Over the weekend of 2^nd to 4^th February lots of ardent breakfasters were out and about to enjoy what was on offer this year at The Ledbury Big Breakfast.

We were grateful for the unseasonably mild weather which encouraged breakfasters to eat “al fresco” at several venues.

Both Gurneys and Wallers Butchers created special breakfast products, and on the Friday, the Country Market served cooked breakfasts at the Burgage Hall.  The Big Breakfast also featured at Hellens Produce Market on the Saturday.

Food venues in Ledbury reported good demand including “first-timers” Fresh Blooms Sandwiches and The Ledberry.  At the Trumpet Tearoom, Annie lit the 50 year old Aga to provide extra cooking capacity.

The Organic Café’s Middle Eastern style breakfast was popular and raised £550 for MSF Doctors without Borders to help with their valuable work – the Zaatar and oil flatbread looked appealing.

The High Sheriff of Herefordshire, Robert Robinson joined the Town Mayor of Ledbury Councillor Helen I’Anson, County Councillors Stef Simmons and Justine Peberdy, The Town Clerk and members of Ledbury Food Group for breakfast to launch the event.  Mr Robinson and the Mayor then visited a number of venues taking part.

Mr Robinson was impressed by what he saw – “REALLY good food here, lots of proper Herefordshire fare, in the lovely historic market town of Ledbury” he wrote on his very complementary Facebook post.

We thank all who made this year’s Ledbury Big Breakfast another great success – showing off the quality and variety of Ledbury and district’s food offering.

Thanks too to all who supported this year’s event by coming out for breakfast. 

Apologies to those who were not able to get their first choice on Saturday – sadly there is a limit to capacity in town for this popular event.

 

Join us for Ledbury’s Celebration of Breakfast over the weekend of Friday 2nd, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th February – the 12^th Ledbury Big Breakfast

19 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, as will Hellens Produce Market at Hellens Manor on Saturday.  Both will be serving breakfasts this year.

We have several first-timers this year for you to support – Blooms Fresh Sandwiches, Choccolastic, Hellens Manor Produce Market and The Ledberry (as under new management). 

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.  Times are when breakfasts will be available.

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 

Blooms Fresh Sandwiches,  1 Bye Street                  NEW THIS YEAR
7.30-12.30 SAT only 
Phone: 01531 636555                 Take-aways

• Hot breakfast sandwiches including our popular egg and bacon baps
• Breakfast in a box for a Full English to go
• Yogurt pots with local honey and house made granola
• Hot veggie breakfast sandwiches

Produce from: Sessions, Homend Bakery, Neal’s Yard Creamery

Vegetarian

 

Choccotastic,  Homend Mews                         NEW THIS YEAR
10.00-15.00 FRI & SAT
Phone: 01531 637305                 Take-aways Call & Collect.   Bookings

• Belgian Waffles – choose your filling
• American Style Pancakes – choose your filling
• Crumpets, Teacakes, Toast or Croissants – lots of spreads
• Smoothies

Produce from: Drapers Bakery, LDA Meats, Trumpers Tea, Mill Bank Coffee

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Corner House Cafe, 1 The Southend
9.45-17.00 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 crepes

Produce from: Bakers Dozen and other local producers (ask us!)

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

The Feathers Hotel, 25 High Street
8.30-11.00 SUN only 
Phone: 01531 635266                

• Devilled lamb’s kidneys – sour dough toast
• Hot smoked salmon, spring onion and red pepper omelette, dill cream cheese
• Sausage, cherry tomato and rarebit toasted sandwich

Produce from: LDA Meats

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Hellens Manor, Much Marcle, Ledbury HR8 2LY      NEW THIS YEAR
9.30-11.30 SAT only at our Monthly Produce Market  
Phone: 07980 657901                

• Peter Cooks pastries
• Our special Bacon Rolls

Produce from: Peter Cooks Bread, Model Farm (Ross on Wye), Bakers Dozen, and our regular market stallholders

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 Janey’s, 15 The Homend
9.00-16.00 FRI & SAT
Phone: 01531 248008                 Take-aways Call & Collect  Bookings

• Full English.
• Pancakes and Waffles
• Fresh fruit salad
• And our usual Breakfast Baps

Produce from: Jenkins Greengrocer, Country Flavours

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

The Ledberry, 36 The Homend                      NEW THIS YEAR
10.00-12.00 FRI, SAT & SUN  
Phone: 01531 632676                 Take-aways Call & Collect.   Bookings

• Eggs Benedict
• Eggs Royale
• Eggs on Toast

Produce from: McNeil’s Smokehouse, Gurneys, Eggs from Bishops Frome, Bread from our local bakery

Vegetarian, Gluten Free

 

Malthouse Café & Gallery, Church Lane
9.30-15.30 FRI & SAT 
Phone: 01531 634443                 Take-aways Call & Collect Bookings

• Poached eggs, Loch Fyne Salmon, Hollandaise
• Homemade bagels with bacon, fried egg, smokey ketchup, sausage and fennel pate
• French Toast, caramelised bananas, cinnamon yogurt

Produce from: LDA Meats, Peter Cooks Bread, Mays Eggs

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

New Market House Café, 1 The Homend
9.30-15.00 FRI, 10.00-15.00 SAT
Phone: 01531 635059       Take-aways Call & Collect.  Bookings

• “Pancake Tower” with different sweet and savoury flavours
• Our choice of omelettes
• English Breakfast featuring local food products

Produce from: Gurney’s (meat products)

 Vegetarian Gluten Free

 

The Organic Cafe (above Handley Organics), 5 High St
9.00 – 13.00 SAT only      
Phone: 01531 631136                

• A Middle Eastern Breakfast – proceeds to MSF Palestine

 

Scrumpy House @ Weston’s Cider, HR8 2NQ
9.00 – 11.00 FRI, SAT & SUN    
Phone: 01531 660626                 Bookings

• Eggs Royale
• Eggs Benedict
• Eggs Florentine
• And our other breakfast choices

Produce from: Neil Powell Butchers, Total Produce

Vegetarian, Gluten Free

 

Seven Stars, 11 The Homend
9.00-11.00 SAT & SUN  
Phone 01531 635800                  Bookings

• Full English – trad or vegetarian
• Small full English – trad or vegetarian
• Sausage or Bacon Bap
• Eggs on Toast
• Pancakes
• Eggs Florentine/Benedict

Produce from: LDA Meats and our own farm

 Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

The Nest at Little Verzons Farm, Hereford Road, HR8 2PZ
9.00-15.00 FRI, SAT 10.00-15.00 SUN 
Phone: 01531 670816                 Take-aways Call & Collect.   Bookings

• The Nest Breakfast – traditional the Nest way!
• The Garden Breakfast – a vegetarian feast
• Huevos Rancheros – spicy tomato with chorizo, garlic, beans and an egg
• Veganville – Penny’s addictive vegan take on the Scotch Egg with salad
• Brioche Butty – choose your options with Bacon, Sausage or Veggie.
• Eggs ”your way”
• Nest granola – our own making

Breakfast Produce from many local suppliers – ask us for provenance of your dish

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

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Trumpet Corner Tearooms, Trumpet HR8 2RA
9.00–16.00 FRI, SAT & SUN       
Phone: 01531 670082                           Bookings

• Purple Toast – discover this dish!
• Full English breakfast
• Porridge Brûlée
• Bacon and Sausage Sarnies
• French Toast with Bacon and Banana
• Smoked salmon

Produce from a number of local producers and suppliers

Vegetarian, Vegan, Gluten Free

 

Delicatessens & Shops

 

Ceci Paolo, 21 High Street
9.0-1700 FRI & SAT     
Phone 01531 632976

Local breakfast produce for your take home breakfast

Local products include:

• Severn and Wye Smokery salmon and other smoked products
• Three Counties Honey
• Peter Cooks Bread,
• Charles Martell (cheeses),
• Neal’s Yard Creamery (cheeses and yogurt
• Forest Country Preserves
• Our own prepared food

Plus Continental cheeses and meats to compliment local products

Vegetarian, 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, dairy 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 Breakfast Banger. It’s got a mysterious ingredient! -.

Lots of other locally produced breakfast ingredients for you

 

David T Waller and Sons, 71 The Homend
All day – FRI & SAT          
Phone 01531 632739

We have developed the “Waller’s Breakfast Loaf” for you this year.  It features ”a bit of everything” and is well tested

Locally produced ingredients to complete your breakfast

 

Country Market
Burgage Hall, Church Lane
9.00 – 12.30 FRI only

• Egg, bacon and toast
• Smoked salmon, poached egg and muffin

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

 

Please support Ledbury Food Bank

 Find out how at:

 www.ledburyfoodbank.org

 

Ledbury’s popular event – the Ledbury Big Breakfast is back on Friday 2^nd, Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4^th February to tickle your breakfast appetites large and small.  

Local shops, cafes, hotels and other food outlets are asked to come up with special breakfast offerings featuring locally produced food to brighten a winter’s day.

Breakfasts can be big or petit, traditional or invented to be enjoyed in our local eating places or taken home for enjoyment.  Many outlets will provide vegan, vegetable and gluten free options – please check.

Full details of those taking part, their special offerings and which days these will be on sale will be available on this website from mid-January.

These will include “old favourites” such as the Malthouse Cafe, New Market House Café, Organic Café, Seven Stars, The Feathers, The Nest, Wallers and Gurneys butchers’ shops, Ceci Paolo, Janey’s and the Scrumpy House at Weston’s Cider.  Ledbury Country Market will be open on Friday.  Look out too for some new venues to visit.

In the past things have been busy particularly on the Saturday – many venues will take reservations to make things easier.  Some are open on the Sunday.

Put a note in your diary to join in Ledbury’s “spread out” Winter Food Festival

And…

Season’s Greetings and a Happy New Year from Ledbury Food Group

 

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!