Looking to buy local from North East independent food businesses? Check out our directory of great small businesses to support!
🍽️ 21 Hospitality (click & collect)
Missing 21, St. Vincent, The Broad Chare, Café 21 at Fenwick, Saltwater Fish Company, and Porterhouse Butcher & Grill? You can now click and collect a selection of their best loved dishes from their Quayside premises. Orders must be placed before 4pm on the day before collection – full info over on their website.
🥛 Acorn Dairy
Looking for doorstep deliveries of dairy goodies, plus eggs, juices, bakery, and cereals? Check out the Acorn Dairy website for more info!
🍨 Beckleberry’s
Home delivery of their takeaway patisserie and ice creams within their local area – check their Facebook page here for more info.
🍞 Big River Bakery
A social enterprise bakery, based in Shieldfield. Lots of proper stotties, savouries, and sweet things, plus a country sourdough baked with beer from Firebrick Brewery. Local delivery for orders over £10.
🥩 Block & Bottle
Butchery classes, merch, and gift vouchers available to buy online.
🧺 Brocksbushes Farm Shop
A wide range of your favourite Corbridge farm shop’s goods are on sale – from meat, dairy, eggs, and deli items, to frozen food, alcohol, bakery goods, and store cupboard staples. Delivery available to selected DH + NE postcodes (check the website for more details).
🎂 Cakes Contour
In need of a cake for a birthday or special occasion? Check out the range from Cakes Contour – all cakes can be customised to your requirements and they offer a wide range of sponge and filling flavours. Local delivery available, or collect from their Newcastle unit in NE6. They also have brownies, blondies, rocky road, cookie dough, and other tray bake treats available for delivery to the UK + Ireland.
🥔 Carroll’s Heritage Potatoes
This small family business is based at Tiptoe Farm in North Northumberland, where they grow, pack, and distribute around 14 different varieties of Heritage spuds. Mixed boxes available, too. Get a friend to place an order and you’ll receive 50% discount (ring the office to claim the discount).
🧺 Coppers at Gosforth
A great grocery shop stocking lots of local produce, including El Hoddo coffee and Mandala Express Indian sauces. Free delivery to Brunton Park, Gosforth Park, Melton Park, Great Park + Wideopen.
🍝 DaVi
Tasty oils, sauces, pasta and gnocchi. Gift vouchers available, too. Personal delivery is free within 10 miles at their premises (NE8 3JA) on all orders over £18 (or within 20 miles for orders over £20), plus post by Royal Mail to the rest of the UK.
🍫 Davenports Chocolates
Concocting and creating over 40 varieties of handcrafted chocolates. Free delivery for orders over £30.
🧀 Doddington Dairy
Cheese, biscuits + hampers from the award winning family farm, based in North Doddington, Northumberland.
🧺 Donzoko (+ Friends)
Donzoko Brewing has teamed up with some other local producers (Rounton Coffee Roasters, Estate Tea Co., Block & Bottle). Merch available, too. Flat rate £6 shipping across the UK. Free delivery within the Teesside area.
🌭 Geordie Banger Co.
Missing your local sausages right now? Geordie Banger Co. has it covered, with a great range of bangers, burgers, and even some Geordio Chorizo. Delivery anywhere in the UK, with free delivery on orders over 5 packs.
🧺 Grab North East
Several local food and drink businesses have teamed up with Blueline Taxis to bring goodies to your door. Download the app for full details, or check your postcode via the website here.
🧺 Grainger Delivery
Traders in the Grainger Market have got together to offer set boxes of fruit and vegetables from Brian Meurs & Sons, bakery goods from The French Oven, meat from Premier Meats, and cheese from Matthew’s Cheese. Available to most NE postcodes, Monday – Saturday (check their website for full details).
🧺 Hexhamshire Organics
Organic fruit, vegetable and pork boxes delivered direct from their farm to your door. Free delivery throughout the North East every Thursday + Friday.
Local Heroes NE
From the FADNE team comes the #LocalHeroesNE initiative, with different ‘Discovery Box’ options, and a virtual market to build your own box of local goodies. They also have a pop-up store currently open every Saturday at The Beacon.
The Beacon, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 9PQ
Magpye
Delicious hand crafted vegan pies, made in Newcastle. All Magpye’s tasty recipes are made with quality, ethically sourced ingredients. Packaged in eco-friendly boxes, and palm oil free. Minimum of 3 pies for local delivery, or 6-12 for national delivery. Gift cards available, too.
33 Bellingham Drive, North Tyne Industrial Estate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 9SZ
🍛 Mazzeh Spice
Want to make some authentic, tasty Asian food with a Persian influence? Just choose your kit from the website, follow the simple instructions, (and send us a photo of what you come up with!). Curry gift box sets are also available if you’re in need of a present for someone special.
🥓 Meat Salt Smoke
The team behind Block & Bottle has taken their original recipes and developed them further to produce a core range of charcuterie products as well as an array of one off, hand cured produce. Free shipping on all orders over £25 (just use code FLYINGPIGS at the checkout to get free 2nd class postage).
🧺 Mercari Foods
The North East’s premier supplier of speciality & local food ingredients has teamed up with other great producers to offer delivery direct to your door. Brands include 40 Kola, Jean’s Jams, Fentimans, Pink Lane Bakery & Pink Lane Coffee, plus a home baking box, and great cheese range from local dairies. Current delivery areas are NE2-NE7 (minimum order value £30.
🌶️ Mr. Wolf Spices
A delicious range of spice combinations and blends that takes the angst out of cooking. Whether it’s a chicken casserole, rich beef stew, lamb tagine or fish ‘du jour’, there’s a perfect Mr Wolf spice blend that will raise your dish up from the mundane to the sublime.
🧺 Nil Living
Offering plastic free, zero waste and environmentally friendly products, from cupboard staples (beans, cereals, pastas, etc.), to health & beauty options. Free local delivery on orders over £30 with code FREELIVING30.
🍫 North Chocolates
A great range of dark, milk, ruby, and white chocolate bars, delivered to your door.
🧺 North Country Ken
Artisan Vegetable Boxes Direct To Your Door. The contents and produce in the boxes will vary from week to week depending on what is in season, and you’ll be given the option to receive a box regularly on either a weekly or fortnightly basis (you can cancel repeat orders at any time).
🥐 Northern Rye (click & collect)
Delicious breads, croissants, pastries, and other treats, baked for collection on Wednesdays and Fridays (check the website for full details).
🧀 Northumberland Cheese Co.
Delicious cow’s, sheep’s + goat’s cheeses, plus hampers, crackers + preserves.
🎁 Northumbrian Gifts
Stocking great local produce, including Consett Ale Works, Lindisfarne Mead, and Kitty’s Ginger Wine. Free UK delivery for orders over £75.
🧺 Northumbrian Smokehouse
From oak smoked halloumi to smoked black pudding, there’s a wide range of meats, cheeses, seasonings, nuts, oils, relishes + more for all you smoked fiends out there.
🧀 Parlour Made
Artisan cheeses from family farm, Village Farm Dairy, which is set in 240 acres near Sedgefield, County Durham.
🧁 Pet Lamb Patisserie
The Pet Lamb online shop is packed with tasty traybakes available for home delivery. They’re also now hand delivering mixed boxes of brownies to the Newcastle / Gateshead area on Saturdays (£15 for 8 different brownies in a variety of flavours).
Pink Lane Bakery
Artisan bakery making sourdoughs, croissants, danish pastries, cinnamon buns, cakes, and a range of excellent savouries. Everything made from scratch. Open at both locations Monday to Saturday 8am – 4pm.
Newcastle City Centre: 40 Pink Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 5DY | Tel: 0191 261 0606
Gosforth: The Old Fire Station, 234-236 Gosforth High Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE3 1HH | Tel: 0191 447 1680
🍪 R Place
In need of a sweet treat? R Place now has nationwide postal delivery for their brownies and cookie bars. The traybakes last for up to 3 days (or you can freeze them for up to 3 months). Visit their website for more info.
🍛 Sachins
Check their social media every Monday for the £35 menu for 2, then from Thursday to Saturday (4pm – 8pm), collect your Sachins chilled pre-cooked 3 course menu for 2, with easy instructions to re-heat. Email info@sachins.co.uk or call 0191 232 4660 with your order by noon on the day of collection.
🧺 Sunshine Co-operative
Your one stop local shop! Fresh organic fruit and veg and many other locally sourced food products, including Fünk Kombucha, Weardale Cheese, World Foods, and much more. Delivery to many SR, DH + NE postcodes – check the website for more details.
The Goat Company
If you’re looking for goat meat, from whole or half shoulders, to diced, mince, chops, and sausages, this is one to try. Free local delivery, or courier options available for nationwide delivery.
Rothley North Fell, Longwitton, Morpeth, Northumberland, NE61 4JT
Tel: 01670 774 400 / 07979 592 588
🌱 The Naked Foodie
Looking for tasty vegan food right now? Check out The Naked Foodie, with all products free from gluten, refined sugars & soya. Breakfasts, mains, soups, and loads of desserts are available, as well as ‘Make Your Own Kits’ if you want to try making some sweet treats of your own! Minimum order is only £10 – check out their website for the list of delivery areas from their Newcastle shop.
🍯 Theon Nectar
A taste of the Mediterranean in the North East – olive oil, Greek olives, organic fir tree honey + more (plus free delivery to addresses within 10 miles of Whitburn Village SR6).
🛒 Tyneside Food Service
The wholesaler to the catering industry, based in Blaydon, has changed its policy to be open to sales to the general public now. Over 3,000 different food + drink lines available to be delivered to your door – check out their website for full info (min. order value £40).
🧺 Wilde Farm
Situated in 12.5 acres near Ponteland, this family business has an online farm shop with supplies of outdoor reared rare breed meat, seasonal fruit & veg, and free range eggs. There are also other local products available, including Meraci Cacao, Screaming Chimp, Cullercoats Brewery, and Woodcrest Kitchen. Free local delivery for orders over £10 (delivery up to 20 miles from NE3 only).
🧺 Yard House
Deliveries of newspapers, magazines, milk, bread, and other groceries that can be bought in the shop. Mail pick up and postage. Call 0191 257 0532 for all orders before 12pm for next day free delivery in the Tynemouth area.