Isinglass Restaurant :: suppliers 2007

Oddly given our shelves of global cook books, Britain is up there as an agricultural innovator, blessed with lush natural assets capable of growing great food. Over the past three years we’ve driven down a few country lanes to put the results of their hard work & skill on our menus. Here are suppliers producing food every bit as good as their more hyped European counterparts:-

Net-savvy farmer with a base in foodie heaven Borough market in London, Mr Sharp sells not only the very, very finest sheep and beef to once have grazed idyllic Settle Valley, but makes air-dried, dried you name it Cumbrian Charcuterie.
www.farmersharp.co.uk

A mother & daughter partnership producing 20 flavors of ice cream, all hand made with double cream & whole milk. Flavors include toffee fudge, lemon meringue, coconut with white rum, honeycomb, Irish coffee, Black Forest & Old Favorites: Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry. Plus 4 flavors of sorbets. All available from the farm shop, and can also be found at various farmers markets. Also available from the farm shop: Cheese, butter, preserves, Cheshire honey, Cheshire apple juice, & potatoes.
Ash Farm Station Road, Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Cheshire (0161) 928 1230
Opening Times: Daily 12 noon - 6pm

Five minutes from IKEA Warrington, swop-ball pool hell for a picnic and fruit picking child labour. Least they’ll sleep. Even if their beds are still in the flat pack at bedtime.
www.kenyonhall.co.uk

NORTHWEST FINE FOODS

This site is a gateway to some of the finest food producers, shops, farm shops and delis, pubs and restaurants in the North West.
www.nwff.co.uk

MRS KIRKHAMS LANCASHIRE CHEESE

Traditional, ‘supreme champion’ cheese, pure and simple or flavoured, Small, passionate producer.
Tel: 01772 865335

Isinglass sources its fillet and sirloin steak, organic chicken, rabbit, turkey and game from Karol Bailey at Holly Tree Farm. Karol is more power house than housewife, and a leading light in farmers markets like Altrincham. As a licensed meat cutter, she supplies top quality meats including rare breed at prices to shame supermarkets, so supporting a network of smaller surrounding farmers by selling to the public. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10-5pm with a tea room running 10-3.30pm Kids might put down the playstation and enjoy shettie ponies & curly perm lambs.
www.hollytreefarmshop.co.uk

Home to traditional now rare British White cattle and Middle White pigs which are allowed to feed and mature at a natural pace in the Lakes. Add Lyth Valley damsons to that taste-packed pork in a little raised pie and get an unexpected everlasting food moment.
www.savin-hill.co.uk

His cumberland sausage when sat overlooking the Irish Sea turned me back to meat. Takes on modish Italian styles with pancetta and air-dried ham plus totally traditional dry cured bacon, meats and sausages all postable and in your frying pan in two days. All animals well cared for on Woodall’s own farm. Shame the Queen eats them too.
www.richardwoodall.co.uk

Gentleman gourmand Peter Paprill. unstintingly champion’s a stable of quality food producers. With his backing and distribution unsung names have won well-deserved places on the region’s best menus & restaurants.
www.pendrill.co.uk

REDHOUSE FARM SHOP & TEAROOMS

A new rare breed of farmer, Jonathan Hewitt & his team sell fresh fruit, veg , produce and meats a mere sidestep outside the (smart) South Manchester sprawl. When not cutting football field size tigers into corn mazes or organising crowd-pulling food producers events on the farm that is.
www.redhousefarm.co.uk

Pulls together produce from a mixed bag of top-notch farmers and producers then delivers an almost complete (but massively better quality and zero airmiles) supermarket shop direct to your home.
www.northernharvest.co.uk

We have many farmers growing for us at isinglass. They continue to amaze and delight us with the quality and variety of fruit and vegetables they produce, for example when did you last see a custard white petty pan or a kabbocha pumpkin in your supermarket, very unlikely. So to these farmers who grow us the foods of by-gone times we thank you so very much.

Oddly given our shelves of global cook books, Britain is up there as an agricultural innovator, blessed with lush natural assets capable of growing great food. Over the past three years we’ve driven down a few country lanes to put the results of their hard work & skill on our menus. Here are suppliers producing food every bit as good as their more hyped European counterparts:-

FARMER SHARP
Net-savvy farmer with a base in foodie heaven Borough market in London, Mr Sharp sells not only the very, very finest sheep and beef to once have grazed idyllic Settle Valley, but makes air-dried, dried you name it Cumbrian Charcuterie. www.farmersharp.co.uk
DUNHAM MASSEY FARM ICE CREAM
A mother & daughter partnership producing 20 flavors of ice cream, all hand made with double cream & whole milk. Flavors include toffee fudge, lemon meringue, coconut with white rum, honeycomb, Irish coffee, Black Forest & Old Favorites: Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry. Plus 4 flavors of sorbets. All available from the farm shop, and can also be found at various farmers markets. Also available from the farm shop: Cheese, butter, preserves, Cheshire honey, Cheshire apple juice, & potatoes. Ash Farm Station Road, Dunham Massey, Altrincham, Cheshire (0161) 928 1230 Opening Times: Daily 12 noon - 6pm
KENYON HALL FARM
Five minutes from IKEA Warrington, swop-ball pool hell for a picnic and fruit picking child labour. Least they’ll sleep. Even if their beds are still in the flat pack at bedtime. www.kenyonhall.co.uk
NORTHWEST FINE FOODS
This site is a gateway to some of the finest food producers, shops, farm shops and delis, pubs and restaurants in the North West. www.nwff.co.uk
MRS KIRKHAMS LANCASHIRE CHEESE
Traditional, ‘supreme champion’ cheese, pure and simple or flavoured, Small, passionate producer. Tel: 01772 865335
HOLLY TREE FARM
Isinglass sources its fillet and sirloin steak, organic chicken, rabbit, turkey and game from Karol Bailey at Holly Tree Farm. Karol is more power house than housewife, and a leading light in farmers markets like Altrincham. As a licensed meat cutter, she supplies top quality meats including rare breed at prices to shame supermarkets, so supporting a network of smaller surrounding farmers by selling to the public. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10-5pm with a tea room running 10-3.30pm Kids might put down the playstation and enjoy shettie ponies & curly perm lambs. www.hollytreefarmshop.co.uk
SAVIN HILL FARM
Home to traditional now rare British White cattle and Middle White pigs which are allowed to feed and mature at a natural pace in the Lakes. Add Lyth Valley damsons to that taste-packed pork in a little raised pie and get an unexpected everlasting food moment. www.savin-hill.co.uk
RICHARD WOODALL LTD
His cumberland sausage when sat overlooking the Irish Sea turned me back to meat. Takes on modish Italian styles with pancetta and air-dried ham plus totally traditional dry cured bacon, meats and sausages all postable and in your frying pan in two days. All animals well cared for on Woodall’s own farm. Shame the Queen eats them too. www.richardwoodall.co.uk
PENDRILLS 1651 LTD
Gentleman gourmand Peter Paprill. unstintingly champion’s a stable of quality food producers. With his backing and distribution unsung names have won well-deserved places on the region’s best menus & restaurants. www.pendrill.co.uk
REDHOUSE FARM SHOP & TEAROOMS
A new rare breed of farmer, Jonathan Hewitt & his team sell fresh fruit, veg , produce and meats a mere sidestep outside the (smart) South Manchester sprawl. When not cutting football field size tigers into corn mazes or organising crowd-pulling food producers events on the farm that is. www.redhousefarm.co.uk
NORTHERN HARVEST
Pulls together produce from a mixed bag of top-notch farmers and producers then delivers an almost complete (but massively better quality and zero airmiles) supermarket shop direct to your home. www.northernharvest.co.uk
UNSUNG HEROS
We have many farmers growing for us at isinglass. They continue to amaze and delight us with the quality and variety of fruit and vegetables they produce, for example when did you last see a custard white petty pan or a kabbocha pumpkin in your supermarket, very unlikely. So to these farmers who grow us the foods of by-gone times we thank you so very much.

RARE BREED PIGS & SHEEP STEPHEN BOOTH OF BROAD OAK FARM, CARRINGTON
Rears Badger faced welsh lambs, saddleback and Old Gloucester spot pigs for us. The best meat we’ve certainly tried. Sells on to Peter Gott and that TV pig man too when not keeping a show farm and potato merchant business. chapelsaddlebacks.co.uk

HERITAGE & UNUSUAL VEGETABLES ALAN HEWITT OF THE BOTHY, DUNHAM MASSEY
Alan tends the gardens of Hales’s rich list when not growing us veg on his ‘patch’, the Bothy of Dunham Massey Estate. Kale, ruby chard, purple sprouting and romanesco broccoli and hardy spinach are cropped before lunch and on Isinglass’s plates that evening. When we opened Isinglass over 3 years ago we were amazed at the sight of lush fields laying empty around post-industrial Manchester while veg is flown in tourist class. So we’ve teamed up with Alan to revive delicious heritage veg last eaten by Victorians. That’s something new for vegans!

ARTISAN CHEESES, LANCASHIRE PANCETTA, BUTTER. ORGANIC EGGS, BEEF & LAMB. BLEIKERS SMOKED SALMON. Adrian Hill’s Fine Foods
Ex-cheesemaker from a family line of cheesemakers in a town crammed with the counties best cheesemakers. Adrian met his wife and other half of the company elbow deep in curd. Adrian puts his encyclopaedic, enthusiastic knowledge of his trade to our benefit to source products like day-old goat curd or beetroot-tinged smoked salmon, many from the farming friends he grew up with in the lush Longridge countryside.

SPECIALITY FOODS JB RICHARDSON, BEECH ROAD, CHORLTON
Master bakers and top gents. Wielded an impressively large grinder to remove our decrepid, room-sized bread oven.