Some years ago I produced a 'Tea Shop' Guide which is still on my web site (see my profile) but which is now woefully out of date and hedged round with caveats. One thing I want to do with this Blog is to record new (and some old) places to that we have found to shop and to eat, and to give my comments and thoughts (mostly positive! but sometimes not so good).
I'll start with a VERY GOOD Farm Shop that we have used ever since it opened in 1999 - Blacker Hall Farm Shop, just off Denby Dale Road outside Wakefield (Links to Google Map showing Blacker Hall and to their own site). I hope they won't mind me linking to their logo!!The meat is excellent and much of it is produced on their own farm. The baking is wonderful and if you look though the door by the tills you can see it being produced. OK they do also stock the usual 'select' products from well known names such as Tyrells (crisps), Innocent (smoothies), and others that are now the standard for many 'farm' shops, but they still major on what is produced in-house and locally. They won the 'Best Farm Shop in England' title this year which they added to the 'Best in Yorkshire' for the previous two years and the 'Best Roast Beef in England' in 2004.
Worth a journey - its what I call a 'two basket' farm shop - since we get there only infrequently (we no longer do the 60 mile round trip to see Mum-in-law) we usually end up filling two baskets.
My only gripe is that they no longer seem to be producing their excellent Sausage Plait!
The latest news (dropped into conversation by the young lady at the till) is that they now have planning permission to open a cafe upstairs. Watch this space!
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