Meet many of the chefs and producers featured on our gourmet food trails and who feature on our Supper Club dining menus - the Yorkshire food folk who devote their lives to bringing the best the county has to offer, whether they're rearing it, growing it, fishing for it, making it, brewing it, bottling it, smoking it or curing it. You name it, it's being done right here on our Yorkshire doorstep.
More than ever before there is great emphasis on using local produce, and nowhere is that more true than in Yorkshire. Recognising the folks who give their lives to producing and cooking these ingredients is what Yorkshire Food Finder is all about.
*Please note that this is a list of the chefs and producers currently on our set tours and dinners, we have relationships with many other vendors and can send you an exhaustive list if you are looking for something in particular.
Producers
Sarah Puckett
Sarah makes incredible pickles and chutneys in her state-of-the-art Pickle Palace near York. Her inspiration comes from old family recipes and her ship's captain father who brought home ingredients from his journeys sailing the seven seas.
Guppy's Chocolates
Peter and Fran Guppy
A 21st century expression of York's great chocolate-making heritage. Peter and Fran began their award-winning business at home before expanding to bigger premises to cope with demand
Staal Smokehouse
Justin Staal
An artisanal smokehouse with a greatrange of smoked fish, chicken, and duck using the finest Scottish salmon and local sourced poultry. Justin's technique and skill deliver consistently award-winning smoked foods
Wold Top Brewery
The Mellor Family
Wold Top was founded in 2003 by farmers Tom and Gill, who wanted to sustain the family farm with diversification. Brewing was their solution and daughter Kate and husband Alex now run it day to day
Botton Creamery
Alastair Pearson
Botton Creamery, where cheese has been made for 35 years, has grown out of the productive efforts of a vibrant and diverse community and is now providing an eclectic range of traditionally-made cheeses
Haxby Bakehouse
Phil and Tina Clayton
Phil makes exceptionally good bread with local organic flour using traditional methods of slow fermentation. The bread he produces and which wife Tina sells in the family bakery is full of flavour with no artificial additives
York Coffee Emporium
Laurence and Philippa Beardmore
The Beardmore's roast single varietal beans in the artisanal tradition, as well as creating regular and bespoke blends for restaurants, coffee shops, and retail trade
Spirit of Yorkshire
Yorkshire's first distillery
Yorkshire's first ever single malt whisky is overseen every step of the way from grain to glass, with barley grown on the family's Yorkshire Wolds farm and water drawn deep from the chalky landscape
Yorkshire Rapeseed Oil
The Palmer Family
Adam and Jennie Palmer, along with both sets of in-laws have been extolling the virtues of cold-pressed rapeseed oil since 2008 which is produced on the family farm on the beautiful Yorkshire Wolds
Caroline and Katie Bell
Shepherds Purse has been making award winning cheeses since the 1980's when mum Judy began making sheep's milk in her kitchen. Now the creamery sells a wide variety of cheeses nationwide
Chefs
Andrew Pern
Chef - Star Inn at Harome
The Michelin Star Chef and owner placed first in the 2017 gastropub awards and now has restaurants in York and Whitby
Ben Cox
Chef - The Star at Sancton
Champion Yorkshire pudding maker and a whole lot more as recognised by The Good Food guide
James Mackenzie
Chef - The Pipe and Glass Inn
The only Michelin starred chef in East Yorkshire offers fine dining at the Pipe and Glass Inn village pub and restaurant
Sue Nelson
Chef - YFF & Birds on the Loose
Sue offers seven course dinners at Yorkshire Food Finder HQ near York, or any quirky offbeat venue where she cooks with her Birds on the Loose buddy Gilly Robinson
Work with us!
We are always on the look out for the next best thing and partnering with your business could be it! If you're interested in becoming one of our producers, collaborating on a travel experience, cooking up a new dish, or something entirely new, let us know!