A Clifton Breakfast at the Rosemarino cafe bar

December 3, 20105 comments

After a wibbly, wobbly night on an air mattress on our friend Matt’s living room floor, we decided a good hearty breakfast was in order. By the time we’d slowly heaved and panted our way up the very steep hill from Hotwells to Clifton (ok all the heaving and panting was only on my part) ... Read more »

Bath Ales’ Graze Bar & Chophouse, Bristol

November 28, 20101 comment

Bristolians, it seems, don’t much care for eating out on a Sunday evening. Or perhaps restaurant owners have just decided they don’t fancy opening on Sundays? At any rate, we found that many of the restaurants we had shortlisted for our Sunday evening meal weren’t open. Luckily for us, Bath Ales’ Graze Bar & ... Read more »

Hotel du Vin Cheltenham

November 26, 20105 comments

This time last year I had a disappointing experience at a Hotel du Vin. I’d been wanting to stay at one of the chain’s modern, funky hotels for some time and finally made a booking at the Bristol property, known as The Sugar House. Our stay was let down firstly by a particularly poorly planned ... Read more »

Brown & Forrest: A Family Smokery in Somerset

October 31, 20107 comments

One of the best things about travelling around Britain is the opportunity to visit high-quality, local, specialist producers and try and buy their products. One such producer is Brown & Forrest, a small family run smokery producing a wide range of smoked goods including eel, salmon and duck, to name just a few. Started ... Read more »

Holbeck Ghyll: A Disappointment

September 23, 20107 comments

Our most disappointing and overpriced meal this year was at Holbeck Ghyll in Cumbria, during a week in the Lakes. I can’t even begin to imagine how it merits a Michelin star, but can only guess that standards have dropped sharply since it was sold in January this year. I’ll be gobsmacked if it retains ... Read more »

The Black Bull (Pub & Brewery)

August 31, 20102 comments

A visit to the Lake District really isn’t complete without visiting a few of the many small breweries that abound in this region. So during our week’s holiday to Windermere in July, Pete and I made our way to Coniston’s Black Bull, attached to the small Coniston Brewing Co. The pub is charmingly retro; it’s ... Read more »

The Three Horseshoes, Powerstock, Dorset

July 4, 201013 comments

It’s amazing how many blog posts I’ve still left to write from our short trip to Dorset at the end of May. I’ve already blogged the foraging course around which the weekend away was arranged, our meal at Hix Oyster & Fish House, another at The Wild Garlic and even shared what we cooked with ... Read more »

Dorset’s Finest: The Wild Garlic

June 13, 20107 comments

After screaming in delight at the telly when Mat Follas won Masterchef 2009 my friends and I had a fantastic meal at his new restaurant, The Wild Garlic, during our summer holiday in Dorset last year. Mat also kindly gave me an interview, which remains one of the most popular posts on my blog to ... Read more »

Hix Oyster & Fish House, Lyme Regis, Dorset

June 7, 20103 comments

West Dorset has become a place of pilgrimage for food lovers. Not only is it a land of abundance, with wild garlic growing… well, wild… along the verges and dairy cows mooing in delight over the lush green grass, it offers a fabulous selection of top class eating experiences of which we sampled only a ... Read more »

A Market Meander in Borough Market

May 7, 20101 comment

I had such a lovely day one recent Friday. Having arranged to meet a blogger friend for lunch at Polpo (whom I’d long known on twitter but never met) I thought it about time I popped down to collect a pile of magazines a friend in Borough Market had been saving for me for at ... Read more »

A Clifton Breakfast at the Rosemarino cafe bar

Bath Ales’ Graze Bar & Chophouse, Bristol

Hotel du Vin Cheltenham

Brown & Forrest: A Family Smokery in Somerset

Holbeck Ghyll: A Disappointment

The Black Bull (Pub & Brewery)

The Three Horseshoes, Powerstock, Dorset

Dorset’s Finest: The Wild Garlic

Hix Oyster & Fish House, Lyme Regis, Dorset

A Market Meander in Borough Market

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