Local Food Index
An index to the sources of local food in and around Diss.
Box Schemes (home delivery)
Distributors
Drinks (beer, wine, whiskey, juice, cider)
Farm shops
Farmers (vegetables, meats, dairy)
Farmers Market
Mobile food stalls
Processed Foods (bakers, cheeses, chutneys, cakes, etc.)
Restaurants/cafés/pubs (in Diss)
Restaurants/cafés/pubs (near Diss)
Shops
Box Schemes (home delivery)
Desmond Duncan's Organic Boxes, Palgrave, Tel: 01379 652101
or 07771-863230
Boxes packed full of organic fruit and vegetables, delivered free to your doorstep in Suffolk and Norwich areas.
Distributors
C & K Meats, Oak Lodge, Thrandeston Rd, Brome, Eye, IP23 8AT, Tel: 01379 870939An independent wholesale and catering butchers, dedicated to supplying exactly what you need from a pound of ham to a pallet of portion controlled steak to your door within 24 hours of placing your order.
Drinks (beer, wine, whiskey, juice, cider)
Fayre Maiden Wines,
Hapton, Norwich, Norfolk, NR15 1SG, Tel: 01508 489 584
Manufacturers of speciality wines.
Grain Brewery, South Farm, Alburgh, Harleston IP20 0BS Tel: 01986 788884, info@grainbrewery.co.uk
All our cask and bottled beers are made using the finest East Anglian Maris Otter Pale
Ale Malt, and the highest quality hops sourced for their aromas and
flavours.
Old Chimneys Brewery, Hopton End Farm, Church Road, Market Weston, Diss IP22 2NX, Tel: 01379-221411,
An award-winning craft brewery with 12 regular beers, occasional special ales and three bottle conditioned ciders.
The Wolf Brewery, Rookery Farm, Silver Street, Besthorpe, Attleborough, Norfolk, NR17 2LD Tel: 01953 457775
High quality real ales made with the finest local ingredients.
Farm shops
Goodies Farm Shop, French's Farm, Wood Lane, Pulham Market, Diss IP21 4XU, Tel: 01379 676880.
A gourmet supermarket of local and quality produce, featuring meats (with rare breed pork a speciality), poultry, bread, cakes and very much more.
Farmers (vegetables, meats, dairy)
Common Farm, 11 Crown Cottages, Mill Road, Burston, Diss IP22
5TJ, Contact: Elizabeth & Nick Schaay, Tel: 01379 741045, 07795
178450
Gloucester old spot pork, lamb, eggs. Meat to order. See us at the Burston Farmers Market, 1st Saturday of each month.
Greenwood's Apple Juice and Cider, The Ashes, Ash Lane, Carleton
Rode, Norfolk NR16 1NN, Tel: 01953-860356, 07979-676649,
tjg100@hotmail.com
Apple juice and cider made by traditional
methods from our own handpicked apples. Also fruit, vegetables, eggs
from our farm shop.
Highways, Finningham Rd, Rickinghall, Diss, Norfolk IP22 1LP, Tel: 01379-898357
Pedigree
herd of rare breed Gloucestershire Old Spots Pigs, also jams, jellies,
butters, marmalades, chutneys, pickles and relishes.
Lime Tree Farm Eggs, Fairstead Lane, Hempnall NR15 2RD, contact: Mark Reeder, Tel: 01508 470602
Free range eggs from hens kept in small flocks and fed a grain-based diet with no antibiotics, meat and bone meal.
Mid Norfolk Smokehouse, Jubilee Hall Farm, Cranworth, Thetford, Norfolk, Tel:
01362 820702,
info@midnorfolksmokehouse.co.uk
Purveyors of Quality Smoked Fish. We use traditional smoking methods and only quality fish to
create our range of smoked Salmon, Haddock or mackerel.
Salad Patch, contact: Gabbi Reid: 01379 677793, 07743920440 email: gabriellereid@btinternet.com
A
vibrant market garden venture. Freshly picked seasonal salad leaves,
salad plants, summer vegetables, herbs and traditional cottage garden
flowers all grown for their vitality, fine flavour, beauty and colour.
Springfield Farm & Nursery, Hall Lane, North Tuddenham, Dereham, Norfolk, NR20 3DP, Tel:01362-637270
Pelargoniums, geraniums, basket plants, shrubs, perennials and much more.
Farmers Markets
1st Saturday
Stradbroke: BEC (Business & Enterprise College) 9 am - 12:30 pm
Watton: High Street, 8am to 12.30pm, Contact: Jan Godfrey, Tel: 01953 883915
2nd Saturday
Diss: Market Place, 9 am - 1 pm, Contact: Deborah Sarson, Tel: 01379 643848
Rickinghall: Village Hall, 9 am - 12:30 pm, Contact: Monty Cornell, Tel: 01379 898525
3rd Saturday
Harleston: The Swan Hotel, Thoroughfare, 9 am - 1 pm, Contact: Joy Hensley, Tel: 01379 854887
Wymondham: Market Place, 9 am - 1 pm, Contact: Wymondham Town Council, Tel: 01953 603302
4th Saturday
South Lopham: Village Hall, 9 am - 1 pm, Contact: Mike Shipperlee, Tel: 01379 687235
Mobile food stalls
The Creative Crepe Company, email:info@creativecrepes.co.uk, Tel: 0796 202 8787
An
ethical, quality, mobile catering service offering a fun,
creative, health conscious menu in line with today's ethical lifestyle
choices.
Processed Foods (bakers, cheeses, chutneys, cakes, etc.)
Chillis Galore, For all things Chilli
Homemade in Norfolk~Chilli Jelly,Sauces & Pickles. Plants. Dried Chillis. Find us at local Farmers Markets and Shops Throughout Norfolk & Suffolk
Peachey's Preserves, 3 Hillcrest Lodge, Pulham Market IP21 4XP, Tel: 01379-676169, janet.peachey@btinternet.com
Speciality Preserves, Made locallly
Just Truffles, The Barn, South Farm, Tunbeck Road, Alburgh, Harleston, Norfolk IP20 0BS, Tel:
01986 789133, just_truffles@yahoo.co.uk
Hand made chocolate truffles made in the Waveney Valley, carefully and individually formed from the purest
ingredients to give you a unique chocolate experience.
Humble Cake, The Old Rectory, Abbey Road, Flixton, Suffolk NR35 1NL, Contact: Gemma Parker, 01986 893133, enquiries@humblecake.co.uk
We provide fresh, home
baked cakes direct to your door, using wherever possible the highest
quality locally sourced, organic and seasonal ingredients, as well as
our resident
chickens providing the free-range eggs.
Mrs. Temple's Cheeses, Copys Green Farm, Wighton, Wells next sea NR23 1NY, local contact: Helen Reynolds, 01508 530117, reynolds461@btinternet.com
Made from the milk of our own award-winning Chalk
Farm herd of British Holsteins. Try the famous Walsingham,
Wighton, Binham Blue and Melton made with milk only minutes from the cow.
Restaurants/cafés/pubs (in Diss)
CK Steak House and Bar, 13B Hopper Way Diss IP22 4GT, Tel: 01379-651133
Using the finest local meat for the ultimate taste! All beef, pork and lamb is locally produced within the Norfolk/Suffolk borders. Eggs are free range and all other produce is locally sourced where possible.
The Park Hotel, 29 Denmark St., Diss IP22 4LE, contact: Katrina Prowse, 01379-642244, kat@parkhotel-diss.co.uk.
Fine food at the Park: Our team of chef's
are constantly changing and adapting the menus according to the
seasons, quality of local produce and, most importantly, customer requests.
The Cock Inn, 63 Lower Denmark Street, Diss IP22 4BE, Tel: 01379 643633, contact: Paul Meredew, 07789 218081, paul@electramail.co.uk
Restaurants/cafés/pubs (near Diss)
CK Steakhouse and Bar, Hopper Way, Diss Business Park, Diss
The Swan Inn, Low Street Hoxne Eye, Suffolk IP21 5AS, Tel. 01379 668275, info@hoxneswan.co.uk
One of the best known public houses and restaurants in Suffolk renowned for its good beer, good food and wealth of history.
The Red Lion, 117 High Road, Needham, Norfolk, IP20 9LG, Tel: 01379 853930 Email: info@hoxneswan.co.uk
A gem of a country with an appetizing new menu created by a new fresh and engerised chef, using fresh and local produce at sensible prices.
A small, owner-run restaurant with the emphasis on good food, wine and a light informal atmosphere. Regional and international influences using the best quality local produce.
Shops