Food & Drink

"After last year’s good summer, and the easing up of the recession, we’re heading into an exciting new era of top quality dining in the South West," says two Michelin-starred chef Michael Caines of Gidleigh Park, and chairman of the Trencherman’s Guide’s editorial board.

"With consumers increasingly viewing the South West as an exceptional food destination, we chefs are feeling buoyant and confident in developing the dining scene further. And nothing showcases what’s going on in the South West dining scene as successfully as The Trencherman’s Guide."

For 23 years The...

Fans of an alfresco spring pint will be delighted to hear that Exe Valley Brewery and Exeter Street Food are bringing back their much loved Pop-Up-Pub from Easter weekend onwards.

Selling award winning real ales made by Exe Valley Brewery in Silverton, and traditional Devon ciders from Venton’s Cider in Clyst St Lawrence, the Pop-Up-Pub’s uniquely friendly and welcoming atmosphere has made it a popular addition to the Exeter Street Food Market in the Guildhall over the past few summers.

Part of the Pop-Up-Pub’s appeal (other than the opportunity to enjoy an excellent pint...

If you look closely the small signs and signals of spring are all around. Like a faintly warmer breeze or the scent of the air in the morning. Quills of emerald wild garlic, crisp and perfumed, blanketing the floors of our woodland. Our Devon long banks begin to bite with nettles and dying ferns uncurl young growth all around us.

For me it’s a promising time to be cooking and I’m really looking forward to all the joys of spring. The asparagus, the early broad bean tops, St George's mushrooms, crisp radish, young carrots and sea kale.

It’s a time to venture outdoors again,...

From the classic savoury steak and kidney to the delicious sweet apple and blackberry, families have been enjoying pies for years and last week was no exception as the nation celebrated British Pie Week.

Pies have become a symbol of British comfort food at its best and can be traced in history as far back as 2500BC.

To celebrate British Pie Week, residents from the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution (RMBI) care home, Cadogan Court in Exeter took part in a variety of pie-related activities organised by the Home’s Activities Coordinators, Angela Webb and Alison Parry....