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Review: Fox and Hounds, Goldsborough
The one when I get busted for snapping the food! I found out about this place from some online research and it seemed to have all the required factors for a birthday treat for Himself. But I had no...
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Following in the footsteps of Mr Rayner – to Brum
Picture: Karen Strunks Food critics of the mainstream news variety are rumoured to be able to make or break a place. Maybe they can – have you ever known of such? It’s certainly not often I get to eat...
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Product trial: Gift hamper from Forman and Field
The hamper revealed! I’m a bit of a sucker for hampers, to be honest, not least because you end up with a lovely storage box for your trouble but also it’s exciting opening it up to find out what’s...
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Product trial: Guinness gourmet peanuts and cashews
Nuts and beer. Beer and nuts. Go together like …..well beer and nuts. So some bright spark has decided to put them together and come up with beery nuts. Packaging: Being Guinness branded, they’re in...
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Holland’s Pies new range tried and tasted
Louise Bolotin from the Lone Gourmet blog gets to grips with the latest pie range from Holland’s. A pie and a pint are a match made in heaven – comfort food and traditional thirst-quencher. What’s not...
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Five favourite restaurants of 2012
Pick of 2012, a set on Flickr. It’s time for the obligatory end of year blog post, something that’s becoming as much a part of the seasonal festivities as crackers at Christmas. Dining out has been...
View ArticleWhat’s cooking in Malaysia Kitchen?
Guest blogger Stanley Harper went along to a recent showcase of Malaysian food in Manchester and found that simplicity is the key to the cuisine. Here’s his report…… It took a lot of persuading to get...
View ArticleThe food photo challenge is complete, with love
@happyhooe tweets: @foodiesarah here\’s the beetroot and goats cheese starter I made for our Valentine\’s Dinner #FarmersChoice http://t.co/0ibPzruv Doesn’t that look just perfect! This beetroot...
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The Beast & The Swine: A pop up restaurant with presence
At a place to be revealed with a menu from a never seen before restaurant…….that was the unlikely offer which scores of adventurous diners signed up for with this weekend’s pop up restaurant in Leeds....
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Gallery of pictures from Tea on the Train
Tea on the train, a set on Flickr. Thanks to Yorkshire Tea for a delightful afternoon chugging around the countryside on board the Orient Express. Here’s the day on pictures – tea, cakes, champagne...
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Gongoozling, pie and guava jelly
A gongoozler is a person who enjoys watching activity on the canals in the United Kingdom. ‘Gongoozler’ may have been canal workers’ slang for an observer standing apparently idle on the towpath....
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Product trial: John Lewis Christmas trug hamper
John Lewis seems to have entered the British psyche when it comes to Christmas – whether the television advertising delights or annoys you, there’s no getting away from the fact that the retailer’s...
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Review: Going veggie down at Pizza Express
Tomato, basil, cheese and bread. How many of the world’s best dishes actually boil down to those ingredients? A recipe book attempting to feature them all would probably be a mighty tome indeed. But...
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Product trial: Grey’s Christmas Hamper
Last week I caught a television programme about the upmarket store Liberty of London. It charted the establishment’s history as an emporium which brought items of wonder from the east to us in the...
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Baked courgettes to start with #multifrychallenge
Courgettes with tuna For the first meal as part of the seven day challenge for the De’Longhi Multifry Challenge, I’ve done something very NOT fried. In fact there was no oil involved at all. It seems...
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Taking a break at Ox Pasture Hall
Time for tea? Always! A proper afternoon tea. Is there anything quite so daftly English as an afternoon tea? With its tiny sandwiches and cake overload all laid out in a tower of tiers which doesn’t...
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Countess of York: On track for afternoon tea
Inside the Countess of York Going to the cafe and the gift shop has become as much a part of a museum visit as enjoying the collections themselves but the National Railway Museum has gone one better –...
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