York Local Food Directory

by York & Ryedale Friends of the Earth

Shops

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Alligator
104 Fishergate
York YO10

This legendary organic shop sells vegetables, fruit, milk, cream, bread, biscuits, marmalades, honey, juice, cordials, crisps and tofu from within a 50 miles radius. The fair trade assortment contains bananas, tea, chocolate, coffee, fruit juice, rice, tinned beans, quinoa grain, spaghetti, sugar, muesli, honey etc.

 

Ashby's Delicatessen
86 Tadcaster Road
Dringhouses
York YO24 1LR

Here you can buy locally sourced vegetables, fruit, milk, cheese, yogurt, cream, sausages, red meat, pork, chicken, poultry, fish, bread, biscuits, chutneys, marmalades, honey, beer, wine, cider, juice, cordials, crisps and water. If you want pesticide free stuff, here you can find organic honey, jams, pickles and juices. Ashby's Delicatessen also does fair trade chocolate.

 

Badger Hill Butchers
37 Yarburgh Way
York YO10 5HD

As much as three quarters of the meat sold at this butcher's shop is locally sourced. Why not try some of their sausages, red meat, pork, chicken or other poultry?

 

Country Fresh
Martins Country Fresh
41-43 Heslington Road
York YO10 5AR

Depending on the seasons this shop has a 30-50 percent local source assortment, for example vegetables, fruit, milk, cheese, yogurt, cream, red meat, biscuits, juice and crisps.

 

De Clare
5 Lendal
York YO1 8AQ

At this sandwich shop they use 70 percent locally sourced food, including: cheese, cream, sausages, red meat, pork, chicken, fish, bread, biscuits, chutneys, marmalades, honey, cordials, crisps, cakes, vinegars and salad dressings. They do fair trade chocolate.

 

Ged Bell (Butcher)
30 Middlethorpe Grove
York YO24 1JS

As much as 95 percent of what this butcher offers is locally sourced. Shopping here you can savour local sausages, red meat, pork, chicken, poultry and even chutneys!

 

Food for Thought
2 Ryedale Court
The Village, Haxby
York YO32 3SA

About a quarter of this shop's assortment is locally sourced. Here you can buy vegetables, fruit, milk, yogurt, cream, bread, biscuits, chutneys, marmalades, honey and bottled water from our region. They have an organic assortment of bread, confectionary, drinks and prepacked foods, of which some is fair trade.

 

The Good Food Shop
20 Bishopthorpe Road
York YO23 1JJ

A small but fine percentage of this shop's assortment is locally sourced i.e. vegetables, cheese, bread, biscuits, chutneys, marmalades, honey and bottled water. They do organic jarred and packaged goods, but also organic yogurt and cheese. They have a fair trade range containing coffee, tea, nuts, rice, chocolate and ice cream. (Please also note that this shop runs an ambitious anti plastic bag campaign!)

 

Henshelwoods Delicatessen
10 Newgate
York YO1 7LA

About a fifth of the food that this shop uses and sells is locally sourced. They sell local cheese, yogurt, cream, bread, biscuits, chutneys, honey, bottled water, spirits, chocolates, cakes. They also do organic herbs and spices and fair trade coffee and tea.

 

Neat to Eat
86 Reighton Avenue
York YO30 5QW

Here you can enjoy ice cream from our area. Also "if price is right we buy locally grown potatoes and salad vegetables."

Shambles Butchers
2 Little Shambles
York YO17 2LY

This butcher's shop is 90 percent locally sourced. Here you can buy your local milk, sausages, red meat, pork, chicken or poultry.

 

S & A Barker Family Butcher
22 Allerton Drive
Nether Poppleton
York YO26 6HN

Another member of the honorable 90 percent group! Why not get some vegetables, fruit, milk, cheese, yogurt, cream, sausages, red meat, pork, chicken, poultry, bread, chutneys, marmalades and honey from them - if you happen to be in Poppleton anyway!

 

Tarts & Titbits
78-80 Gillygate
York YO31 7EQ

This is a delicatessen that takes great pride in selling locally sourced food, among these: vegetables, dairy products, red meat, pork, chicken, poultry, fish, bread, biscuits, chutneys, marmalades, honey, juice, cordials, crisps, bottled water, sweets and confectionary. Some of it is organic stuff. Tarts & Titbits also sells fair trade goods.

 

Tilstons Discount Tobacco Co Ltd
6-8 Garfield Terrace
York YO26 4XU

Around one fifth of what you can buy in this shop is locally sourced, for instance vegetables, fruit, milk, cheese, cream, sausages, red meat, pork, chicken, poultry, beer and cider. There is a range of organic goods like bread, milk, cheese, wine, chocolate, ice-cream and tea. Some of the wine, chocolate and coffee are fair trade.

 

Thomas The Baker
13 Lendal
York YO1 8AQ

The meat in the rolls, sandwiches, pasties and pies are locally sourced as are fruit, vegetables and dairy products. The wheat in the bread mainly comes from Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. Around 25 percent of the main bakery's energy come from renewable energy sources.

 

Tulliver's Herbs and Wholefoods
1-2 Colliergate
York YO1 8BP

At Tullivers you can apart from wholefoods buy bread, honey and eggs from the region. They have a big organic assortment containing cereals, flour, nuts, honey, cordials, vinegar, oils, margarine, soy milks etc. They also do fair trade tea, coffee, herbal tea, chocolate, nuts and dried fruit.