Funkyflair Studio

The Old Fire House, Albert Road, Hoylake, CH47 2AB

No matter your artistic ability or age, there is fun to be had at Funkyflair!

come along and paint your own pottery creation in our bright and relaxing studio. We have a huge selection of "blank" pottery, which is waiting for you to bring alive with colour.

 We offer plate commissions; baby hand and foot prints; mums' mornings, children's birthday parites, hen nights and group bookings, as well as special events throughout the year.

 It is open during term time from Wednesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm and during school holidays Monday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Sundays and evenings by appointment.

RMS Country Foods

The Green Tree, Hilton, Appleby, Cumbrian, CA16 6LU

I started the company last year making traditional Victorian fruit cakes and Christmas puddings. I am using old farming recipes handed down from my grandmother. All my products are handmade in small batches.

I source the finest ingredients from around the world, succulent fruits marinated in spirits and beers blended with nuts and aromatic spices together with juices from fresh navel oranges, thus ensuring a memorable eating experience. All my products are suitable for vegetarians. The products contain no artificial colouring, flavouring or preservative.

Adesso - Marinades

H2O ltd, Thorn Bank, 609 Manchester Road, Denton, Manchester, M34 2SF

Adesso takes great pride in creating ambient marinades created from only the finest ingredients, ensuring your final result, gives you equal pride.

Distinctive in quality and taste, Adesso marinades meet the desires of the discerning palate and time conscious needs of today’s cooking.

Olive oil based, recognised and renowned for its nutrition and health benefits,  Adesso combines herbs, spices, honey and citrus juices, to create instant aromatic flavours in your cooking, without additives, only totally natural ingredients.

Adesso marinades are designed to maintain the moisture of your food, penetrating it with subtly enhancing natural flavours and added zing!

Enjoy!                                                                       

Vale Royal Food and Garden Festival

c/o The Hollies Farm Shop, Forest Road, Little Budworth, CW6 9ES

Promoting Vale Royal’s Food and Garden Festival on October 18/19 2008 and destination 49 (a business cluster group for cross marketing)

Chat Moss Herbs

Barton Moss Road, Eccles, M30 7RL

Chat Moss Herbs is a supplier of fresh herbs, pestos and infused oils. All our pestos are made with vegetarian cheese. We make basil; basil and rocolla; sundried tomato; coriander; lemon grass and chilli and roasted pepper, tomato and chilli pesto. We also do a vegan range of dips made with pumpkin seeds and coconut. We have also developed herb infused oils, rosemary, basil, aromatic and chilli oil.

LLandudno Smokery

Reprographic house, Builder Street West, Llandudno, LL30 1HH

Llandudno Smokery provides a wholesale and retail service for fresh fish, shellfish, game and other poultry throughout North Wales. We also prepare a range of quality smoked foods on our premises which can also be delivered to any destination in the country.

Over 25 years of experience allows us to seek out the freshest and best quality products for supply to our extensive customer list, which includes many of the best hotels and restaurants in the region. Wherever possible we source from sustainable stocks and prioritise local content to give our products a strong Welsh identity.  We have one of the largest fresh fish displays in North Wales.

Mawson's Traditional Drinks

Unit 11a, New LIne Industrial Estate, The Sidings, Bacup, OL13 9RW

Mawson’s is a traditional family firm established in 1933. Producing traditional herbal cordials and soft drinks, including their award winning Sarsaparilla, using genuine herbal and fruit extracts from original family recipes.

Purple Puddings

55 Garnett Road West, Newcastle-upon-Lyme, Staffs, ST5 8EQ

Pure Plant Power

Flat 2, 12 Devonshire Road, Princess Park, Liverpool, L8 3TY

Peninsula Luxury Pies

83 The Woodlands, Birkenhead, CH41 2SL

Orchard Pigs

Brun Coch, Ruthin Road, Bwlchgwyn, LL11 5UT

North Wales Brewery

Ty Tan-Y-Mynydd, Moelfre, Abergele, LL22 9RF

North Wales Brewery utilises local water from the Welsh Hills. Hops are also cultivated on the land. Traditional beers are brewed and sold in cask and bottles throughout the North West and Wales.

Betwixt Beer Co

We are a small independent company based on the Wirral, UK. We specialise in fresh, craft-brewed, beers using fine ingredients & traditional brewing techniques with a modern tang.

My brewing background ranges from a tiny "brew-it-yourself" venture to a centuries-old family firm, with brewpubs & microbreweries in 'betwixt' - the plan is to try to build the business up & open a small brewery on the Wirral.

Liverpool Cheese Company

29a Woolton Street, Woolton Village, Liverpool, L25 5NH

Leagram Organic Dairy

High Head Farm, Moss Lane, Chipping, Preston, Lancs, PR3 2TR

Katie's Proper Pate and Jo's Cheshire Kitchen

12 Suffolk Drive, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 4DE

Katie’s Proper Pate: handmade smooth free range Cheshire chicken liver pate in two flavours:-Armagnac fresh cream and thyme and cointreau with fresh juiced and zested oranges. Absolutely no artificial additives, flavourings or preservative. Gluten free.

Jo’s Cheshire Kitchen: handmade sticky toffee pudding made in Cheshire. Gluten free.

Jeannie Gray

Excellent quality good, jewellery, table runners, placemats, napkins, aprons, TV holders, peg bags.

Jars Apart

The Drift, Old Chester Road, No Mans Heath, Cheshire, SY14 8DY

Green Garden Herbs

13 West Bank, Carton, Near Selby, North Yorkshire

French Flavour

PO Box 2192, Wrexham, North Wales, LL142XF

Importer of artisan French food and drink. Products such as garlic strings, confit, cider, champagne, jams and pates and much more. Also gifts and hampers available for retail online and through deli supplies.

The French Corner

Barclays Business Park, Unit 17, Wareing Road, Aintree, Liverpool, L9 7AU

Our products are unique to the North West. We are traditional French bakers working to supply the very best to our customers. The French Corner is always looking at new flavours and recipes whilst maintaining our strict high quality.

Forsters Organic Meats

Home Farm, School Lane, Haigh, Wigan, WN2 1PD

Direct Beers Ltd

The Old Wine Store, Coxons Yard, Ashbourne, DE6 1GG

Cooking Marvellous

3 Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, SY1 1UT

Cooking Marvellous carries an extensive range of quality specialist cookware to suit all foodies, from enthusiastic home cooks right through to professional chefs. Whether you are looking for food presentation rings or potato ricers to create perfect dinner party dishes, or fish scalers, poachers, or oyster knives or would like some fantastic knives to make every day cooking a joy, then come and see us for visit our website.

BoxFresh Organics

Rodenhurst Farm, Rodington, nr Shrewsbury, SY4 4QU

Bexton Cheese

The Dairy, Bexton Lane, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 9BG

Charles Hough has been making cheese for more than 20 year. Located in Knutsford, Cheshire, the family business has been in farming for many generations.

Now all our produce is sold by ourselves at events and specialist markets throughout the UK and is not available in any shops. Bexton Cheese – individually waxed, handmade farmhouse cheese in various flavours including parsley and garlic’ vintage; chive and onion, cranberry, ginger and tomato and basil.

Aardvaark Books Ltd

Lomber Hey Farm

Andew Lane, High Lane, Stockport, SK6 8HY

We hand make speciality sausages on the farm and have done since 1945. We only use hand prepared fresh ingredients, no colours or flavourings are used; it is a completely natural product down to the natural skins, that are cured on the same farm.

With more than 65 varieties we make recipes from all over the world.

Beef Direct Ltd

Plas Coedana, Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey, LL71 8AA

Condessa Welsh Liqueurs

Bryn Maethlu, Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, LL65 4NW

Specialising in the production of award-winning liqueurs Condessa's home is an 8,000 sq ft factory in rural Anglesey. Producing five liquers including two delicious low fat cream liqueurs:- Original Welsh Cream and Praline Welsh Cream, and three mouth-watering fruit liqueurs: apricot, black cherry and the two star gold winning Sloe Gin, awarded by the Guild of Fine Food.

At the end of 2007 Condessa also launched their new delicious chocolate liqueur truffles, which are available in box sets. All liqueurs are suitable for vegetarians. Fruit liqueurs are suitable for vegans.

The Tiffin Company

Sugar & Spice

12 Acrefield Road, Woolton Village, Liverpool L25

Sugar & Spice are Lucinda Antal and Emma Small, two friends based in Liverpool who enjoy making delicious preserves and chutneys. All our products are handmade in small batches to ensure absolute freshness and quality. We like to think our products are a little bit unusual and offer something different. Part of our range is seasonal and only available at certain times of the year. We use high quality ingredients and no ‘e’ numbers. We recommend keeping our products in the fridge once opened.

Siwgr a Sbeis

Ffordd Berth Ddu, Llanrwst, LL26 0PQ

Shirley's Country Catering

The Warren, School Lane, Pilling, Preston

We sell homemade, hand rolled pies and savouries. We use all local ingredients, where possible. We have a hot food outlet from which we can our homemade produce.

Sheldrakes

Banks Road, Lower Heswall, Wirral, CH60 9JS

Reedy's Naturally

3 The Paddock, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 3AB

More?The Artisan Bakery

Available from our bakery and shop at Greendlands Farm, Tewitfield, near Carnforth, Lancs. Select farmers' markets and food events throughout the region and by mail order via our website.

More?The Artisan Bakery produces a seasonal range of totally taste driven, premium quality bakery specialities including handcrafted desserts and patesseries; signature Artisan breads from their wood fired oven; light and luxurious Christmas puddings; Orma's Stollen and, of course, the famous award winning Mores Muddees!

Arlwyo Nant Catering

Ty Nant Isaf, Pandy Tudur, Abergele, Conwy, LL22 8UN

From a farm nestled amongst the Hiraethog Mountains above the Conwy Valley, two brothers Gwyn and Elwy Williams, are busy inventing new uses for the lamb from their Suffolk and Texel crossbreeds of flocks of 800. As Arlwyo Nant Catering their lamb burgers and lamb steaks are now selling fast at events and shows from Shrewsbury across to Pwllheli.

The brothers and their parents, Pendri and Gwyneth, have been famring sheep and beef from Ty Natn Isaf at Pandy Tudur for 45 years and wanted to ensure the farm's long term viability by diversifying.

The Best of Taste Co Ltd

We are a family business making really superb fruit coulis dessert sauces.

We achieve excellence in taste and colour by using the best ingredients and by adding only enough sugar to enhance the natural, tangy flavours and deep, lucious colours of sun ripened fruits.

There are so many culinary uses for good fruit pureeed and available at the twist of a lid - not just desserts! They make super cocktails and smoothies and great savouries.

Carr's Flour

Carr's Flour is a cereals company based in Cumbria, which uses the very latest in low pressure milling technology to meet the quality and speicalist requirements of bakers, food producers and retailers.

From its early beginnings in 1831, through founder Jonathan Dodgson Carr, the company has been renowned for high quality products and technical innovation.

Today the quality of Carr's flour is based on

• a modern, efficient and flexible mill
• a motivated and highly qualified staff
• the careful selection of wheats from across the world

Together these strengths enable us to deliver quality flours and unrivalled service to bakers, food producers and retailers

Chesters

At Chesters we are very proud of our range of homemade chocolate tiffin and our honeycomb version was celebrated at the national Great Taste Awards. On our stall, you can design your own chocolate kebab made with the finest chocolates and your choice of dipping items including the freshest fruits.

Chilli Pepper Company

This is a specialist chilli company. We specialise in hot chilli products. We have four chilli chocolate products, chilli medicinal products, sauce, chutney, powders, dired pods, chilli seeds and are the largest stockits of chilli seeds in Europe.

Curry Cuisine

This is a unique business in that it provides Indian cookery lessons as well as selling a range of authentic spice blends, pickles and chutneys.

It also produces and sells Indian salad dressings.

All its products are additive, preservative and colour free. The products are produced from recipes handed down through generations and are all Gujarti style.

Mrs Dowson's Ice Cream

Dowson's Dairy, Hawkshaw Farm, Longsight Road, Clayton-le-Dale, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB2 7JA

Real dairy ice cream, full of local ingredients, straight from the family farm in the Ribble Valley. Like many farms the Dowsons sought to diversify their dairy business. Given her husband’s and children’s passions for ice cream, Mrs Dowson used the farm’s own milk and cream to reinvent classic flavours with a home-made approach. Exploring local ingredients and tastes the Dowson Family have been testing home recipes around their kitchen table for the last six years. The result is a delectable, creamy brand.

Parkers Preserves

Established in 2005 this company has grown steadily ever since. All products are made using the freshest fruit and vegetables. They are made traditionally in small batches the old fashioned way. We source our ingredients as locally as possible and use Fairtrade items as and when we can. We use twice distilled vinegar, which makes all core products gluten and wheat free. We are small family run business which is growing year by year. We are always open to suggestions for new flavours.

A Touch of Spice Foods

This family-run business has built a reputation for the finest authentic foods from around the world. They produce a range of Indian and Thai sauces, prepared by specialist skilled chefs using traditional recipes to create a true restaurant style premium quality taste of world cuisine.

Kitchen Fanatics Ltd

Gastrolux - the world's first fat free pan from Denmark with ovenproof handles and lids. Enjoy 'one pot' cooking with this revolutionary cookware. The original and still the best!

Claremont Farm

This renowned family business, provides many of the top restaurants in the region with their fantastic and very varied home grown produce. During the festival not only will their well stocked farm shop be open, but they will also be providing much of the ingredients for the cooking demonstrations, showing you what you can create using local produce.

Thornton Hall Hotel

RNK Restaurant

Capitol Restaurant

24 Argyle Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, CH41 6AE

The Capital Restaurant specialises in Canton and Peking cuisine. Established for more than 45 years, the last 18 years have seen it carefully nurtured by the Tam family and their dedicated staff.

We pride ourselves on our high standard of service and quality of cuisine. Our award winning image is recognised at both local and national levels and is further reflected in the attainment of the following awards

• restaurant of the year (Merseyside)
• Booker prize for excellence
• business of the Year (Wirral) First Prize
• AA Rosette

Wixey Dairy Free

Home-produced quality dairy free and vegan products – chocolates, fudge, cake and more! Other allergies and custom orders catered for as far as possible.

Ingredients are organic and fair trade as far as we are able. We also supply some harder to find foods eg. Vegan chocolate spread and cream. All products can be collected locally or delivered via royal mail.

Cheese Shop Chester

Local and regional Cheeses

Harvies Ltd

Waen Farm, Nercwys, Mold, CH7 4EW

Artisanal hand made savoury and sweet pies, tarts and puddings using fresh, seasonal produce and raw ingredients

Ward's Fish

Having just celebrated a remarkable 80 years of trading on the Wirral, this family run business offers the finest fresh fish from the best fishing grounds in the UK. With a genuine emphasis on sustainability combined with expert knowledge and service you can choose from an extenstive range such as line-caught seabass, wild Scottish halibut and hand-dived scallops.

A.S.Olives

A family based company based in Lancashire since 2003. We provide more than 50 unique products to choose from. We combine the art of buying high quality products from the Mediterranean area that appeals to the customers who wish to lead a healthy, balanced diet without losing the pleasure of the palate. We pride ourselves on selling the finest quality olives and gourmet foods available.

Seasoned Pioneers

Highly commended by top UK food writers (such as Delia Smith, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, Antony Worral-Thompson and Anne Benson), Seasoned Pioneers supply a highly unique and authentic range of exotic spice blends, chillies, spices and specialist seasoning ingredients, including many organic.

Authenticity underpins our products - using the finest ingredients and dry-roasing our spice blends in-house using traditional methods and strictly original recipes. Dry-roasing the whole spices is critical to fully developing the flavour of all the spices. Supplied in easy-to-use resealable foil pouches which maximise ingredient freshness throughout their 'kitchen life' - Seasoned Pioneers enable you to capture the essential flavour of World cuisine.

Chestnut Meats

We produce goat meat, pork and beef and are based near Tarporley, Cheshire. We pride ourselves on our animals and they have happy, healthy lives on our farm. We have won awards for our goat meat and pork sausages and look forward to cooking up some products for you to try! We won the Food Oscars 2007 and also the Rural Women’s Award. We were also featured on BBC3’s Kill It, Cook It, Eat It. We sell to the general public, restaurants and delis.

Cocina Cookware

Colourful cooking from oven to table. Mediterranean cookware from Italy, France and Spain. Use on direct heat, oven, aga, microwave, dishwasher and freezer. A variety of colours available in various shapes and sizes. Also associated decorative tableware to include fromage plates, pizza plates, olive dishes, oil drizzlers and much more. Prices range from £5 to £40.

Port of Lancaster Smokehouse

North West Producer of the Year, Port of Lancaster Smokehouse is a family run smokehouse with the ethos of 'buy, catch and source locally'. All methods to smoke and cure our foods have not changed throughout the centuries. When you buy from the Smokehouse you can be sure that you are buying quality.

Shaw Meats Ltd.

A small, unique company specialising in locally sourced quality meat products. Traditional methods are used in production. The salami that we produce is unique. Our main outlets are farmers' markets and agricultural shows.

The Gift of Oil

family produced single estate extra virgin olive oils. Genuinely matured balsamic vinegars of Modena

The Pie Mill

The Pie Mill is a family run business launched in May 2005 after the success of the way our pies sold at our pub, the Mill Inn, which the family sold this year. The Pie Mill produces a wide range of savoury shortcrust pies using only locally produced meat including Herdwick lamb, beef, game, pork and chickens. There is a range of raised pastry cold pies topped with our own chutneys or red onion marmalade again using locally sourced meats and fruit pies. In 2007 we launched a range of pates and game terrines.

The Real Lancashire Black Pudding Co.

Onionring.co.uk

Onionring.co.uk a fantastic Restaurant and Venue guide for the North West.

Cains Brewery

Cains Beers and lagers.

My Gineration

 My Gineration is a small company producing top quality steeped fruit liqueurs, such as sloe and damson gins, but also many others including cranberry, gooseberry, passionfruit, raspberry and redcurrant gins, and blackberry and strawberry vodkas. Come and have a taste - after all, "A little of what you fancy..."

Juice 4 Life

Caffeine Rush

Today, people's taste in coffee is more sophisticated than ever and they demand a level of quality, choice and service. Caffeine Rush can meet that demand using freshly roasted coffee beans we provide a choice of speciality coffee including cappuccino, latte, espresso and mocha. Our unique novelty vehicle can operate in a small area, running on its own power and water supply.

Hannah Restaurant

Hannah Restaurant and outside catering services. mobile caterers for all special occasions. Private functions, weddings, corporate event all catered for. Quality caterers specialising in authentic Indian cuisine using fresh local produce. Hot food delivered to any venuein Cheshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire. Catering for 30 to 300 people. The restaurant in Whitchurch, Shropshire seats 85 people and is perfect for party bookings. Hannah's famous all you can eat buffet is available from Tuesday to Sunday from 6pm to 9pm. Special lunches Thursday, Friday and SAturday. Special takeout service with free delivery.

Veggie Fayre

A small family business that makes quality vegetarian food using local, organic and Fairtrade ingredients wherever possible.

Friendly Food and Drink

Coulis, curds, smoothies, etc.

The Chocolate Cellar

The Chocolate CellarAward winning hand made chocolates and cakes.Inspired by the film Chocolat, Bala Croman decided to explore the enchantin world of chocolate and was wooed by the magic of cocoa beans. From very small beginnings in her cellar, she created some unique and inspiring recipes with chocolate. As well as selling chocolates, cakes and truffles, The Chocolate Cellar now provides a range of services including chocolate tasting parties, chocolate workshops, custom made corporate chocolate gifts and wedding chocolates to name but a few. GOLD AWARD WINNER IN THE 2006 AND 2007 GREAT TASTE AWARDS

Weatheroak Ostrich Farm

Ostriches have been farmed at Weatheroak since 1995 and have now become a familiar sight in the Fylde countryside.

Ostrich is extremely healthy meat being lower in fat and cholesterol than any other meat and also has the benefit of being high in protein and iron, with the flavour of good beef, which is perfectly ok to eat rare.

In 2006 we opened a farm shop specialising in mature beef, lamb from our own flock of Suffolk X ewes, free range chickens and eggs. we also sell seasonal game, venison, rosey veal and wild boar.

Swiss Chalet Bakery

Run by local couple Alex and Dawn Wilson, Swiss Chalet Bakery has been supplying the region with delicious, high quality baked goods since 1986. Experienced Swiss Chalet bakers and cofectioners create: Savories, speaciality breads, confectioneries and cream cakes, as well as offerings for those with dietary restrictions.

Duerden's Confectionery

Our company was started in 1922 by the present owner's grandparents. We still use exactly the same recipes that our founders used, some which date back to the mid 19th century.

Our fudges and toffee are made using only the finest ingredients and this shows in the flavour and texture of our products.

The German Bakery

The Liverpool-based bakery specialises in Rye Sourdough bread. Traditional German recipes (like mixed German bread) are combined with newer creations (fresh ginger and sesame bread). The bread is made with natural rye sourdough to give the aromatic and distince flavour. For people with wheat intolerance there is a delicious spelt and rye bread available which has a nice texture.

Vorn The Corn

Sweetcorn loses 10% of its sweetness each day after picking. John Vaughan picks his corn the night before and his many customer appreciate this and come back year after year.

"picked last night, sell by today"

Derimon Smokery

A true taste of Wales from an award-winning traditional oak and hardwood smokery. Supplying a wider range of smoked produce than any other UK smokery. "State of the art" smoking kilns using pure Welsh oak with no chemicals, dyes or preservatives used.

Eddisbury Fruit Farm

Situated in the village of Kelsall in the glorious countryside, Eddisbury Fruit Farm is a family run business established in 1936. Along with growing a range of quality fruits and asparagus, Eddisbury Fruit Farm also produces Cheshire apple juice and cider and homemade liqueurs made from the finest quality fruit, all pressed and bottled at Eddisbury Fruit FArm.

Eddisbury Fruit Farm has been voted northwest regional finalist for first "own and local" award from the National Farmers' Retail and Market Association (FARMRA) in 2007.

Green Choice

A variety of Mediterranean food, mainly Greek products such as olives

The Ludlow Nut Co.

The Ludlow Nut Co is registered with Heart of England Fine Foods and is SALSA (Safe and Local Supplier Approval) accredited. Our gourmet muesli and porridge range is handmade by us in Ludlow, using locally sourced cereals. We also sell high quality nuts, dried fruits, seeds and related confectionery.

The company is building a reputation for selling high quality products which are competitively priced. We are committed to offering an excellent customer service and have many repeat orders.

In addition to our online store and retail outlet in Nantwich, Cheshire, we supply hotels, restaurants, delicatessens, food producers, farm shops and other food and drink related businesses and welcome enquiries for wholesale purchases.

We also exhibit at food festivals in the West Midlands, North West England and in Wales and attend numerous local and county shows and fairs throughout the year.

The Punch Brew Co

Pen-Y-Lan Pork

Wirral Watercress

Wirral Chocolate Fountains

We are a Wirral based company that has been in business for three years.

We provide a high quality service catering for a variety of functions from weddings, corporate events to charity events.

At Wirral Chocolate Fountains we pride ourselves on only using the highest quality chocolate from Belgium.

Callebaut has perfected the art of chocolate refining to the point where their products are trusted by the finest chocolatiers throughout the world.

This is chocolate simply at it's best. ..chocoholics beware!