Tickety-Boo in Ottery St Mary has welcomed a new front of house manager to the team.
Zoe Blackmore has taken the reins at the coffee shop and children’s play kingdom in Mill Street after Jane North decided to return to her previous role as a Teaching Assistant.
Zoe, from Ottery, has been working at Tickety-Boo part time since it opened. She brings with her a wealth of experience including a 15-year stint at the Tesco staff canteen, where she was Team Leader, and is well known locally as she has also worked at the Kings Arms.
With less than a month to go to this year’s Flaming Tar Barrels spectacular, Otter Nurseries is reminding revellers to be prepared when it comes to parking on the night.
As usual, the garden centre is opening its car park for visitors to the event in Ottery St Mary on Saturday, November 5.
Every penny raised at the Otter Nurseries car park goes into a pot that is split between the Ottery Carnival Committee, which organises the event, and Otter Nurseries Charity of the Year. This year the garden centre is supporting the Baton. In 2015, parking funds raised £2715 for the...
A once-vacant building in the heart of Ottery St Mary in East Devon has been given a new lease of life as a stylish café and children’s play kingdom.
Tickety-Boo is the brainchild of East Devon businessman Stuart Phillips, who came up with the concept after purchasing the old Millstone Bakery site in Mill Street.
The venue combines a café serving barista made coffee and a wide range of home cooked food with a unique play zone for children up to the age of 11 featuring a treehouse, castle and sweet shop – all handcrafted by local tradespeople.
Rusty Pig in Ottery St Mary is holding a ‘Dexter’ event on August Bank Holiday weekend, to highlight the importance of local sourcing.
The Dexter beef will be served as super-sized steak and chips cooked in beef dripping at the ethical restaurant in Yonder Street on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 August.
Rusty Pig owner Robin Rea believes that local sourcing has become ever more popular, and says there are more benefits than may be immediately obvious.
“People have started to take the phrase ‘locally sourced’ for granted as so many businesses are using it,” he said....
Rusty Pig is hosting a comedy night - and it's all about Dickens!
The ethical restaurant in Ottery St Mary is welcoming Devon's Adaptable Theatre on Friday 15th July to perform for diners. ‘Double Dickens’ features Ian Pearce and Tim Knight in two one man shows.
In Doctor Marigold Ian plays a Victorian travelling salesman who rescues a poor deaf child from ‘misery and degradation’. In the second show, Tim Knight tells the woeful tale of Mr Pickwick’s trial for breach of promise in The Trial of Pickwick.
Double Dickens opened in October 2012 at New Theatre, Exeter....
A man has died following a collision near Ottery St Mary.
At around 6.38pm on Thursday evening (16 June) police were alerted to a serious road traffic collision just off the A30 at the Daisymount roundabout on the B3174, near Ottery St Mary at around 6.38pm on Thursday evening (16 June).
A white Nissan Kubistar van, travelling from Ottery St Mary had been involved in a single vehicle collision.
Fire and ambulance emergency services were also at the scene. The road was closed and was reopened shortly before midnight.
The team at Rusty Pig in Ottery St Mary is celebrating after receiving a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence.
Owner and head chef Robin Rea said: “It’s always gratifying to receive great reviews on Trip Advisor, and although you can’t please all the people all the time, we’re thrilled to see that most of our reviews are really positive.
“What the reviews seem to like about Rusty Pig is the local sourcing, the great flavours and the convivial atmosphere – our regulars know we don’t stand on ceremony.”
Now in its sixth year, the Trip Advisor 'Excellence' achievement...
The kitchen team at Otter Nurseries in Ottery St Mary is over the moon after their homemade raspberry jam scooped gold at this year’s Taste of the West Awards.
This is the first time the garden centre has entered these popular awards that celebrate the quality of local produce in the South West. Otter Nurseries entered two of its jams, and alongside the gold gong for the raspberry, the strawberry jam collected a highly commended award.
Catering Manager Anthony Adams, said: “These preserves are made weekly in our restaurant kitchens by expert jam maker Liz Lee and they’ve...
The talented team at Ottery St Mary’s ethical restaurant Rusty Pig has been swelled further with the addition of new resident chef, Mark Russell.
Mark brings with him many years of experience cooking at a number of East Devon establishments, and will be adding his own creative spin to the Rusty Pig menu. He said:
“I’m thrilled to be back working in my home town of Ottery St Mary with this opportunity to join such a unique establishment.”
Mark says he loves the fact that everything served up at Rusty Pig is made on site. “We’re always taking things back to basics,...
To celebrate and showcase the black pudding recipes we tested recently with Dr jan Davison for an Oxford Food & Drink Symposium, Rusty Pig is hosting an evening of black pudding and Bourbon cocktails on Friday 13th May.
On arrival: Lamb & Rosewater Pudding (Mrs Rundell 1805) with Mint Julip apéritif
First course: Rusty pig's own Black Pudding (Rusty Pig 2012) with an Old Fashioned
Second course: Black pudding the English way, with a hint of Spain (Patrick Lamb 1726) with Bourbon Mack
