Parents were surveyed and feedback included: “After school on Wednesday afternoons, we made delicious meals in the school kitchen, like...

Exeter researchers say computer game could help children choose healthy food

A simple brain-training game could help children choose healthy snacks instead of chocolate and sweets, according to a new study.

Children who played a seven-minute game devised by University of Exeter psychologists made healthier choices when asked to pick foods afterwards.

The game involves reacting to images of healthy food by pressing a button, and doing nothing if unhealthy foods are shown.

“The sight of foods like chocolate can activate reward centres in the brain at the same time as reducing activity in self-control areas,” said Lucy Porter, the lead...

Record entries in Food & Drink Devon Awards 2017

Entries closed last month for the prestigious Food & Drink Devon Awards and once again there has been a huge increase in the numbers of entrants. Undoubtedly, 2017 looks set to be another record-breaking year for the awards which recognise the very best talent in Devon’s flourishing food and drink scene.

Barbara King, a proud champion of Devon’s producers and chair of the board of directors for Food & Drink Devon, comments: “These gold standard awards were set up seven years ago to celebrate the county’s most respected, influential and passionate artisan food and drink...

Black Tor Brewery launches beer to celebrate 25th anniversary of Devon Air Ambulance

Black Tor Brewery based in Christow, Dartmoor National Park have launched a special new beer to celebrate 25 years service of the Devon Air Ambulance and raise money for the charity by donating 10p for every pint/bottle sold.

Down Draught 4% ABV, a refreshing and easy drinking amber bitter will be available in pubs across Devon from now until November and bottles available from May at farm shops, hotels, restaurants and off-licenses.

Jonathon Crump, award-winning brewer and Director of Black Tor Brewery said, “I am very excited and proud to be involved with the 25th...

The City Gate launches in Exeter

Last Thursday the City Gate hosted an official launch party to celebrate the venue’s new look.

Formerly known as the Crown and Sceptre, the boutique pub-hotel is literally laced into the fabric of the ancient city of Exeter and has been welcoming guests since it first opened in 1778.

Transformed, following an extensive refurbishment by renowned pub, hotel and bar group Young’s, The City Gate offers everything from a pint of real ale to after-work cocktails, a leisurely weekend brunch to a three-course dinner and, with 14 boutique bedrooms, a stylish place to lay your head....

Thurlestone Hotel unveils The Trevilder restaurant after massive refurbishment

The award-winning Thurlestone Hotel in South Devon has announced the opening of its new restaurant ‘The Trevilder’, following a million pound refurbishment.

The development has seen the existing restaurant undergo a complete transformation with a new identity and new menus ready for the summer season, featuring produce sourced almost exclusively from within the county. Set across two levels and with floor-to-ceiling windows that make the most of the dreamy coastal views, the restaurant has been completely redesigned by London-based Fabled Studio, whose work can be seen in many of...

Food & Drink

Love Local Food Festival Returns to Exeter Castle

Hat Trick of awards for The Grapevine Brewhouse

Entries open for 2017 SW Chef of the Year

Dessert options for your next celebration

Ottery Food & Families Festival launches

Budding Cranbrook chefs cook-up a feast at ‘Cranbake’

Exeter researchers say computer game could help children choose healthy food

Record entries in Food & Drink Devon Awards 2017

Black Tor Brewery launches beer to celebrate 25th anniversary of Devon Air Ambulance

The City Gate launches in Exeter

Thurlestone Hotel unveils The Trevilder restaurant after massive refurbishment

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