Food & Drink

Cornish Bakery open in Exeter

Cornish Bakery, the independent, founder-driven company first started in Mevagissey, Cornwall, is now open in the Cathedral city of Exeter. The beautiful, design-led new bakery opened in style on Monday 17th November 2025. The company already successfully operates bakeries nearby in Sidmouth, Totnes and Taunton.

Located in a corner unit at 38 High Street, what was previously a Mountain Warehouse shop has been transformed into a stunning welcoming space for up to 46 visitors to gather and relax whilst enjoying the bakery’s range of exceptional food and drink.

More than 15...

6 Vegetables to Eat Raw

#1 – Broccoli

Broccoli is loaded with all sorts of vitamins and is rich in nutrients such as iron, magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, etc. Because of its high nutrient value, boiled or roasted broccoli is considered an ideal food for teens and young children. However, cooking broccoli, even something as simple as steaming it, could reduce its nutrient content by almost a third. Moreover, chewing raw broccoli ruptures a special compound in the plant’s cells and releases an enzyme called myrosinase. This enzyme stimulates the liver and improves the body’s ability to fight...

Stay for free at the Royal Castle Hotel

Authored by Ewan Davy
Posted: Fri, 05/23/2014 - 9:57am

The Royal Castle Hotel in Dartmouth is celebrating Devon Restaurant Month with an offer that’s hard to refuse; a three-course Devon Taster Menu for £40 per head and a hotel room for free. The only catch, other than the locally caught crab, is that you have to live in Devon to take up the offer, and if you want to stay in one of the highly sought-after river view rooms, there will be an extra charge of £20 per person. Either way, with rooms normally costing upwards of £127 per night, it’s a steal!

Throughout June the offer is available Monday to Thursday in the Grill Room Restaurant...

A delicious recipe from the Mercure Southgate

Why not try this delicious recipe which will feature in our Graduation Week Menu?

Crab mixture

Ingredients (makes roughly 10 portions) 10 Ramekins, polished glasses or whatever you are choosing for presentation. - 454gr of pasteurized white crab meat, flaked into very fine pieces - ¼ of a bunch of dill - the juice of 2 limes - 4 stalks of spring onions, sliced very finely - 3 tblsp of crème fraiche - 2 small pinches of paprika - salt and pepper to taste - 2 small drizzles of lemon zest infused oil - 50gr butter melted

Method: In a medium size mixing bowl, mix...

Celebrate all things pasta with Carluccio's

Nothing says Italy quite like its food, and nothing says Italian food like pasta. Sharing its passion and expertise for the Italian specialty; Carluccio’s will host a nine-week long celebration of all things pasta. La Festa Della Pasta will be taking place from the 19th of May to the 20th of July.

THE PASTA

Throughout the festival, Carluccio’s food shops will feature a range of new pastas, showing that there’s a whole world of unexplored pasta out there. With colourful, multi-shaped, gluten free, wholemeal, flavoured, extra long and short pastas available, there’ll be...

Top 10 Foods That Help Prevent Cancer

#10 – Pomegranates

Active ingredient: Ellagic Acid Pomegranates are extremely tasteful and they are filled with this magic ingredient that slows down and even stops cancer cells growth, while deactivating some cancer-causing compounds. Pomegranate seeds can be eaten as a healthy afternoon snack, offering the energy boost everyone needs daily, turned into healthy smoothies or added as a topping on ice-cream, yogurt or weekend cheesecakes. Ellagic acid can also be found in blackberries, raspberries, walnuts, strawberries, cranberries, pecans and grapes, so the choice is unlimited....

Local producers invited to take a stand in outdoor market

Authored by Jayne Freer
Posted: Wed, 04/23/2014 - 11:12am

TALENTED artists, food producers and crafters are being invited to air their wares at a new outdoor market launched in Devon this summer.

The Local Produce Market will be held in the streets surrounding Plymouth City Market on the second Saturday of every month from May (starting May 10) to September.

Traders will be able to show of their creations from homemade cupcakes and pickles to pottery, glasswork, carvings and cards.

Stallholders are now being invited to take up a stand. Traders must be from within a 50-mile radius of Plymouth and have been involved in some...

Queen of Nordic cooking to visit Exeter

The queen of Nordic cooking, Signe Johansen, is set to visit The Magdalen Chapter in Exeter to treat guests to a one-off Scandinavian afternoon tea.

The Scandilicious food writer and chef is one of the UK’s top experts on Scandinavian food with her books Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking, Scandilicious and Scandilicious Baking all proving bestsellers.

Signe will be joining The Magdalen Chapter’s Head Chef Ben Bulger on Saturday 14 June to host The Chapter’s Scandinavian Afternoon Tea Party.

On the menu will be savoury delights including Gravadlaks (dill cured salmon)...

Keep The Kids Busy This Holiday With Our Jammy Thumbrint Cookies

Authored by LiveLoveEat
Posted: Thu, 04/17/2014 - 11:59am

Here at Live Love Eat we thought we would let you in to our not so secret, secret recipe: Jammy Thumbprint Cookies

This is a great favourite for both children and adults a like. They can be a great holiday baking activity, a treat for a family member or something to put a smile on your colleagues faces.

Simply follow the link to find out how to make them:

http://www.liveloveeat.co.uk/index.php/component/mtree/recipes/main/jamm...

Happy baking !

In-toto Kitchens to mark its 21st anniversary at Exeter Food and Drink Festival

In-toto Kitchens is celebrating 21 years in business this year and is delighted to mark this special occasion at the Exeter Festival of South West Food and Drink where it will, for the 11th year, provide the demonstration kitchen in the main cookery theatre.

A partnership established since the Festival was launched, In-toto works closely with 2 Michelin star chef, Michael Caines MBE, to design and install a highly specified demonstration kitchen incorporating top quality appliances, for this leading Festival each year – a kitchen that is enjoyed by the region’s finest chefs as they...

Casa Maroc to Host Fundraiser for Headway

On Friday 11 April, Casa Maroc in Exeter will be laying on a special menu for Headway Devon in their function room.

For just £10 each, you will be able to enjoy a three-course meal in the lavishly decorated Casablanca Lounge.

Fundraising Manager, Holly Keatings, said: “We’re really grateful to Casa Maroc. The team there have really gone out of their way to support the charity – not only will the food be a bargain, they are also doing discounted drinks for us plus the staff are donating their wages for the evening to Headway – so we really hope that you will consider coming...

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