As you might hope at a farm, it’s the “excellent fresh produce” (especially “unbeatable” vegetables) which is the real highlight of a meal at this communal-tables dining room, and the puddings are “memorable” too; its off-beat style is somewhere between “austere”, and “really enjoyable”.
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Riverford – with its five farms in Britain and its new outpost in France – is “the progressive face of ethical business”, says the critic. “It's gone large scale without much in the way of compromise and created a robust economic model…
Giles Coren (16th November 2009)
9/10
Visiting a farm restaurant, the critic has “the lunch of my life with five veggie dishes, second helpings of pudding, and barely a scrap of meat”, and it’s “stunning value” too. “The future”, he proclaims – by implication, one with rather less meat than before – “starts today”.
Bob Granleese (4th September 2007)
9/10 points
It may indeed be just a “kitchen in a field”, but Mr Norman’s stand-in finds “every single dish” at this Devon farm to be “simply wonderful” all-round.
Jay Rayner (24th June 2010)
Giles Coren (16th November 2009)
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