William Orr and Son grow around 200 acres every year. They grow potatoes and cereals as well as finishing beef cattle.
Potatoes are grown in rotation with cereal crops, grass silage and grazing pasture. This allows the soil to rest between each crop of potatoes and results in better quality, disease-free spuds that are full of flavour.
Growing around 10 varieties, the season starts with the famous PGI Comber Earlies using varieties such as Home Guard and Accord. Mid-season favourites include Queens and Maris Peer. Popular main crop varieties such as Maris Piper, Navan and Rooster along with old niche varieties Kerr’s Pinks, Arran Victory (Blues) and Dunbar Standards.
William Orr and Son received a Gold Star in The Great Taste Awards for their Arran Victory – “Balls of Flour”.
With a strong commitment to nature friendly farming they care about the countryside and environment, using sustainable farming practices and working in harmony with nature are at the core of their business.
Their products are available throughout Northern Ireland or you can visit their farm in Raffrey, Co. Down.
Four generations of the Quail family have been selling food to the good people of Banbridge and beyond since 1898. The shop started out as a small butcher’s and has grown into a modern food hall and delicatessen. Staff often go on courses to improve their skills, including the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School.
The shop may be state of the art, but they’re staying true to their traditional values of providing the best quality meat from their own farm and a range of foods from other high quality producers. Their packs of sirloin, rib-eye and fillet steak and boneless rib roasts are dry-aged and come from their Limousin herd. Lots of their produce has won Great Taste Awards like their Rib-eye and Beef and Caramelised Onion sausages.
The deli side of the business was originally started by Brydlyn Quail. She was a catering lecturer at the local college. She noticed that customers were looking for easy to prepare meals or foods for entertaining at home. She and her husband Jim added honey-baked ham, pies, quiches and many salads to the range of products. Make a visit our shop online and you’ll be so glad you did.
Deli Lites, established in 1994 as a small family-run sandwich bar, is now Ireland’s leading food-to-go brand and artisan bakery company. Producers of innovative gourmet sandwiches, bespoke Award-Winning salads and a full Vegan and Gluten Free range. They supply across Ireland and the UK into foodservice, retail, large coffee chains as well as the air and rail sector.
Deli LitesITES export across Europe and the Middle East with their unique range of frozen Tósta’s, burritos, luxury traybakes and loaf cakes and are happy to develop a bespoke range under private labelling.
Throughout their growth and innovation Deli Lites has maintained the same core values of delivering a product that is full of quality and personality. Their truly artisan products have won recognition throughout the trade with their Turmeric and Orange Cake with Yogurt and Pistachio Topping winning 2 Gold Stars at the 2019 Great Taste Awards, not to mention their renowned Salted Caramel Brownie winning a Blas na hÉireann award and 2 Gold Stars in the Great Taste Awards in 2018 for the two of our Innovative Vegan superfoods Bespoke Bowls.
Papas Mineral Company is a small local manufacturer of speciality drinks and cordials based in Bangor, County Down. It came about in 1999 due to a demand for high quality drinks and cordials free from artificial flavours, colours and sweeteners. Ever since, Papas has become one of the market leaders in Northern Ireland. Customers say these nostalgic drinks remind them of their childhood.
The ever popular non-alcoholic ginger wine is made from a 100 year old recipe. It packs a mighty kick when paired with whiskey to make a “whiskey mac”, but it’s equally good mixed with soda water.
The spiced winterberry cordial is lovely with hot water in the colder months. Add it to red wine for an instant mulled wine, without the faff. The light and summery elderflower cordial is a winner with Prosecco and the newest concoction, Clove Cordial, is already a firm favourite.
Whitewater Brewery was established in 1996 on the family farm in the heart of the Mourne Mountains near Kilkeel. Since then the craft beer scene has really taken off and Whitewater produces some of the best brews around. They are multi award-winning.
They make sure to use only the finest ingredients in their range of ales, lagers and stouts. Once you try them you will be hooked.
Their new visitor centre has just opened. Book tours via the website.
This cute little place is where you will find some of the best local artisan produce all under one roof. Open since May 2014, it’s next door to the new Poacher’s Pocker restaurant (formerly Lisbarnett house) in Lisbane. You can pick up Peter Hannan’s beef, Abernethy Butter, Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil, Still Waters Fish and Eva Paris Macarons.
You’ll also find fresh bread and scones (we love the apple and cinnamon) and locally grown fruit and vegetables in season. We saw rhubarb and Jerusalem artichokes in the outdoor boxes when we were there.
There’s a sophisticated selection of wines, spirits and artisan beers too. They do soups, chowders and sauces from the restaurant kitchen as well. It’s a real one-stop gourmet shop.
Gift vouchers available.
