The Suffolk coast bustles with weekenders and summer visitors – many, I’m told, booking their supermarket delivery before they’ve even left home. But the county is a hotspot for great food, with world-class produce, independent shops, farmers markets, farm shops and a wonderful variety of pubs and restaurants celebrating local produce.
You’ll find Suffolk produce on the menus of some of the UK’s most celebrated restaurants. Blythburgh and Dingley Dell Pork, Sutton Hoo chickens, Fen Farm Dairy’s Baron Bigod cheese and chocolate from Pump Street are often namechecked on menus by chefs wanting to show off their sourcing credentials. But by visiting Suffolk, you can visit the home of these incredible ingredients (among many others). Oddly, for such a foodie county you won’t find a single Michelin-starred restaurant; instead, there are reinvigorated country and seaside pubs serving accomplished but relaxed food as well as special cafés and lunch spots. Here are some of the highlights Suffolk has to offer.