Join us for Ledbury’s Celebration of Breakfast over the weekend of Friday 27^th, Saturday 28^th and Sunday 29^th January – the 11^th Ledbury Big Breakfast

16 local venues in and around Ledbury are taking part on one or more days in this event organised by Ledbury Food Group to celebrate our local food and drink producers and retailers and a healthy breakfast.  The event takes place at cafes, pubs, hotels, butchers and delis in and around Ledbury.

Again there is lots of choice from the lightest to the heaviest breakfast showing the ingenuity of our local food venues – check through the listing below for something to sample, savour and enjoy

Visit our butchers – Gurneys and Wallers – to discover their breakfast delights for you to take home and enjoy. 

Our delis will feature a wide range of local produce to take home to make a special breakfast.

The Country Market at St Katherine’s Hall on Friday will have lots of local produce for sale for your breakfast at home. 

Things get very busy on the Saturday morning – if you see something or somewhere you fancy please book in advance where possible to avoid disappointment.  More places now offer breakfasts on Sunday.

See below for full details of what specials are available, where and when – many venues will also offer their normal breakfast menu.  A number offer vegan, vegetarian and gluten free options.

The full listing of special offerings – what, where and when?

Based on information provided by the participants.  Many will also have their usual breakfast offerings available and will be open during their normal hours.

Cafés, Hotels and Pubs 

Corner House Cafe, 1 The Southend

9.45-16.00 FRI, SAT & SUN        

Phone 01531 635752                  Take-aways.   Bookings

• Breakfasts of all sizes – we offer seven menu options – with tea, coffee or orange juice for £1 on orders before 11.30
• Breakfast sandwiches and sub rolls

Produce from: Sessions (sausage/bacon), Bakers Dozen, Waller’s (Meat products), local market

Vegetarian, Gluten Free

 

The Feathers Hotel, 25 High Street

8.30-11.00 SAT only                   

Phone: 01531 635266                

• Devilled lamb’s kidneys – sour dough crostini
• Smoked back bacon, flat mushroom and cheddar eggy bread sandwich
• Vegetarian hash, poached egg, kale salsa verde

Produce from: LDA Meats

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Janey’s, 15 The Homend

9.00-15.30 FRI & SAT

Phone: 01531 248008                 Take-aways Call & Collect

• Full English.
• Pancakes and Waffles
• Breakfast baguettes
• Fruit salad and granola

Produce from: Jenkins Greengrocer

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

 

Ledbury Rugby Football Club, Ross Road   

9.00-11.00 FRI & SUN                  

Phone: 01531 631788                 Bookings

A choice of options from our special breakfast menu

Check for Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free options

 

Malthouse Café & Gallery, Church Lane

9.30-15.30 FRI & SAT and SUN Morning                   

Phone: 01531 634443                 Take-aways Call & Collect Bookings

• A range of special breakfasts to sort all tastes from our ever changing menu

Produce from: LDA Meats, Peter Cooks Bread, Ledbury Fine Foods (eggs)

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

New Market House Café, 1 The Homend

9.30-15.00 FRI, 10.00-15.00 SAT & SUN         

Phone: 01531 635059       Take-aways (preordered) Call & Collect.  Bookings

• “Vegetarian feast” – Avocado, hash brown, beans, tomato, mushroom, egg, toasted muffin
• “Local meats feast” – sausage, bacon, black pudding, egg, tomato, mushroom, beans, muffin
• Plus smaller breakfasts from our menu

Produce from: Gurney’s (meat products), Rob (Ledbury Market)

 Vegetarian Gluten Free

 

The Organic Cafe (Handley Organics), 5 High St

9.00 – 16.00 FRI & SAT    

Phone: 01531 631136                

• A menu of savoury and sweet organic treats for breakfast, brunch or whatever

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 Note: not opening on Sunday

 

Pot & Page, 8 New Street – plant based specialist cafe

10.00-14.00 FRI, SAT & SUN      

Phone: 01531 248743                 Take-aways Call & Collect.   Bookings

• The Not Much Room Breakfast – a full breakfast sandwiched between two grilled field mushrooms.

 Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Weston’s Cider Scrumpy House, HR8 2NQ

9.00 – 11.30 FRI,
1000 – 12.00 SAT & SUN     

Phone: 01531 660626                 Bookings essential

• Full English with vintage cider sausage
• Eggs Benedict with cider baked ham

Produce from: Neil Powell Butchers, LDA Meats, Total Produce, Westons Cider

Vegetarian, Gluten Free

 

Seven Stars, 11 The Homend

9.00-11.00 SAT & SUN               

Phone 01531 635800                  Take-aways (Baps only).   Bookings

• Full English
• Small full English
• Sausage or Bacon Bap

Produce from: LDA Meats, Pershore Produce and our own farm

 Vegetarian, Gluten Free

 

The Nest at Little Verzons Farm, Hereford Road, HR8 2PZ

9.00-11.45 FRI, SAT & SUN (for special breakfasts)   

Phone: 01531 670816                 Take-aways Call & Collect.   Bookings

 Eggs Benedict

• Eggs Florentine
• Eggs Royale
• Croque Monsieur.

Breakfast Produce from: Peter Cooks Bread, Bakers Dozen Bread, Filly Brook Farm eggs, Croome Cuisine Cheese, LDA Bacon, Ham, Black pudding & Sausages, Alex Gooch Muffins, Salmon from Severn & Wye Smokery, Netherend Butter, Hedonist croissants.

Local produce available to buy in our shop for your home breakfast

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Trumpet Corner Tearooms, Trumpet HR8 2RA

9.00–15.00 FRI, SAT & SUN       

Phone: 01531 670082                           Bookings

• Full English breakfast
• Eggs Benedict
• Smoked salmon & scrambled egg on toasted bagel
• Brûléed porridge with fresh berries
• Avocado on toast
• Italian Shakshuka – Tomato sauce with poached eggs, pesto and sourdough
• Breakfast toasties and sandwiches

Produce from: Legges of Bromyard, Skittery apple juice, Macneil’s salmon, Baker’s dozen, Country Flavours (eggs), Netherend Butter

 Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Please support Ledbury

Food Bank as you are able

 

Find out how at:

ledburyfoodbank.org

 

 Delicatessens & Shops

 

Ceci Paolo, 21 High Street

9.0-1700 FRI & SAT                   

Phone 01531 632976

Local breakfast produce including smoked fish, yoghurt, cheeses, bread, honey and our own delicacies.

Local producers products sold include: • Severn and Wye Smokery, Three Counties Honey, Peter Cooks Bread, Charles Martell (cheeses), Neal’s Yard Creamery

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Handley Organics, 5 High Street

All day FRI & SAT            

Phone: 01531 631136

Lots of local produce and ingredients to make a tasty breakfast to take home including cereals, eggs, bakery etc.

Organic, Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Butchers

 

Gurneys Family Butchers, 21 The Homend

All day – FRI & SAT

Phone: 01531 632526

Try our special – the Gurney’s Big Breakfast sausage – for your breakfast.

Lots of other locally produced breakfast ingredients for you

 

David T Waller and Sons, 71 The Homend

All day – FRI & SAT          

Phone 01531 632739

The “Full Monty” is back – our special breakfast treat – pork sausage with tomato, black pudding, mushroom, hash brown, beans all wrapped in bacon

Locally produced ingredients to complete your breakfast

Country Market

Burgage Hall, Church Lane

9.00 – 12.30 FRI only

Local produce for you to take home for a special breakfast (or other meal!)

 

 Many thanks to all who contributed to the success of last weekend’s Ledbury Big Breakfast celebrating a healthy start to the day and Ledbury and district’s riches in local food.

Nineteen local food businesses – Hotels, cafes, pubs and delis – provided the widest range of breakfasts of all sizes from the lightest to the “super heaviest” for those who chose to “eat out”.  Local butchers, delis and the Country Market had local favourites for those who fancied a breakfast at home. 

There were Full English Breakfasts of all sizes for the cognoscenti, but also lots of other delights including a Breakfast Nest, a twist on Eggs Benedict, breakfast salmon, breakfast baps with all kinds of filling, a loaded breakfast rosti and a breakfast waffle. Increasingly there more vegetarian and vegan options on the menus this year.

On Friday, “Breakfast Bells” pealed from the Church to mark the opening of the Big Breakfast weekend.

 

The High Sheriff of Herefordshire Jo Hilditch, The Chair of Herefordshire Council Cllr Sebastian Bowen, Deputy Mayor Phillip Howells, Town Clerk Angela Price and members of Ledbury Food Group celebrated the event with breakfast at the Market House, followed by visits to some of the businesses taking part.  They also visited the Ukrainian Aid centre in the Market House and the new premises of Ledbury Food Bank.

On Saturday, the busiest day, local MP Sir Bill Wiggin toured businesses in Ledbury to thank them for taking part and meeting most of our “first-timers”.

On Sunday there was more choice this year for those who fancied a special Sunday breakfast.

We hope that next year we can run the event at the end of January its
“traditional” time.

Please let us have your feedback and suggestions for next year.

Again many thanks!

Many thanks to everyone who took part in this year’s Big Breakfast at Home, and by doing so supported our local food retailers and in turn our local food producers.

We’ve heard from people who took the plunge and treated themselves to something different from normal to start the day – and enjoyed doing so. 

We’ve seen the smiles from happy retailers and butchers for a good week’s trade.

We’ve already seen some super pictures of your creations – thanks for these to Fran, Norman and Anne, and Jenny (with her precision machine opened boiled eggs) – see these below.  Please continue to send your breakfast photos to bb@ledburyfoodgroup.org.

We’ve heard too that trade was thin at the Ledbury Country Market on Friday – please support if you can this valuable local food asset which continues to meet on Friday mornings in the Burgage Hall see http://www.ledburycountrymarket.co.uk/.

…and in these strange times, please continue to support our local food economy – an enjoyable breakfast is not just for the Ledbury Big Breakfast weekend but for ever.