The Venus Company team at Blackpool Sands together with founders Louisa Newman, Michael Smith, and Lee Porter, raised a glass in fond farewell to 28 happy years at the birthplace of its first Venus Beach Café.
Internationally multi-award-winning hospitality business, The Venus Company (loving the beach®) announced that from 5th January 2023, its Venus beach cafe business at Blackpool Sands will be closed for good. The three remaining stunning beach café locations across South Devon at Bigbury-on-Sea, Broadsands in Paignton, and East Portlemouth are unaffected and still fully...
A GROUP of restaurants that has recently expanded into producing ‘ready to steam’ at home meals has picked a Devon-based printed packaging specialist to help produce its packaging (October 2022).
Ping Pong Dim Sum approached Newton Print in Newton Abbot for help with a pre-glued printed sleeve to fit a film sealed pulp tray for its har gau and vegetable dumplings products.
Art Sagiryan, CEO at Ping Pong Dim Sum, which is has seven restaurants across London in Soho, St Paul’s, Southbank, Covent Garden, St Katharine Docks, Westfield Shepherds Bush and St Christopher’s Place,...
Azu Spirits blind tasting sets are centred around sharing. Offering a range of Scotch whisky and British gin tasting sets, they have now released a host-your-own Whisky Club series to run alongside their monthly tasting events.
A 5 month series with 30 single malts to explore and a new theme every tasting, each set includes 6 100ml sharing bottles, a guide, tasting tips, a flyer exploring the particular theme, and the ‘reveal’ envelope for when you’re ready to discover which is which. The series is sold online at https://www.azuspirits.co.uk/whiskyclubathome for £96 and includes...
New weddings and events venue, Valleyside Barn based in Bickleigh, will host a local food and drinks fair to officially launch their opening. Sixteen local food and drinks producers will attend the daytime event on Sunday 26th September. Visitors will be able to sample sweet and savoury delicacies including oysters, smoked fish, dim sum and a range of ales, lager, cider, gin and wine from across the region.
Emma Wright, Partner of Valleyside Barn & Escapes said, “We’re very excited to officially open our newly converted barn. The food and drinks fair is an opportunity for...
As Devon’s hospitality businesses throw open their doors once more, Food Drink Devon is ready to champion the finest food and drink in the county with a stunning new video and website and the help of Oz Clarke OBE.
Peter Gorton, award-winning chef and most recently appointed Food Drink Devon board member explains: “It has been such a challenging twelve months for our industry but we are all optimistic that there are better times ahead. We have worked tirelessly to support our members during the recent lockdowns and want to continue this work with a big boost for them all, as we...
Exeter’s Real Food Store is re-opening its doors next week after over two months of closure during the Covid-19 crisis.
The re-opening on Tuesday June 9 comes ten years after the business set out to secure support and funding from the Exeter community to establish the business.
To mark the occasion, the team at the Real Food Store have made significant changes to the shop on Queen Street during the quiet period. The team contacted members and ran a ‘ Call for Ideas ’ campaign via email and social media, giving customers and other stakeholders the chance to influence how...
Chunk of Devon Win Champion Pasty at the British Pie Awards…again!
Chunk, a Devon based pie and pasty maker, have won the much-coveted award of Champion Pasty at the 2019 British Pies Awards for the second time. Chunk’s award-winning recipe won the award back in 2009 – and caused a bit of a stir (to say the least!) with their neighbours in Cornwall. But this year, with tough competition from other Pasty makers, including those from Cornwall, the Chunk Steak Pasty beat them all!
Over 100 guests attended the annual event, now in 2019 - its 11th year, held at St. Mary’s Church...
Looking for veg inspiration? These two-hour, hands-on cooking classes will give you ample veg inspiration – and the chance to see whether a Riverford veg box is for you. Our next class is East Budleigh Village Hall EX9 7DU on May 19th
Together we’ll turn a brimming box of veg, fresh from our farm, into an inspirational organic feast. You’ll get stuck in, learning lots of essential skills – such as the best way to slice greens and segment citrus, and how to make sure your onions never catch in the pan.
We hope you’ll leave inspired to cook with a veg box at home.
Keen to eat more veg? These two-hour, hands-on cooking classes are the best way to get inspired and try out a Riverford veg box. Together we’ll turn a brimming box of veg, fresh from our farm, into an inspirational organic feast. You’ll get stuck in, learning lots of essential skills – such as the best way to slice greens and segment citrus, and how to make sure your onions never catch in the pan. You’ll leave inspired to cook with a veg box at home. It’s very relaxed – people of all abilities are welcome, and class sizes are kept small so there’s lots of opportunity for questions and...
