Food Miles Are Important for a Growing Number of Diners

Enjoying great food is one of the attractions of a visit to the eastern region with so many pubs and restaurants offering tempting dishes on their wonderful menus.

If you eat in any of the Norfolk Restaurants, there is a good chance that the food you consume will have been produced within a relatively small radius of the establishment.

If it is shellfish or seafood, many of the dishes will have been caught off the Norfolk coast while the vegetable or salad that accompanies your main dish will have been produced within the county.

A lot of Norfolk Boutique Hotels, Norfolk Pubs or North Norfolk Hotels take great pride in their support of local food producers and will buy seasonal produce whenever they can from local markets or their fish and meat from butchers or fishmongers in the small market towns dotted across the county.

While this is good for the local economy, it is also important for the environment and the consumer.

It supports local producers, reduces impact on the environment and also ensures that the food on the plates in pubs, restaurants or at the tables in the wonderful Norfolk boutique hotels is as fresh as possible.

The issue of the environment is highly relevant to eco-friendly consumers who often feel much more comfortable eating fresh seasonal produce grown within Norfolk than dining on items that have been flown half way across the world.

There was at least one establishment in the eastern region that went so far as to demonstrate this fact visually on its menus by actually listing where the produce came from and the 'food miles' it had travelled from the field to the plate.

Chefs in other restaurants will happily discuss where their food came from and will not hesitate to recommend where you can also buy similar produce as well.

There is a very clear network of producers, chefs and consumer across Norfolk which you will quickly pick up on when you come to visit the county and not only enjoy the wonderful attractions that are dotted across its rural landscape but also savor the local cuisine too.