Hunt's Food Hall

Farm shop or supermarket? Sherborne's answer sits deliberately between the two. Lynne, Ed, Sandra and the team have built somewhere you can do a genuine weekly shop without abandoning local producers to the occasional treat purchase. Dorset and Somerset growers and makers sit alongside carefully sourced products from UK farmers and artisans, and there is now a second Food Hall at Pylle over the Somerset border.

Expect fresh fruit and vegetables, a butchery counter, artisanal cheeses and the everyday things like milk and bread, plus rather more indulgent corners if you go looking. Two on-site cafes, The Farmyard Kitchen and The Den, cook from ingredients pulled off the shelves around them. Open seven days a week, so treat it as the actual shop rather than a weekend outing. Call for the Sherborne store.