Our Suppliers

Our use of local produce suppliers is integral to our approach to food at The Riverside.

Button Meats [Michaelstow] uses locally reared Cornish cattle and have supplied the restaurant for over fifteen years with their finest cuts of sirloin, rib eye and rump steaks. For our Sunday carvery, we always have on offer a cut of topside beef, leg of pork, leg or shoulder of lamb and breast of turkey. In addition, chicken and duck are sourced from these butchers.

The fish is from a range of suppliers who are able to offer the latest catch! Celtic Fish and Game [St Ives], S & J Fisheries [Plymouth] and third generation family business Matt Stevens & Son [St Ives] source the best fish available from the Cornwall and Devon coast. Each of these companies can be regarded as one of the most respected fresh fish and seafood specialists in the southwest.

However, what makes the restaurant even more special is the availability of fresh seafood from the harbour of Boscastle with local fisherman arriving daily to hand over any catch such as locally caught lobster, crab, mackerel, bass, bream and pollock.

Fruit and vegetables are acquired from Cornish Stores [Boscastle] which is only a few doors up Bridge Walk. Cornish Stores source quality local seasonal produce from the local area which we support regardless of cost to ensure a sustainable local economy. For those seasonal items we require on mass such as potatoes and swedes, WF & RH Pethick [Boscastle] deliver regularly sacks of produce ploughed from the fields at the top of Boscastle.

Fortunately for the business, we are situated in the best area for dairy items with Davidstow Creamery, famous for Davidstow cheddar cheese, only a few miles away. This enables us to use a variety of local companies to source quality diary items such as milks, creams and cheeses. A&E Rodda and Son [Redruth] uses lush pastures and rich creamy milk from local Cornish farms to provide us with the famous “Roddas” Cornish clotted cream. In addition to numerous dairy items, Ray Davis Foods [Wadebridge], a local company in North Cornwall have been serving wholesale food customers throughout Devon and Cornwall for more than 30 years and supply quality hams and bacon. William’s Dairy [Wadebridge] supplies the business with numerous litres of milk per day.

After these, it leaves all the little complementary items such as all of our sauces, gravies, stocks, scones, biscuits and occasionally breads to be made in our own kitchen. We hope that the final product that arrives to you is of the highest quality.