It’s seventh heaven for any foodie – and it’s available for free on a screen near you.

Dorset Foodie Feed, edited by Heather Brown, now has a directory of over 500 of Dorset’s food and drink businesses.

With a fully searchable map, you can search for businesses by:

• Location
• Region
• Business type

It allows you to find your local butcher, baker, fishmonger, milk vending machine, brewery, farm shop, coffee roaster, bar, cafe or restaurant …and everything in between.

The directory is open to any Dorset-based food or drink business to have a free listing including a location, contact details and link to their website, as well as any changes due to the current lockdown
restrictions.

Dorset Foodie Feed is also working with a number of food writers and bloggers to provide links to in-depth reviews for many of the businesses listed.

When the first lockdown forced the closure of the hospitality industry in March, Heather began to collate lists of businesses that were remaining open in the hopes of connecting consumers with local businesses.

The lists were viewed more than 15,000 times in three months.

It sparked the idea to create a more permanent directory that can flex around any future lockdown restrictions.

Heather, pictured left, said she hoped the directory will be a way of encouraging people to find out how they can support their local businesses and how many options they have close to them.

She said: “I have had the pleasure of sampling lots of Dorset created products and have met and chatted to many local artisans, farmers and chefs.

“They all have one thing in common – their love for their product and that shines through in its quality and taste.

“If I can help encourage people to try something new from a business in Dorset then, hopefully, we can all work together to support each other through this difficult season.”

Dorset Foodie Feed’s Directory is free to list so if your business or your favourite business is not listed then please email Heather on info@dorset.foodiefeed.co.uk to get it added.

You can visit the directory here.

Dorset Foodie Feed has also created an online Christmas gift guide featuring gifts from 26 Dorset businesses.

Encouraging people to support local this Christmas, it covers a wide range of food items from a Christmas pudding chilli sauce, Christmas coffee and a rum advent calendar to a Christmas Eve kit for children including a mince pie for Santa and reindeer food, as well as sweet bakes for youngsters.

The gift guide can be found here.