The Ingredients Behind Bath's Booming Culinary Scene
Everyone knows about Bath’s buns, balustrades and bookish connections, but what about its farms, foraging school and specialty food artisans? Here, we pinpoint Bath’s ingredient hotspots and dish up the best of the city.
Get to the source
From cattle to quinoa, Bath is filled with farms that create a beautiful landscape, as well as provide incredible quality culinary ingredients.
1. Newton Farm
Newton Farm
Just three miles west of Bath’s fashionable centre lies Newton Farm, a family-run livestock and arable farm with a string of awards to its name. The farm’s 450-strong herd of South Devon, Angus and Hereford cattle mostly spends time roaming the rolling parkland of Newton Estate in the pretty thatched village of Newton St Loe. Reared on a low-input grass-based diet, these animals play an important part in upholding the farm’s agri-environmental status as a Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) farm. Determined to produce ‘food from field to fork’ and ‘bridge the gap between the farmer and the consumer’, Newton Farm prepares its own meat and sells it in the farm’s shop and the bustling café that inhabits its former milking parlour.
Newton Farm Foods, Newton St Loe, Bath BA2 9BT, UK, +44 1225 873707
2. Bath Farm Girls
Bath Farm Girls
Because quinoa originated in the world’s longest mountain range—the Andes—it may come as a surprise that the wheat-free alternative hailed for its health benefits is thriving on English soil. Going against the grain, Bath Farm Girls in the small Saxon village of Corston (west of Bath) is the first farm to have successfully harvested a crop of the red variety in the UK. Passionate about pesticide-free quinoa production, the farm has flourished since its inception in 2013 and now sells nutritious and chemical-free quinoa to the local community and companies like The British Quinoa Company, Pret A Manger and Waitrose, to name a few.
Bath Farm Girls, Corston Field Farm, Corston, Bath BA2 9EZ, UK, +44 7933 832523
3. Hartley Farm Shop and Kitchen
Farm Shop, British
4. Fussels Fine Foods
Fussels Fine Foods
Located in the village of Rode and only a short distance from Bath, Fussels Fine Foods has been producing rapeseed oil since the 1980s. It all started in a converted pigsty with a cold press and some bottling equipment. Since then, the business has branched out to a bigger building with new pressing facilities, a state-of-the-art filtration system and a demonstration kitchen. From pressing the seeds, cleaning, bottling and labelling the oil to using it in the kitchen, these third-generation farmers welcome you to discover the inherent benefits of cold pressed rapeseed oil—low in saturated fat and high in essential fatty acids—in their deep-yellow world.
Fussels Fine Foods, Parkgate Lane, Frome BA11 6AA, UK, +44 1373 831286
5. Forage for wild food
From garlic, nettles and fungi to lemon balm, elderflower and mint, Bath abounds with wild food throughout the year. But, distinguishing the good from the bad poses challenges for novice foragers. Vale House Kitchen in the village of Timsbury, 13 kilometres (eight miles) southwest of Bath, will bring out your inner hunter gatherer and help you to identify what’s what. The kitchen offers courses on the ancient art of wild food foraging that teach you about the importance of landscape, habitats and tree and plant species. The school’s expert foragers and ecologists also cover safety and legislation, empowering you to safely forage with the knowledge that you’re gathering the right food and not negatively impacting the environment.
Vale House, Loves Hill, Timsbury BA2 0EU, UK, +44 1761 470401
6. Sample the produce
Charcuterie, Market, Farmers' Market, British
7. Bath Soft Cheese Company
Market, Cheesemonger, British
8. Teeny Greeny Farm
Farm Shop, British
9. Somerset Charcuterie
Charcuterie, Market, British, European
Since you are here, we would like to share our vision for the future of travel - and the direction Culture Trip is moving in.
Culture Trip launched in 2011 with a simple yet passionate mission: to inspire people to go beyond their boundaries and experience what makes a place, its people and its culture special and meaningful — and this is still in our DNA today. We are proud that, for more than a decade, millions like you have trusted our award-winning recommendations by people who deeply understand what makes certain places and communities so special.
Increasingly we believe the world needs more meaningful, real-life connections between curious travellers keen to explore the world in a more responsible way. That is why we have intensively curated a collection of premium small-group trips as an invitation to meet and connect with new, like-minded people for once-in-a-lifetime experiences in three categories: Culture Trips, Rail Trips and Private Trips. Our Trips are suitable for both solo travelers, couples and friends who want to explore the world together.
Culture Trips are deeply immersive 5 to 16 days itineraries, that combine authentic local experiences, exciting activities and 4-5* accommodation to look forward to at the end of each day. Our Rail Trips are our most planet-friendly itineraries that invite you to take the scenic route, relax whilst getting under the skin of a destination. Our Private Trips are fully tailored itineraries, curated by our Travel Experts specifically for you, your friends or your family.
We know that many of you worry about the environmental impact of travel and are looking for ways of expanding horizons in ways that do minimal harm - and may even bring benefits. We are committed to go as far as possible in curating our trips with care for the planet. That is why all of our trips are flightless in destination, fully carbon offset - and we have ambitious plans to be net zero in the very near future.
- Post ID: 1819740
- Sponsored? No
- View Payload