At Bottles and Cooks, we have decided to put together a database of other “food and wine” sites. We have included a URL and a few words about the site. There are NO paid for links. If you would like to include a site that you own or use, please click here to submit it. If you wish to express an opinion about the site or rate it – service, usability, up-to-date etc., please use the Views section.
Please note that we are not in a position to check the companies that we link to from Bottles and Cooks. If you do business with them, it is entirely at your own risk.
general
- BBC food site - BBC on food. Need I say more?
- Good Food Channel (previously UKTV Food) - This is one of my favourite site. Lots of receipes related to TV programmes.
- Guardian/Observer's food site - Guardian and Oberver’s atricles on food and wine.
- How she does it - offers free menu planner by providing highly-customizable weekly meal planner with grocery list. Find out how a online family meal planner can save time and money.
- Knorr (stock etc) - This is a site badged under Marco Pierre White, some interesting recipes and tips.
- Metro Food Site - Metro the “free” newspaper has a food site.
- Raw Food Books - Review on raw food books
- Robert Parker (wine analysis) - Parker is the “Emperor” of wine. Rarely gets it wrong but his taste buds are geared for the “US” market which marks up big bold wine. Access is by subscription and its also available on the “mobile”. Good reference source for buying or settling arguments.
- Spanish Gastronomy Portal – ICEX - This website covers most subjects about wine and food in Spain – published by Spain’s foreign trade dept. A real gem !
- Telegraph's food site - Sunday and Daily Telegraph on food and drinks
- The Sweet Treat Company - Welcome to The Sweet Treat Company online sweet shop, the easy way to buy classic sweets and candy online. Whether you are mad about mints, go gooey over chewies, a lover of liquorice, or like us, simply love sweets, then this is the place for you.
- Wine-Searcher - Do you want to find a special wine or how much that bottle (you just received as a gift) costs. Try this site.
markets
- Berry Brothers and Rudd (wine merchant) - Upmarket wine merchant. Pricy but then they have all the decent wines and vintages – one of the few places that you can buy Petrus and Le Pin. They also hold dinners and tastings in their vault in St James St.
- Birmingham (German) Xmas Market - When I went last year, there were hundreds of stalls – check out the sausages (available to eat there or take home), beer, bread etc.
- Cardiff Market - If you are in Cardff for an international, do visit the market. There are a variety of stalls including wet fish at the back of the market.
- Certified Farmers' Market - Directory of Farmers Market in the UK. When and where they take place.
- Japan Centre (Japanese products) - Buy online or visit the shop (50 meters from Piccadilly Underground, on Lower Regent Street. Wonderful place for most things Japanese – check out the saki, bottled sauces and knives!
- Premium Halal Quality Foods (Halal meat – retail and wholesale) - Supplier of Halal meat – visit the retail outlet in Ilford or buy in bulk for delivery
- Saborear (Spanish food) - They are suppliers of spanish food and catering equipment – based in Acre Rd (off Basingstoke Rd), Reading. They are open to personal visitors on saturday am. Godd range of spanish tinned products, rice and paella pans.
- See Woo Supermarkets - Good for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and SE Asian products
- Spanish Gastronomy Portal – ICEX - This website covers most subjects about wine and food in Spain – published by Spain’s foreign trade dept. A real gem !
- Tanners (wine merchant) - WEine merchant based in Shrewsbury. Excellent list and en premeur purchases. Register for the email “flyers” which sometimes have excellent bin ends – price and rareity.
- Teme valley Market - This is a small but interesting market near Worcester. Second Sunday in each month.
- Wai Yee Hong (Chinese) Supermarket - Chinese supermarket in Bristol – from Jo
- Wing Yip - Large Chinese and Oriental Supermarket with stores in North & South London, Manchester and Bormingham. Online shopping as well!
on-line shopping
- Armit (wine merchant) - If you want quality wine in bulk at a reasonable discount, this is the place. Very strong on Italian wines and Bordeaux. Regulat tasting at £25 a ticket which is refunded against purchase. They are a key supplier to the restaurant trade.
- Berry Brothers and Rudd (wine merchant) - Upmarket wine merchant. Pricy but then they have all the decent wines and vintages – one of the few places that you can buy Petrus and Le Pin. They also hold dinners and tastings in their vault in St James St.
- Brown & Forrest (smoked food) - Providers of smoked products (eels, salmon and various other types of fishes e.g. artic char. Also various types of meat). One of the top provider of smoke eels to the restaurant trade.
- Chronos Coffee (USA) - Online coffee run by self styled coffee nuts.
- Dukeshill (Ham etc) - Holder of a royal warrant as supplier to the Queen. They are famous for their ham. You can buy whole or half hams. They also do a whole range of other interesting products including porchetta, cheese and fruit cakes etc.
- Forman and Field (most goodies!) - This site will set your foodie pulse racing. They have all sorts of goodies (pies, meat, cheese, cooked meals, deserts etc) under thge sun. However, they are famous for their smoke salmon. They are suppliers to Harrods and Selfridges and a whole host of L
- Fortune Foods - Oriental Food, over one thousand products from the far east. Home page is about tyea but search reveals other products.
- Hand Painted Beer Mugs - Steins, glasses etc. American website
- Japan Centre (Japanese products) - Buy online or visit the shop (50 meters from Piccadilly Underground, on Lower Regent Street. Wonderful place for most things Japanese – check out the saki, bottled sauces and knives!
- Just Kosher (Kosher food) - Online supplier of Kosher food. They deliver to most of South East England.
- Nisbets - Site description: A great place to source catering and cooking equipment. An enormous amount of choice and some top brands at respectable prices. Predominatly geared towards the commercial environment but equally happy to supply to domestic. Martin.
- Norbiton Cheese - Interesting cheese site. You can buy anything from a few grams to a whole cheese
- Saborear (Spanish food) - They are suppliers of spanish food and catering equipment – based in Acre Rd (off Basingstoke Rd), Reading. They are open to personal visitors on saturday am. Godd range of spanish tinned products, rice and paella pans.
- Sourcing Food - Global B2B Online Marketplace for Food Products, Food Machinery & Food Packaging
- Spices of India - From spices to tandoori ovens.
- Spitjack (USA) – BBQ - For spit roast equipment etc. They ship internationally.
- Tanners (wine merchant) - WEine merchant based in Shrewsbury. Excellent list and en premeur purchases. Register for the email “flyers” which sometimes have excellent bin ends – price and rareity.
- The Sweet Treat Company - Welcome to The Sweet Treat Company online sweet shop, the easy way to buy classic sweets and candy online. Whether you are mad about mints, go gooey over chewies, a lover of liquorice, or like us, simply love sweets, then this is the place for you.
- Total Catering Equipment - A place to buy all those wondercful gear that you promised yourself – to turn pro. I am into water baths at the moment!
- Wai Yee Hong (Chinese) Supermarket - Chinese supermarket in Bristol – from Jo
- Wards Catering - Commercial catering equipment supplier
- Wing Yip - Large Chinese and Oriental Supermarket with stores in North & South London, Manchester and Bormingham. Online shopping as well!