Hippo Dartmoor

“Let food be thy medicine, let medicine be thy food” - Hippocrates

24/08/2026

👀WE’RE HIRING👀

We’re after an experienced part time chef to join our small hippo team…to start end of September…
Someone with:
A real interest and passion for food
Enthusiasm
Flexibility
Experience preferred but not essential.
We’re just over a year old and building something unique here on Dartmoor — with an emphasis on creative and nutritiously balanced dishes. We want someone who takes pride in their work and shares our values (Take a look at our website!) www.hippodartmoor.co.uk

You’ll be working with a small, committed, and energetic team.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

Contact ione on [email protected]

23/08/2026

💎ONE of THOSE WEEKS💎
Despite the challenges of running a small business in hospitality on the edge of Dartmoor…ROAD CLOSURES (plural) and all.. this week has been one of those gems
💥Hippo come Salon with a bit of pre service life drawing.. Terri, one of our regulars managed to pin Birdie down long enough ( not for long) to do a sneaky portrait
💥Bundy, another one of our regulars took it upon herself to stake our self seeded tomato plants 🥰
💥Local growers bearing edible gifts for Claudia to turn into seasonal treats for the specials board
💥 Fantastic GCSE results for Birdie… very proud mini mooti ❤️
💥 The joy of friends
💥 Berto’s generosity is abound.. his tiramisu TOP NOTCH.. we love him 😍
💥 Food festival…a joyous day of colour, delicious aromas, frivolity and SELL OUT goat curry 🐐🐐🐐🐐 we got more for carnival!
💥 To top it all.. living on Dartmoor!

21/08/2026

🥳MORETON FOOD FESTIVAL 2026 🥳
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Join us tomorrow at Moretonhampstead yearly food festival kicking off the carnival vibes..
we’ll be serving up our super popular curried goat rice and peas and a slimmed down version of our regular menu…we got smoothies, iced coffees, matcha, beer, delicious cider, wine and cocktails..look forward to seeing you there 😍
We’re open from 9am.. festival from 10 - 4

17/08/2026

💥🔥🥳BREAKING NEWS🥳🔥💥
Greatest Of All Time curry is back on the menu
From 22nd August as part of the Moreton Food Festival and then again at carnival on 27th we’ll be serving up our super popular curried goat rice and peas with a little pinky pink slaw… CAN’T WAIT!!! We reckon worth braving the road closures for 🤪

14/08/2026

🦠WHY so ADDICTIVE??? 🦠
As another batch of Hippo kimchi/Pinkchi is underway we wanted to share some of the reasons we love it so much and why it’s SO addictive AND good for you!!!
Not only does it taste great BUT the biology behind it is truly fascinating… and it’s still a field with much to discover…
Increasing the diversity of our gut bacteria by eating foods like kimchi we are changing the conversation between our gut and our brain via the vagus nerve and gut-brain-axis… influencing the chemistry of the gut.. and pathways involving neurotransmitters such as serotonin, dopamine and GABA that control movement, memory, mood and basic bodily functions. They influence our food choices… which must be why when we start eating kimchi on a daily basis there’s a little voice saying ‘eat me, eat me’, even when you start smelling like a cabbagy gas station, you don’t care, you just want more 😂
Thousands of years ago in Korea, Kimchi came about as a simple way to preserve veggies in salt brine. We love that it can be whatever you want, different veggies, different spices, different recipes…AND different bacteria from the household or the people who make it, make every batch unique!

10/08/2026

🥀🍄OUR FABULOUS NEW ACQUISITIONS🍄🥀
We are very lucky to have such a talented ‘Hippo Grand Mooti’ aka my Mum 😍, aka Rosie Martin, who has agreed to let us sell her gorrrrgeous cards…

These beautiful hedgerow cards began as a visual diary starting on the first day of the COVID-19 lockdown, inspired by the incredible variety of Devon’s hedgerow flowers and plants. What started as a daily sketch soon grew into a year-long project celebrating the beauty of the local landscape.
The collection (24 double sided in all) also tells a personal story of recovery. After a stroke in July 2019 affected her left side, Rosie—a lifelong left-handed artist known for her detailed botanical illustrations—had to rediscover her way of drawing. The lighter, freer style that emerged is reflected in these cards, a celebration of both Devon’s hedgerows and the resilience of the creative spirit. We will have them for sale from now on, either individually or as packs of 6.
we also have her illustrations gracing our website

07/08/2026

💥💥💥THE SPECIAL SPECIAL💥💥💥
These courgette and cheese wraps have been flying out of the Hippo kitchen… FULL to the brim with the good stuff 🥗🐓perfect for a take out picnic lunch OR enjoy in-house with a fig & hazelnut smoothie, an iced latte, golden milk OR a crisp glass of Vinho verde🥂!!!!

01/08/2026

Some stuff we do that we think is pretty cool - some stuff that is happening that is not fu***ng cool (by any stretch of the imagination) 😳

We love our new hippo planters filled with top notch compost 🪱🐓made from the hippo kitchen waste given to our chickens, who’ve spent the year rummaging through it - I’ve noticed the odd self seeded tomato plant making an appearance 🤩🪱🐓🥗
Made by Jasper and Bruno ❤️ EmanuelHendry
We’ve been working on making the hippo exterior look as inviting and fun as the interior by introducing more plants and a wall mounted umbrella …we think it makes a big difference…would love to know what you all think?🤔

The s**t bit…YES, Devon County Council have gone ahead and closed the main road from Moreton to Bovey Tracey for the WHOLE of the summer holidays…please support all the small businesses in our town, we’re certainly gonna need it!!! 🤪 It has also come to our attention in the last couple of days that on some days there are unscheduled works going on, on some of the diversion routes into Moreton, making it virtually impossible to get to us!!! WT actual F 😳

29/07/2026

A YEAR WITH THIS GUY… ❤️
It’s not just about high quality, delicious nutritious food…it’s about exceptional service too!
Pretty much since we opened our doors we’ve been lucky enough to have Jago as part of the hippo team.. he came to us with no experience in hospitality (not sure he knew what he was letting himself in for!) learnt on the job, risen to the challenge, brought his own ideas, a little more madness, learnt how to make raw vegan cakes to the highest standard (AND cut them!) entertained and thrilled our regular/particular 😂 customers…AND last but certainly not least, has become one of the BEST BARISTAS around!!! Hippo will not be same without you Jago Kay but we’ll still have a bit of your spirit…last full day tomorrow ☹️ Oh, and he has the worst FOMO EVER about EVERYTHING!!! 😂

23/07/2026

🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫MUSHROOM TEMPURA MEDLEY🍄‍🟫🍄‍🟫
Flexibility, compromise, and working with what you’ve got!
This is one of our Hippo ‘Crit’ (not very naturopathic) specials, that’s been a huge hit with our customers since we opened. The Maitake mushroom is a tricky customer in terms of growing consistently, meaning or suppliers have been struggling to grow enough in the warmer weather to keep up with
demand…SO, rather than deprive you of one your fave battered treats we’ve got around this by using a mix of shimeji, king oyster and lion’s mane mushrooms which works great, and we think elevates the dish…
Would love to know what you think too 🤩

Address

Cross Street
Moretonhampstead
TQ138NL

Telephone

+447739691648

Website

http://www.hippodartmoor.co.uk/

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