Northwich - First Choice Fruit

I love a proper greengrocers!  As a child I can remember going with my mum shopping. The greengrocer sometimes would give me an apple (possibly to shut me up).  We'd decide what we were going to have for tea after we'd got to the shop and seen what was in season and looked good.  

 

Matthew Gurney has run this Northwich  business for 22 years and always has a great display of whatever is in season.  Here they stock local produce wherever they can, including eggs, honey and pickles as well as fruit and vegetables.

Earlier this year it was plums:

and when it was apple day there was far more choice in this shop than most supermarkets. 

As we're getting close to Christmas there's now sprouts on sticks:

(which I suspect supermarkets would find a nuisance even though they do keep better), cranberries, and interesting root vegetables like celeriac and Jerusalem artichokes:

plus a choice of white, purple or Romanesque cauliflower.  

There's a good selection of herbs, and this is one of the few shops that sell proper horseradish - which tastes so much nicer than the stuff the supermarkets sell. 

If you can't see what you want it's worth asking here, as they also have a large wholesale business supplying hotels, colleges etc. and they have even more stuff at the back of the shop.

There's also a selection of flowers at affordable prices:

So have a look at a site like www.eattheseasons.co.uk for inspiration and visit this great shop.

First Choice Fruit
6 Leicester Street
Northwich
Cheshire
CW9 5LA

Tel: 01606 350059

Web: www.firstchoicefruit.co.uk/