Enjoy our Visit England 2010 & 2011 Award winning breakfast
Breakfast using fresh local and home made produce is served at the time that suits you from 7.30am onwards. Lots of visitor information to browse over breakfast and you have your own table in the dining room to enjoy a peaceful start to the day.
Please see menu below and let us know before arrival if you have any special dietary requests.
Joy, the daughter of a local cider maker and farmer is a font of information on the area, so stop for a chat and find out the best places to visit ensuring you make the most of your stay.
Early Departures
For those who wish to depart before 7.30am we provide a breakfast box in your room. The Retreat, a room set away from the main house, is the ideal choice for an early departure as it avoids disturbing other guests sleeping.
Breakfast, Food Miles & Local Produce
We support Taste of the West you can check out local suppliers during your visit by going to Taste of the West.
Gluten Free and Vegetarian diets are catered for - including fresh home made Gluten Free Bread. If you have any dietary requests then please just let us know. Full menu to see just click the link on this page.
We take our food seriously here in Devon this area of foodie heaven. We would like to tell you where we source our fresh local breakfast ingredients so you can be reassured that we know the provenance of everything.
Food miles are important to us so we try to use suppliers who are a few minutes or miles away from Hedgehog Corner. Some of our suppliers are nationally known now such as Clipper Fairtrade Teas from Beaminster just 9 miles from us. You may already know of Yeo Valley from Blagdon, Somerset (49 miles) who supply the breakfast yoghurts to us and the nation. Our milk comes from the Yarty Daries at Yarcombe a little village just over a few hills and delivered by John Ody. John a neighbouring farmer provides us with his very own free range eggs. He is passionate about preserving the old farming ways and the abundance of flora & fauna on his farm have just been mapped by Dorset Wild Life Trust.
We recently met James & Sara of Lyme Bay Coffee who will be personally delivering their ground coffee to our door. Another doorstep supplier is local character who you can meet when staying here "Si The Fish" proprietor of The Old Watch House Wet Fish Shop on the Cobb at Lyme Regis just a few minutes drive from the B&B. Si calls in with his boxes of huge oak smoked natural kippers for us with lots of fishy tales from his shop by the sea.
Shaun Vining is a Master Butcher and runs Complete Meats in Axminster who supply our bacon and sausages. Shaun sends us a weekly list so we can be sure the food on the table comes straight from local farmers in the immediate vicinity.
We enjoy a day out to Four Elms Fruit Farm 20 miles away at Newton Poppleford to collect bottles of apple juice. They have just won first prize at the National Fruit Show this year (2011).
Our home made bread is made using flour from the family run Wessex Mill and we use the very best olive oil from Elanthy. Their cold pressed olive oil is from the Koreniki OliveTree from their own mill in Kalamata Greece with fresh oil delivered monthly to the Elanthy base in the Cotswolds.
Ganesha the Natural Wholefood shop in Axminster, just 2 miles from us, provide all the organic ingredients for our extremely popular home mix fruit filled Museli, including jumbo organic oats and malted organic wheat flakes.
The delicious biscuit selection found on your tea try are from Moores in the neighbouring village of Morecombelake - they also have a retail shop and its well worth calling in to purchase pretty tins of biscuits and cakes as gifts to take home.
The wonderful ammonite shaped hand made chocolates which reflect the Jurassic Coast being on our doorstep are lovingly crafted from the best Belgian chocolate hand made by Pauline & Colin at Chocorassics in Uplyme. Pauline drops boxes off for us on her way past the door and you can buy a bag from us to take home.
Please click on the button at top of page to view our locally sourced Visit England Breakfast National Award winning menu.