Beers
Nothing better then a good local beer and you can not get better then
Palmers of Bridport, Britain’s oldest thatched brewery.
www.palmersbrewery.com More
local Beers
We have also started with a new brewing company called DBC
the Dorset Brewing company from Weymouth.
They
have a wonderful selection of beers that if you are a real ale lover you just
have to try.
www.dbcales.com Breakfast
meats
All our fantastic bacon, white pudding, black pudding comes from
Kevin and Amanda Crocker of Pampered Pigs in Tolpuddle. They also have a farm
shop open Tuesday to Sunday.
www.pampered-pigs.co.uk Our
Dorset cheese selection
We buy all our cheeses under one roof from a wonderful
Delicatessen in Dorchester called the Fridge. We also buy the very popular Woolsery
goats Cheese from them as well (www.woolserycheese.co.uk )
www.thefridge.biz Cooking
oil
At Yalbury we only cook with the finest rapeseed oil. We do not have
any olive oil within the hotel!! We get our rapeseed oil from Chris Pratt based
in the New Forest.
www.prattsfood.co.uk Small
Producer Distributer
Roberts supply a wide range of local produce
from smaller suppliers who find it difficult to distribute their products. Roberts
are a welcome addition to all caterers.
www.robertsfoodservice.co.uk Mushrooms
We
have the most wonderful mushrooms you have ever seen or tasted. George grows them
himself and is
a real lover of them.
Dorset Down Mushrooms, Sherborne
Tel: 01963 220 007 Fruit
and Vegetables
We have the most wonderful pick your own farm just 5 minutes
around the corner from us called Lewell farm. The kids love it and are very proud
to be in charge of picking the strawberries for the hotel and me to cook with.
We
also buy Asparagus, baby carrots, new potatoes, broad beans, peas and raspberries.
Tel:
01305 5262778 Dairy
Local
milk and cream all coming from Blackmore Vale and delivered to us by the fine
food company (www.finefoodco.co.uk)
www.bvdairy.co.uk
We
also buy clotted cream from Craig’s farm dairy
www.craigs-farm.co.uk Shellfish
You
can not get better anywhere!! Trust me.The best crab, lobsters and scallops picked
up from our
shores around us.
Portland Shellfish Tel:01305
822522 Fish
We
have the very best fresh fish selection coming from our local Duchy fisherman
Ashley. He brings us on a daily basis his catch of the day for us to offer our
guests.
www.duchyfisherman.co.uk Flowers
The
stunning flowers you see around the hotel come from Poundbury Florist’s in
Poundbury
www.poundburyflorist.co.uk Sausages
Our
Breakfast sausages and chorizo sausages are coming from the wonderful farm Sydling
Brook Organic,
as well as the pearled spelt.
Tel: 01300 341992 Eggs
We
use only free-range eggs in the hotel from Foots farm about 15 minutes from the
hotel.
They are delivered to us by Graingers of Dorchester.
Tel: 01305 251840 Locally
grown vegetables and Portland Mutton
Just good stuff is the name of the
company and “just good stuff” is what they grow!!!
All seasonal vegetables
and fruit from just a few miles away from our door.
Call Steve Gould on 078910
79615 Speciality
Mushrooms
Amazing quality of different styles of mushrooms from a company
called Fundamentally Fungus from
near the new Forest.
www.fundamentallyfungus.com
or
call Sue Whiting on 01264 811170 Local
rose Veal
Fantastic quality veal coming from just up the road in Winfrith.
www.jurassiccoastmeats.co.uk
or
call Liz Sealey on 01305 853355 Salad
leaves
Woodsford Leaves from around the corner in Crossways have started
to grow all our leaves for us of an amazing quality. From baby spinach and watercress
to mixed salad leaves,all pick on the day for us.
Call
Stephen or Liz on 01305 853 879 Snails!!!
YES!
We have our very own Dorset snails, coming from a company called “Dorset
escargot” and they are just fantastic quality, the best I have every tasted.
www.dorset-escargot.co.uk
or
call 01202 549733 Butchers
If
it is a quality butchers you are looking for then look no further then P&J
Butchers Ltd in Dorchester
Call Larry on 01305 264105 Garlic
All
our Fresh garlic and smoked garlic comes from the Garlic Farm on the Isle of Wight.
The quality is amazing and the different varieties of garlic are both unusual
and exciting.
They also have some wonderful home made chutneys.
www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk Recycling
Here
at the cottage we recycle pretty much 70% of all our waste. Paper, cardboard,
wooden boxes and of course the bottles. We also compost all our vegetable trimming.
This has helped us over the last year to cut our land fill waste by over half
and we increased our business by half as well!!
Thank to the help of the local
council, 1st Waste and the bottleman this has been possible.
Ist
Waste collects all our Cardboard
www.1stwaste.co.uk
The
Bottleman collects all our empty bottles and glass
www.bottleman.co.uk
The
local council all our land fill waste Photography
Andy Whale
www.andywhale.com
Last
but not least WEBSITE
We have the (we think!!) Best web designer, Rachel
from Dorchester Web Design. She is so passionate about her work and waves her
magic in every thing she does from newsletters to recipe pages, it always comes
back better then you imagined.
www.dorchesterwebdesign.co.uk | 
