In support of the Bridport Food Festival the Electric Palace in Bridport invites you an evening of food & film on Tuesday 15th June. Help yourself to an indulgent and delicious quality buffet with a range of seasonal tarts, pies, salads and desserts all prepared by gourmet caterers Le Pip before settling down to watch the hilarious food comedy Julie & Julia starring Meryl Streep!
Food and Drink
Salsa Celebration
Fruits of the Earth's Spicy Summer Salsa Celebration. As part of the Bridport Festival week this event will take place on the forecourt of the Bridport Arts Centre at 12.30pm on Wednesday 16th June. Participants are invited to bring their own unique pickle, chutney or fresh salsa to be tasted by invited professional chefs and fellow particpants. Lucy and Angela from LULA and Georgina from Lovely Lunches have kindly agreed to be our judges. There will be votes and prizes!
Bottle Opened
The Bottle Inn at Marshwood has reopened serving good food and real ales and it's full steam ahead with the preparations for … Read more…
Moore Than Cupcakes
Our delicious cupcakes are made from the finest, natural and locally sourced ingredients, all are individually handmade & tailored to your requirements, … Read more…
Tally Ho Wins Bronze
PALMERS Brewery of Bridport is celebrating winning a Bronze award for Tally Ho in the Strong Bitters class at the SIBA South West Region Beer Competition 2010. The event was held at Tuckers Maltings, Newton Abbot, where 74 South West brewers entered 344 cask ales.
May Day Celebration
Cycles of Life May Day Celebration / Meat Processing Open Day on Saturday, May 1, 2010 from high noon til the cinders die at Fivepenny Farm, Wootton Fitzpaine, Dorset DT66DF
Join us at the processing barn at Fivepenny Farm for an event celebrating animals and the wonderful connections we have with them on the farm as well as a celebration of the products we make from their meat
Battle of the Beers
A CONTEST to find the South West’s champion bottled beer is being overseen this week [25 March] by Palmers’ head brewer Darren Batten.
Four of Palmers’ own bottled beers are among the 153 brews entered for the Society of Independent Brewers Association SW Bottled Beer Competition 2010. Palmers’ Dorset Gold is making its debut in bottles.
‘It’s the first bottling,’ said Darren, ‘out just in time for the competition. We’ve done it on draft for a long time and we’re pleased to be able to take the opportunity to see what people think of the bottled product. We think it’s fantastic, but it’s always good to get feedback.’
Workers Canteen
Workers Canteen is a well established catering company specialising in festival crew catering. We produce high quality crew meals for small or … Read more…
Food Facebook
Organisers of the Bridport Food Festival have launched a Facebook page this week to highlight their work and encourage debate about local produce. The page will give up-to-date information about the work of the Local Food Group, run discussions about food in Bridport and offer insight into the work of local producers.
Dorset Food Week
The Hive celebrates Dorset Food Week starting on 24th October. Keith Floyd fondly remembered, celebrity guest appearance, new food experiences and local fine wines … these are just some of the treats on offer!
Taste of Dorset Awards
The Blackmore Vale magazine is a long-standing supporter local food producers and the Dorset Food Economy. This is your chance to nominate your local food heroes. Dorset produces some of the country's finest food and the Taste of Dorset Awards help to raise local, regional and national awareness of the greatest tastes of Dorset.
Beer Festival
The Beer Festival runs alongside the Bridport food festival and starts on Friday night 26th June at around 6.00 pm with a … Read more…
Wine Tasting
Palmers Wine Store run a monthly wine tasting society which is held in the brewery on the last Friday of each month. The evenings are usually themed around a region, producer or range of wines. This year we are fortunate that many of the tastings will be presented by both growers and producers. The evenings begin with a welcome drink and canapés followed by a tutored tasting of between eight and ten wines.
POWERSTOCK CIDER FESTIVAL
This years cider festival takes place this Friday 24th April from 6:30pm at Powerstock Hut. There will be 18 cider makers touting their fermented juice of the the forbidden fruit and food will also be available. Parking is always a nightmare so either get a taxi or park outside the village and walk in.
Show everyone which is your favourite apple based beverage with a Tee shirt from Captain Grooviss
LONGHORN JIM
Longhorn Jim produces and supplies the finest traditionally reared Dorset meats. Little Bredy and Bridport Market Dorset Tel: 01308 482452Mob: 07905 103568 … Read more…
COOKERY WORKSHOP
Free Cookery Workshops for Bridport residents starting in July. Run by Community Food Champion and ex Four & Twenty Blackbirds Pie Man Tony Gibbons the workshops are designed to help anyone who wants to learn from scratch or improve skills they have.
THE HARE & HOUNDS
The Hare and Hounds Pub (Sometimes known as "The Hairy Hands") Waytown, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5LQ [gmap] Tel: 01308 488203 Brewery: Palmers
HENRYS BEARD
Henry’s Beard is a unique destination café on the British Festival circuit. We are a travelling café and just love to feed, entertain and make the tea!
Somerfield-Smith Organic and Local Produce
Somerfield-Smith providing you with a range of high quality, organic fruit and vegetables and other locally sourced produce delivered to your home. … Read more…
PALMERS BREWERY
Palmers Brewery
Our five draft ales win awards. Beer drinkers love them. They love the distinctive tastes and delicious character. The refreshing thirst quenching qualities of Palmers’ traditional ales.
The original old Brewery at Bridport in Dorset is where we still work to traditional methods, with the finest ingredients. These methods have built our reputation over the past 200 years. Today we skillfully add new technologies, to create five quality ales for the 21st century.
- Copper Ale 3.7% Vol
- Best Bitter 4.2% Vol
- Dorset Gold 4.5% Vol
- Palmers 200 5% Vol
- Tally Ho! 5.5% Vol
CHIP WEEK
It's national chip week! So who's got the best chips in town? Longs, the Electric Palace, JB's down the bay, the one in 40 foot way are all vying for your vote, so get out there and get some fried potato delights down you. Please note "French Fries", or sautéed don't count. Or to place your vote nationally go to www.lovechips.co.uk
TASTE BRIDPORT
Eat in or take away cafe. Phone or email us with your order and a half hour later it will be ready for pick up (or eat in) – a great service for busy business people. Free WiFi is available and there are regular specials including a full meal on your birthday.
You can eat whatever you want when you play at an online blackjack game because it's in your own house! Find … Read more…
DORSET FOOD WEEK
2007 welcomes the largest number of participants backing Dorset Food Week in seven years which is great testimony to the amount of passion and produce that Dorset creates! Your guide lists nearly 160 different opportunities to get all your five senses engaged in tastings, special menus, festivals, treasure hunts and other culinary celebrations being staged for food fans of all ages.
WASHINGPOOL FARM
Washingpool Farm – fruit, veg and restaurant:
Potatoes, cabbage/greens, squashes, pumpkins, salads and soft fruit for the shop as well as cut flowers in season. The range of fruit and vegetables is supplemented by other produce from local farms as well as 'exotics' (oranges, bananas, avocadoes, etc.) and out of season produce from Bristol Wholesale Market.
We also sell bread from a local family run bakery. Meat and dairy produce is locally sourced wherever possible.
SJ NORMAN & SONS – BUTCHERS
Normans the Butchers, Bridport High class family butcher. Middle St, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 3HY Tel: 01308 423618
HOMEBREW
It being almost elderflower making time I used to go to Spar on South street where they had a good home brewing section and get citric acid to make the cordial. Does anyone know where I can go for home brewing now that the shop has closed? Have you, gentle reader got any good recipes for homebrew? Preferably something a little more highbrow than this jail house hooch.
ROUTE 66
Get outta town… our food critic Denzille De Ville has been ranging far and wide across the border down Mexico Devon way – I know it's out of my jurisdiction but I'll allow it, dagnabit. This week he's found himself in The Route 66 Diner in Axminster.
B & BARNI REVIEW
Location: THE BEACH & BARNICOTT Pub / restaurant, South St. Bridport.
Tel: 01308 455688
Proprietor: Mervyn Ashford and Tom Gillott
Food: Plaice Goujons, sauce tartare, green salad,
Beverage: Tonic water, ice, slice.
Price: Under a tenner, all in
Here we go..
What is a Goujon? Well it ain’t far off a fish finger, Goujon is the French word for small, fried strips of fish, these bad boys were served piping hot with fresh sauce tartare, crispy green salad with a lovely light dressing, borlotti beans and doorstep slices of bread.
WESSEX WINES
Wessex wines stock a wide variety of fine wines and Chamagne. Import, Wholesale, Retail 88, St Michael's Trading Estate,Bridport,Dorset, DT6 3RR Tel: … Read more…