Recent Events
Friday, 27th January 2012
Olive Tasting
We'd been reviewing and improving our olive bar over the last few months and Alice from Olives Et Al kindly came along and provided a free sampling of some of our new favourite olives as well as dukkah and nuts & beetroot dressing.
Saturday, 21st January 2012
Tom's Pie Tasting
Tom's Pies are the finest gourmet pies, handmade in Devon and are created from only the best ingredients, sourced locally. We've been selling them for years and love them. Tom Little kindly came up and ran a free tasting of some of our favourite pies.
Sunday, 4th December 2011
Eat Cheese - The Glass Boat
Glass Boat’s popular foodie street market ‘Eat Cheese’ was back, celebrating some of the very best of the South West’s talented artisan food and drink producers. We were there for our first ever outside event, complete with some of our favourite cheeses and oils.
Welsh Back was home to local cheese producers for the day along with some trusty beer and wine suppliers offering tips for pairing drinks with cheese. Other attractions included gift ideas such as hand turned cheeseboards, live music, family games and a lip smacking Sunday roast from host restaurant Glassboat.
Friday, 2nd December 2011
Bath Soft Cheese Company Tasting
We have just started stocking the Bath Soft Cheese Company's cheeses and to help get things underway they ran a tasting of their famous Bath Soft cheese and Wyfe of Bath cheese at the start of December.
Saturday, 12th November 2011
Kitchen Garden's Chutney and Jam Tasting
Kitchen Garden Foods have been making top quality jams, chutneys, marmalades and condiments since 1989 when Barbara Moinet cooked up her first batch of Blackberry and Apple Jam in the kitchen of her Gloucestershire cottage.
Chris from Kitchen Garden Foods came down from Stroud and ran a tasting of some of our Christmas favourites.
Saturday, 5th November 2011
Oro del Desierto - Olive Oil Tasting
This was another opportunity for a spot of olive oil tasting with one of our most popular suppliers Daniel James and his beautiful Oro del Desierto's Spanish olive oils.
Saturday, 29th October 2011
Cornish Crisp Tasting
We get sent a lot of crisps to sample and what we loved about the Cornish Crisp Company was that as well as making great tasting crisps they also have a very ethical approach to everything they do. Rachael came to the deli and ran a free tasting of these yummy snacks.
Saturday, 15th October 2011
Wine tasting with Averys
Local wine experts, Averys, ran a free wine tasting for us at the deli. Frank brought a range of our favourite wines along with a port which went down a storm with locals and visitors on one of our busiest ever days in the deli.
Friday, 14th October 2011
Hobbs House Bakery - Bread Tasting
As part of our move to work with Hobbs House Bakery, in our view the finest Artisan baker in the area, we ran another tasting session this time on a sunny Friday.
Will from Hobbs House Bakery gave customers a chance to sample some of the great new range of bread we now stock.
Wednesday, 12th October 2011
Wine and Cheese Tasting
David ran a wine and cheese tasting at Goldbrick House on Park Street. Where we paired some of our favourite cheeses with great wines.
Drop us a line if you are interested in coming to the next cheese and wine tasting.
Saturday, 8th October 2011
Cracotti Biscuit tasting
The Cracking Good Food Company creates uniquely eye-catching and wholesome hand-cooked foods that taste as good as they look. The Cracotti range of savoury crackers Double-baked like biscotti have been a real success in the deli. They are very different – and very special and Rachel Russell came and ran a tasting to show us all why they've been so popular.
Friday, 7th October 2011
English Wine tasting
John has run wine tastings for us before using Strawberry Hill Vineyards wines; this time he gave us all an opportunity to try our latest English wines, this time from Avonleigh Organic Vineyard. We have a fantastic red, white and rosé now in stock from this vineyard based just a few miles away in Bradford on Avon.
Saturday, 1st October 2011
Pumpkin Risotto Tasting, with Gustosecco
It was a scorcher in Bristol when Founder of Gustosecco, Richard Mabb came to the deli to show us and more importantly let us all taste his pumpkin risotto.
Friday, 30th September 2011
Cider and Cheese Tasting
David ran a cider and cheese tasting at The Richmond Pub, Clifton Village where he paired some of our favourite cheeses with some fine British ciders.
Saturday, 24th September 2011
Noodle Tasting with Kabuto Noodles
At the start of the year we started stocking Kabuto Noodles. They're delicious, new and local and founder of Kabuto Noodles, Crispin Busk, came to the deli and ran a tasting of the range in the deli.
Saturday, 20th August 2011, 11am to 3pm (free)
Soft Drinks Tasting, with Lovely Drinks
Victoria came in and ran a tasting of their scrummy drinks. Lovely Drinks is a small, award winning soft drinks company based just outside Bristol in Barrow Gurney, North Somerset. They make their drinks by hand from elderflowers, lemons, fresh ginger, locally pressed apples and other English fruits and flowers. Each drink has been made, bottled, labelled and by the two owners.
They use some organic ingredients but quality, freshness and locality are most important. As little sugar as possible is used and they never use preservatives, concentrates or artificial flavourings. The people are lovely and so are their drinks.
Saturday, 13th August 2011, 11am to 3pm (free)
Chocolate Tasting, with Feeding Your Imagination
This was another chance to taste some of Paul Da-Costa-Greaves' amazing range of mood enhancing chocolates at one of our free Saturday tastings.
All chocolate used by Feeding Your Imagination is both Fairtrade and Organic and supports Cocoa plantation farmers in Ghana. There are 12 flavours of functional chocolate available in the range, with inspirational names such as; BEAUTIFUL, DREAMY, SEXY, FANTASTIC, LOVELY, SEDUCTIVE, MISTRESS, SENSUAL, GORGEOUS, FRUITY, YIN & YANG.
Saturday, 6th August 2011
Beer Tasting, with Bristol Beer Factory
After several requests from customers we had to find out more about Bristol Beer Factory and once Andrew Cooper had 'persuaded me' to try 7 different beers we decided it was something we simply had to add to our growing range of products from Bristol.
Andrew give customers a chance to sample these amazing beers and to learn a little more behind what makes them so darn tasty.
Saturday, 30th July, 11am to 3pm
Cornish Crisp Tasting
We get sent a lot of crisps to sample and what we loved about the Cornish Crisp Company was that as well as making great tasting crisps they also have a very ethical approach to everything they do. Rachael came to teh deli and ran a free tasting of these yummy snacks.
Saturday, 23rd July
Chocolate and Sweet Treat Tasting
Elaine Drake from House of Sarunds ran a tasting of some of our favourite chocolates and also some tasty treats from our new range.
Saturday, 16th July
Cider and Wine Tasting with Polgoon
We first came across Polgoon’s award winning winery (based in Penzance, Cornwall) when we sampled their Sparkling Elderflower which they produce for the River Cottage. After trying more of the range we now also stock their Aval and Raspberry Aval both of which make fantastic summer drinking and recently we’ve added the Cornish Pink and Cornish Black cider to our range.
Saturday, 9th July 2011
Lahloo Tea Tasting
Vicky from Lahloo Tea ran a tasting 
of Lahloo's unique collection of fabulous loose leaf teas.
Like wine and chocolate, a tea’s unique characteristics are influenced by the altitude, region, climate and terrain of the tea garden, as well as the years of know-how of the tea master.
Saturday, 25th June 2011
Truffle Oil Tasting with The Truffle Hunter
We’ve recently started working with The Truffle Hunter after sampling some of their amazing truffles and realising that we simply had to stock them. The Cotswold based company selects the best Black and White truffles from Northern and Central Italy, and has developed absolutely stunning truffle oils and butter.
Saturday, 11th June 2011
Oro del Desierto - Olive Oil Tasting
We all had another opportunity for a spot of olive oil tasting with one of our most popular suppliers Daniel James and his beautiful Oro del Desierto's Spanish olive oils. This time Daniel also brought along his new range of beautiful Spanish honeys and honeycombs, which are also now available in the deli.
Saturday, 4th June 2011
Hobbs House Bakery - Bread Tasting
As part of our move to work with Hobbs House Bakery, in our view the finest Artisan baker in the area, we ran a Saturday morning tasting session.
Will from Hobbs House Bakery gave customers a chance to sample some of the great new range of bread and pastries we now stock.
Customers were able see and sample why we are so pleased to be stocking and using these fantastic artisan breads and to be working with people who share our love of great food.
Thursday, 2nd June 2011
Wine and Cheese Tasting @ The Richmond Pub
David ran a wine and cheese tasting with Emma from The Richmond Pub in the Richmond, Clifton Village. We paired some of their great house wines with a range of our favourite cheeses. Thanks to everyone who came along.
Drop us a line if you are interested in coming to the next cheese and wine tasting.
Saturday, 28th May 2011
Kitchen Garden's Chutney and Jam Tasting
Kitchen Garden Foods have been making top quality jams, chutneys, marmalades and condiments since 1989 when Barbara Moinet cooked up her first batch of Blackberry and Apple Jam in the kitchen of her Gloucestershire cottage. Chris from Kitchen Garden Foods came down from Stroud and ran a tasting of some of our favourites from the range demonstrating why their tasty products have scooped so many Taste of The West and Great Taste Awards over the years.
Saturday, 14th May 2011
Ice Cream Tasting with Mendip Moments
We only sell one make of ice cream, Mendip Moments. It's local and it's also the best. It comes in a great range of flavours and we' ran a free tasting to give our customers a chance to taste just how good it really is.
We stock 125ml pots (£1.95) which are great to eat in the park or on the move, as well as the larger 500ml pots (£4.95) which people have been known to share, although not very often.
Saturday, 7th May 2011
Pretox Tasting with Alibi
Alibi is the original PRETOX ® drink. A thirst-quenching sparkling beverage bursting with natural flavour and 17 body-cleansing ingredients specifically chosen to help offset all the bad things in life.
It also tastes really good which is why we ran a free tasting to show why we love it.
Friday, 29th April 2011
Royal Wedding Special
We teamed up with The Albion and Primrose Cafe to celebrate the Royal Wedding. We setup a cake stand outside the deli and ran a Royal Wedding Special with Cucumber and Smoked Salmon Sandwiches as well as a slice of Victoria Sponge and pot of English Breakfast Tea.
Wednesday, 30th March 2011
Wine and Cheese Tasting
David ran another wine and cheese tasting with Sam Fryer at Goldbrick House on Park Street. Sam and David paired up a range of scrummy European cheeses with some of Sam's favourite wines.
Drop us a line if you are interested in coming to the next cheese and wine tasting.
Tuesday, 29th March 2011
Wine and Cheese Tasting
David ran a wine and cheese tasting with Sam Fryer at Rosemarino in Clifton Village on the evening of 29th March. We had a full house of 35 people and paired some fantastic English cheeses with some delicious Italian wines. Tickets were just £20 and we plan to run another one in the next few months. Drop us a line if you are interested in coming to the next cheese and wine tasting.
Saturday, 19th February 2011
Oro del Desierto - Olive Oil Tasting
This was another opportunity for a spot of olive oil tasting with Daniel James' beautiful Oro del Desierto's Spanish olive oils. This time Daniel also brought along his new range of beautiful Spanish honeys, which are also now available in the deli.
Saturday, 15th January 2011
Kabuto Noodles - Noodle Tasting
In the first week of January we took arrival of pots of Kabuto Noodles. They're delicious, new and local and we launched them with founder of Kabuto Noodles, Crispin Busk, by providing a tasting of the range in the deli.
Saturday, 8th January 2011
Sharpham Park spelt tasting
Alex from Sharpham Park provided a free tasting from their fantastic range of spelt products. The warm Pumpkin & Shallot Speltotto went down well on a cold Januray day.
Saturday, 4th December
Kitchen Garden's Chutneys and Vinegars
Kitchen Garden Foods have been making top quality jams, chutneys, marmalades and condiments since 1989 when Barbara Moinet cooked up her first batch of Blackberry and Apple Jam in the kitchen of her Gloucestershire cottage. Chris from Kitchen Garden Foods came down from Stroud and ran a tasting of the christmas product range demonstrating why their tasty products have scooped so many Taste of The West and Great Taste Awards over the years.
Tuesday, 30th November
The Living Room’s Gift Fayre
We presented our range of Christmas Hampers at
The Living Room’s Gift Fayre on November 30th.
Each £1 entry fee went towards Bristol’s amazing homeless charity Caring at Christmas.
Sellers include:
Arch House Deli Hampers, Gilbert’s Chocolates,
Perfectly Posh Jewellery & gifts, Arbonne Health & Beauty,
Delta Force Paintballing, Jack & Jill Toy Shop,
Documentary Image Portrait Photography, The Lido
and much more!
Saturday, 20th November
Chocolate Truffle demo and tasting with Clifton Cakes
Frances Cooley from Clifton Cakes demonstrated how to make chocolate truffles and even revealed the secret of her chocolate shoes. We've been stocking Frances' famous chocolate shoes and handbags for several years and now also stock her truffles.
Friday, 19th November
Oro del Desierto - Olive Oil Tasting
Another opportunity for a spot of olive oil tasting with Daniel James' beautiful Oro del Desierto's Spanish olive oils. This time he also brought along his range of beautiful Spanish honeys, which are also now available in the deli.
Saturday, 13th November
Chocolate Tasting of our favourite Christmas Selection
Elaine Drake from House of Sarunds provided a tasting of some of our Christmas chocolate favourites, including Niederegger Marzipan, Turkish Delight, Cocoa Bean chocolate and Van Coillie chocolates.
Saturday, 30th October
Rice,Cous Cous and Pilaff Tasting, with Gustosecco
Founder of Gustosecco, Richard Mabb, came to the deli for the first time and cooked up some of his wonderful rice, couscouses, pilaffs and puddings.
As it was the weekend of Halloween the Pumpkin Risotto went down particularly well.
Saturday, 9th October
Chocolate Tasting, with Feeding Your Imagination
At the start of the year we ran a whole evening chocolate tasting with Paul Da-Costa-Greaves, this was a second chance to taste some of Paul's amazing range of mood enhancing chocolates, for free.
All chocolate used by Feeding Your Imagination is both Fairtrade and Organic and supports Cocoa plantation farmers in Ghana. There are 12 flavours of functional chocolate available in the range, with inspirational names such as; BEAUTIFUL, DREAMY, SEXY, FANTASTIC, LOVELY, SEDUCTIVE, MISTRESS, SENSUAL, GORGEOUS, FRUITY, YIN & YANG.
Saturday, 25th September
Fudge tasting with Devon Cottage Organic Fudge
Richard Dennison from Devon Cottage Organic Fudge kindly came up and ran a free tasting of his delicious fudges. The West Country is famed for its fudge, but in our view this is the best.
Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th September
The Great British Cheese Festival
We (David Greenman and Debbie Atherton) held a session of cheese and wine pairings at The Great British Cheese Festival in Cardiff on 25th/26th September. We ran a session titled "Whiter than White" in which we took three soft white cheeses (Capricorn Goat, Waterloo and Wigmore) and matched them with three great wines Casa del Valle, Orion and River Cottage Sparkling Elderflower Wine.
Saturday, 11th September
Tea Tasting with Lahloo
We serve a wide range of Lahloo teas and herbal infusions in our café and stock the majority in our deli too. We love the amazing tastes, aromas and the breadth of the teas available. It’s also fantastic to work with another Bristol based company who share our passion for high quality products.
Kate Gover, founder of Lahloo came in to provide our customers with a tasting of Lahloo's unique collection of fabulous loose leaf teas.
See a full list of our teas and prices
Saturday, 21st August
Oro del Desierto - Olive Oil Tasting
This was a second opportunity for a spot of olive oil tasting with Daniel James' beautiful Oro del Desierto's Spanish olive oils. The wet August weather didn't put off the many Bristolians who came along and tried this real tasty Spanish Olive Oil.
Saturday, 31st July
Strawberry Hill Vineyard - Wine Tasting
John from Strawberry Hill Vineyard came in to teh Deli and gave us another opportunity to taste some of his amazing English wines. We had already been through the ‘arduous’ task of having to taste all of their wines with Debbie picking up on the flavour of sweets from her childhood; the Orion tasting of ‘Cherry Lips’ and the Montpellier Red of ‘Strawberry Laces’. This time we got to try their latest wine, the Regent Rose, which went down a storm.
Saturday, 24th July
Anthony Rowcliffe - Cheese Tastings
Cheese connoisseur Emma Johnson from Anthony Rowcliffe ran a tasting with David show casing some of our favourite cheeses. Emma's passion and knowledge are second to know about all things cheese and our customers loved tasting and learning more about our favourite food.
Saturday, 17th July
Lahloo Tea
Kate Gover, founder of Lahloo came in to provide our customers with a tasting of Lahloo's unique collection of fabulous loose leaf teas.
Like wine and chocolate, a tea’s unique characteristics are influenced by the altitude, region, climate and terrain of the tea garden, as well as the years of know-how of the tea master.
Saturday, 10th July
Bramley & Gage, Liqueurs
Bramley and Gage have been making amazing liqueurs for over 20 years. This family business is now based in Gloucestershire where they still make all the products themselves using real, whole, fruit, sourced as locally as possible. Michael kindly came in and gave a tasting of their award winning Sloe Gins and Liqueurs.
Saturday, 3rd July
Kitchen Garden's Chutneys and Vinegars
Kitchen Garden Foods have been making top quality jams, chutneys, marmalades and condiments since 1989 when Barbara Moinet cooked up her first batch of Blackberry and Apple Jam in the kitchen of her Gloucestershire cottage. Chris from Kitchen Garden Foods ran a free tasting of the product range demonstrating why their tasty products have scooped so many Taste of The West and Great Taste Awards over the years.
Saturday, 19th June
Antipasti tasting with The Real Olive Company
We love the Real Olive Company's sundried tomatoes, artichokes, anchovies and spicy stuffed peppers and customers enjoyed the opportunity to taste the range of Mediterranean nibbles that were available for tasting from The Real Olive Company.
Saturday, 12th June
Lahloo Tea
This was another opportunity to try some new and exciting teas with Kate Gover founder of our favourite tea supplier, Lahloo Tea.
We’ve been a long time fan of Lahloo’s teas, in fact we’ve been stocking them from the outset. Anyone entering the Deli can’t miss our beautiful dedicated stand of Lahloo Teas.
Saturday, 5th June
Sheppy’s Cider
On such a boiling hot day the thirst quenching Sheppy's Cider went down a treat. A big thanks to Martin Summerell of South West Drinks for providing our customers with samples of our 4 favourite Sheppy Cider's.
Although we're not sure how much Dabinett we've actually sold as David keeps drinking it.
Saturday - May 29th 2010
Marius Fabre
Thanks to all who came along to meet Christine Cheverry, we hope you all got the chance to try Marius Fabre’s wonderful range of soaps and lotions. If you missed it then don’t worry Christine left us some samples and testers and we always stock an extensive range of these amazing organic French soaps.
Saturday - May 22nd 2010
Olive oil tasting - Oro del Desierto – no, we can’t pronounce it either
The hottest day of the year somehow seemed appropriate for olive oil tasting with Oro del Desierto's outstanding Spanish olive oils. It was so hot we moved the tasting to outside in the arch way and it seemed to be a real hit with the passing Cliftonites.
A Spanish olive oil needs to be really good to get selected by our French and Italian deli team over oils from their own countries, fortunately Oro del Desierto is amazing.
May 15th 2010
Strawberry Hill Wine Tasting
John from Strawberry Hill Vineyard kindly ran a free tasting in the deli. We had already been through the ‘arduous’ task of having to taste all of their wines with Debbie picking up on the flavour of sweets from her childhood; the Orion tasting of ‘Cherry Lips’ and the Montpellier Red of ‘Strawberry Laces’.
It was great to see people trying English wines for the first time and seeing their faces when they realised they were drinking English Merlot! Read more on our news blog.
Why not pop in and give them a try yourself and see if you agree.
April 29th 2010
Discover the Secret of Organic Joy!
Organic food producer, Feeding Your Imagination Ltd founder and director Paul Da-Costa-Greaves showcased his range in an introductory chocolate evening. We had over 40 people crammed into our cafe enjoying sampling the full range of Paul's amazing chocolates. We also had a chocolate fountain on tap and pink champagne to help set the mood of chocolate indulgence.
If you missed it be sure to get on our mailing list so you can be contact about the next event.
We have been stocking Paul’s amazing range of chocolates for a several months now and they have proved to be a massive hit with the people of Clifton. All chocolate used by Feeding Your Imagination is both Fairtrade and Organic and supports Cocoa plantation farmers in Ghana. There are 12 flavours of functional chocolate available in the range, with inspirational names such as; BEAUTIFUL, DREAMY, SEXY, FANTASTIC, LOVELY, SEDUCTIVE, MISTRESS, SENSUAL, GORGEOUS, FRUITY, YIN & YANG. Also included in the range are Gourmet Seaweed Sauces, Christmas Puddings and Old Mother Hubbard Everyday Fruit Puddings.
February 6th 2010
Tea Tastings
Kate Gover, the owner of Lahloo Tea, ran free tea tastings on Saturday 6th February at Arch House Deli.
We've been a long time fan of Lahloo’s teas, in fact we've been stocking them from the outset. Anyone entering the Deli recently can't miss our beautiful dedicated stand of Lahloo Teas. We have recently extended the range of teas and we now also stock the fantastic Stump teapots (the name really doesn't do then justice) that we use in our café.
January 27th 2010
Chocolate workshop
We had a full house of Cliftonites in our cafe for our first ever workshop. It all got lovely and messy with vats of molten chocolate and lots of messy hands.
See our news blog for more information.