Carpenters Arms, Felixkirk, North Yorkshire
Where to go for a quick supper on a Tuesday night in June? Many places now close both Monday and Tuesday, as well as Sunday evenings. Gone are the days […]
Category Archives: England
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Described by The Ivy as the Black Forest Gateau of the ’90s. Now that we’re some twenty plus years on we see it’s absolutely thriving on the menus up north. […]
The Orangerie, Rockcliffe Hall, County Durham
Rockcliffe Hall Hotel is a luxury hotel, spa and golf course in Hurworth. It sits right on the banks of the River Tees, where the Tees is a beautiful river […]
The Buck Inn, Maunby, North Yorkshire
Maunby is a little village in North Yorkshire, and is on a road to nowhere; cul-de-sac; dead end. In other words, you have to be going to Maunby with a […]
Vanessa’s Deli, Beverley, East Yorkshire
A chance find on a trip to Minster Cycles in Beverley. This small deli and café produces wonderful, simple and tasty food. The mushroom and blue cheese soup was as […]
The Star in the City, York
We’ve got a small selection of flat caps [is it Yorkshire?], three in fact. By a chance of fate, one of them actually came from Yorkshire. The other two have been […]
Sharrow Bay, Ullswater, Lake District
We used to sail a little dinghy on Ullswater, keeping it on the shore in a friendly [and cheap] field on the northern shore. It was a Cornish Coble which […]
Angel Inn, Hetton, North Yorkshire
June 4th. Hot and sunny, the sheep are in the shade of the trees, sheltering from the searing Yorkshire sun, the air still and heavy with the scent of spring/summer* […]
Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor
Thinking about the recent post on the Art School in Liverpool, it was hard to think of a food that epitomises that great city. We have a sister-in-law whose parents […]
The Art School, Liverpool
That great conurbation of Manchester and Liverpool [and Salford, Rochdale etc] – dubbed the new Northern Powerhouse by Her Majesty’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne – is surprisingly deficient […]
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