Foodie trip around Britain?

[FurryDogMother]

This is not a TAAT, but it's inspired by another thread about the quality of restaurant food in Britain.

In the next couple of years (waiting on a change of circumstances), my DH and I are planning to buy an RV and go touring around the UK and Ireland for a couple of months, whilst renovations are happening to our home. We've got some planned places to go to see friends, but we'd also like to make it a proper foodie trip - visiting restaurants, producers, food outlets etc. So...

I'd really like to get recommendations for outstanding foodie places in your area - anywhere in Great Britain, really. A lot of the fun in planning this trip is researching the places to visit and creating an itinerary. We'd be self-catering most of the time but hope to have 2 or 3 wonderful food experiences per week. Budget has limits and we're more interested in locally sourced ingredients and regional dishes than a Manoir or Fat Duck experience, and we're not planning on much time, if any, in London (have worked there in the past, it's not very scenic!).

I've always wanted to write a book - and we're keen photographers, too - so something may come of that - but it's not the main focus. I'd just love to hear from others who have recommendations, or ideas that'd make this a wonderful experience :) Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.

By Great Britain, I meant the British Isles (mea culpa), or the UK and Ireland, or whatever you want to call the two largest lumps of land off the west coast of Europe :) Isle of Man a possibility too, though I don't think we'll make it to the Channel Islands.

Look up Ludlow food festival. Always a treat.

Isle of Wight is a MUST. They have amazing local produce therebplus the garlic farm.

Bristol has some amazing foodie spots and quirky street food places.

Brighton has quite a few vegan restaurants that are amazing. Worth a visit even if you're not a vegan.

The north-east has some amazing quirky food spots. Dicksons is this little chain of butchers that do a savaloy dip roll and it's amazing. Complete with pease pudding and a dip in the juices they cook the savaloy in (honestly, don't knock it till you try it).

Dorset, Leeds, Hull, Cromer for crab. They're all fab. I could go on and on and on. Lol

Also in Hampshire. Up by fleet I think? There's a pork farm run by an ex-formula 1 driver. He does sausages, bacon and all sorts and occasionally has open days where he lets people drive his cars.

And there's a place called Stone in Warwickshire. Seems like an average county town but they've got some amazing good spots. One called Smoke and Rye does the best BBQ I've ever had outside of the US.

Three Chimneys on Skye, Gille Brighde on Loch Torridon, The Kylesku Hotel (North of Lochinver)

Go to Bakewell for real Bakewell pudding. Nothing like Bakewell Tarts with icing and cherry on and just delicious.

Crab House cafe, Wyke Regis, in Dorset, they have their own oyster beds, fish is what they have caught, great food in a breeze block building

Cork and in particular West Cork has a huge food scene.
Cork city has the famous English Market and also look at Skibereen, Bantry and Midleton and Kinsale markets.
Lots of local producers doing amazing things. Big food festivals in September.

Do change the title to Britain and Ireland

If you find yourselves in the East Midlands visit the small creamery at Cropwell Bishop Nottinghamshire and sample their Stilton cheese.
Find a Birds bakery and ask for an Elephant's foot ! - only locals know of the delights of Birds.

Then off to Melton Mowbray for the pork pies.

Or come round to ours and try some of DH's chilli 😃

AND you've got to divert to N Norfolk and have Cromer. Nip to Cley and sample the delights of Cley Smokehouse and eat Sherrington strawberries in the sun.

Edinburgh.

Valvona & Crolla, a Mexican food shop and lots and lots of places to eat...they change frequently but The List does reviews.

In Bathgate, in a dodgy estate, is the best pie shop we ever went to...

I've been amazed by the huge foodie movement down in Cornwall over the last decade. Amazing stuff going on down there, everyone knows about Rick Stein and Nathan Outlaw but there's so much more, like the Hidden Hut in Portscatho, the Tolcarne Inn in Newlyn, April Bloomfield at Coombeshead Farm... basically everywhere you go these days is serving farm to table, small boat catch, and locally sourced charcuterie and small batch roastery coffee, etc etc. I found this article as well which was useful:

www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/10-must-visit-foodie-destinations-in-cornwall/

Oh and the sausage butchers in Broughton, Edinburgh.

Depending on when you go, there are various food festivals in the UK, normally in the summer.

Dorset Apple Cake is a must, it's bloody amazing!

Ian Mellis Cheese too. One of their old employees is now running a cheese shop in North Wales, so there are gems everywhere.

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Browns Pie Shop in Lincoln
Mussels in Portpatrick - can't remember the name of the pub but it had won some seafood award (not expensive).
Wellington Inn at Lund has a seasonal menu & is fab.

Melton Mowbray Cheese Fest / Choc Fest / Pie Fest / Chilli Fest

Pakora cafe in Edinburgh.

You'd have to come to the Vale of Evesham and over into Herefordshire. Obv Evesham is best known for the asparagus (Revills is my fave producer as they have several varieties), but there is so much fruit and veg grown locally inc speciality crops like the Juneberries, and of course plums. Pershore has a whole plum festival celebrating all the varieties.
In Pershore there is a lovely restaurant called Belle House which is very seasonal/local, plus a pub called the Angel which sources from their own farm.
Lots of local microbreweries, and the college run cider making courses

Beverley food festival in east yorkshire, the pie shop in whitby. Yes to the pub on loch torridon. Several nice restaurants in tenterden in kent.

Menai bridge in Anglesey has some lovely restaurants. Also check out Gary Ushers restaurant chain Elite Bistros of the world if you are around Chester and the north west. Fantastic independent group of restaurants- Sticky Walnut, Wreckfish etc

I can't change the title! Kicking self, as am resident in both Ireland and England so should know better - blame a rather emotional past week - hope no one's offended! Thanks so much for suggestions, am loving them all - keep 'em coming :)