Entry to the Alnwick Food Festival is FREE. Unlike many food festivals you will not have to part with any cash just to gain access to the food stalls. The first money you spend will be with the high quality food producers invited to sell their produce.

Names, addresses and links to websites (left) of exhibitors at the Alnwick Food Festival 2009 will appear here as they are confirmed. Please revisit the site as it will be regularly updated.

Most exhibitors will have stalls in the Market Place but some will be inside the Northumberland Hall where the cookery demonstrations will be held.

The market will be open from 9am until 4pm this year.

Allendale Brewery, Allen Mills, Allendale, Northumberland, NE47 9EQ
t: 01434 618686
e: info@allendalebrewery.com
w: www.allendalebrewery.com
A first time at the festival.
Allendale Brewery is located high in the Pennines beside the beautiful river Allen. From Northumbrian malt we produce award winning real ales for pubs and outlets across the north east. Beers include the Allendale Wolf, Golden Plover, Tar Bar'l Stout, Curlews Return and Adder – real cask conditioned lager and overall winner of the Newcastle CAMRA Beer Festival 2009.

Burtree House Farm , Darlington, Co Durham DL3 0UY
t: +44 (0)1325 463521
e: enquiries@burtreehousefarm.co.uk
w: www.burtreehousefarm.co.uk
Produce: Sticky toffee pudding to die for! Burtree produces award-winning, luxury puddings, the Supreme Champion of the Great Taste Awards - Sticky Toffee Pudding, as well as Reserve Regional Speciality Sticky Lemon Pudding with Tangy Lemon Sauce, the other puddings are Chocolate, Ginger and Rich Toffee, Syrup Pudding, and a Gluten-Free Sticky Toffee Pudding to finish the selection. Burtree also produces free range chickens and guinea fowl all are produced slowly without drugs & GM. They also produce fantastic traditional-tasting lamb.

Cake, Cake, Cakes
w : www.cakecakecakes.co.uk
e: contact@cakecakecakes.co.uk
Here at cake cake cakes we are dedicated to baking handmade, unique cupcakes from scratch. We have selected the finest ingredients for a superior taste. We boast a huge variety of flavours, even a flavour of the week using seasonal produce. We supply cupcakes as gifts and displayed on towers for all events,from parties to corporate occasions.We also supply wholesale in Newcastle City Centre. You may have seen us in local and national press. Our cupcakes are not just any cupcake, the way we bake them is top secret and we just know they will be the best you have ever tasted.

Cake Perfect, Morpeth, Northumberland
t: +44 (0)1670 511 513
e: lynn@cakeperfect.co.uk
w: www.cakeperfect.co.uk
Produce: Cake Perfect designs original handmade and hand decorated custom designer wedding cakes and favours, corporate cakes, special occasions, celebration cakes and specialist chocolates.

The Cake Root, The Low Hall, Longframlington, Northumberland NE65 8ED
t: +44 (0)1665 570223; m: 07814390411
e: fionajane@thecakeroot.co.uk
w: www.thecakeroot.co.uk
Produce: The Cake Root company, established by sisters Jane Slater and Fiona Woodcock, produces cakes based on root vegetable ingredients sourced predominantly from the Northumberland region. The cake root signature varieties include chocolate and beetroot; parsnip, courgette, lemon, lime and ginger; sweet potato with coconut; and honey and carrot with orange and walnut.
"Jane and I are passionate about our recipes. As well as using high quality, regional food produce we really enjoy experimenting with flavours, and our customers tell us they love the natural sweetness of our cakes. They are made from honest, healthy ingredients derived from farm businesses across the North East. Try them and you'll not be disappointed."

Castello Food Company, Unit 20, Blaydon Business Centre, Blaydon, Tyne & Wear NE21 5TW
t: +44 (0)191 414 4447
e: info@castellofoodcompany.com
w: www.castellofoodcompany.com
Produce: Castello Food Company is a specialist retailer of fine Italian food and wines. It sources only the highest quality, most authentic produce from local suppliers in Italy and most of its products cannot be found through any other retailer in the UK . Its suppliers are all small, independent producers, mainly in Northern Italy , who dedicate a huge amount of personal attention and tender loving care to their produce – this is the direct opposite of agri-business and the mass-produced ranges you will find on your local supermarket shelf.

Chain Bridge Honey Farm, Horncliffe, Berwick upon Tweed , Northumberland
t: +44 (0)1289 386362
m: 01289 386763
e: info@chainbridgehoney.co.uk
w: www.chainbridgehoney.co.uk
Produce: Finest honey and beeswax, collected from 1,800 colonies of bees throughout the Scottish Borders and Northumberland. Resulting products include heather honey comb, honey and beeswax cosmetics, healing ointments, traditional polishes and pure beeswax candles.

Chirnells Farmhouse Kitchen, The Chirnells, NE65 7JE
t: +44 (0)1669 621507
e: chirnells@aol.com
Produce: Teabreads, cakes, traybakes, biscuits, scones, all baked in the farmhouse kitchen

Cocolicious
t: Contact 01665 578327
e: Blackmores5@aol.com
New to the Festival.
Produce: Handmade chocolates using fresh fruit and cream for some of the centres. Soft handmade caramel in chocolate shells.  Nutty, crunchy praline chocolate logs. And much more.

Coquet Chocolate. The Haven, Back Crofts, Rothbury, Northumberland NE65 7YA
e: enquiries@coquetchocolate.co.uk
w: www.coquetchocolate.co.uk
Another new visitor to the Festival.
A new firm now producing hand-crafted chocolates.

Coquet Valley Preserves, 3 Eshottheugh Workshops, Felton, Morpeth, Northumberland NE65 9QH
t: +44 (0)1670 787600; m: 07766857680
e: sandy@coquetvalleypreserves.co.uk
w: www.coquetvalleyproducts.com
Produce: Preserves, relishes, chutneys, marmalades. Such varieties as Hellish Relish, Cheviot Choker and The Rothbury Rager are among Sandy 's famous creations. One of her newest additions is her tasty Newcastle Brown Ale Marmalade and Sandy was given official permission by brewery giant Scottish and Newcastle to use their world-famous blue star logo on the Coquet Valley Preserves jars.

English Heritage
A new visitor to this year's Festival.
As well as offering the chance to visit English Heritage sites it will be selling their own range of jams, chutneys and mustards.

Fenton Fine Foods, West Fenton, Wooler, Northumberland NE71 6JL
t: +44 (0)1668 216216
e: info@fentonfinefoods.com
w: www.fentonfinefoods.com
Produce: Pates, terrines, game soups, dressings, pickles and jams.

Food Local Food, The Old Kitchen, Bothal Castle, Morpeth, Northumberland , NE61 6SL
t: +44 (0)1670 505238
e: shopping@foodlocalfood.com
w: www.foodlocalfood.com
New visitor to the Festival
Produce: Food Local Food are your local online supermarket for local and regional food and drink.  We deliver local and regional food and drink direct to your door; great products at great value with a great service.

Frere Quenelle, Prior House, Stoney Rigg, Haltwhistle NE49 9JJ
t: +44 (0)1434 321974
e: frerequenelle@btinternet.com
w: www.getintothehabit.co.uk
Produce: Fruit liqueurs. "The luxury end of luxury, Silky-smooth liqueurs to tease and delight. Perfect gifts for family and friends - or just for you (because you're worth it!). Blasphemy in a glass? It has to be Frere Quenelle."

Gingersnaps
Classic catering

greenbrae , Newton Farm, Harbottle, Morpeth, Northumberland NE65 7DP
t: +44 (0)1669 650012; f: +44 (0)1669 650399
e: info@greenbrae.co.uk
w: www.greenbrae.co.uk
Produce: Located in the heart of the Coquet Valley , greenbrae produces traditionally-reared beef, lamb and rare-breed pork from the hills of Northumberland. All born and reared on the farm to ensure full traceability. It supplies directly to the consumer. Orders received pre-butchering can be supplied fresh, otherwise all orders are frozen.

Hadrian Sweets, Hadrian Enterprise Park, Haltwhistle
t: +44 (0)1434 322281
m: 07895 262456
e: hadriansweets@hotmail.co.uk
w: www.hadriansweets.co.uk
Produce: Specialists in sugar, gluten and dairy free products including unusual creations of sugar-free chocolate, and a wide selection of traditional sugar free sweets, cakes and biscuits. Healthier options for everyone also suitable for diabetics and coeliacs, and people with other food intolerances. For more info please phone or email info@sugarandglutenfreeproducts.co.uk .

Heatherslaw Bakery, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland TD12 4TJ
t/f: +44 (0)1890 820208
e: info@heatherslawbakery.fsbusiness.co.uk
w: www.ford-and-etal.co.uk
Produce: Milling has taken place at Heatherslaw since the 13th century. The buildings which house the bakery are part of the 150 year-old water powered Heatherslaw corn mill where the original machinery is still used to produce stone-ground wholemeal flour. This flour is then used in the many cakes and biscuits produced by the bakery.

Kitty's Homemade Ginger Wine, 195 Gladstone Street , Blyth , Northumberland NE24 1HY
t: 07980656792
e: kittyshomemadegingerwine@yahoo.co.uk
Produce: Homemade ginger wine

The Lamb Man, East Wingates Farm, Longhorsley, Morpeth, Northumberland NE65 8RW
t: +44 (0)1670 788511
e: jimmy@thelambman.com
w: www.thelambman.com
Produce: Jimmy Bell is known locally as The Lamb Man because he rears, butchers and sells traditional Northumbrian Hill Lamb from his family farm at East Wingates near Longhorsley in Northumberland. You can purchase his hill lamb online and have it delivered by mail, visit our butchery at East Wingates Farm where he can cut lamb to order, or find him at the Northumbrian Farmers' Markets. Wherever you buy lamb from The Lamb Man you receive top quality fresh lamb direct from his farm.

Moorhouse Farm Shop, Stannington, Northumberland NE20 0RG
t: +44 (0)1670 789016
e: enquire@moorhousefarmshop.co.uk
w: www.moorhousefarmshop.co.uk
Produce: Moorhouse Farm Shop sells a wide range of fresh pork and lamb products, all from its own stock and all prepared in its own butchery. Its speciality sausage, dry-cured bacon and gammons are especially popular. Freezer packs of pork and lamb are also available.

North East Organic Growers, Earth Balance, West Sleekburn Farm, Bomarsund, Bedlington, Northumberland NE22 7AD
t: +44 (0)1670 821070
e: neog@care4free.net
w: www.neog.co.uk
Produce: A wide range of organically grown vegetables, including beans, peppers, garlic, cucumbers, courgettes, brassicas, onions etc etc. We operate a veg-box scheme ithroughout the North East, and sell at Farmers' Markets and selected outlets during the peak season.

Northumberland Cheese Company, The Dairy, Green Lane, Blagdon, Seaton Burn NE13 6BZ NE13 6BZ
t: +44 (0)1670 789798
e: admin@northumberland-cheese.co.uk
w: www.northumberland-cheese.co.uk
Producers of award winning cheeses made to traditional methods using vegetarian rennet

Northumberland Game, Northumberland Estates, Alnwick Castle
Produce: Game

Northumbria Muffins , Howick Villa, Lynemouth Road, Ellington, Northumberland NE61 5HN
t: +44 (0)1670 860562
e: northumbriamuffins@fsmail.net
w: www.northumbria-larder.co.uk
Produce: A well established business producing luxury muffins (raspberry and white chocolate, blueberry, toffee apple etc) and other bakery products using locally grown ingredients wherever possible. We attend regional events and farmers markets in additional to a regular stall at Morpeth's Wednesday market. Orders for private events and parties are also taken."

The Olive Store, 12 Church View, Matfen, Northumberland NE20 0RP
t: +44 (0)1661 886 755
e: enquiries@theolivestore.co.uk
w: www.theolivestore.co.uk
Produce: The Olive Store is a specialist importer of the finest olives and olive oils from Andalucia, the heart of the Spanish olive oil industry. The Olive Store selects the best olives and oils from the region, recognised as one of the best olive regions in the world. The Olive Store is the sole UK distributor for Oleocampo SCA, a cooperative based in Torredelcampo, in Andalucia.

Pawganic, 34 Oakwell Court, Hamsterley Colliery, Newcastle NE17 7BD
m: 07989905741
e: pawganic@yahoo.co.uk
Produce: Pawganic is a range of natural treats for your dog. No artificial additives, colours or preservatives, wheat and gluten free with no added salt or sugar. They contain where possible organic ingredients, a wholesome traditionally baked treat in peanut, golden cheese and liver varieties.  We also have our K9 range of treats with additional benefits which also include maintaining your dog's coat and satisfying your dog for longer.

Proof of the Pudding, Heckley High House, Alnwick, Northumberland , NE66 2LQ
t: +44 (0)1665 602505; f: +44 (0)1665 606945
e: enquiry@theproofofthepudding.co.uk
w: www.theproofofthepudding.co.uk
Produce: Sticky toffee, ginger and chocolate puddings and dessert sauces.

Ringtons Limited, Algernon Road, Byker, Newcastle NE6 2YN
t: 0800 052 2440 (to order)
w: www.ringtonscentenary.co.uk
Produce: High quality teas, combining the quality of the traditional growing areas with our own special packaging process, which delivers unrivalled taste and freshness

A & D Patterson, Eyemouth
t: 07903234023
Another new visitor to our festival.
Produce: Locally caught fresh fish and shellfish.  Our smoked fish is naturally smoked in a 50 year old smoke house.  All produce is fresh and can be frozen.  We do our own dressed crabs which contain 100% crab meat and are a favourite with customers.

Ruby Rose Cupcakes, Ashington, Northumberland
t: 0797 152 9795
w: www.rubyrosecupcakes.co.uk
e: rachelle@rubyrosecupcakes.co.uk
Produce: In the Ruby Rose kitchen only the very best ingredients are used from 100% organic flour grown and stone milled in Northumberland, 100% free range eggs from Sunny Hill Farm Belford, British unsalted butter, buttermilk and Fairtrade plain chocolate. Come and visit us at the The Alnwick Food Festival and see why customers come back again and again. While you're there, why not try some of the new seasonal flavours. View the new range of Ruby Rose tea and coffee (plus a host of other new products) and taste the ‘must have' Ruby Rose Chocolate Brownie.

Sloe Crafts, Lorbottle West Steads, Lorbottle, Thropton, Morpeth, Northumberland NE65 7JT
t: +44 (0)1665 574672
e: info@sloecrafts.com
w: www.sloecrafts.com
Produce: This hand made drinks company based at Lorbottle West Steads makes their drinks to a high standard sourcing local products when ever possible. Sloe Gin which is the signature product using a traditional recipe and methods handed down through generations, they have adapted the recipe to include other fruit liqueurs in their range,  fruits from the drinks are created into old fashioned preserves like “sloe cheese”.

Spirit of the Coquet, The Haven, Back Crofts, Rothbury, Northumberland NE65 7YA
t: +44 (0)1669 620577; m: 07711806170
e: info@coquetwhisky.co.uk
w: www.coquetwhisky.co.uk
Produce: The creation of an expert master blender - Black Rory recalls the bygone days of illicit stills and daring smugglers of the rugged Coquet Valley in Northumberland. This unique blend is produced exclusively for Coquet Whisky and recaptures the authentic taste of this historic Borders region. The high malt content provides a rich amber glow and ultra smooth texture which, along with subtle undertones of peat, makes this an exceptional whisky for the connoisseur.

This Little Farmer Went to Market
t: (01665) 605487: m: 07704 682145
e: trish.charlton@o2.co.uk
Produce: Is a local company based here in Alnwick. All the produce is made in my kitchen at home. Some are recipes that have been passed down through the generations,
they are well tried and tested. Its old fashioned cooking with full flavour. Speciallties include Peach Fruit Cake, Fig & Coconut Cake and Gran's
Gingerbread.

Truly Scrumptious Fudge
t: 01669 629089
e: avrilmills@btinternet.com
Produce: A family business based in the heart of Northumberland producing high quality luxury butter fudge. Gift boxes and Favours available.

Tritlington Fresh Produce, Tritlington Hall, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 3ED
t: +44 (0)1670 790223/786160
f: +44 (0)1670 790520
e: j.craigs.ltd@farming.co.uk
w: Northumbria Larder
Produce: Raspberries, strawberries, winter vegetables, potatoes, swede, cabbage, asparagus, leeks, carrots and courgettes.

Truly Scrumptious
Produce: Sweets

R Turnbull & Sons, 33-35 Market Place , Alnwick NE66 1AT
t: 01665 602186 f: 01665 603326
e: info@turnbullsofalnwick.co.uk
w: www.turnbullsofalnwick.co.uk
Produce: Alnwick's longest established independent family butcher and greengrocer and is one of the town's oldest businesses. It will be selling special-recipe cheese and sausage meat pasties, with 10% of the price going to the festival's chosen charity, The Toma Fund.

Wildon Grange, Romaldkirk, Barnard Castle, Co Durham DL12 9EW
t: +44 (0)1833 650587
e: enquiries@wildongrange.co.uk
w: www.wildongrange.co.uk
Produce: Delicious home-made salad dressings and hand-made chopping and cheese boards.

Wheelbirks, Wheelbirks Farm, Stocksfield, Northumberland, NE43 7HY
t/f: +44 (0)1661 842613
e: enquiries@wheelbirks.co.uk
w: www.wheelbirks.co.uk
Produce: Hugh and Tom are putting the Richardson family dairy farming expertise to good use by developing the new Wheelbirks Northumbrian Dairy Ice Cream range. Made using only the rich and creamy milk of Jersey cows, the new Ice creams have a smooth distinctive taste.

Yellow Fields, Selby House Farm, Stanton, Northumberland NE65 8PR
t: +44 (0)1670 772235
m: 07932847175
e: rapeseed@btinternet.com
w: www.rapeseedoil.co.uk
Produce: Extra virgin rapeseed oil. The cold-pressing process brings out the real natural flavour of rapeseed, just as tasty as olive oil but with half the saturated fat and bags of omega 3. This year we will have our new range of infused oils.

The Northumbrian Farmhouse
t: +44 (0)191 2366414
m: 07976 158185 or 0773 6046126
e: northumbrianfarmhouse@hotmail.co.uk
w: www.northumbrianfarmhouse.co.uk


Produce: At The Northumbrian Farmhouse, we believe in delicious, locally sourced food and outstanding service, representing Northumberland at food festivals, country shows and specialist markets. Serving the finest food from farms and specialist providers from throughout the county, we invest a huge amount of time into sourcing the finest quality produce so you can taste the difference. Offering a range of local roast meats, speciality sausages and other delicious foods, we'll be back in Alnwick at the food festival to give our customers the chance to try the best in local food.

For a flavour of previous years' exhibitors at the Alnwick Food Festival, click on the years below:
2008
2007
2006
2005