Shrewsbury food and eating
eatshrewsbury.co.uk is an interactive food map of Shrewsbury and the surrounding area. Showing you where to find farm shops, delicatessens, restaurants, sandwich shops, pubs renowned for serving great food, supermarkets, take-aways, fish and chip shops, coffee shops, tea rooms, butchers, bakers, fishmongers, box schemes, farmers markets and more. We live, work and eat in Shrewsbury, so our map is the most accurate and comprehensive you will find. Get involved by submitting your own food reviews.
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Capers Sandwiches Frankwell, Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury's newest sandwich shop, opened 30 June 2009. Interview with the owners Ian and Elaine coming soon!
Soy Oriental Express Bellmont, Shrewsbury
New Chinese fast food place at the bottom of Claremont Hill. Eat in or take away. Owners have 30 years restaurant experience.
Saffron Cottage Welshpool Road, Ford
Saffron Cottage Indian restaurant opened for business on the 12th March 2009 in what was the Pavement Gates Inn, Ford.
Special Features...
Each month we are going to take a closer look at some of the restaurants and food producers and suppliers in and around Shrewsbury. This month we have been speaking to a new Indian restaurant called Saffron Cottage about what they have to offer the town's curry scene. We also spoke to Glen at Village Earth Foods about organic food and their new veg box schemes.
Read the interviews with Saffron Cottage and Village Earth Foods.
This feature is about Real Ale or Cask Ale production in Shrewsbury and Shropshire. There are quite a number of excellent independent, breweries in the county and they deserve some recognition for the excellent Shropshire beers they produce. Anyone who has enjoyed a pint of Cleric's Cure from Bishops Castle's Three Tuns brewery, the oldest working brewery in Britain, or Hobson's Mild, from the Hobson Brewery in Cleobury Mortimer, which was voted best beer in Britain in 2007 by CAMRA, will heartily agree. Even among the smaller microbreweries there are some excellent local ales to be sampled. We even have our very own Real Ale breweries, right here in Shrewsbury.
More about Shropshire Real Ale.
Anyone who 'grows their own' vegetables know how much better they taste than those you buy from the supermarket. But with allotment space at a premium and not everyone fortunate enough to have a large garden, getting your hands on good quality organic vegetables may seem a difficult proposition. That is where your local box scheme can help. A lot of people seem to have the misconception that vegetable box schemes are expensive. If you are used to paying supermarket prices, you will be pleasantly surprised.
Get fantastic fresh Shropshire produce delivered straight to your door. Here is a round up of the best fruit, vegetable, meat and fish box schemes the county has to offer.
More about Box Schemes in Shropshire.
The Market Hall at Shrewsbury is a fantastic place to buy your fresh fruit, vegetables and meat from local producers. Shrewsbury has been a thriving market town for centuries, with the original market taking place below the Old Market Hall. By 1965 the market had moved to its present location in the new Market Hall and operated as a pannier market until 2003 when it was modernised to create more space. The market stall holders are a friendly and knowledgeable bunch and between them offer some of the best locally produced Shropshire food. If you live or work in town, why not make the market part of your weekly routine. Opens most days of the week.
More about Shrewsbury Market Hall.
A great way to sample a range of the fantastic produce that Shropshire has to offer is to visit one of the county's many annual food fairs. Online ordering and the availability of produce through farm shops and cooperatives gives people in towns and cities easier access to 'rural food'. Many of the quality producers listed on our map are well worth a journey to visit, but when they all come together at one of the local food festivals, you really do have the opportunity to sample Shropshire on a plate! In this article you will find the pick of the 2009 Shropshire Food Festivals, as well as a small handful of the best events from our friendly neighbours in Powys, Cheshire and Herefordshire.
More about Shropshire Food Festivals 2009.
Recommended Reading...
Good Food Shops is a fantastic website by Bill Pearson who is searching out quality food suppliers and producers in Cheshire and beyond. His travels have brought him to Shropshire more than once.
Taste Shropshire Shropshire's growing reputation for good food is being supported by an excellent quarterly, seasonal magazine called Taste Shropshire. A celebration of local food and the landscape in which it is produced. This is a must have magazine, and a steal at just £10 for a year's subscription.
