Our food suppliers

• We are blessed to have hotels in areas of the country that also have an abundance of local food producers, and we love to work with them on our seasonal menus to showcase the best the region has to offer. We nurture long-term relationships with our treasured local suppliers and trust them to keep us up to speed with all the best in season ingredients.
  
  Here are just a few of our favourites:
  
  

• Bleiker's Family Smokehouse at Glasshouses, North Yorkshire
  Bleiker's Smokehouse is a thriving family run business based in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
  
  They pride themselves on traditionally curing and smoking a broad range of the finest quality fresh foods and preparing them to the highest specifications. Wherever possible, products are free from artificial colourings, additives or preservatives.
  
  Over the past few years Bleiker's Smokehouse has won numerous awards at the Guild of Fine Food Retailers' Great Taste Awards.
• Sausages from Lishman's of Ilkley, West Yorkshire
  Lishman's source meat from local farms and provides details of the farm and breed in the shop.
  
  They use a variety of commercial and rare breed meat. They have won many awards including Champion of Champions in 1999 (Plain Pork) and 2001 (Pork & Chives) and best butchers shop in Northern England in 2001. 
  
  Lishman's have monopolised the Yorkshire sausage championships, winning it 5 times in the last 9 years.
  
• Ann Forshaw's yoghurts, near Preston, Lancashire
  Ann Forshaw has been making traditional farmhouse hand-made yoghurt for 17 years.
  
  The entire product is of the highest standard, which is ensured by a long slow process of incubation and careful mixing by hand.
  
  All Ann Forshaw's yoghurt is made with milk from the family run farm, which has the RSPCA Freedom Foods Certificate.
  
• The Toffee Shop, Penrith, Cumbria
  These Cumbrian toffee specialists have been hand-making fudge and toffee on the premises since 1910.
  
  The Toffee Shop was originally opened by the Furnass family just after the First World War and has worked through three families, eventually being owned by Neil and Pat Boustead.
  
  With an international following The Toffee Shop is apparently a favourite with Her Majesty The Queen and Prince Charles.
  
• Dairy ice creams from beckleberry's, Ponteland.
  Beckleberry's make ice creams using fresh cream and whole milk, along with specially sourced additions such as Belgian couverture in the chocolate ice creams and their own handmade made praline. Their desserts are all handmade using simple, natural ingredients. This combined with their artisan skills ensures their products are in a class of their own.
• Fine pastries and bakery from Dumouchel, near Leeds, Yorkshire
  A native French patissier who has set up shop in his wife's home county of Yorkshire. Thierry Dumouchel uses only the finest ingredients to prepare outstanding bakery items, chocolates and sweets.
  
• Cheese from Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, Preston
  Cheesemaking has been in the blood of the Butler family for three generations, each playing a vital role in making Butlers what it has become today.
  
  The Butler family owns two rural dairies, Ravens Oak and Inglewhite, from which they create a raft of farmhouse and artisan cheeses paying attention to every detail; from the very best and tastiest ingredients, the ideal maturation time for each cheese and the best possible presentation for each cheese.
  
  Butlers have an award winning Blacksticks Blue cheese that's complimented by a growing array of blue and soft cheeses under the Blacksticks banner.