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Festive Shopping in Shrewsbury: Food & Drink for the Big Day
While it's best not to leave your Christmas gift shopping until the last moment, there's some shopping that is best saved for the final day or two before Christmas; fresh food from the deli, the butcher, the liquor store and the greengrocer's - the stuff that makes Christmas special!
Shrewsbury is paradise for foodies on a festive mission. Follow our guide to make sure you don't miss out on the best of what our town has to offer for your Christmas table.
Delicatessen delights
Appleyards Delicatessan
Appleyards is a long-established delicatessen on Wyle Cop, which has been drawing customers in with its spectacular window displays for decades. This traditional shop offers a mouth-watering array of deli essentials, from countless cheeses to homemade breads, preserved hams hung from the ceiling and unusual ales. A mainstay of the festive season, you can expect to find most of the town's foodies visiting this cheese counter on Christmas Eve!
The Groundskeeper
Italian roots, good coffee, shelves filled with things we truly love. It’s simple food, done properly. You're guaranteed to find something truly special for the foodie in your life (or yourself) - and have a delicious coffee and cake while you're considering!
Cook & Carve (The Market Hall)
The older sister of Appleyards, Cook & Carve's Market Hall counter is stuffed full of regional and continental artisan cheeses, charcuterie and their own home-cured sausages and bacon made with local pork. You'll also find local honey, farmhouse butter, cream and a large selection of preserves and condiments.
Meat & veg
Pomona Grocery
Pomona is Shrewsbury's independent grocer, with a focus on organic, quality and - as much as possible - local produce. This shop offers a great choice of fruit and veg, bakery items, quirky and retro confectionary, and a selection of delightful cheeses.
Maddocks Fresh Produce (The Market Hall)
Maddocks sells high-quality fruit and vegetables, including their own seasonal produce grown in pesticide-free soil on the family-run smallholding near Nesscliffe.
JP Fruits (The Market Hall)
JP Fruits sells a wide range of quality fruit and vegetables, as well as plants. You'll find everything here from British-grown produce to Asian pears and kabocha squash!
John Bliss Butchers (The Market Hall)
John Bliss Butchers supplies fresh local beef, lamb, pork, veal and poultry, as well as making their own sausages and curing their our bacon. They offer a wide range of their own home cooked meats – ham on the bone, roast pork, roast brisket, turkey and more.
Corbetts (The Market Hall)
High-class butchers providing quality meat, poultry, game and eggs. Corbetts has a stall in the middle of Shrewsbury Market Hall and also supplies products to many restaurants across Shropshire and beyond.
Fish & seafood
Cornalls Seafood
Cornalls is Shropshire's largest independent fishmongers and has been trading in Shrewsbury for nearly a century. These days, much of their fish is sourced directly from small suppliers, family companies and day-boats. All of the seafood on offer reaches its final destination in less than 48 hrs of coming out of the sea, meaning you won’t get any fresher unless you fish for it yourself.
Something to drink
Aroma
Aroma Tea & Coffee Merchant stocks high-quality coffee and tea, including ethically sourced single-origin and house-blended coffees. Loose leaf teas and teabags on offer include black, green, herbal and flavoured teas from across the globe, including a special Shropshire blend. You'll also find a range of Belgian chocolates, truffles, jams and chutneys, and more in store, plus tea and coffee making equipment and accessories.
Iron & Rose (The Market Hall)
Iron & Rose sells wines that tell the story of the land where they were grown and the people who grew them. The wine shop in the Market Hall stocks hundreds of wines for both everyday drinking and special occasions, from producers with strong environmental and ethical policies. The majority is grown organically and some biodynamically.
Wrekin Whiskies
Located on Wyle Cop, Wrekin Whiskies are proud purveyors of fine Single Malt Scotch Whiskies as well as stockists of select artisan gins and other nice tipples. This is a shop that doesn't take itself too seriously, keeping things light-hearted to ensure visitors feel welcome and enjoy their visit.
Tanners Wines
Established in 1842, Tanners is all about good, traditional service, delivered by a team of friendly and knowledgeable staff. Tanners has won countless national awards. Its Cellars Shop, located at the bottom of Wyle Cop, is a fascinating, Dickensian-looking collection of rooms, stocking the company's full range of over 1,200 wines and spirits.
St Vincent
St Vincent Shrewsbury is a wine bar, restaurant and shop located on Fish Street. Enjoy delicious food and wine in a chic and dog friendly space.
Sweets and baked goods
Ottolive
Established in 2016, Ottolive Bakehouse is an artisan bakery specialising in baking the best sourdough and Viennoiserie pastries. Each item is hand made in the heart of Shrewsbury, using organic flour and cultured English butter.
The Good Egg Bakery
A micro bakery based in the heart of Shrewsbury and on a mission to make good cake using local, seasonal ingredients. Cakes on counter, to order - or get a box of premium brownies through the letterbox!
Pont
Pont is a traditional French Patisserie run by pastry chef Lauren. Located on Wyle Cop, all items are handmade in-store, including sweet and savoury patisserie and gluten-free, and vegan options. Order ahead for special Christmas treats.
Bread and Loaf
A micro bakery near Shrewsbury train station specialising in baking sourdough, yeasted bread and sweet treats fresh every day, from scratch.
Masovia
Masovia Craft Bakery Shrewsbury is an artisan Polish Bakery located on the top of Wyle Cop. The bakery offers a wide range of delicious, fresh-baked treats, breads, pastries & cakes.
Oh, For Goodness Cake
Whether you're celebrating a birthday, wedding, or any other special event, or simply looking to satisfy your sweet tooth, Oh, For Goodness Cake is dedicated to making every moment memorable.
Chocolicious (The Market Hall)
Chocolicious in the Market Hall provides handmade Belgian chocolates for all occasions. From gift boxes to chocolate pizza to chocolate toolsets and unicorn lollies, you'll find a large range of delicious options here.
Hotel Chocolat
One of the UK's most loved quality food brands, Hotel Chocolat offers everything from elegant gift boxes of chocolate to imaginative takes on your everyday chocolate fix, all made according to their mantra 'More Cocoa, Less Sugar' for a satisfying cocoa hit.
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We do our best to include all relevant businesses in each feature. However, if your business wasn't included and you feel it should have been, please don't hesitate to contact us on content@originalshrewsbury.co.uk.
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