Food Drink Devon is the county’s only membership organisation supporting quality, sustainability and provenance in the food and drink industry. We represent over 250 members including producers, cafés, restaurants, pubs, bistros, hotels, cookery schools, catering businesses, speciality retailers and farmers’ markets. We are proud of the county’s thriving food and drink scene that has made it a hotspot for food tourism and would love to welcome you to Devon to experience it for yourself.

Here is a summary of the 14 brands featured at IMM. 

Venues

Cary Arms Hotel, Babbacombe

With the personality and values of a traditional English inn and the luxurious style and facilities of a boutique hotel, the Cary Arms & Spa offers you a relaxed and modern getaway making the most of its sensational coastal location and breath-taking views. www.caryarms.co.uk

The Box, Plymouth

The Box Kitchen + Bar is based within Plymouth’s £44m museum and arts centre due to open on 16th May 2020. This venue is modern and unique, with a vast backlit bar and historical figureheads suspended from the ceiling. Executive Chef Nat Tallents (MasterChef: The Professionals / National Chef of the Year finalist 2018) has created lunch and dinner menus full of bold flavours. Produce is all sourced from the South West in keeping with The Box’s community focus. www.theboxplymouth.com

The Salutation Inn, Topsham

Situated in the coastal town of Topsham (The Sunday Times Best Place to Live 2019), the 300 year old Salutation Inn has six boutique bedrooms and a high-reputation for gourmet feasting. Tom Williams-Hawkes, Chef Director, has previously worked alongside Michael Caines, Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing. www.salutationtopsham.co.uk

Food

Sharpham Cheese

Sharpham Cheese recently won two outstanding awards: UK Supreme Cheese at the Global Cheese Awards (Washbourne) and British Product of the Year in the Great British Food Awards (Cremet) – an award judged by Marcus Wareing. Nestled in a valley overlooking the River Dart, Sharpham Cheese uses rich milk from their own Jersey cattle to produce their range of internationally award-winning cheeses. The estate is open to the public for wine and cheese tours, with an on-site café for lunch. www.sharpham.com

Tideford

Creating nourishing food with organic ingredients has always been the Tideford way, making delicious homemade-style soups in their Devon kitchen since 1996. Their award winning range of tasty soups, sauces, meal pots and miso pastes are all certified organic, vegan and gluten-free with no added sugar. www.tidefordorganics.com

Non-Alcoholic Drinks

Blue Goose Coffee

Blue Goose produces a range of speciality, single-origin and organic coffees in certified plastic-free, compostable coffee capsules. Their starch & wood bark capsules offer a more sustainable alternative that taste exceptional. www.bluegoose.coffee

Luscombe Drinks

Luscombe Drinks source premium organic ingredients from trusted growers around the world and produce a range of 33 award winning drinks including pure fruit juices, soft drinks made with Devon spring water, tonics & mixers and their historic Devon cider. www.luscombe.co.uk

Alcoholic Drinks

Devon Cove

Devon Cove creates vodka using King Edward potatoes that are lovingly grown in rich soil on the family farm that overlooks Hope Cove, South Devon. Their Cove Damson Liqueur is a divinely smooth and fruity creation of ripe damsons combined with their Devon Potato Vodka. www.devoncove.co.uk

Lyme Bay Winery

Lyme Bay Winery, based in the rolling hills of East Devon, boasts an impressive drinks portfolio which includes an unparalleled range of award-winning, internationally recognised English wines, fruit wines, ciders, meads, rums, gins and liqueurs. www.lbwdrinks.co.uk

Salcombe Brewery

Salcombe Brewery produces award-winning beer and welcomes visitors for tours and tastings at its state of the art brewery in South Devon. In 2020 it will add a new cider, vegan beer and barrel-aged beers to its range. Salcombe Brewery supports The Seahorse Trust and the RNLI. www.salcombebrewery.com

Salcombe Gin

Salcombe Distilling Co. creates exceptional award-winning gins at its waterside distillery on Island Street, Salcombe; one of the world’s only distilleries directly accessible by boat. It also boasts the Salcombe Gin School where visitors can learn about distillation and create their bespoke bottle of gin. www.salcombegin.com

Sharpham Wine

With grapes grown on the banks of the River Dart in South Devon, Sharpham Wine has been producing premium still and sparkling wines for over 35 years. Most recently, its Sparkling Pink 2016 wine was voted the best UK Traditional Method Sparkling Wine at the prestigious international Bollicini del Mondo hosted in Verona last month. Visitors can stay at the 18th century Sharpham House and enjoy wine and cheese tours, together with its sister company, Sharpham Cheese. www.sharpham.com

South West Wine School

Devon based South West Wine School runs Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) courses at both Darts Farm near Topsham and its headquarters just outside Kingsbridge in South Devon. In addition, the wine school hosts a series of high profile, fun and informal consumer tastings in the region with leading national wine experts. www.southwestwineschool.co.uk

Two Drifters Distillery

Two Drifters Distillery is the world’s first distillery to make rum with a carbon negative footprint. They remove more CO2 than was created in the whole process, from the growing of the sugarcane to the finished bottle by making sure their carbon emissions are zero and then offsetting every CO2 emission they can’t control. www.twodriftersrum.com

Wicked Wolf Gin

Wicked Wolf Gin produces a range of award-winning artisan juniper-led dry gins. These premium, handcrafted gins are made from botanicals individually distilled in the first gin distillery on Exmoor and then expertly blended, filtered, bottled and labelled by hand in exclusive 100-litre batches. www.wickedwolfgin.com

For more information on any of these companies or any of our other members please contact Hayley Reynolds at hayley@rawfoodanddrinkpr.co.uk or 07887 474104.