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The Lancaster, Morecambe & Lune Valley District is distinguished for its locally produced, glorious food. Whether you enjoy Fresh Wild Salmon straight from the River Lune, award- winning Superior Smoked Meats from The Port of Lancaster Smokehouse or the celebrated and unspoilt Morecambe Bay Shrimps, there is sure to something to whet your appetite.

The district offers a wide range of international cuisine through its restaurants, ranging from French Bistros, Italian Pizzerias, Classic Indian Cuisine, Refined Mexican Dishes, Spanish Tapas, delightfully fresh Sea Food, and Authentic Chinese, Cantonese and Japanese Cuisine, not forgetting the fantastic locally produced British Food on offer. Local Restaurants like the Highwayman Inn, at Burrow, have a mission to seek out the best, freshest locally-produced food to serve to people.

The fabulous and award-winning Restaurants are well worthy of the recognition they receive. However, in addition to the hard work from the wonderful staff at local restaurants, there is a further reason for the superior quality of food from the district. A reason, that is time and again overlooked, but which we now pay reverence to, because without these individuals, our food simply would not be our food. Our hats go off to the award-winning local producers from the region.

The Port of Lancaster Smokehouse

The Port of Lancaster Smokehouse has collected numerous awards in recognition of its superior grade smoked Scottish salmon, superior smoked hams, bacon, cheese, duck breast, trout, chicken and game.

The producer also provides an unrivalled smoke service for companies and individuals alike. The awards won by the Port of Lancaster Smokehouse include:

"North West Fine Foods Producer of the Year Awards Overall Winners 2007"

North West Fine Food Producer of the Year Awards 2007 winner of "Best Fish or Seafood and Best Smoked Fish or Seafood" category

"Bakewell Agricultural & Horticultural Society Ltd 2006"
Trade Stand Award

"Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society Food Hall competition 2005" First Prize

"Booths & North West Fine Foods North West Producer of the Year 2003" Best Smoked Bacon Award for our Smoked Back Bacon.

"North West Fine Foods Producer of the Year 2002"
Award of Excellence for our Natural Oak Smoked Haddock.

Contact Information:

Port of Lancaster Smokehouse
John, Pat and Michael Price
West Quay, Glasson Dock
Nr Lancaster, Lancashire LA2 0DB
Phone: 01524 751493
Email: [email protected]

Conder Green Farm

Conder Green Farm Shop is a working farm, selling home produced Beef, Pork and Lamb, not to mention the fantastic Burgers and Sausages made by hand from their own produce.

Conder Green Farm Shop specialises in foods such as their Prize Winning Dry Cured Bacon and Gammon.

The Farm Shop itself is one form of attaining their fine meats, as well as Local Farmer Markets in the area.

Contact Information:

James Lamb
Conder Green Farm, Conder Green
Lancaster, Lancashire LA2 0AN
Phone: 01524 752174
Email: [email protected]

Udale Specialty Foods

Udale Handmade Pies produce an Award Winning range of Specialty Pies, Pasties, Sausage Rolls and Fruit Pies. Distribution is by their own vans across the region supplying wholesale, retail and the catering trades.

Udale Speciality Foods is a long established and traditionally run family business manufacturing their own Cumberland Sausage. They specialise in supplying local fresh meat, poultry, game and regional fine foods to premier hotels and restaurants throughout the Lake District, North Lancashire and surrounding areas.

Winner of Best Pork NW Fine Food Awards 2007

Contact Information:

Udale Speciality Foods
Ian and Neil Udale
Schola Green Lane
Morecambe, Lancashire LA4 5QT
Phone: 01524 411611
Email: [email protected]

Keer Falls Forest Farm

Established in 1986, this is an organic, permaculture, forest farm managed to Soil Association standards. Keer Falls supplies organic lamb and beef raised in natural, healthy conditions in a woodland environment. Keer Falls also supplies duck, eggs and fresh grown potted herbs.

Contact information:

Keer Falls
Arkholme
Carnforth
LA6 1AP
Phone: 015242 21019
Fax: 015242 21730
Email: [email protected]

Perivoli

Perivoli prepares Mediterranean style foods, including marinated olives and dips made to traditional family recipes. The best fresh ingredients are used for exciting flavours and visual appeal. Perivoli imports 'Dimitris' Greek honey, herbs and pulses to use in its foods.

Contact Information:

Joanna and Ruth Wharton
Unit 5, Borrowdale Business Park, Whitegate
Morecambe, Lancashire LA3 3BS
Phone: 01524 751702
Email: [email protected]

Mellow Meadow

Mellow Meadow offers lovingly hand prepared soups and sauces. Incorporating the finest local fruits and vegetables and adding no preservatives, flavourings or colorings.

Their range includes soups and sauces low in fat, low in calories and suitable for gluten free and vegetarian diets.

Contact Information:

Gillian Sedgley and Leanne Duerden
Number Seventeen, Holme Mills Industrial Estate, Holme
Carnforth, Lancashire LA6 1RD
Phone: 01524 781003
Email: [email protected]

The Foragers

The Foragers herd of pedigree Saddlebacks pigs are all genuinely free-ranging and are reared outdoors to exceptional welfare standards.

In return they provide succulent roasting joints with crispy crackling, real meaty sausages, traditional hand cured bacon and hams, and use only natural ingredients.

Contact Information:

29 Market Street
Carnforth
Lancashire
LA5 9JX
01524 732 021
Email: [email protected]

James Baxter & Sons

James Baxter & Sons of Morecambe provides the renowned Morecambe Bay Shrimps. Bob Baxter's family has been potting Shrimps for 200 years, he is the sixth generation.

The succulent shrimps are processed in the same time-honoured way; caught in the sandy estuaries of Morecambe Bay from the traditional 25 foot boats, they are cleaned and boiled at sea in sea-water, peeled by the fishermen's wives and delivered within 36 hours of being caught to the door.

The potting of fish, meat or cheese is one of the great traditions in British cookery. When potted, the Shrimps are seasoned with spices, pressed into a pot and sealed in clarified butter.

Contact Information:

Thornton Road,
Morecambe, Lancashire,
LA4 5PB
Tel: (01524) 410910

Althams Catering Butchers

Althams Catering Butchers are probably one of the largest independent family run businesses in the country with "hands-on" directors. Their company is committed to customer care and are an EC licensed factory offering specialist meat, poultry and charcuterie using local, national and international products all with total traceability.

Contact Information:

David Keating
Northgate, White Lund Ind Estate
Morecambe, Lancashire LA3 3AY
Phone: 01524 33433
Email: [email protected]

Diggles Ltd

Diggles Ltd are manufacturers of traditional hams, natural beef, turkey and pork for the catering, wholesale, and retail trade.

All products are available in varying pack sizes and can be sliced and labelled to each individual customer's requirements. Deliveries twice weekly throughout the North West.

Contact Information:

Colin Twiname
56 North Road
Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 1LT
Phone: 01524 62060
Email: [email protected]

Mansergh Hall

Mansergh Hall is a small family run organic farm situated in the beautiful Lune Valley, 2 miles north of Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria on the fringe of the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and North Lancashire. Mansergh Hall Farm has been organic since 2001 and is licensed with the Soil Association. They farm without the use of herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilisers, antibiotics, growth promoters or genetically modified organisms. All the livestock are born and raised on the farm or are sourced from other local organic farms. The animals are slaughtered and butchered in a local abattoir. The farm sells top quality beef, pork and lamb, and its awards include the prestigious Best Home Cured Bacon prize at the North West Fine Foods Producer of the Year Awards 2003.

Mansergh Hall Organic Lamb is the "most tender lamb you're ever likely to eat" - The Sunday Times, Oct 2005

Contact Information:

Jim Hadwin
Mansergh Hall, Kirkby Lonsdale
Via Carnforth, Lancashire LA6 2EN
Phone: 01524 271397
Email: [email protected]

Oakroyd Bakery

Oakroyd Bakery is an established bakers who offer an exciting range of puddings and cakes such as Sticky Ginger Pudding, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Blueberry & Lemon Pudding and many other fantastic cakes. They have received the following praise for their Puddings and Cakes:

Luxury Yorkshire Sticky Tealoaf ".....a serious cake" - HRH Prince Charles

Ingleton Gingerbread "Sweet and moist, with a home made look, a subtle taste of ginger and a firm top" - Choice Magazine, August 2000

Sticky Toffee Pudding - Winner of Gold Award - Great Taste Awards 2001

Contact Information:

Emma Craven
17 Station Road
High Bentham, North Yorkshire LA2 7LH
Phone: 01524 263353
Email: [email protected]

Bowland Forest Foods

Bowland Forest Foods was formed in 2000 as a subsidiary of Bowland farmers co-operative to serve the trading interests of its farmer members in the Forest of Bowland.

Selling beef, lamb and pork. Part of the vision was to produce for the customer superior quality meats which have been reared in natural, ecologically sound & environmentally sustainable conditions.

Contact Information:

Home Farm Office,
Abbeystead,
Lancaster,
LA2 9BQ
Phone: 01524 793558
Email: [email protected]

Bowland Outdoor Reared Pork

Bowland Outdoor Reared Pork, Beef and Lamb is a small family run business priding themselves on excellent produce. Livestock roam free on rich, unspoilt pastures ensuring meat of the highest quality.

Contact Information:

Tony Holland
Bradshaw Barn, Craggs Farm, Lowgill
Tatham, Lancashire LA2 8RB
Phone: 01524 263031
Email: [email protected]

Brades Farm Dairy

Brades Farm Dairy specialise in producing high quality, fully traceable milk products from their own dairy herd, straight from the farm to the customers' doorsteps.

Also supply fruit juices, cheese, yoghurt and eggs.

Brades Farm
Farleton
Lancashire
LA2 9LF
Tel: 015242 21589
Email: [email protected]

Ellel Free Range Poultry

The Ellel Free Range Poultry Company started in 1997 when Susie and Richard Charles reared 75 free-range bronze turkeys with phenomenal success.

Currently relatively small producers, they produce top quality free-range chickens, guinea fowl and geese.

Contact Information:

Susie and Richard Charles
The Stables
Ellel Grange
GALGATE
Nr Lancaster
Lancashire
LA2 0HN

Pye Nanny Nurseries

Pye Nanny Nurseries sell quality fresh herbs, vegetables and sundries to customers on the edge of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Lancashire.

Contact Information:

Roland Greer
Pye Nanny Hall,
Foundry Lane,
Halton on Lune
Lancaster
LA2 6BH
(01524) 32755

The Campaign for Real Gravy

You just can't beat the taste of real gravy - the false taste of instant gravy doesn't even compare. The Campaign for Real Gravy is an initiative being run by the Fenwick Arms, who are working with TV Chef Gordon Ramsay to try and push people away from instant gravy mixes and back to traditionally made, Real Gravy.

In many instant gravy mixes there are colourants, flavourings, additives and preservatives that leads to a gravy that just doesn't compare to the real thing.

At the Fenwick Arms there is a passion for real gravy and every day of the week, including their classic Sunday lunches, they're serving up excellent real gravy to pour on your spuds, drizzle over a beautiful piece of beef or fill the well in the best Yorkshire puds this side of the Pennines.

Gordon Ramsay, a devotee of real gravy, is the man to drive the Campaign for Real Gravy forward. TV legend Ramsay, has been banging the drum for real gravy and the Sunday roast in his recent column in the Sunday Times.

The Fenwick Arms and Gordon Ramsay are leading the campaign for people across the country to go back to using real gravy.The Fenwick Arms, situated in Claughton near Lancaster, is a unique gastropub combining a warm and friendly atmosphere with fine cuisine (and real gravy).

Contact Information:

The Fenwick Arms,
Lancaster Road,
Claughton,
Lancaster,
Lancashire,
LA2 9LA

Tel: 01524 221250

C R & J Towers Hornby Butchers

Hornby Butchers, located in Hornby, are known and respected for their high quality local meats. Their specialty sausages are second to none, come from local livestock and are entirely homemade. In addition to this, Hornby Butchers provide a wide range of high quality cooked meats and a massive variety of pies. Free local delivery is available.

Contact Information:

C R & J Towers Hornby Butchers
70 Main Street
Hornby
Tel: 015242 21248

Walling's Ice Cream

Walling's have been making homemade ice cream for seventeen years. The delightful Ice Cream is made using milk from their own cows, which demonstrates the effort Walling's go to in order to ensure their Ice Cream is entirely 'real' and homemade. Vanilla cones start at 80p, with ice-cream junkies licking their way through three-scoop waffle cones at £2.60. Walling's Ice Cream is situated at The Pudding House Restaurant, in Cockerham.

Contact Information:

Walling's Ice Cream
Higher Crookhey Farm
Cockerham
Nr. Lancaster
LA2 0HA
Tel: 01524 793781

Pudding House

The Pudding House restaurant at Wallings Farm is open 7 days a week serving traditional, locally sourced cuisine. We take great pride in sourcing our ingredients from local and regional suppliers wherever possible with all our meat prepared by our on-site Butchers Shop, ice cream from our own ice cream parlour (see above) and some products also used that are also available for sale in our Local Food Shop. All these combine to offer a real taste of Lancashire.

Contact Information:

Pudding House Restaurant

Higher Crookhey Farm
Cockerham
Nr. Lancaster
LA2 0HA
Tel: 01524 793781

Bowland Spring Water Co.

The Trough of Bowland Spring Water Company has taken one of Lancashire's best kept secrets and bottled it. For centuries the natural spring at Quernmore has provided the Gardner family at Far Lodge Farm and its verdant pastures with a life-giving source of pure, natural spring water. The Trough of Bowland is known locally as the 'hidden gem' of Lancashire and is part of the Forest of Bowland which has been a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty since 1964.Pure Bowland is sourced from a vast lake sitting on volcanic rock 60 metres below Far Lodge farm where it has taken 500 years to purify.

Contact Information:

Trough of Bowland
Spring Water Company Ltd
Far Lodge,
Quernmore,
Lancaster,
LA2 9EF
Tel: 01524 35560

J. Atkinson & Co.

J Atkinson & Co. have been supplying Tea & Coffee to the good citizens of Lancaster and surrounding areas since a young Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837. The business was established in 1837 as the Grasshopper Tea Warehouse and has occupied the premises on China Street since 1901. Atkinson's play their role in the wider global community by Ethically Sourcing the very highest quality of both Tea & Coffee and provide a specialist resource centre at their Academy for those who want to learn more. J. Atkinson & Co. have also recently been awarded a Gold Medal for their El Salvador 'Santa Barbara' at the North West Fine Foods Awards. The coffee came out on top in a blind tasting and was chosen by a panel of 24 food industry experts. In addition to this, they have also been shortlisted as one of only four finalists for the BIBA's prestigious Independent Retailer of the Year Award.

Contact Information:

J. Atkinson & Co. Ltd,
12 China Street,
Lancaster,
LA1 1EX

Tel:01524 65470

For more information on great local producers across Lancashire, visit:

http://www.visitlancashire.com/food-and-drink/taste-lancashire