The 2025 Exmoor Food Fest will take place throughout February 2025 across Exmoor and a bit beyond. We are hoping for at least (!) 40 venues to join us – but wouldn’t it be fun to make it to 100?!?
If you are interested in taking part (producers and accommodation providers are also welcome!), then head to the bottom of this page where you’ll find the sign-up link.
La Petite Bouchée
The Hotel Porlock Weir
Zekki’s
Bittescombe Inn
The Swan, Bampton
The Anchor Inn
The Bridge Inn
Shoulsbarrow Farm
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Are you a restaurant, food venue or local producer? Then take part in the 2025 Exmoor Food Fest!
The tenth anniversary of the Exmoor Food Fest in 2025 continues to attract new exciting participants:
Welcome to Shoulsbarrow Farmhouse B&B in Challacombe who have joined us for the very first time to take part in the 2025 Exmoor Food Fest.
Amanda and Gary will host a number of exclusive dinners at their beautiful farmhouse, serving their own meats and produce. These will be ticketed events – so keep your eyes peeled on our website (or, even better, subscribe to our newsletter) to make sure you are one of the few lucky ones to experience this.
La Petite Bouchée are delighted to announce that they’ve teamed up with the amazing Stoodleigh Court Coach House to launch a series of exclusive cooking retreats designed with heart and soul at the centre. You don’t have to be the most experienced cook, you just need to have lots of passion for food and flavour! Each retreat will be led by Anita-Clare Field, Chef Patron at multi-award winning Witheridge based La Petite Bouchée.
Thuy Hoang – 2023 Masterchef Quarter Finalist
They’ll be launching their first retreat on November 29th and going on a three day adventure exploring the world of Vietnamese Cuisine. Offering a mixture of hands on cooking peppered with the occasional demonstration. Cooking a selection of some of Vietnams most iconic dishes including, Pho, Summer Rolls and Bành Mi and they are beyond thrilled to welcome Masterchef UK 2023 quarter-finalist Chef Thuy Hoang to Devon to share her family recipes and extensive knowledge for a day of cooking on December 1st. Thuy will be joining the group on November 30th for dinner and to introduce her day. On the evening of the 1st December Thuy and Anita-Clare will be cooking supper. One not to be missed !!
Beef Phô
Throughout the retreat you’ll be staying at the luxurious Stoodleigh Court Coach House, less than 6 miles from Tiverton. The peaceful, tranquil setting makes it the perfect location for a rejuvenating and deeply restorative break to get away from it all and enjoy your time on the cooking retreat. When you’re not cooking, there are stunning walks or if you fancy, a dip in the hot tub !
By the time you leave you’ll be ready to impress your family and friends with your newly learnt skills together with a complete set of recipes.
Wonton Soup
There will only be up to 10 residential places and very LIMITED day passes available so and early booking is highly advisable. For prices and availability please click the button below.
We have a newcomer to the 2025 Exmoor Food Fest! And it’s no other than The Bridge Inn in Dulverton who have just signed up for ExFF25. We can’t wait to see what they will have on offer for you in February…
The Bridge Inn is a country pub in Dulverton – the gateway to Exmoor. Expect great ales, craft beers huge selection of gins, lovely wines, coupled with great modern British food. In the summer you could be sitting on the terrace overlooking the river with a cold glass of Sauvignon and a Devon crab cake salad, or on a cold winter day sat in front of the fire with a pint of porter and a local pheasant & pork pie.
The Bridge Inn are the 7th venue to join the 2025 Exmoor Food Fest – with more than six months to go until our month-long celebration of our region’s finest hospitality they will be joined by many more amazing venues on and around Exmoor. At the beginning of August we’ll start preparing the website for 2025, so keep checking back! We’re having some surprises for you, too….
Zekki is a small 30-seat restaurant in the heart of Wiveliscombe, West Somerset. Owned by chef Tim Zekki, the concept is inspired by his childhood memories in the town of Karmi, Northern Cyprus. There, at his father’s restaurant, Kismet, friends and family would gather to share long and happy meals of dishes packed with flavour under the shade of vine leaves. Listed as a ‘hot newcomer’ in this year’s Hardens, described as a ‘gorgeous and charming flavour bomb of a place’ by Telegraph restaurant critic William Sitwell.
The restaurant is now open for Saturday lunch – a perfect time to discover the range of amazing sharing dishes now served at Zekki.
Tim Zekki is known to many of you – he has been part of the Exmoor Food Fest as guest chef at events and of course as chef/owner of Duende in Wiveliscombe. He enjoys pushing the boundaries of food, such as the challenge of inventing an amazing beef-based dessert course for Exmoor Food Fest’s Celebration of Beef.
With the refurbishment of the premises came the change in menu. Now you find an exciting range of sharing dishes which invite you to spend time with friends and just enjoy the food.
Here is a sample menu:
Zekki: 4 High Street, Wiveliscombe, United Kingdom
To book, email Hello@zekki.restaurant
Opening hours: Thursday 6.30 till 11pm Friday 6.30 till 11pm Saturday lunch 12.00 till 4.00pm Saturday evening 6.30 till 11pm
We’re excited to be welcoming Head Chef Olivier Certain and the Bittescombe Inn in Upton to the 2025 Exmoor Food Fest.
Olivier has been a firm favourite of ours for many years, and we can’t wait to see what offers he’ll create at the Bittescombe Inn who are new to the Exmoor Food Fest circuit.
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Join us for a Conversation about Food with nutritionist and gut health expert Nathalie Sansonetti on 24 June 2024 at 7pm who will be speaking about how we can deal with perceived food intolerances.
Join us for an evening with Gut Health Expert Nathalie Sansonetti on 24 June 2024, 7pm who will talk about “Eating without Fear”. The event will take place on Zoom.
Nathalie Sansonetti has over 15 years’ experience working as a fully qualified Nutritional Therapist, Health Coach, EFT/Matrix Reimprinting Practitioner, Food Allergy & Intolerance Therapist and Mentor. She was nicknamed the ‘gut whisperer’ by a client as she focuses her guidance on gut health.
She works holistically to rebalance her clients’ bodies, minds, spirits, in order for them to transform their fear of food to allowing themselves to eat pretty much anything they want, without their guts reacting.
She has a busy practice with private clients, and is often featured in media such as BBC Radio Sussex, national and international podcasts and retreats as well as company wellbeing programmes.
Nathalie’s motto is “It’s not what you eat, it’s how you eat it, and how you feel when you eat”
This event is the first in our new series of “Exmoor Food Fest Fringe Events” which run along the traditional, restaurant based Exmoor Food Fest as we all know it.
You will receive the Zoom link for the event after signing up.
Yesterday I met with two amazing women – one in person, Michell Tenreiro, and one online, Nathalie Sansonetti. Watch out for a series of events, some online and some in person, about “Food is not the enemy”! This is all part of our Exmoor Food Fest celebrations (we’re ten in Feb ’25, but I believe in celebrating birthdays over months!).
Put 24 June, 7pm, into your diary for an interactive online chat with Nathalie about making your gut happy, allowing you to enjoy food even if you suffer from food intolerances. In October, Nathalie will be running a couple of events at The Porlock Weir Hotel about the same topic. Dates and details to be confirmed!
This is all very exciting! Let me know if you’d like to know more. Sign-up link for the online event will be available soon.
Stemming from 15 years helping clients restore their gut health, I will be offering knowledge, tools and techniques to help dispel a lot of myths and misunderstandings around food. With the aim to help people appreciate and fall in love with beautiful food again – instead of fearing it and depriving themselves of one of humankind’s exquisite pleasures..
We have an ambitious target for the 2025 Exmoor Food Fest: We want 100 restaurants/ pubs / bistros/ tearooms to join the celebrations for our 10th anniversary.
And this year the sign-ups are starting early. La Petite Bouchée have pipped everyone else to the post – they are our #1 sign-up. So one down, and 99 to go! We wonder who the next one will be…. (we do have an inkling, but can’t say anything yet).
Last week we did an Instagram live together where Anita-Clare Field talked about what will be happening at La Petite Bouchée this year which will see their own 10th anniversary celebrations this summer.
Are you a local(ish) restaurant interesting in joining #Exff25? Then sign up here.
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