Dorchester
Graingers Food Specialists
Based at Dorchester’s Marabout Industrial Estate where they have expanded into four totally dedicated warehouses, each devoted to various aspects of the food preparation business. Over 20 staff are employed and the Company has a fleet of nine delivery vans plus a lorry that collects wholesale supplies from various markets. For more information please visit our web-site
Unit B3-B7, Marabout Industrial Estate, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1YA
t. 01305 251840
www.graingersfoodspecialists.co.uk
Billy the Fish
Billy’s is a local Fishmonger & Restaurant serving fresh fish locally sourced with organic salads and sautéed potatoes.
Make sure you ring to book as weekends are very busy.
Saturday 30th October, demonstrations on how to cook and fillet a fish
Trinity House, Trinity Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1TT
t.T. 01305 757 428 / 07709 428 389
e. billy.fresh@hotmail.co.uk
Restaurant
Tamarisk Farm
Tamarisk Farm is a mixed organic farm on the Jurassic coast specializing in nature conservation and producing good food. Everything we sell in our farm shop is grown on the farm to high environmental and welfare standards using local breeds where possible: fruit and vegetables; beef, lamb, mutton, burgers and sausages; stone-ground bread making using wheat and rye flours.
Farm Shop opening times are Tuesday 4.00pm – 6.30pm & Friday 8.30am – 11.00am and by arrangement. Sunday 24th Oct. 2.30pm -
Farm Walk Visit a working organic farm and market garden. Please wear suitable footwear depending on weather. Dogs welcome if calm and on a lead. If you have any mobility
difficulties please phone us first to discuss how we might accommodate your needs. No charge. Refreshments available after farm walk. Walk should be about 2.5 hours
West Bexington,Dorchester, Dorsett.
t. 01308 897784 e.farm@tamariskfarm.co.uk
www.tamariskfarm.com
L&C Game
L & C Game are specialists in fine game, supplying both trade and the general public. We are situated in the heart of the rolling hills of Dorset, surrounded by some of the most fertile picturesque countryside in England. All our stock are born and bred on these very hills and byways. All our venison is wild. For shop opening times please call or visit our web site. Joining in on Dorset Food Week and the Dorset Farmer’s Markets, having different cuts of game for you to buy.
Court Farm, Buckland Newton, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7BT
t.01300 345271 e. adrian.carolyn@hotmail.co.uk
www.lcgame.co.uk
Huish Farm
Huish Farm is a sheep and cereal farm. We grow our own wild bird mixes which include kale, cornella and more.
Sunday 24th October a tractor and trailer farm tour, show the cereals, landscaping of the farm and the history of the farm form the medieval times and beyond. We are one of the oldest inhabited sites in the UK, so come and see some history and learn about what we do. We will be doing a tour and talk of the old Barn house that is over 100 years old. The talk will describe how people used to live back then and how much it has changed to date.
There will be two farms tours the first starting at 10.00am and the second starting at 2.15pm; there is no charge for the tour.
J & J Morris, Sydling St Nicholas, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 9NS
t.01300 341 265
THE BLUE VINNY
Alex and Nicky are Dorset born and learnt the catering trade for the last five years in Oxford. Due to their connection with farming they are big supporters of local businesses. They took over the Vinny in 2008 and set about keeping the best of the old and combining it with the new. Join them for the best of local foods in Dorset Food Week. Where possible their ingredients are locally sourced, fresh from the family farm, from friends or specialist suppliers. Menus will change regularly, varying according to season and availability. To avoid disappointment booking in advance is advisable.
12 The Moor, Puddletown, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8TE
t.01305 848228 e. info@thebluevinny.co.uk
www.thebluevinny.co.uk
Kingcombe Centre
The Kingcombe Environmental Studies Centre provides a diverse array of exciting residential and day courses along with walks and bed and breakfast opportunities. The Centre is set amongst a 450 acre stunning Dorset Wildlife Trust nature reserve providing inspiration for all who love the countryside.
Wednesday 27th Oct
Have your cake and eat it between 12.00 and 17.00 with free entry. Savour the best of Kingcombe’s homemade cakes, from our famous flapjacks to deliciously devilish chocolate cake! Come for lunch, stay for afternoon tea and punctuate your foodie delight with a walk around the glorious nature reserves.
Toller Porcorum, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 0EQ
t.01300 320 684 e. office@kingcombecentre.org.uk
www.kingcombecentre.org.uk
Tastings
STEVENS FARM SHOP
We are a family run farm shop that sells our own farm reared meat and home cooked cakes. Our other shop products are from local producers. You can also enjoy a coffee or tea in our coffee parlor. During the Dorset Food Week Dorset Cream Teas will be served each day. On Sunday 31st of October a Sunday Roast will be served between 12 noon and 2 pm.
Martinstown, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 9RJ
t. 01305 889216 e. barnesnje@aol.com
www.stevensfarmshop.co.uk
The House Of Dorchester
Award-winning producer of luxury chocolates, House of Dorchester uses only the finest quality ingredients to create its delicious chocolates. Choose from Mint, Dessert & Coffee Collections, Stem Ginger, Rose & Violet Crèmes, Champagne Truffles, Dark Collections and mixed Assortments.
Monday 25th – Friday 29th October: Daily chocolate tastings including new creations from the House of Dorchester kitchen. Products available to buy include various chocolate boxes, bars and Christmas gifts. Make sure you keep an eye open for its new Caramel Connoisseur box and Gold winning Chunky Chocolates. 11.00am to 15.00pm - No admission charge.
Victor Jackson Square, Poundbury, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 3GY
t.01305 264257 Jone : 01420 841 81 Catherin Ebbs
www.hodchoc.com
Tastings
THE FRIDGE FINE FOODS
Winner of Dorset’s Best Specialty Food Shop 07/08. This Dorset delicatessen has been serving the folk of Dorset for 14 years with the best local produce. Hampers, cheeses, pates, cooked meats, and so so much more besides!!
FREE TASTING EVENT – everyday of Dorset Food Week from Saturday 23rd October to Sunday 31st October we will be doing our traditional Dorset tasting event in the Tudor Arcade outside the shop. 10 - 4pm daily we will lay on a huge array of different products from Dorset for you to sample. In many cases the company themselves will be there to give their expert knowledge on the products. Tasters will include Olives Et Al products, Fudges biscuits, Dorset Blue Vinny cheese, Ashley Chase cheese, Dorset honey, Dorset chutney, Dorset Beers our own cooked ham and lots more to tempt your tastebuds!! Come and join us it’s all FREE!
17 Tudor Arcade, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1BN
t.01305 269088 e. wayne@thefridge.biz
www.thefridge.biz
Tastings
THAI NAKORN
Authentic Thai Food with friendly atmosphere and good selection of organic wine. Traditional method of Thai cooking by using the best locally sourced ingredients and home gown herbs wherever possible. Fresh ingredients quickly cooked to preserve their nutrients and delicate flavours.
During Dorset Food Week we will create a special menu using famous Dorset ingredients.
Come and savour the art of Thai cuisine that we put onto your plate.
34 High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1UP
t. 01305 757 188 – 01305 756 088
www.thai-nakorn.com
Goulds - Cafe 11
Cafe 11 is a friendly and popular cafe situated within our fashion store in Dorchester, serving a range of freshly prepared light meals and cakes. Much of our menu is sourced locally.
22-23 South Street, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1DA
01305 217 713 - Peggie
www.gouldsstores.co.uk
Genesis Farms
Genesis Farms are a group of Dorset farmers who sell their meat direct to local customers— to individuals, caterers, pubs, restaurants, schools and public organizations who want top quality local meat. All livestock are reared to the highest standards of welfare, and farms are run for the protection of the environment and the minimum food miles. Our meat is properly matured for the appropriate time, then cut to the highest standards by our own team of dedicated butchers, lead by Martin Hyde, in our butchery at Hunt’s of Sherborne “A list of some of the Stockists are Brewery Farm Shop, Ansty Cerne Abbas Stores, Cerne Abbas Craigs Farm Dairy, Osmington Old Chapel Stores, Buckland Newton The Oakhouse Stores, Yetminster Broadway Village Stores, Broadway, Wey mouth SCATS, Dorchester And some of the Restaurants who use are meats are;
Sienna’s, Dorchester
The Priory Hotel, Wareham
The White Hart, Bishops Caundle
The Giant Inn, Cerne Abbas
01300 345 388
Frome Valley Pig Roast
Frome Valley Pig Roast, BBQ & Catering We supply a variety of events from Birthday Parties, Corporate Events, Music Festivals & Local Markets. We are a family run business, who strive to bring the mouthwatering taste of Local Dorset Food to you with style & quality. To fi nd out all about the range of events and food we supply, please visit our website Frome Valley Pig Roast,
15 Frome Valley Road, Crossways, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 8WP
t.Telephone: 01305 851 583/ Mobile: 07795 436 792
e. FROMEVALLEYPIGROAST@GMAIL.COM
WWW.FROMEVALLEYPIGROAST.CO.UK
Dorchester TIC
Award winning Tourist information centre providing a comprehensive information service for visitors and local community, Wednesday 27th October from 10am – 3.00pm Come and join us in Dorchester TIC for some delicious local tastings of food and drink produced within and from the lanscape of the wonderfull county of Dorset.
Antelope Walk, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1BE
t. 01305 267 992
e. dorchester.tic@westdorset-dc.gov.uk
www.westdorset.com
Forest Products
Since 1986 Forest Products have produced the finest quality handmade jams, marmalades, specialty preserves, chutneys, mustards and sauces. Forest Products make award winning jams, chutneys, sauces and confectionery. Forest Products have always been committed to making Preserves and Condiments, using only natural ingredients and free from artificial flavours and preservatives.
We will be hosting tastings at The fridge
delicatessen in Dorchester on Monday 25th October and Washingpool Farm Shop on Thursday 28th October.
www.forestproducts.co.uk
HERB WALK at `”Nether Cerne Herbs”
WEDNESDAY 27TH OCTOBER, 10.30AM AND 2.30PM
Eleanor Gallia is a medical herbalist. She runs a herbal dispensary at Nether Cerne, using many wild native plants in the preparation of herbal medicines. She is actively involved in international programmes advocating the conservation of medicinal plants and their sustainable wild collection.
Come on a herb walk and experience a different way of seeing the wild plants around us. Discover their therapeutic and healing values. With a deeper understanding of our environment we can reclaim responsibility for our own health and for the land on which we live.
Nether Cerne Farm, Godmanstone, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7AJ
t.01300 341 750 e. eleanor@nethercerne.co.uk
www.nethercerneherbs.co.uk
Kingston Maurward College
Lose yourself in the timeless magic of Kingston Maurward College, animal park and majestic gardens.
You can explore our formal grounds which include grand floral displays, stone terraces, topiary, a lake and temple.
The park and gardens are open daily from 10am to 5.30pm (summer)/ dusk (winter), excluding Christmas.
On Thursday 28th we will be holding a Farm Walk and Cutting Course.
Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8PY
t. 01305 215214
Woolsery Cheese
At Woolsery all our cheeses are handmade using traditional methods and the finest fresh milk to produce a range of cheeses from soft through to hard cheeses in either goats milk or cow’s milk which are guaranteed to excite your taste buds. We believe in everything being as natural as possible and no artificial additives or ingredients are used – just natural milk. The milk is handled with great care as is the cheese making process so as to produce premium quality consistent cheeses. Please visit our web-site for details on where you can find our great cheese.
www.woolserycheese.co.uk
THE ACORN INN
Welcome to this quality 16th Century coaching Inn that Thomas Hardy called ‘The Sow & Acorn’ in Tess of the d’Urbervilles. Set in the picturesque West Dorset village of Evershot, this lovely old stone-built Inn boasts worthy history having once brewed its own ales with water drawn from the source of the River Frome. Today, only the best fresh local ingredients are used to produce excellent meals, in either of the bars or the restaurant. The two oak-panelled bars offer real ales, as well as a comprehensive wine list
Special Dorset Food Week menu available throughout the week (£60.00). Food served 12:00 – 2.30pm, 7:00 – 9.00pm everyday
Evershot, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 0JW
t. 01935 83228 e.stay@acorn-inn.co.uk
www.acorn-inn.co.uk
Sydling Brook Organic
Our organic farm is set at the head of the beautiful Sydling valley in Dorset and covers a number of valleys of rare chalk downland.
We believe in ‘traditional, mixed farming’, farming based on rotations of crops and livestock to naturally build soil fertility, improve soil structure and to control pests and disease. Our traditional breeds of animals are treated with the highest respect, we believe happy animals grazing on home grown fodder, maturing slowly, produce wonderful meat.
We grow old varieties of crops such as spelt and rye, with a high emphasis placed on conservation and encouraging biodiversity. We only sell meat that has been reared and butchered on our farm, giving complete confidence in its provenance, traceability and quality.
Our farm shop sells our wide range of fresh, cured and smoked organic meats, as well as our own eggs and honey. We are also lucky to stock a range of seasonal produce from our tenants and partners, Woolsery Cheese (award-winning goats cheeses), and Green and Pleasant (organic vegetables and fruit).
All the meat sold in our shop is from traditional British breeds of organic animals reared and finished on our farm. Our game is wild. We have our own experienced butchers who do all our own curing, smoking and sausage making.
We recommend putting together your own a la carte order from the price list detailed on each product page. This will take 1 to 2 weeks for delivery.
Alternatively you can order a meat box as they are designed to give a good range of cuts, to be good value, and to be delivered within 1 week.
Organic Farm Shop, Up Sydling, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 9PQ
t. 01300 341992
The Martyrs Inn
Located in the centre of the historic village of Tolpuddle the Martyr’s Inn is a delightful public house serving both our friends from the village and those visiting the area or just passing through.
Recently re-furbished with comfortable seating, the house provides a relaxed dining experience, with food created from fresh locally sourced ingredients and a great place to meet friends for a drink.
In the Summer our south facing terrace, is ideal for al-fresco drinks. We welcome families, well behaved dogs and if you been on a ramble we don’t mind the odd muddy wellie boot.
During the Dorset Food Week we will be serving a complimentary drink with any main meal (includes a glass of wine, half a beer or a soft drink).
49 Main Road, Tolpuddle, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 7ES
t. 01305 848249
Poundbury Farmers’ Market
“The County town of Dorchester, as its name indicates, was a Roman city. Some of its approaches are on the original Roman ways and lined with avenues of trees; further avenues beautify the celebrated Walks which mark the sites of the former Roman town walls.
There are many impressive old buildings still surviving, including Judge Jeffreys’ Lodgings, the Shire Hall containing the Court Room in which the ‘Tolpuddle Martyrs’ stood trial and Max Gate, Thomas Hardy’s home and Came Rectory where William Barnes last lived.
Poundbury Village has been newly built, overlooking the famous Iron Age hill town of Maiden Castle, on the western edge of the town on Duchy land and boasts some impressive architecture – building is still on-going in places and the whole concept and development has received much media attention and accolades.
The regular Farmers’ Market is the largest organised by Dorset Farmers’ Markets Ltd. with nearly 40 producers regularly attending; it was also voted ‘Best Farmers’ Market in Dorset’ in the 2007 Dorset Food and Drink Awards
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First Saturday in every month.
“Time:- 9.00am – 1.00pm
Venue:- Brownsword Hall & Pummary Square
Contact name:- Jo Yetman
tel:- 01258 454510 or e-mail joyeatman@hotmail.co.uk
Kingston Maurward College, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8PY
t. 01305 215214
Market
Muckleford Farm
Lower Muckleford Farm is an arable farm of 525 acres, set in the Frome valley and surrounding chalk downland 4 miles north of Dorchester. In 2008, 75 acres was put into organic conversion with orchard replanting and a focus on bee farming, as new additions into the farming system.
Apple day and Farm Walk on Sunday 24th, from 11: 00 To 16:00 With delicious apple & honey tastings, walks around the farm with wild forage areas and bee forage fields. Why not bring along your own apples and make your very own apple juice to take home to share with your friends and family and take this opportunity to try apple pressing. There will be two group pressings during the day and booking may be advisable if you intend to bring your own fruit along. £5 per family to include use of the press and instruction of the process. Bring your own containers or purchase from us on the day, all other materials included.
The Bungalow, Lower Muckleford Farm, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 9SW
M: 07788 437289
E: mark@muckleford.eclipse.co.uk
www.filbertsbees.co.uk