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 Michaelhouse
Café believes in serving fresh, simple, homemade
food, with a menu that changes according to the seasons.
The only way we are able to do this is by relying on
a network of fantastic local producers who provide us
with top-quality produce, fresh from the farm.
Here's a selection:
We head to Northrops for our meat
including local wild rabbit and venison. Andrew Northrop
runs a truly local butchers. Having started in the profession
at 16 years of age, he is now one of most experienced
butchers in Cambridge and understands the importance
of delivering great quality, locally sourced produce.
www.andrewnorthrop.co.uk
River Farm Smokery provide our smoked
salmon and great bacon and ham. Noted in Leith's Fish
Bible, River Farm is a thoroughly traditional smokery,
where the brick kilns are hand-fired using only the
finest quality oak, maple, and whisky barrel chips.
They have a shop selling smoked goods alongside fresh
fish (Weds-Sat), cheese, olives, frozen meals, and lots
of other deli goodies.
Their chief smoker Dan Woodford also has an interesting
blog plotting his career change from IT to wood smoking,
which is well worth a look. www.riverfarmsmokery.co.uk
and www.saltandwoodsmoke.com
Our apple juice comes from Watergull Orchards.
They produce over 20 varieties of high quality English
apple juice, all of which are made from apples which
have been grown in Cambridgeshire. . www.watergullorchards.co.uk
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brilliantly-named Wobbly Bottom Farm
provides our goat's cheese. Situated a mile outside
the historic market town of Hitchin in Hertfordshire,
the farm has a mixed dairy goat herd of British Saanens,
British Alpines, British Toggenburgs and Anglo Nubians
all selected for their fine quality milk. The farm runs
an open barn policy and the goats are free to choose
to stay undercover or graze on the 39 acres of grass
fields.
www.wobblybottomfarm.co.uk
Our local ale comes from Cambridge Wine Merchants,
an independent wine merchants with shops at Mill Road,
Bridge Street and Kings Parade, Cambridge. www.cambridgewine.com
And the jam is from Tiptree in Essex,
home of the Wilkin family who've farmed in the area
for nearly three hundred years. www.tiptree.com
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