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New Dottie's Restaurant Opens in Hotel Indigo, Exeter

Honouring a Local Icon: Dottie’s Restaurant Brings Heart and Heritage to Hotel Indigo Exeter.

Hotel Indigo Exeter is delighted to announce the launch of Dottie’s, a new restaurant inspired by one of Exeter’s most beloved historic figures, Dorothy “Dottie” Holman. Opening its doors to the public on 21st November 2025, Dottie’s invites guests to experience a chef-led journey through local flavours, thoughtful service, and the timeless pleasure of good company.

Open daily for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner, Dottie’s offers a space where guests can pause, indulge...

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Take the Great Devon Chilli Challenge

Fancy yourself as a hard man/woman? Love a fiery vindaloo? Know your nagas from your New Mex XX, your Poblanos from your Pasillas?

If you think you can eat really hot chillies, Powderham Food Festival, held this weekend, is THE place to test your taste buds.

Run by chilli connoisseurs, Clifton Chilli Club, whose mission it is to introduce, encourage, educate, have fun and share the love for all things chilli, the competition will certainly turn up the heat at this year’s Food Festival.

Held in conjunction with Dartmoor Chilli Farm and Hunters Ale, entrants will...

Cracking crab wins top accolade

FAMILY fishing firm Favis of Salcombe are celebrating after their crab meat was voted Supreme Champion Product in the Taste of the West Awards 2015.

The prestigious accolade was given to them after judges described their white crab meat as “outstandingly high quality.”

Favis of Salcombe have been sustainably fishing crab and lobster off South Devon since 1972. Last year they branched out into cooking and handpicking crab at their factory just outside Kingsbridge, before distributing it to some of the finest chefs and restaurants in the UK.

John Sheaves, Chief...

Volunteers wanted for MoodFood trial

Researchers from the University of Exeter are seeking participants for a trial into whether certain types of food could prevent depression.

Experiencing depression often goes hand in hand with being overweight. The MoodFood trial will compare different nutritional and lifestyle strategies that might change mood and wellbeing in people with a higher than average body mass index (BMI).

Volunteers must be overweight with a BMI of 25 - 40 and be feeling low or stressed. They must live in or near Exeter, be aged 18-75 and be willing to participate in lifestyle coaching,...

Warrens launches new artisan bread range

Craft Bakers’ Week (28th September – 3rd October) will see Cornwall’s oldest bakery, Warrens Bakery launch a new range of delicious, artisan breads. Adding to their already comprehensive range of delectable savouries, tasty scones, sweet treats and regional speciality biscuits, the mouth-watering smell of the new, freshly baked bread range will be wafting through their stores, tempting the taste buds of customers.

Launching on Friday 2nd October, the new artisan range has been expertly developed by Warrens Bakery’s dedicated team of master bakers. Featuring nine tasty varieties,...

The Venus Company on C4' Four in a Bed

Popular, family run business, The Venus Company has been filmed for Channel 4 programme Four in a Bed. Regulars at The Venus Company, Paul and Lynnie Jolly, owners of nearby Higher Gitcombe a luxury five star boutique bed and breakfast near Dartmouth, chose The Venus Café at Blackpool Sands to entertain fellow contestants. Both Higher Gitcombe and The Venus Café will feature on Four in a Bed on Thursday, 1st October at 5pm.

The Venus Café at Blackpool Sands, takes pride in sourcing the very best produce locally, making great use of the region’s fabulous organic food and drink....

Food & Drink Devon Awards shortlist announced

After months of blind tasting, deliberation and judging, the shortlist of finalists for the 2015 Food & Drink Devon Awards have been announced, with the winners revealed at a ceremony in Exeter on Monday 5th October. Entries from across the county included 144 products, 38 producers, 41 hospitality and 6 retail establishments judged by experts from the industry.

Molto Delizioso at Bella Italia!

This week my dining companion and I were fortunate enough to be invited to the launch of the new menu at Bella Italia in Queen Street, Exeter. I was particularly excited about this having enjoyed my precious visit so much.

Again, we were warmly welcomed by our previous Italian waiter, Manuel and an extremely friendly and highly professional manager called Mykolas. Good staff count for a lot these days, and I have to say, Bella Italia are extremely lucky to have such good staff working for them.

The new menu tasting involved a set menu of new dishes accompanied by a drink of...

National recognition for Killerton produce

Killerton Estate has won four national awards for its local produce in the Fine Farm Produce Awards which recognise the quality and sustainability of the food, drink and produce grown on National Trust land and farms.

Ashclyst Dairy, a tenant farm at Killerton, was the overall food winner in England and Wales for its organic natural yoghurt and Killerton estate itself also fought off stiff competition to take home awards for its sparkling cider, charcoal, firewood logs, and Clyston Mill stoneground flour.

Ed Nicholson, Lead Ranger, and Fiona Hailstone, Produce Ranger, went...

Entertain with an Italian flavour this winter with Okemoor’s new speciality range

Warm up on a cold winter’s evening with a taste of Italy, fresh from Okemoor’s Devon-based kitchen. From traditional Babà al Rum cakes, West Country ricotta filled Cannoli to Nduja spreadable salami, this new mouth-watering range of Italian sweet and savoury delights are individually hand-cooked and can be tasted at Okemoor’s stand at the renowned Dartmouth Food Festival (23rd – 25th October).

Taste of the Teign food and drink festival tantalises taste buds

One of South Devon’s newest and most exciting celebrations of local food and produce is all set to draw in the crowds this week as the Taste of the Teign (21-27 September) puts produce picked and reared in the surrounding fields, caught in local waters or harvested from the hedges firmly at the heart of this food and drink celebration.

Over the course of the seven days more than 15 events are taking place; each one using locally sourced produce as the centrepiece for culinary creativity ranging from cracking crab workshops at The Crab Shack in Teignmouth, to tours of the steepest...

Food & Drink

New Dottie's Restaurant Opens in Hotel Indigo, Exeter

Take the Great Devon Chilli Challenge

Cracking crab wins top accolade

Volunteers wanted for MoodFood trial

Warrens launches new artisan bread range

The Venus Company on C4' Four in a Bed

Food & Drink Devon Awards shortlist announced

Molto Delizioso at Bella Italia!

National recognition for Killerton produce

Entertain with an Italian flavour this winter with Okemoor’s new speciality range

Taste of the Teign food and drink festival tantalises taste buds

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