Food & Drink

Rod and Ben’s soups has joined forces with Exeter-based Hillside Foods to develop three exciting new organic soups for its summer range.

Hillside brothers Jay and Will Allan, who have won numerous Great Taste awards for their handmade fruit pastes, relishes, chutneys and biscuits, have turned their hand to food of a liquid variety, and have come up with the following flavours - Roast Chicken, Lemon and Thyme; Devon Potato, Creamed Onion and Rocket; and Fresh Summer Carrot and Herb - for a real taste of the Devon countryside.

Says Rod Hall, owner of Rod and Ben’s organic...

A Devon based cider maker is celebrating its silver jubilee year in style after winning a national retailing award.

The Green Valley Cyder Barn and Ale House retail outlet based at Dart’s Farm at Topsham near Exeter has won the nationally recognized Drinks Retailing Award for Independent Cider Retailer of the Year 2014.

The Cyder Barn has grown from a small outdoor unit selling only cider pressed on site and made only from Devon apples to a large in-store retail outlet stocking 180 ciders and perrys from the UK and across Europe. It is now probably the largest retailer of...

Screamingly good fun at Exeter Golf & Country Club.

Come along for the first of this year's Murder Mystery Dinners, with the ever-popular Candlelight Theatre Company and enjoy a unique evening of intrigue and investigation. As the plot thickens over dinner, will you decipher who did it? Will you survive The Takeover?

The murder mystery takes place on Saturday 12 April and tickets are £45 per member, £50 per non member.

For further information about the Wear Park Restaurant visit www.exetergcc.co.uk/wear-park-bar-restaurant and to make a reservation email: info@...

After being Gino’s for many years, I was intrigued to see what changes Casa Maroc were bringing to the restaurant situated on Bartholomew Street.

I visited Casa Maroc on a Thursday evening and despite Exeter’s car parks being full and the outside of the restaurant being brightly lit and inviting, I was surprised to find the restaurant relatively empty.

I visited the restaurant just a couple weeks after its re-opening and new menu launch. I was warmly greeted by new manager Rob Neil and was pleased to be offered to sit wherever I wished.

Out of the three seating...