Local food heroes
Twenty-two pubs have been highlighted in the Good Pub Guide 2005 for their focus on local sourcing. We look at the guide's roll of honour of local heroes Punch Bowl Crosthwaite, Cumbria Meat is local and organic and other produce is local where possible and often organic. Bear Alderwasley, Derbyshire Uses ingredients from local farms and growers. Museum Farnham, Dorset Uses local and organic produce and makes its own bread, jams, chutneys and marmalades. Dartmoor Inn Lydford, Devon Has a comprehensive list of local suppliers for meat, vegetables, fish, cheese, soft fruit and honey. Start Bay Torcross, Devon Local fishermen work off the beach right in front of the pub and deliver all kinds of fish. A local crabber drops the crabs at the back door, and the landlord enjoys catching plaice, scallops, and bass. New Inn Shalfleet, Isle of Wight Specialises in fresh local fish with up to 12 different fresh fish dishes a day lovely shellfish. Peat Spade Longstock, Hampshire Sensibly short menu using local (and often organic) produce. Three Horseshoes Little Cowarne, Herefordshire Uses local gamekeepers and fishermen, buys local eggs and vegetables, grows its own summer salad ingredients, and make its own chutneys, pickles, jams and sloe gin. Stagg Titley, Herefordshire Uses local ingredients (often organic) and starting its own two-acre garden to grow vegetables and herbs for the kitchen. Lunesdale Arms Tunstall, Lancashire Uses lots of local organic produce, meat from local farms and good, home-baked bread. Red Lion Stathern, Leicestershire Uses locally-sourced produce, smokes its own meats and make its own preserves and pickles. Trout Tadpole Bridge, Oxfordshire Uses good local produce, including produce from the landlord's father's nearby farm. Pilgrims Rest Lovington, Somerset Uses fresh ingredients, including local meat and cheeses, and on a daily basis, offers fresh fish and home-baked bread. Queens Head Bramfield, Suffolk Uses ingredients from small and local, traditional, organic farms. Crown Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk Use local, free-range chicken, pork, lamb and vegetables, local game, crab from East Mersea, and wild Scotch salmon (not exactly local, but very nice). Tiger East Dean, Sussex Fresh fish from Hastings, lamb, vegetables and eggs from local farms, and a range of meat from the local butcher. Talbot Knightwick, Worcestershire Locally-grown hops for its own-brew beers and local ingredients for the kitchen, including some vegetables being grown in the pub's own organic garden. Star Harome, Yorkshire Uses fish delivered daily from Hartlepool, local hen, duck and guinea fowl eggs, three types of honey from the village, and its own herbs and vegetables. Lots of British cheeses too. Wombwell Arms Wass, Yorkshire Uses only fresh produce from local suppliers and producers. Duke of Cambridge North London London's first organic pub has an excellent range of impeccably-sourced drinks and food. Applecross Inn Applecross, Scotland Stunning location with super-fresh seafood, plus most of the other ingredients it uses are local. Griffin Felinfach, Wales Owners are proud of never sourcing food that's more than 15 miles away.
