Straight From The Source

Combining supermarket convenience with artisan quality, SaucedHere.co.uk is revolutionising the Peak District food industry, one delivery at a time

- Amy Noton

The Peak District has long enchanted visitors and residents with its landscapes, heritage and historic towns and villages. Now, thanks to a unique local business, at the simple click of a mouse tourists can sample the area’s finest food and drink and locals can shop more conveniently from the region’s producers.

Online delivery service SaucedHere.co.uk was founded by Luke Osborne in 2016 with the aim of making it as easy as possible for people to purchase food and drink produced in the Peak District – or, as he enthusiastically refers to it, ‘the unsung food capital of the UK.’

Taking away the effort required to shop responsibly, whilst providing an opportunity to discover local food and drink, the website sources products directly from local producers and delivers them to your home, holiday cottage, camper van or tent in one flexible delivery.

Baskets can include a diverse range of produce from fresh fruit and vegetables to free-range meat, poultry, deli items, cheese, eggs, dairy products, alcohol, soft drinks, tea bags, coffee beans, fresh bread and delicious cakes.

Passionate foodie Luke lived in Bakewell in the heart of the Peak for over a decade with his wife Naomi and two daughters, building up an extensive knowledge of the Peak District and its produce, but it was in another National Park that the inspiration for Sauced Here began.

Luke explains: ‘I went on a self-catering holiday to the Lake District in 2013. We booked a cottage in the countryside and a supermarket delivery for when we arrived, only to spend the next day kicking ourselves as we discovered all the amazing shops in the local village. We’d missed out due to lack of local knowledge and a need for convenience.’

From that day on, Luke began to notice how many local businesses in Bakewell were closing down and wondered whether they were being passed by for similar reasons.