Good Food For Life

In case you don't know, the Jacob sheep is an attractive, rare breed, of small, piebald (white with coloured spots) sheep.  People from a non farming background may be appalled that I suggest you eat a rare breed, but we've lost many of of our rare breeds because people stopped eating them.  So, if you're a meat eater, the best way to conserve our rare breeds is buy their produce - so farmers can then afford to keep them!

I first met Georgina Jones at the North West Food Lovers Festival at Tatton Park.  She was sells mutton as well as lamb, so I realised she understands good taste!

Friars Park Jacobs
Friars Park Farm
Mollington
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 6NT

Tel: 01244 851333

Web: www.friarparkjacobs.co.uk

When chef Dave Mooney and his wife Jane (who before she married Dave was Jane Casson, and was a project manager at Made in Cheshire) open a café, you know it's going to be good!


It's situated in the Chester Visitor Centre, just opposite the Chester Amphitheatre. As you go in, past a rather fine mural, you'll notice that the menu features some of the best local produce:
You can pop in for a drink (try their hot chocolate) and a cake (they sell Gorge’us cakes from Bebbington):
or try a Cheshire Taste Cheese Plank (three of the county's best cheeses served with bread or crackers and Clippy’s Apple and Plum chutney), or their home made soup:
They also sell jam from Find Inspiration in Food who buy seasonal fruit and vegetables from local specialist growers and farmers, and last year won an award for the recruitment and employment of disabled and disadvantaged people.
Since writing this review Cheshire Taste has closed.  Dave and Jane Mooney have opened Legends Cafe on the A556 at Delamere, and run The Lord Binning at Kelsall, The Old Sessions House in Knutsford and the soon to be opened Hanging Gate at Weaverham.

Cheshire Taste
Chester Visitor Centre
Vicars Lane
Chester
CH1 1QX


Tel: 01244 329935


Web: www.cheshiretaste.com