Here at merchant gourmet were all about the food its what we love and what we live for and its this passion for exciting flavours and new ingredients which drove us in the very beginning we launched back in 1985 inspired by a nations growing appetite for unique innovative foods we were one of the first to bring exciting ingredients such as dried porcini mushrooms sun dried tomatoes and puy lentils to the masses keeping a close eye on both food and lifestyle trends we developed to als