Enjoy a taste of the Staffordshire Moorlands offering amazing foodie experiences and a range of locally crafted beers and ales.
Take flavoursome Moorlands treats home with you from one of the many farm shops dotted around the county.
Nestled in the Staffordshire Moorlands with stunning views over the Roaches, Brooklyn Farm Shop sells Farm to Fork locally grown vegetables, fresh fruit, local meats and cheeses and other tasty delights. Based on a working farm, you may catch a glimpse of the cows, spot the sheep, or be greeted by the chickens. Local small farms and butchers supply the meats and other products such as local cheeses, local honey, and a range of pies, pasties and ice creams can be found in the shop also. You can also combine your visit with a stay at the campsite or spend a day on one of the farm’s fishing lakes.
Shukers Farm Shop offers an extensive butchery counter, and visitors can enjoy the farm shop’s delicious produce at the Ggees Café, serving hot and cold food, coffee, tea and homemade cakes.
Oakleys Farm in the heart of Staffordshire Moorlands produces and sells Water Buffalo meat. The animals are bred on the farm and all their burgers and sausages are made to the highest standard. Try them for yourself!
The experienced team at Thorswood Farm Shop pride themselves on sourcing the highest-quality produce from farmers and artisan bakers based in Staffordshire and Derbyshire.
Dunwood Farm Butchery source directly from their own farm and a small network of partner farms and suppliers, providing complete traceability for everything they sell. They specialise in rare and native breeds, focusing on high welfare, free range produce and selling online to a growing number of local ingredient-led restaurants.
At Sprinks Farm Shop their approach is all in the taste, service, and ethical approach. The farm shop is full of home-cooked goods, organically grown fruit and vegetables, delicious deli items, and quality meat produce, including its renowned venison, famous for its flavour and tender texture.
The small family team at Rushton Spencer’s micro bakery Elnor Lane Artisan Produce have a passion for good food and take great pride in sharing their knowledge of baking. This small artisan bakers specialises in sourdough breads, pastries and patisseries. There is also a takeaway café, open Fridays & Saturdays.
Everything is made in-house at Live Love Loaf - traditionally with long fermentation times to ensure that not only is the flavour better, but it’s more wholesome and better for you! Enjoy a tasty treat in their delicious café next door to the bakery in the heart of Leek town centre.
Who doesn’t love a milkshake and a trip to a countryside location with fantastic views? Well Shakes on the Rocks is the place to get your fix. Here you can see the views across Biddulph, whilst enjoying a tasty milkshake or simple glass of milk! Located at Wickenstone Farm, Biddulph Moor and run by Jess, whose family have been dairy farmers for several generations, this is a vending machine with a difference!
The Dairy in Cheadle, a family-run dairy farm has also branched out with this quirky and alternative vending machine farm shop, selling milk, cakes and ice cream as well as Caverswall Creamery.
Bobbys Ice Cream Parlour and Tea Rooms is a family-owned business, selling Snugburys ice cream and Scrumbles Cakes with activities for children.
Proper coffee, Daltons Fruit Spinner cones, and Catherine’s Cakes are now available from the Hatch at award-winning Daltons Dairy. No booking required and plenty of parking available.
From its origins in a simple home kitchen in 1974, originally creating handmade butter fudge, the Cottage Delight range grew to include jams, marmalades, curds, chutneys, table sauces and many more delectable delights. Five delicious decades later, the nationally loved brand is still going strong from its home in Leekbrook, Leek. Visitors can check out some of its flavourful products at The Cottage Kitchen Country Café in Winkhill.
Based in Cheddleton, near Leek, the Staffordshire Cheese Company sells its distinct, unique cheeses at local markets, and to pubs, hotels, delicatessens, restaurants, tea rooms, tourist sites and farm shops.
Staffordshire Breweries
Based at Cheddleton, Staffordshire Brewery produces a range of traditional ales, from the Staffordshire Gold to Rudyard Ruby Premium, as well as offering contract bottling and labelling services in partnership with Paper Mill Distillery that operates from the same site, which produces a variety of craft gins from the flagship London Dry Mill 630 to the Moorlands-inspired Heath Gin, infused with blackberries and black pepper.
Peakstones Rock Brewing Co Ltd is based in Cheadle, with brewing taking place at Peakstones Farm, and beers inspired by the surrounding areas, from the Dimmingsdale Blonde to the Chained Oak IPA and Pugin’s Gold. Sample Peakstones Rock beers alongside ales from other independent breweries, ciders, continental beers and gins at Peakstones’ Crossways Micropub in Blythe Bridge.
Alton Towers visitors might well come across ‘Laugh & Scream’ – available at the resort’s venues and hotels. This bespoke co-branded beer was created in collaboration with the Rural Brewing Company based in Alton and is one of a range of craft beers inspired by a love of the outdoors, from the Dismount Pale Ale to the Last Leg Lager. Free delivery is available for customers within five miles of the brewery.
Two brothers who found their love of brewing beer in lockdown run their nano craft brewery, called Hop Lab, on Forge Way, in Knypersley. The beer tap room offers a range of home brewed beers, including pale ales and dark stouts, surrounded by botanical themed murals.
Flash Brewery operates at a secluded location close to Flash, the highest village in Great Britain. Possessing a micro-climate of its own, the village is frequently snow-bound and the road closed. The water comes from springs which bubble up from deep in the earth.
Flash Brewery specialises in bottled-conditioned beers - bottled with a small amount of active yeast, which naturally carbonates the beer and allows it to continue to mature inside the bottle.
Wilsons of Warslow (WOW) Brewing Company, established in 2022, offers a range of locally inspired ales and beers, such as Ecton Copper and Thor, available to sample at the Greyhound Inn, Warslow, (Near Hartington).
