Delicatessen and Deli Counter in Colchester, Essex
As well as offering a restaurant where you can enjoy home-cooked food, and a farm shop for fresh produce, Poplar Nurseries also provides a delicatessen in Colchester, Essex, so you can enjoy something a little different. Try and sample food from providers you won’t have found elsewhere before and take home something delicious to keep for special occasions. This includes:
• Wilshers Butchers: fantastic quality meats from our local butcher in Marks Tey. We offer their ham, bacon, sausages, Suffolk chicken, Salt Marsh Mersea lamb and Essex and Suffolk beef, also Sunday roasting joints, all offered at the same price as Wilshers
• Allen & Son Butchers: local quality meats
• Totham Bangers: a great selection of local gourmet sausages including pork & caramelised onion, pork & Guinness, venison, port & rosemary, Cumberland spirals. We also stock their homemade pâté
• Ken Green: smoked fish, Clacton on Sea. Local naturally smoked fish including smoked haddock, smoked trout, smoked mackerel, smoked salmon & smoked kippers
• Local cheeses including Suffolk Gold, goats’ cheese from Maldon, Mrs Temple’s cheeses from Norfolk, Black Bomber, Stinking Bishop, Suffolk Blue and many more specialty varieties
• Fantastic Dorset olives
• Suffolk luxury scotch eggs
• Award-winning Toppings Pies
Our range of home-cooked foods includes:
• A wide variety of soups
• Homemade pies and pasties
• Beef & red wine lasagne
• Smoked mackerel and fennel quiches
• Goats’ cheese and butternut squash quiche
• Fish pies
• Salmon & spinach fishcakes
• Sausage rolls made with Wilshers’ sausage meat
• Curries (including Thai red chicken curry)
• Vegetable side orders
• Seasonal specialities (e.g., pumpkin fondue)
• Home-cooked sauces including onion gravy or mushroom and chestnut sauce
• Cakes
Vegetarian dishes:
• Mushroom & Brie Wellingtons
• Roast pepper tortilla
• Vegetable curry
• Risottos
• Aubergine parmigiana