THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE
Made up of five inhabited islands, the Isles of Scilly has five completely different island landscapes which shape the way each island produces food
As people become aware of how important it is to trace where food comes from, an increasing number of consumers are choosing local food over mass produced imports.
03. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE ON SCILLY YOU DON’T Scilly is rapidly establishing itself Given the nature and scale of the as a quality provider of local produce farms and businesses listed, not all ONLY KNOW WHERE and the Isles of Scilly Farmers and producers and products are available Growers Initiative, in partnership all of the time. Many are family YOUR FOOD HAS COME with the Islands’ Partnership, has operated and are on a small scale. produced this food directory to Please contact producers ahead of FROM BUT YOU CAN highlight the tirelessly hard work your visit to make sure they are open of the food and catering industry for business. POINT TO THE on the islands. FISHERMEN OR FARMER WHO HAS PROVIDED IT FOR YOU
You can keep up to date with what is happening in the food industry on the Isles of Scilly by visiting our twitter site — @scillyfood or our Facebook page — Scilly Food
05. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE
Bant’s Carn 22.
Toll’s Island P 23. 29. eli stry Bay Pelistry 21. Mount Todden THE LARGEST AND BUSIEST Porth Loo St Mary’s
Por thm of the Isles of Scilly, St Mary’s e Deep Point llo 3. The n Quay 2. Rocky Hill EH has something for everybody Town 20. 4. Beach 28. Porth The Local Produce Market is held at the Town Hall in the 1. Hugh Town 27. Hellick 25. 24. Salakee Spring, Summer and Autumn months where local food The Garrison HT 26. Porthc res Old Town producers come together to show off their wares. sa 16. Isles of Scilly
O Airport ld Giant’s Castle T ow n B Peninnis ay Head
KEY = Location = Hugh Town = End of Hugh Town
Star Castle Bordeaux Juliet’s Garden The Pilchard Pit Scilly Fish Sylina Guesthouse The Fish Box The Wheelhouse Kaffehaus Salbei Tregarthen’s Hotel Bell Rock Hotel Old Town Inn The Pilot’s Gig St Mary’s Hall Hotel Old Town Café Kavorna Café and Bistro Peninnis Farm Carntop Guesthouse Tanglewood Kitchen Company The Handmade Fudge Shop Colossus B&B Plowman’s Food Company The Dairy Café Ales of Scilly Schooners Hotel Mincarlo Guesthouse Carnwethers Badcock’s Homemade Pasties Spero’s
07. THE PILCHARD PIT
Situated on St Mary’s quay the Pilchard Pit is a small sandwich and coffee takeaway which tries to use local produce wherever it can. Day trippers can pop in for a Troytown ice cream or a bag of Veronica Farm Fudge before heading home on the Scillonian. STAR The Pilchard Pit, St Mary’s Quay, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0HU CASTLE Tel: 01720 422352 2.
Star Castle is a family run hotel on St Mary’s which has its own market gardens both at the hotel and at Carn Friars Farm THE FISH BOX Star Castle grow their The hotel’s latest venture Star Castle, The Garrison, own vegetables, salads is a vineyard on St Mary’s. St Mary’s Isles of Scilly, The Fish Box is a market stall selling fresh fish and soft fruits which 7000 vines have been TR21 0JA and shellfish caught on the Isles of Scilly. From appear on the hotel’s planted, 60% Pinot Noir, the stall on St Mary’s quay or from the Local Produce Tel: 01720 422317 menu and use local 30% Chardonnay and Market you can buy the freshest crab, lobster and island farms for 10% Pinot Gris. Australian E. [email protected] pollock as well as homemade produce such as crab extra supplies. winemaker Willi Opitez www.star-castle.co.uk pate, fish pies, seafood soup and thai fish curry. who has twice won The Manager, Robert Twitter: @starcastlehotel Australian Late Harvest Francis, also runs a Facebook: Star Castle Hotel The Fish Box Winemaker of the year fishing boat — Gallos Tel: 01720 423473 award will be helping out 1. SC 177 — which provides with the winemaking. E. [email protected] lobster and crab for www.scillyfishbox.co.uk the restaurant as well The Vineyard and Winery 3. Facebook: Scilly Fish Box as supplying mainland will be open to visitors establishments. from Easter 2014. 09. TREGARTHEN’S HOTEL KAVORNA CAFÉ AND BISTRO
The Table d’hôte menus are changed Menus are flexible at Kavorna as the chef works daily at Tregarthens Hotel and all dishes his dishes around the fish and shellfish that are homemade using only the best have been landed at St Mary’s Harbour. On the produce available. Lobster is available dessert menu Troytown Farm ice cream is listed on request with 24 hours notice to and customers can enjoy Ales of Scilly. Foraged make sure it is as fresh as possible. herbs often make appearances including wild samphire, sea beat and wild mint. Bread and Tregarthen’s Hotel, St Mary’s, cakes are also made on site. Isles of Scilly, TR21 0PP 21 High Street, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0LL Tel: 01720 422540 Tel: 01720 422660 E. [email protected] HT www.tregarthens-hotel.co.uk E. [email protected] Twitter: @tregarthens 4. Facebook: Tregarthens-Hotel TANGLEWOOD KITCHEN COMPANY
How about this for a great idea? Restaurant quality meals made with fresh, local ingredients which you can collect or have delivered to your door, tent or yacht? The ready meals are sold Laurie and Hayden took over from Tanglewood’s shop which also sells Troytown ice The Pilot’s Gig restaurant in cream, clotted cream and butter, salad leaves from 2013 and started using island Scillonian Fayre, crab and lobster from Maiden Bower produce straight away. Ice and lobster from Carn Top. All the eggs used are from cream is from Troytown and Paul and Liz Watts’ farm and local ales are on offer local eggs are on the menu. from Ales of Scilly. To wash those down you can drink Ales of Scilly as well! Tanglewood Kitchen Company, The Post Office, Hugh Street, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0PB Pilot’s Gig, The Bank, St Mary’s, Tel: 01720 422454 Isles of Scilly, TR21 0HY E. [email protected] Tel: 01720 422654 www.tanglewoodkitchen.co.uk E. [email protected] HT Twitter: @tanglewoodkitch Facebook: Tanglewood Kitchen HT 11. PLOWMAN’S FOOD COMPANY BADCOCK’S Alex Plowman had previously run a butchers HOMEMADE PASTIES and deli on the mainland before opening Plowman’s Food Company in 2012. Providing Tracy Badcock has lived on Scilly for a friendly and welcoming service to his more than 25 years and makes all her customers Alex offers a variety of local meat, pasties at home in her little kitchen. shellfish and homemade breads and cakes. She sells the meat and vegetarian pasties Plowman’s Food Company, 5 Garrison Lane, from her van on the Atlantic slipway at Hugh Town, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0JD 930am most days. but be aware they sell out quickly! E. [email protected] www.plowmansfoodco.com Tel: 01720 423611 HT Mob: 07748965671 Twitter: @plowmansfoodco HT Facebook: Plowmans Food Co
SCHOONERS HOTEL BORDEAUX SHOP
Keith and Carol Buchanan have been running Maggie Tucker’s homemade jams, Schooners Hotel for more than 8 years. They pickles and chutneys line the shelves pride themselves on having a fresh menu at Bordeaux as well as Mrs Pritchard’s everyday using eggs from Mike Hicks on St marmalade and fudge from The Agnes, dairy products from Troytown Farm, Handmade Fudge Company. Perfect vegetables from Scilly Organics and Ales for finding a local souvenir to take home! of Scilly. Bordeaux Shop, Hugh Town, St Mary’s, Schooners Hotel, Thorofare, Hugh Town, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0LP Isles of Scilly, TR21 0LN Tel: 01720 422040 HT Tel: 01720 422682 E. [email protected] www.schoonershotel.co.uk Twitter: @schoonershotel Facebook: Schooners Hotel, Hugh Town HT 13. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE SCILLY FISH BELL ROCK HOTEL
A trained chef, Eugene Hogan Bell Rock Hotel has been welcoming moved to the islands after marrying guests to Scilly for more than 100 years. a local girl. In 2013 he took over the At breakfast and at dinner locally sourced fish and chip van and wants to sell produce is used where possible including locally landed fish in the future. Scillonian free range eggs from Parting Carn Farm, Scillonian fish and ice cream Tel: 07876 340032 HT from St Agnes. Facebook: Scilly Fish Bell Rock Hotel, Church Street, St Marys, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0JS
Tel: 01720 423093 E. [email protected] www.bellrockhotel.co.uk HT THE WHEELHOUSE GUESTHOUSE ST MARY’S HALL HOTEL As well as offering local eggs and homemade marmalade on the breakfast Currently the Spirit Restaurant is the only table, Jen and Dan provide ‘Tea by restaurant on Scilly to be part of the the Sea’ on their beach front terrace. Sustainable Restaurant Association. Guests Homemade scones are topped with and non residents can enjoy eggs laid here Troytown clotted cream and a selection on the islands, shellfish landed from the of St Agnes ice creams are also available. fishing boat the Maiden Bower and freshly The Wheelhouse, Little Porth, St Mary’s, made bread. Isles of Scilly, TR21 0JG St Mary’s Hall Hotel, Church Street, Hugh Town, Tel: 01720 422719 St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0JR
E. [email protected] Tel: 01720 422316 www.thewheelhousescilly.co.uk E. [email protected] www.stmaryshallhotel.co.uk HT HT 15. THE HANDMADE PENINNIS FARM HT FUDGE SHOP HT
In the clean air of the Scillonian islands, a genuine cottage industry has sprung Rare breed Oxford Sandy and Black pigs are born up offering a handmade sweet treat. From a modest kitchen beside the and bred on the family farm on St Mary’s St Mary’s harbour, Michele Maplethorpe stirs the imagination with her unusual flavours like Cheeky Cherry Bakewell and Loopy Lemon Meringue.
Frozen pork including bacon, gammon The Handmade Fudge Shop, The Strand, steaks, chops and joints are available St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0PT from Peninnis Farm when available. Tel: 01720 423114 Free range eggs are also for sale. E. [email protected] Peninnis Farm, Church Road, www.thehandmadefudgeshop.co.uk St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NA
Tel: 01720 421008 E. [email protected] THE DAIRY CAFÉ www.peninnisfarmluxurycamping.co.uk Twitter: @peninnisfarm Homemade scones and cakes are freshly made Facebook: Peninnis Farm Luxury Camping at the café as well as island crab sandwiches, homemade soups and baguettes. Troytown milk is also available.
The Dairy Café, The Strand, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0PT
Tel: 01720 422446 Facebook: The Dairy
HT
17. MINCARLO GUEST HOUSE JULIET’S GARDEN A family run guesthouse overlooking St Mary’s Harbour, Mincarlo has an ‘Enjoy England’ breakfast RESTAURANT & BAR award for its famous breakfasts! Eggs come from Mike Hicks on St Agnes, milk from Troytown Farm. You can’t get more local than Plowman’s Food Company supply the guesthouse Juliet’s Garden Restaurant and Bar, growing your own fruit and with homemade breads and Bryony and Nick grow Seaways Flower Farm, St Mary’s, vegetables for your restaurant some of their own fruit and vegetables. Isles of Scilly, TR210NF and that’s exactly what happens Tel: 01720 422228 Mincarlo Guest House, Carn Thomas, St Mary’s, at Juliet’s Garden. Isles of Scilly, TR21 0PT Tel: 01720 422513 E. [email protected] As well as appearing on the day and HT www.julietsgardenrestaurant.co.uk E. [email protected] www.mincarlo.info evening menus, fruit and vegetables are sold from the farm shop.
HT SPERO’S BEACH CAFÉ AND RESTAURANT
The dishes at Spero’s are often designed around local superstar ingredients. Crab is landed on local boat, the VickyAnna, free range eggs are from Parting Carn Farm. Vegetables and salads are supplied by Angie Jenkins at Carn Friars. Spero’s are keen on using as much local food as possible and one of the chefs even forages wild plants and herbs to use on menus!
Spero’s Beach Café and Restaurant, Porthmellon, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0JY
Tel: 01720 422521 E. [email protected] www.speros.co.uk HT
19. SYLINA GUESTHOUSE OLD TOWN CAFÉ
Sam and Paul at Sylina grow their own Homemade cakes, scones and pasties fruit and vegetables for the breakfast are always on the menu at the Old menu including tomatoes, melons, Town Café and the team always use strawberries, onion, beetroot and apples. local crab and vegetables on their Bread is freshly baked and everything lunch and dinner menus when they they don’t grow or produce they try to are available. buy locally. Old Town Café, Old Town, St Mary’s, Sylina Guesthouse, McFarlands Down, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NH St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NS HT Tel: 01720 422045 Tel: 01720 422129 E. [email protected] www.sylina.co.uk HT OLD TOWN INN KAFFEHAUS SALBEI The team behind the Old Town Inn love Sabine Schraudolph runs a guesthouse to add a local touch to the dishes and which has a traditional Bavarian Café. often will forage plants and herbs from Breads are supplied by Plowman’s Food the hedgerows and beaches for dishes Company and fresh eggs are supplied from on their menus. All food is prepared up on the Garrison. Maggie Tucker makes fresh and half of the menu caters for jams and local bacon is on the menu when gluten free and vegetarian customers. possible. The café’s famous apple strudel Old Town Inn, Old Town, St Mary’s, is made using local apples in season and Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NN Scillonian vegetables are used in the soups. Tel: 01720 422301 Isles of Scilly Country Guesthouse and Kaffehaus E. Salbei, High Lane, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, [email protected] www.oldtowninn.co.uk TR21 0NW Twitter: @oldtowninnIOS Tel: 01720 422440 Facebook: Old-Town-Inn HT E. [email protected] www.scillyguesthouse.co.uk HT 21. COLOSSUS B&B Carmen Stevens is often busy in her kitchen making jams and preserves from Scillonian apples, blackberries and soft fruits. Bright yellow yolked local eggs play a starring role on the breakfast table giving her guests the chance to taste eggs laid fresh on the islands.
Colossus B&B, Pilot’s Retreat, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0PB
Tel: 01720 423361 E. [email protected] www.colossus-scilly.co.uk HT
Nick Jenkins and his wife Angela of Carntop can trace back Nick’s family for 300 years on Scilly AIMEE’S FLAVOURED SPECIALITY BREADS
A trained chef, Aimee Christopher is CARNTOP The Jenkins’ have a strong fishing passionate about making high quality background and Nick’s mullet, pollock, flavoured breads. They are topped with GUESTHOUSE crab and lobster can be found on the local ingredients including thyme, menu at Carntop. Breakfast and evening rosemary, sage and basil grown by meals are bursting with local produce. Aimee’s Dad. Flat breads are finished off As well as making their own bread, jams with island grown cherry tomatoes and and marmalade, seasonal produce is onions. Rolls are glazed with local eggs. also on offer including their homegrown They are sold at the local produce market vegetables, potatoes and fruit. on St Mary’s and can be made to order. Carntop Guesthouse, Church Road, St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NA Aimee’s Flavoured Speciality Breads E. HT Tel: 01720 423763 [email protected] E. [email protected] www.carntop.co.uk HT 23. ALES OF SCILLY BECKY’S SCILLY CAKES Becky’s cakes are made with local produce whenever possible. Celebration cakes are available as well as tray bakes, cake toppers, fudge, sweet treats and dog biscuits. Becky’s cakes are available at Plowman’s Food Company, craft markets and the local produce market.
Becky’s Scilly Cakes
Tel: 01720 423422 E. [email protected] www.beckysscillycakes.webs.com HT Facebook: Becky’s Scilly Cakes
Mark Praeger, of Ales CARNWETHERS of Scilly, made his COUNTRY HOUSE
first alcoholic brew On arrival guests to Carnwethers are given local eggs, homemade marmalade in a school biology and homemade soda bread as well as Mark now sells a wide range of casked and lesson at 13 years old! tomatoes, apples and apple juice when bottled beers which are sold across the in season. islands. Popular beers include Firebrand, Carnwethers Country House, Pelistry Bay, Scuppered and Maiden Voyage. St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly, TR21 0NX Tel: 01720 422419 Tel: 01720 422723 Mob: 07810816681 E. [email protected] E. [email protected] www.carnwethers.com HT www.alesofscilly.co.uk HT
25. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE
St Helen’s Pool
Old Hell Bay Grimsby New 4. Ravens Grimsby Porth Bryher 1. Rushy Point The Anneka’s 3. Quay FAMED FOR ITS BEEF FARMING, Tow n 2. Church Tresco Lizard Point Quay Tresco manages to put Tresco beef ay B e Green tl Bay n rth e on its menus and sell directly Po P at re Tresco to consumers G Channel
A p Whether in burgers or a fillet steak it’s worth p B l e a visiting the island to try Tresco beef. t y r Cr e ow e B ar
Samson
KEY
The New Inn Tresco Stores The Flying Boat Club The Ruin
27. THE NEW INN THE FLYING Tresco’s only pub sources as much as it can BOAT CLUB 3. from the island itself. The menu includes Tresco beef, free range eggs, asparagus soft fruits and Situated right above the beach near tomatoes from Borough Farm and mixed leaves New Grimsby harbour, the members and vegetables from the Abbey Garden. Further only clubhouse serves light breakfasts, afield it sources its lobster and duck eggs from lunches and dinners using Tresco beef, Dawn Vue on Bryher and its crab from Ian Mitchell local shellfish and vegetables. on St Martin’s. Ales of Scilly, including Scuppered and Maiden Voyage, are also served at the bar. Flying Boat Club, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QQ The New Inn, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QG Tel: 01720 424068 Tel: 01720 422844 E. [email protected] E. [email protected] www.tresco.co.uk/foodanddrink 1. www.tresco.co.uk/accommodation/new-inn/
The island’s beach front restaurant TRECO STORES THE RUIN serves a Mediteranean inspired menu and uses a wood fired oven With a strong emphasis on local foods including to cook much of its food. Crab is Tresco beef, St Agnes ice cream and fruit from sourced from the islands, wood Angela and Chris Jenkins, Tresco Stores has a fired breads are made on site and reputation for its gourmet array of products. vegetables and soft fruits are The shop has its own bakery selling fresh bread grown on Tresco. and pasties and a large selection of Cornish cheeses as well as old favourites. In addition The Ruin, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, to grocery there is a wide selection of drinks TR24 0QG on sale including wine from St Martin’s Vineyard Tel: 01720 424849 and Ales of Scilly. E. [email protected] Tresco Stores, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, TR24 0QQ Twitter: @Ruin_Beach_Café Tel: 01720 422454 4. E. [email protected] 2. www.tresco.co.uk/foodanddrink 29. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE
White Island Porth Morran St Helen’s
Porth FISHING BOATS STILL COME Seal S t Tean Lower M St Helen’s a rti IN AND OUT OF ST MARTIN’S Pool Town n’s LowerTown Bay Day Quay Middle Mark 7. Town St Martin’s 5. Head EVERY WEEK
La St Martin’s wr en 6. 3. ce 4. 1. ’s Higher B St Martin’s Flats a 2. y Town Perpitch (dry sand at low tide) Par Beach Higher Town Higher Town Quay Bay
Lizard Point
Eastern Isles
Whether you want freshly caught, KEY
St Martin’s Vineyard Scilly Cow battered and fried fish and chips, Polreath Tearoom Scilly Organics The Island Bakery Scillonian Fayre or picked crab straight from a boat, St Martin’s Post Office St Martin’s can provide it all
31. ST MARTIN’S VINEYARD THE ISLAND BAKERY
The vineyard has been in the Thomas Barney McLachlan took over the Island family for generations and was formally Bakery, a former lobster potting shed. a bulb farm. Now, farming grapes grown The bread and rolls are made using in the Scilly sunshine, Val and Graham organic flour and there are guest breads Thomas’ wine is being sold in some of every week from sourdough loaves to sun Scilly’s finest restaurants and shops. dried tomato ciabattas. Every morning Visit the vineyard to look around the pasties are made using Cornish beef as shop or to take a tour of the farm. well as the popular spiced vegetable pasties. Filled rolls are for sale including St Martin’s Vineyard, Highertown, fresh local crab and if you’re still hungry, St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly, TR25 0QL Barney bakes a range of homemade Tel: 01720 423418 cakes made using local eggs. E. [email protected] The Island Bakery, Highertown, 1. www.stmartinsvineyard.co.uk St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly, TR25 0QL
Tel: 01720 422111 POLREATH TEAROOM E. [email protected] 3. www.theislandbakery-stmartins.com Baking is at the heart of Polreath’s menu. All the cakes, pastries and scones are ST MARTIN’S POST OFFICE homemade and come from tried and tested family recipes. The lunches are prepared to Jan and Bruce Frank took over St Martin’s Post order and use salads, herbs and vegetables Office and Stores at the end of 2013. They sell a from St Martin’s. Ian Mitchell from St Martin’s wide range of Scillonian items including locally catches the crab for the fresh crab salads caught fish, wine from St Martin’s Vineyard, local and St Martin’s wine and Ales of Scilly are eggs, St Agnes chocolate and ice cream. Perfect also on sale for thirsty customers! for some local souviners to take home with you.
Polreath Tearoom, Highertown, St Martin’s Stores, Highertown, St Martin’s, St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly ,TR25 0QL Isles of Scilly, TR25 0QL Tel: 01720 422046 Tel: 01720 422801 4. E. [email protected] www.stmartins-stores.co.uk www.polreath.com 2. 33. SCILLY ORGANICS
SCILLY COW
Pedigree Red Ruby Devon cows are grazed on the flower farm
Local farmer Jonathan Smith grows organic Scilly Organics, Middletown, vegetables on six acres of land from his St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly, Passionate local farmers Ben and Zoe Julian, Churchtown Farm, farm on St Martin’s island. TR25 0QN and the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust, manage Highertown, St Martin’s, He supplies cafés and restaurants as well as E. [email protected] the flower farm landscape. Isles of Scilly, TR25 0QL running a local food box scheme and has a www.scillyorganics.com The meat from this slow grazing, Red Ruby Tel: 01720 422169 roadside vegetable stall in Middletown. He Devon breed, is beautifully marbled and is grows a wide range of vegetables that are 6. E. [email protected] sold from the farm. www.scillycow.co.uk available according to the season. You can also do a farm trail at Lawrences. Facebook: Scilly Flowers 5. Twitter: @scillyflowers 35. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE
SCILLONIAN FAYRE
Ten years ago Ian Metcalf moved to the islands with no tools or land
Ian slowly took on and subletted abandoned land and bought tools and machinery along the way. He now farms seventeen small fields spread across St Martin’s and grows vegetables, salads, fruit, herbs and flowers. From parsnips and artichokes to cucumbers, the array of vegetables are sold from his shop in Middletown and are also available from some outlets on St Mary’s.
Scillonian Fayre, Middletown, St Martin’s, Isles of Scilly, TR25 0QL
Tel: 07769 613731 7. Facebook: Scillonian Fayre
37. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE St Helen’s Pool
Old Hell Bay Grimsby Ravens 1. New Porth Grimsby Bryher The 3. Rushy Point Town Anneka’s STILL A VIBRANT FARMING 2. Quay Church Lizard Point 4. Quay ay Tresco B COMMUNITY, e Green tl 5. Bay n rth e Po P honesty stalls make up a vital at re Tresco G Norrard 6. Channel part of bryher’s food economy Rocks Ap pl et The honesty stalls are a welcome resource for visitors re e B hoping to try fresh vegetables, fruit, eggs and fish. You a y can walk from stall to stall picking up enough produce for a delicious, locally grown evening meal!
KEY
Fraggle Rock Hell Bay Hotel Bryher Shop Veronica Farm Fudge Dawn Vue Samson Hill Pizzas
31.39. FRAGGLE ROCK
Concentrating as much as they can on locally produced food, Fraggle Rock sources many of its ingredients from Scilly and Cornwall. Bryher chef Kim Hopkins uses island farms to get eggs, salads, vegetables. fruits and jams. Bryher fishermen deliver local shellfish and she buys her dairy produce from St Agnes. Kim enjoys incorporating wild Bryher foods like sea spinach, nettles, gorse flowers and wild garlic into her dishes. Fraggle Rock is famous for its Friday fish and chip night!
Fraggle Rock, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, TR23 0PR Tel: 01720 422222 E. [email protected] www.bryher.co 1. DAWN VUE BRYHER SHOP
Established in 2011 Bryher born Zoe Dan started a new shop and in store bakery Dawn Vue Mike and Sue Pender are from a traditional producing delicious breads, rolls and cakes daily. Zoe’s quickly established an enviable reputation for her fishing family who go back generations on Scilly Scillonian Tattie Cake, a traditional Scillonian recipe made from potatoes. As a general store she also sells Troytown milk, yogurt and cream, Veronica Farm They’ve been catching lobster and crabs in Scilly’s crystal clear waters for more fudge, Dawn Vue free range eggs, Ales of Scilly and than forty years. They supply to local hotels and pubs and take private orders so Little Island Chocolate Company. The perfect place for you can enjoy fresh shellfish while on holiday on the islands. The shellfish is cooked picking up a locally produced picnic! The shop does to order with 24 hours notice. Mike and Sue also sell a broad range of herbs, fruits, online shopping for Bryher residents and visitors eggs and vegetables from their honesty stall on Bryher. which is delivered for free. Dawn Vue, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, TR23 0PR Bryher Shop, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, TR23 0PR Tel: 01720 422975 Tel: 01720 423601 E. [email protected] E. [email protected] 3. 2. www.bryhershop.co.uk
41. HELL BAY HOTEL
The Hell Bay Hotel is an AA 4 star hotel which has 3 rosettes for its restaurant. Chef Richard Kearsley enjoys using the best of the island’s local produce and has been learning about foraging and what is naturally available on the islands. The Hell Bay Hotel has its own chickens on site for children to select each morning for 4. breakfast. Local suppliers feature heavily on the menus and their crab and lobster Hell Bay Hotel, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, TR23 0PR SAMSON HILL PIZZAS comes from Bryher fishermen. Tel: 01720 422947 www.hellbay.co.uk
Cooked in a handmade woodfired VERONICA FARM FUDGE oven, Samson Hill Pizza Takeaway uses the freshest island ingredients.
A small family business which uses St Agnes The tomato sauce is made from milk, clotted cream and butter to slowly make island tomatoes and herbs from the crumbly fudge. Veronica Farm Fudge (vanilla garden and the pizzas are topped and clotted cream) is sold at outlets across with vegetables from Hillside Farm. the islands and on a fudge stall outside the Available as takeaway, pre-orders only. farm gates. The fudge is also sold at the Local Produce Market where you can discover Samson Hill Cottage, Bryher, flavours including Cornish Seasalt, Thunder Isles of Scilly, TR23 0PR and Lightning and Chocolate. If you want to Tel: 07540521137 reduce your luggage allowance home then E. [email protected] Veronica Farm, Bryher, mail order fudge is also available! www.samsonhill.co.uk Isles of Scilly, TR23 0PR 6. Tel: 01720 422862 5. Twitter: @samson_hill Facebook: Samson Hill Cottage E. [email protected] 43. THE LITTLE SCILLY FOOD GUIDE
SMALL AND RUGGED, St Agnes has a long history of farming which remains today
P or th C o n g St Agnes is most famous for its dairy farm S e m r it at Troytown which supplies shops, restaurants h Lower Higher and cafés across the islands. The cows graze S Periglis o Town Town Annet u The Bar all year around and you can walk close to their n d fields and try and decide which cow provided Gugh T your ice cream! h St Agnes e
C o v e y Ba ng ta le g in KEY W
Troytown Farm High Tide Restaurant Tamarisk Farm Ruddy Shellfish Coastguards Café
31.45. TROYTOWN FARM 1.
The Hicks family of Troytown Farm, can be traced back for hundreds of years on St Agnes
Tonya and Ben Hicks’ farm has been in their The farm, on the western side of the Produce Market on St Mary’s and boxes family for generations and for more than nine TAMARISK island, now supports three generations. of produce can be delivered to both years they have been running it as an organic They have a herd of ten milking cows residents and visitors. farm growing fresh vegetables, fruit and herbs. (Jersey’s and Ayrshires) which graze FARM Troytown Farm, St Agnes, outside all year around. Milk, home- They sell through a roadside stall as well as Isles of Scilly, TR22 0PL made clotted cream, yogurts and ice providing produce to the Turks Head, cafés creams are all sold from the farm shop. Tel: 01720 422360 and guesthouses on St Agnes. 2. Troytown also produces its own beef E. [email protected] and pork, fattening calves and pigs on www.troytown.co.uk Tamarisk Farm, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, TR22 0PL any excess milk and cream. As well as Tel: 01720 422363 the farm shop, meat and dairy products Twitter: @troytownfarm can be purchased from the Local Facebook: Troytown Farm & Campsite 47. COASTGUARDS CAFÉ
Owner, Tristan Hick was born and bred on St Agnes and recently expanded the café to provide more indoor and outdoor seating. Local clotted cream, milk and ice cream all appear on Coastguards Café menu as well as island salads and soft fruits. Even the hot chocolates are made using chocolate stirrers from the Little Island Chocolate Company on St Agnes. Breads are homemade on the premises.
Coastguards Café, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, TR22 0PL
Tel: 01720 422197 3.
Chef Mark Eberlein worked for HIGH TIDE RESTAURANT six seasons on St Agnes before RUDDY SHELLFISH marrying a local girl and opening High Tide in the summer of 2007. Lobsters are pulled from the sea just hours before they appear on Father and son, Kit and Harry Legg, fish from their eight the plates, freshly dug vegetables, metre boat and come from a Scillonian family who have free range eggs and milk are all sourced from St Agnes. lived on St Agnes for generations High Tide Restaurant, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly, TR22 0PL The Legg’s catch lobsters, crab and crawfish from the waters around St Agnes. They are all available live, but Tel: 01720 423869 please give 24 hours notice to bring them ashore. E. [email protected] www.hightide-seafood.com Ruddy Shellfish, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly Tel: 01720 422136
4. E. [email protected] 5. 49. RECIPES RECIPES
51. RECIPES INDEX
53. INDEX INDEX
55. NOTES NOTES
57. NOTES INSIDE BACK COVER
59. BACK COVER