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 Huntleys of Samlesbury, near Preston, Lancashire
  The Cowpe family has been farming at Samlesbury for 800 years but it wasn't until the foot-and-mouth crisis that they were prompted to diversify, opening a farm shop, butchery and an ice cream business.
  
  
• 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 Procter's of Chipping, Ribble Valley
  Chipping is a well-known tourist attraction set in the heart of North West England's Ribble Valley with tiny cottages and narrow cobbled streets. The small farms have lush pasture, producing excellent milk for cheese making.
  
  The day to day running of Procter's of Chipping is now in the capable hands of Tim Procter who is the fourth generation "Tim Procter". Tim is ably assisted by his wife Susan, mother, Jane, and sister, Helen.