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Wow, we found this place by accident, and what a find! Great service and tasty food, as much as possible is locally grown. Staff had tasted all the menu items so knew what to recommend. Balsamic mushroom crouton topped with grilled goat's cheese and served on rocket salad was a perfect veggie meal when we added a (generous) bowl of seasonal veg.
My sister and I had the best desserts here last summer - a lovely Eton Mess and Lime and Lemon cheesecake. The produce in the store is of the best quality and all local. Love it!
Discovered Julian at Northumberland county show. fruit and veg was all superb. so pleased he will deliver to Hexham. will be placing a regular vegbox order.
Liverpool's only artisan cheese shop, based in an old dairy in Woolton. Run by enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff, this is the best place to buy cheese in Merseyside! Fabulous range of cheeses and licensed to sell wine to accompany. Highly recommended.
Great local pub selling real ales, lagers and cider, what could be better!
Recently named the best real ale pub in Reading by Reading and Mid Berkshire CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale). They also recently won the Best Traditional Pub for West Reading at the Reading Pubwatch Awards.
I have been a customer of Somerset Local Food Direct for over 5 years and cannot praise them highly enough. I buy most of my weekly shopping from them with only occasional forays in to the supermarket for pet food and specialist ingredients. I love the fact that you can check the provenance of each item so I can ensure I get grass fed meat and dairy and local/organic fruit and vegetable. In addition, they are happy to leave the shopping even if I'm out (which I usually am) and the delivery charge is still only £3 despite fuel price hikes. For me it is the perfect marriage of convenience and ethical shopping whilst being able to support local producers.
I have now cancelled all future orders with the Somerset scheme as I have not been happy with the customer service received.
I'd been with Riverford for well over a year and in that time I had always paid. More then once I was not able to get to the door in time, before the driver had left for me to pay. Now, I'd only ever missed payments as a result of that, but the emails I received from the manager was incredibly rude despite this fact.
His attitude towards me as a customer is that it is too much trouble for him because I pay by cash and constantly tried to push plastic payments on me which incur a charge.
I know from his own drivers that I am not the only customer he has been rude to and they themselves complain about the way the Somerset scheme is managed.
If you're in Somerset I do NOT recommend Riverford, but any other location, might be managed by someone who can in fact manage and has good customer service, otherwise I would advise you look for another box scheme.
Not cheap - but you pay for quality. A great butchers, queues out of the door, spotlessly clean, fresh looking meat and the best steak I've had in a long long time. There are two other butchers in Ledbury High St. Wallers came recommended though so I eschewed the other one I'd found online when we visted on holiday recently. It's noticeable that Wallers had signicantly more trade than the other two establishments.
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