How would you like a chance to really impress your loved one? The Montagu Arms Hotel in the New Forest are offering visitors to Great British Chefs the opportunity to win a fantastic weekend break at their hotel, home to the highest rated restaurant in the New Forest, The Terrace. The Valentine’s Escape Prize worth [...]
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Bedford Coucil project for new hotel and restaurants
February 3rd, 2012
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Denne and Coplan Estates are working with Bedford Borough Council on a £50m project to regenerate the town’s riverside. The site is currently occupied by a car park and Bedford Borough Council offices, now due to be vacated this spring. Denne and Coplan are working alongside architects PRP to develop proposals for Bedford Borough Council’s [...]
Recipe of the Week from Great British Chefs, by Nathan Outlaw
January 31st, 2012
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Warm salad of braised cuttlefish with ink vinaigrette by Nathan Outlaw If you like squid, you’ll love cuttlefish, an underutilised product of the sea that’s well worth getting to know because, unlike its other relative octopus, the cuttlefish’s fleshy body is substantial. Nathan Outlaw, whose eponymous Cornish eatery Restaurant Nathan Outlaw has been named Best Fish [...]
The UK’s best Chinese restaurants
January 31st, 2012
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Celebrate the Year of the Dragon by feasting at one of these fabulous restaurants…MSN Food have selected a choice worthy of further investigation…The mark of any decent Chinese restaurant is not necessarily the awards that it’s won or its trendy interior, but whether the Chinese community eats there or not. If it’s popular then you [...]
Win lunch or dinner at a 10 in 8 Michelin Star restaurant
January 19th, 2012
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Villeroy & Boch the tableware providers to 10 in 8 have created the opportunity for three of our visitors to each win a voucher worth £250 to enjoy lunch or dinner at the 10 in 8 restaurant of their choice. The restaurants to choose from are…L’ortolan, based in Reading, Berkshire and already boasting one Michelin [...]
Britain’s pub and restaurant groups enjoy Christmas sales boost
January 18th, 2012
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Britain’s pub and restaurant groups enjoyed a major sales boost over Christmas and New Year. Collective like-for-like sales for December were up 9.9% on the same period last year, with total sales ahead 13.7% on December 2010, according to latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker data. The figures come from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker*, the [...]
Half of meals eaten out now from fast food restaurants
January 18th, 2012
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It’s official: consumers in the UK have developed a growing appetite for fast (quick service) food. The latest data from independent foodservice research agency NPD Group shows that over half of all meals eaten out of the home are now bought from fast food restaurants. When it comes to visiting restaurants, NPD’s data reveals a [...]
Antonio Carluccio becomes Chef Ambassador
January 18th, 2012
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The Clink Charity and Restaurant is thrilled to announce culinary legend, Antonio Carluccio as the most recently appointed Chef Ambassador, joining fellow Italian gastronome, Giorgio Locatelli, for the next three years. The Clink Restaurant, situated within H.M.P. High Down estate in Surrey is the first and only commercial restaurant to be built inside a working [...]
Madonna inspires the Edward and Wallis Cocktail
January 18th, 2012
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Boyds Brasserie, situated in Northumberland House, a Grade II listed building just off Trafalgar Square, has recreated a cocktail designed by the “playboy” Prince of Wales (King Edward VII). The “Edward and Wallis” cocktail celebrates Boyds Brasserie’s connection to Madonna’s “W.E.” film, which launches in cinemas nationwide on Friday 20 January 2012. The famous tale [...]
