Plymouth's spectacular location between the sea and Devon's rolling moors and farmland provides the city and its restaurants with a wonderful natural larder of fine, fresh food on its doorstep.

It is the inspiration for some of the UK's top chefs and an impressive selection of high quality restaurants with menus making the very most of the finest in locally sourced produce.

Plymouth's food scene has really taken off in the last five years thanks to the huge success of Plymouth Flavour Fest - Britain's biggest farmers market - and the innovative work of the city's premier chefs, including TV celebrity brothers James and Chris Tanner of Tanners Restaurant and The Barbican Kitchen.

Visitors are spoiled for choice with pubs, restaurants, bistros and al fresco dining in the city centre, theatre land, Sutton Harbour and the historic Barbican, which is also home to the famous Plymouth Gin Distillery.

There's a further selection of excellent venues outside the city centre including Plymouth's first boutique hotel, The St. Elizabeth's Hotel in Plympton St. Maurice.

For those who enjoy buying their food direct from the farmer, the city centre Farmer's Market is a lively and bustling market to visit.  Held fortnightly on the second and fourth Saturday of the month it is situated by the Sundial in the City Centre.  Shoppers at the market can expect to find the finest meat, Westcountry cheeses, sausages, organic vegetables and delicious chutney, pasties and pies.