Best UK Independent Food Retailer 2010: Fodder, Harrogate

Harrogate's Fodder is our readers' favourite
  
  

Fodder
The butcher at Fodder. Photograph: Gary Calton Photograph: Gary Calton

WINNER

Fodder, Harrogate

Located on the show ground of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society Fodder answers those who think farmers markets are too much form and not enough content. Everything is sourced from the best producers within Yorkshire and Humberside, but sold at a price which challenges the supermarkets.

Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, HG2 8NZ, 01423 546111 fodderweb.co.uk

RUNNERS UP

LONDON

The Ginger Pig

A perennial favourite with OFM readers, this butcher first opened in the late 1990s and now runs butchery classes, while remaining committed to high standards of animal husbandry.

Borough Market, SE1 1TL, 020 7403 4721; 8-10 Moxon Street, W1U 4EW, 020 7935 7788; 99 Lauriston Road, E9 7HJ, 020 8986 6911; 27 Lower Marsh, SE1 7RG, 020 7921 2975, thegingerpig.co.uk

SOUTH

The Fine Cheese Co Bath

Brilliant cheese shop (and mail order online) with an equally good coffee shop serving cheesy delicacies.

29 & 31 Walcot St, BA1 5BN, 01225 448 748, finecheese.co.uk

NORTH

Fancie Cupcakes Sheffield

Pretty gourmet cupcakes, available online and in their cafe – try one with their delicious milkshakes and waddle home.

388 Sharrow Vale Road, S11 8ZP, 0114 266 7238, fancie.co.uk

Beanies Wholefoods Sheffield

Bustling and friendly vegetarian and vegan grocery shop, which also delivers great veg boxes.

205-207 Crookes Valley Road, S10 1BA, 0114 268 1662

MIDLANDS

Delilah Fine Foods Nottingham

A traditional delicatessen with a nice sideline in excellent wines. Make time to taste the samples they leave around the shop.

15 Middle Pavement, NG1 7DX, 0115 948 4461, delilahfinefoods.co.uk

Croots Farm Shop Duffield

Fabulous meat and vegetables, much of which is grown or reared by the owners. Also lovely local stilton and pates.

Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, DE56 4AQ, 01332 843 032, croots.co.uk

WALES

Ultracomida Narberth

Specialists in Welsh, French and Spanish produce, mainly cheese, but with a good selection of meats, oils and preserves thrown in. They have a small restaurant behind the shop doing a good range of primarily Spanish dishes – you can take wine from the shop in to drink. (There is also a branch in Aberystwyth).

7 High Street, SA67 7AR, 01834 861 491, ultracomida.co.uk

SCOTLAND

Peckham's Glasgow

Peckham's is a small chain of licensed delicatessens with branches across Scotland, but the Glassford Street branch is one of the grandest, roaming over four floors.

61-65 Glassford Street, G1 1UB, 0141 553 0666, peckhams.co.uk

N. IRELAND

Co Couture Belfast

Gourmet chocolates made in small batches to ensure consistent quality. Try the award-winning Irish whiskey truffle – deliciously dangerous.

7 Chichester Street, BT1 4JA, 028 9077 7695, cocouture.co.uk

ONLINE

JING Tea

Purveyors of a quite extraordinary number of luxurious teas.

jingtea.com

The Fish Society

One of the best sources of fish by mail order. Everything is frozen, but don't let that put you off – it's to ensure freshness.

thefishsociety.co.uk

Victoria's Cake Boutique

Bespoke cakes and cupcakes for very special occasions. Think towering confections decorated with real flowers, or themed cupcakes.

victorias-cake-boutique.co.uk

Gower Cottage Brownies

What could beat receiving a parcel full of brownies in the post? Delicious treats – including gluten-free – available from deep in the Welsh countryside.

gowercottagebrownies.co.uk

The Cheese Shed

Emporium of cheeses from the West Country, included ewe's milk, buffalo and blue cheeses.

thecheeseshed.com

 

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