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Food shops & markets in Eynsham
Click here for a full list of shops and businesses (non-food as well as food) in Eynsham - with addresses, phone numbers and opening hours.

Names in blue have their own website - click if you want to go to it.
As well as food shops, there are plenty of plenty of eating places (including an outstanding Indian, the Bayleaf), cafes and pubs and a high quality cook-shop. There's also a village-centre car-park (though perversely, you have to drive out of the village to get to it - and then walk 100 yds back along a path). Click here for map.
There is no supermarket in Eynsham (the Co-op and Spar are small self-service stores - fine for Eynsham, but not big supermarkets). The result is that Eynsham has a surprising and amazing collection of high quality food shops - well worth a special visit. Eynsham, in fact, is a foodies' paradise;

- a really high quality delicatessen - Sandy Hellig's Cornucopia really is a cornucopia - it has cheeses, salamis, olives, ice-cream and everything else you'd expect from a good deli - plus home-cooked (you can see the cooking going on the background of the photo at right) take-away dishes, pies, tarts, quiches, and sandwiches. Have a look on her website. She also does catering.
Sandy Hellig cooking in Cornucopia
- a real modern old-style top-quality family butcher - Richard Golsby's butchers shop is just opposite the Cornucopia. He sources all his meat from nearby farms - some of it's organic, and most of it is free-range and minimum chemicals. Besides regular meat (including mutton - quite hard to get these days), he does home-made sausages, pheasants, venison (from Balmoral), and fish (frozen but good quality).

But the surprising thing about this butchers shop is the amount of non-meat stuff there is in it - locally grown vegetables, cheese, ice-cream, fruit pies, and eggs (in season, Maran eggs - possibly the most delicious you've ever tasted).
Richard Golsby in his butchers shop
The Eynsham Co-op is also just opposite Cornucopia. It's an upmarket village Co-op, which has, or can get, almost everything the big supermarkets have, only it's not so big. There's a good wine selection with regular bargain offers, and bread baked on the premises (Cuisine de France). It's not as cheap as big supermarkets, but not so bad if you factor in the cost of going to Witney by bus or car (12 miles return @ 40p/mile (Inland Rvenue average cost) - £4.80)

Local Food

Several food suppliers in Eynsham (including the three above) sell locally produced food - click here to go to our page on local food, food miles, farmer's markets and more.
The Eynsham Co-op

weekly stalls and markets

There are also three weekly stalls/markets in Eynsham:

- on Wednesday mornings (9am - noon) there's a Grimsby fish van outside the Library in Mill Street - it's quite pricey, but it's good.

- on Thursday mornings (except Jan and early Feb) the Eynsham Country Market (formerly WI Market) is held in the Church Hall from 9 am till 11am (but almost everything is sold by 9.30 !) - local veg, honey, cakes (of course), jams, eggs, hampers (for friends, students, etc) - click here for more.

- on Saturday mornings (9am till noon) there is an organic vegetable stall outside the Eynsham Emporium. The vegetables are mostly (not the oranges though) grown at Worton Farm, a few miles from Eynsham. Even in winter there's a surprising variety.
The Saturday organic vegetable stall.