Devon

Loosen your waistbands! The Great Taste Awards has dished out its stars to the UK’s best food and drink producers and Devon has done us proud, scooping over 100 stars, with artisan fudge, charcuterie and tasty pies leading the local wards.



Run by The Guild of Fine Foods, a panel of judges (all wearing their roomiest pants) scoff and quaff their way through many thousands of entries. Each one is blind-tasted by chefs, cooks, buyers, retailers, restaurateurs, food critics and writers who are looking for a party of flavours, texture and aroma – not fancy packaging. They then award the coveted one, two or three stars.



So what do the stars mean?&nbsp;Three stars = exquisite. Extraordinarily tasty foods that you won’t want to leave the shop without buying.&nbsp;Two stars = outstanding. Above and beyond delicious.&nbsp;One star = simply delicious. A food that delivers fantastic flavour.



Ready to get stuck in? Let’s go!



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-three-star">THREE STAR</h2>



<a href="https://www.barberscocoa.co.uk/product/cocoa-husk-latte/">Barbers Bean to Bar</a> &#8211; Cocoa Husk Latte



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/cocoa-husk.jpg" alt="Barbers Bean to Bar Cocoa Husk Latte " class="wp-image-78099" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/cocoa-husk.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/cocoa-husk-800x800.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/cocoa-husk-400x400.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/cocoa-husk-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/cocoa-husk-500x500.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



The Newton Abbot bean to bar chocolate company make artisan chocolate bars, cocoa husk teas and luxury hot chocolates. Their natural chocolate is made from single origin organic beans in micro beaches of 4kg. The three-star drink is a hot chocolate drink but with half the fat of your classic cocoa.



<a href="https://gaiagiving.com/products/gaias-helping-hand-washed-espresso-filter?srsltid=AfmBOopJlyhwOPRNG_PfuaG0az2SFWWJfvNjcnUNHyIfK_SXJu791PJs&amp;variant=43747041837271">Gaia&#8217;s Helping Hand</a> &#8211; Coffee



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/gaia-coffee.jpg" alt="Gaia CIC coffee Paignton " class="wp-image-78104" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/gaia-coffee.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/gaia-coffee-800x800.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/gaia-coffee-400x400.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/gaia-coffee-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/gaia-coffee-500x500.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



This Paignton CIC coffee shop roast their award-winning coffee in-house on Winner Street. They&#8217;re also a hub for supporting mental well-being and building a stronger and more cohesive community.



<a href="https://www.happybutter.co.uk/shop" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Happy Butter</a> &#8211; Organic Ghee



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/happy-butter.png" alt="Happy Butter Organic Ghee" class="wp-image-78108" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/happy-butter.png 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/happy-butter-800x800.png 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/happy-butter-400x400.png 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/happy-butter-768x768.png 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/happy-butter-500x500.png 500w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



This small but impressive Totnes brand make organic ghee from UK organic butter. Soil association certified, SALSA certified and B corp certified.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-two-star">TWO STAR</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/quickes.jpg" alt="Quickes Cheese" class="wp-image-78114" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/quickes.jpg 1500w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/quickes-800x533.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/quickes-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/quickes-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Credit Quickes Cheese </figcaption></figure>



The 21 two-stars stunners included Rare &amp; Pasture &#8211; Black Foot Salami, Black-foot Air-Dried Ham, Original Beef Frankfurter and Country Paté; Owens Coffee &#8211; Gara; Quickes &#8211; Goat&#8217;s Milk Clothbound Cheese and Hops Cheese; Powderkeg Brewery &#8211; Green Light quarter IPA; Little &amp; Cull&#8217;s Mushroom Bourguignon Pie (VG) and Tom&#8217;s Pies Chicken, Ham Hock &amp; Leek Pie; The Organic Cure&#8217;s Organic Bresaola, Organic Guanciale and Organic Culatello; Frenchbeer Farm&#8217;s Organic Frenchbeer Farm Turkey; ReRooted Organic Hazelnut Roly&#8217;s Rum &#8216;n&#8217; Raisin Fudge; The Proper Marmalade Company&#8217;s Seville; Barbes Bean to Bar&#8217;s Single–Origin Peruvian Wholebean Cocoa Tea; Stone&#8217;s Honey, Dartmoor Heather Honey; Salcombe Suppers&#8217; The Fabulous Fish Pie.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-one-star">ONE STAR</h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/jamu-bloodorange.jpg" alt="Jamu Wild Water Sparkling Blood orange " class="wp-image-78101" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/jamu-bloodorange.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/jamu-bloodorange-800x800.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/jamu-bloodorange-400x400.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/jamu-bloodorange-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/jamu-bloodorange-500x500.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



A huge collection of one-star awards included Bell and Loxton Cold Pressed Rapeseed Oil; Great British Confectionary Group Blondie Buttons; Burts Sea Salt &amp; Malt Vinegar; Chunk of Devon Butter Chicken Curry Pasty and Chicken Leek &amp; Bacon Pie; Quickes Traditional Extra Mature Clothbound Cheddar and Cows Whey Butter; Denhay Dry Cured Smoked Back Bacon, Denhay Dry Cured Smoked Bacon Lardons and Denhay Dry Cured Smoked Streaky Bacon; Flapjackery&#8217;s Florentine; Baked to Taste&#8217;s Gluten Free Ruby Murray Veggie Curry Pasty; Little &amp; Cull&#8217;s Ham Hock &amp; Pea Terrine and Indian Style Butter Chicken &amp; Smoked Cheddar Pie; The Proper Marmalade Company&#8217;s Lime &amp; Fennel and Orange &amp; Cardamom&#8230;



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/figgys.jpg" alt="Figgy's Christmas Pudding " class="wp-image-78116" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/figgys.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/figgys-800x800.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/figgys-400x400.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/figgys-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/figgys-500x500.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



&#8230;Figgy&#8217;s Luxury Handmade Christmas Pudding; Rare &amp; Pasture&#8217;s Mixed mushroom and cognac pork liver pate, Rare &amp; Pasture Pastrami and Porkfurter; The Organic Cure&#8217;s Organic Smoked Pork Shoulder and Soppressata Salami; Red Panda Chilli Crisp; Good Game&#8217;s Smoked Habanero Chilli Chorizo; Little &amp; Cull&#8217;s Tom&#8217;s Pies Steak &amp; Ale Pie, Smokey Cauliflower Cheese with Sundried Tomato Pie and Steak &amp; Malbec Pie with Barbers Cheddar Pastry; Denhay Farm&#8217;s Spoiltpig Dry Cured Smoked Streaky Bacon; Chunk of Devon Squealer Pork Pie and Steak Pasty; Salcombe Supper&#8217;s The Crab Mac + Cheese; and Pale Farm Turkeys&#8217; Whole Free Range Bronze Turkey.



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1500" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/09/red-zero.jpg" alt="Red Zero Sandford Orchards" class="wp-image-69570" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/09/red-zero.jpg 1500w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/09/red-zero-800x533.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/09/red-zero-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2024/09/red-zero-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px" /></figure>



Drinks in the one-star category included Luscombe&#8217;s Cool Ginger Beer, Elderflower Bubbly, Sicilian Orange Juice and Damascene Rose Bubbly; Sandford&#8217;s Red Zero, Sandford Orchards Devon Mist and The General; ReRooted Organic Almond, ReRooted Organic Oat Barista and ReRooted Organic Cashew; Sharpham Washbourne; Black Ash Elderflower Cordial; Roastworks Coffee The Truth; Voyager Coffee&#8217;s Trailblaze Seasonal Blend; Jamu Wild Water&#8217;s Natural Sparkling Blood Orange with Gut Friendly Fibre &amp; Botanicals; Barbers Bean to Bar 40% mocha hot chocolate; Salcombe Brewery&#8217;s Pilsner and Salcombe Dairy&#8217;s Organic Dark Hot Chocolate. Phew!



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1000" height="1000" src="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/rolys-fudge.jpg" alt="Roly's Fudge Vanilla Clotted Cream " class="wp-image-78111" srcset="https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/rolys-fudge.jpg 1000w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/rolys-fudge-800x800.jpg 800w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/rolys-fudge-400x400.jpg 400w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/rolys-fudge-768x768.jpg 768w, https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/devon/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2025/07/rolys-fudge-500x500.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px" /></figure>



Roly&#8217;s Fudge deserve an honourable mention for their haul of one-star awards too, including Butterscotch Fudge, Vanilla Clotted Cream Fudge, Salted Caramel Fudge Sauce, Maple &amp; Walnut Fudge, Jack Daniels Fudge, Strawberry &amp; Prosecco Fudge and Hot Cross Bun Fudge. Go Roly&#8217;s! 



Check out all the Great Taste Awards 2025 winners&nbsp;<a href="https://gff.co.uk/for-producers/great-taste/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here.</a>

Great Taste Awards 2025: your Devon stars

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