Riverford Organic Field Kitchen

Well-established as a quality supplier of organically grown fruit and veg, Riverford also offers lunches and suppers at its farm just outside Totnes. The homely approach extends to communal, refectory-style eating at a set time, with the kitchen open to view (stroll up to collect your pudding), where you can enjoy a good old chinwag and sharing of cookery-book tales with Jane Baxter (who once worked at London's River Café). Lunch is generally two courses, so expect to go straight into a main course such as pinkly roasted breast and properly crisped confit leg of duck with a bouquet of that sensational veg (turnips, carrots, flageolets and radishes). And that's not all. A whole array of vegetable side-dishes is served, perhaps taking in roast asparagus dressed in orange and rocket, and spring greens with red pepper dressing. Afters might be glorious sticky toffee pudding, or baked cheesecake, delicately lemony and biscuit-based, spread with mascarpone and grated chocolate and garnished with big fat blueberries.