Our Suppliers

The Wholefood Store, Manningtree offers a wide range of organic food. It supplies us with the bread flours and seeds that make our house bread, dates for the sticky toffee pudding, ground almonds for the glueten-free orange & almond cake and arborio rice for our risottos. www.the-wholefoodstore.co.uk

Charles Eaton runs his wine company from Cavendish, Suffolk, and provides us with a small but perfect selection of red and white wines from a Pinot Grigio to a delicious Rioja, aswell as a Nethergate bitter. Charles also runs regular wine tasting evenings at the café. www.nethergatewines.com

Based in Chappel, North Essex, Direct Meats provide us with excellent meat for our lunches, suppers and outside catering www.directmeats.co.uk

Locally produced juices – you can taste the difference at the cafe. Apple & ginger, pear, apple & elderflower, ginger beer, Big Tom Juice, or just the simple but delicious apple juice. www.jameswhite.co.uk

Derrick Allen for Fish: Every Thursday our trusted fishmonger arrives from 4.30pm after a packed day of delivering fish around the Dedham Vale. Derrick chooses the fish fresh from Lowestoft in the morning, preparing the fish pie mixes for our weekend Mistley Quay Fish Pie or the smoked mackerel pâté. If you need an order then please phone it through to the café on the Wednesday before 4.30pm.

If you need help with your Mac, iPod or iPhone then Apple Allen is the man for you. He will happily come and see you to sort your problems out 24/7. www.appleallen.net

The photos on the website say it all, local photographer Lucy shoots for weddings, portraits etc. www.lucyhopegood.com

Our resident Artists: Sally Burch, also our web designer. Watercolours by John Talman of local scenes. His work is exhibited throughout galleries in East Anglia. Douglas Page. Local celeb painter Limited Editions of Free the Quay prints on sale at the café.