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Tasty Tours
Get a real taste of Durham.
The county is home to an array of award-winning local producers, creating delicious delicacies that you can experience on a visit to Durham.
Browse the map below to discover local producers, where you can try, and where you can buy a mouth watering memento of your visit!


Balefire
At Balefire HQ we craft our small batch hot sauce prioritising the art of fermentation to balance taste and heat. We use pro-biotic fermentation techniques to age the chilli for several weeks, we then blend that with craft beer and a touch of artisan vinegar to create an impact of flavour and fire.
As a small, family run producer consisting of chefs and brewers Balefire are able to experiment with sauces and vinegars marrying science and creativity to craft our unique produce.

The Canny Candy Gadgies
The Canny Candy Gadgies is a third generation, family, confectionery business on the heritage coast.

Cacao Brew
Experience chocolate a new way… brewed! Cacao Brew uses whole organic cacao beans to create a beverage similar to coffee or loose-leaf tea. By roasting and grinding the beans, it offers a rich, dark chocolate flavor with variations in taste based on the origin of the cacao beans used.

The Travelling Bee Company
The Travelling Bee Company is a family run business that specialises in producing raw, natural and unprocessed honeys in an ethical way.

Calder's Kitchen
Since 2016 we have been supplying our premium products into independent food shops across the North East and Yorkshire and are currently listed in over 120 shops. We still love to attend food festivals and markets and now have an online shop which has been more popular than ever over the last 12 months! All of our products are Vegan-friendly, low in fat, gluten free and are used by people who follow the Slimming World weight loss plan.

The Crafty Monkey Brewing Company
The Crafty Monkey Brewing Co founders are Pat and Gary. Friends and colleagues for over 30 years they had a dream… to produce a beer the North East would be proud of – and so the Crafty Monkey Brewing Company was born.

McColl's Brewery
Established back in 2016 by Daniel and Gemma McColl, McColl's Brewery was created to bring their North East warmth, a love of easy drinking beers and their passion for open and welcoming hospitality to being. To be involved in all aspects of a product, from its creation right through to its dispense and see the joy it can bring, is a special and fortunate position that makes us tick.

Screaming Chimp Ltd
Award winning chilli sauces that are Vegan friendly and delicious added into soups, sauces and gravies, or just enjoyed as a pour on or dipping sauce.
Castlebank Butchers
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Weardale Cheese
Sourcing milk from local farms, Weardale Cheese produces a range of hard and soft artisan cheeses selling at farmers markets and locally to shops, pubs, restaurants and delicatessens.

Teesdale Cheesemakers
Teesdale cheesemakers are a husband & wife team who make multi-award winning cheeses using milk from the family farm.

Dalton Moor Farm
At Dalton Moor Farm we farm using organic principles as much as possible. All of our fruit and vegetables have been planted, nurtured and harvested by hand. We are Vegan, Gluten-free, unless stated otherwise.

S43
We’re passionate about seriously tasty pints and we aim to make ale that you’ll want to drink time after time. Using only the best ingredients with traditional brewing methods, this enables us to produce remarkable, high-quality cask beers, which deliver a real taste experience to be both savoured and enjoyed.

Durham Distillery
Durham Distillery is a small-batch craft distillery based on the outskirts of historic and beautiful Durham City. Our aim is to create spirits of genuine integrity; produced by hand, using traditional methods, the highest quality ingredients and a true passion for our work.

Broom House Farm
Broom House is an organic livestock farm, specialising in grass fed Aberdeen Angus Beef and Durham lamb & mutton, also producing rare breed Saddleback pork and eggs, please visit our Farm Shop & Café to sample our produce.

Durham Coffee
The first local and independent speciality coffee roasters for County Durham and proud to be offering ethically sourced high quality coffee with a local twist.

Coghlans
Coghlans Artisan Bakery has been created within the old stable block and coach house at Barningham Park, a classic estate where the bakehouse and kitchen would have been the lifeblood of the estate and family life. Coghlans handmade bread use no preservatives food colours or artificial flavours, just a natural product from yeast flour water and salt.