Deli & fresh food

The delicatessen counter

Where to start? It’s a feast, starting with large juicy olives from Olives et al and ending up with a fantastic selection of cheeses, including local Barbers’ 1833 Cheddar and Dorset Blue Vinny, and some wonderfully smelly ones such as Stinking Bishop and goats’ cheese.

Inbetween are our fresh pies and quiches, home-made by Okemoor – choose from a mouth-watering Spinach and Feta Pie or a Steak and Stilton Slice. For pudding lovers, try our traditional Dorset Apple Cake or let your taste buds wander with a slice of Jamaican Lemon Crunch Cake.

Tip: Stuck for a dinner party idea? Order one of our delicious Pheasant and Apricot Pies, which serves up to eight people (or six greedy ones).

Fresh meat and fish

We are delighted to welcome Else's Butchers to the the fresh meat counter in store. They will be serving up top-quality local beef, pork and lamb as well as poultry and game in season. Pre-packed meat will also be available for customers in a hurry.

On the fish counter you’ll find a huge selection of Martyn Else's locally sourced fresh fish including sea bass and monkfish, as well as staples such as cod fillets and natural smoked haddock. His seafood range includes mussels, squid, dressed crab, depending on what’s seasonally available and fresh.

The bakery

We bake a lot of our bread daily on the premises. Choose from our poppy seed bloomer, sesame bloomer, baguettes, foccacia bread and crusty rolls, as well as organic brown and white loaves. Our specialty breads include the popular cheese loaf and olive loaf and a new arrival, the sour dough boule. Crabb’s Bakery’s sunflower loaf is a best-seller.

The Dorset Cake Company delivers fresh every day, bringing us lardy cakes, fruit scones Chelsea buns, novelty fancy cakes, and the very popular fresh cream cakes. Other local contributions come from Moores (Dorset knob biscuits), Fudges (sweet and savoury biscuits) and Mandy Sweet (home-made double chocolate cheesecake, scrummy carrot cake, coffee and walnut cake as well as her delicious pecan pie and treacle tart).

Fruit and vegetables

We offer a huge range of fruit and vegetables, fresh salads and herbs. We try and source as much as possible locally, when seasonally available. Our organic produce comes from Gold Hill Organic Farm in Child Okeford.