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Read tales from behind the scenes, meet our suppliers and get inspiration for your next Cornish adventure. Plus, stories from Rick’s travels and the odd recipe too.

Meet our food heroes: Porthilly Shellfish

01.03.2019

Tim Marshall is the owner of Porthilly Shellfish, home of the famous Porthilly oysters, as well as mussels and a range of sea ...

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Meet our food heroes: Tarquin Leadbetter

01.03.2019

Tarquin Leadbetter, Founder and Head Distiller at Tarquin’s Gin has quite the story to tell. In 2012, as a 23-year-old, classically ...

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Meet our Food Heroes: Treleavens

01.03.2019

The ice cream filled story of Treleavens started on the south Cornish coast in 2002 when founder, Andrew Treleaven bought a seasonal ...

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Meet our Food Heroes: Clarence Court

01.03.2019

Boiled, scrambled, fried, poached or baked – all the eggs that we use in our restaurants come from Clarence Court, based in Liskeard, ...

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Meet our Food Heroes: St Austell Brewery

01.03.2019

St Austell Brewery was founded in 1851 (yes you read that correctly) by Cornishman Walter Hicks. Over 150 years on, they remain ...

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Meet our food heroes: Sharp’s Brewery

01.03.2019

Founded by Bill Sharp in 1994 across the Camel Estuary from Padstow in Rock, now owned by Molson Coors, Sharp’s Brewery is home to one ...

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Meet our food heroes: Cornish Orchards

01.03.2019

Cornish Orchards have been making cider at Westnorth Manor Farm since 2001. We have to go back another 11 years, when Andy Atkinson ...

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Charlie Stein: Notes from a Burgundy wine dinner

28.11.2018

I recently hosted the brilliant winemaker Amaury Devillard of ‘Chateau de Chamirey’ at our Barnes restaurant for the last of my ‘wine ...

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Autumn wine dinners at Rick Stein’s

05.09.2018

This autumn we’re celebrating great food and wine with a series of special five course wine dinners at our restaurants in ...

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