Shropshire organic beef business in top restaurant deal
A husband-and-wife team who run a beef farming business in Shropshire have won a prestigious order to supply a Michelin-starred restaurant in Amsterdam, after launching an export service.
Great Berwick Organics, which is located between Shrewsbury and Baschurch, won the order after hosting a visit earlier this year from two renowned Dutch chefs.
The chefs were accompanied by representatives from EBLEX, a UK-based organisation for the beef and sheep industry, and the aim was to impress them with the very finest beef.
Today Sam and Claire Barker, who run Great Berwick Organics, said they were delighted to be supplying the chef in Amsterdam.
Mr Barker said: "We are delighted. This is a very exciting sale for us. Alain Caron and Richard van Oostenbrugge are highly regarded and accomplished chefs in Holland. In fact Richard has just been awarded a Michelin star, just one year after the opening his restaurant, Bord'eau at De L'Europe in Amsterdam.
"We are very much looking forward to developing this Anglo/Dutch relationship further in the New Year."
Orders for the Barker's longhorn beef have also been received from other parts of Europe, with a large consignment of rolled sirloin winging its way to Athens, Greece, next week in time for Christmas lunch. Steaks and other cuts of beef have already been dispatched to Switzerland and to Germany.
Mrs Barker said: "The reputation of longhorn beef and Great Berwick Organics is spreading fast."
Orders from around the world are being placed via the website, www.longhornbeef.co.uk, and one order was even placed by a customer in New Zealand.
