Category Archives: Cheshire
Food in the north – not all curry and chicken parmos
Here in the north we spend less on food and drink than the English average as well as less on eating out, according to the latest Family Food Survey. And while people in the north east, north west, Yorkshire and … Continue reading
The hunt to find the north’s best food and drink blog is on
The Blog North Awards opened for nominations earlier this week giving readers the chance to mark their appreciation for the hours of dedicated blogging going on across our vast region. It’s an expansion of what was previously the Manchester Blog … Continue reading
Join the take-away inspection investigation
Over on The Northerner blog today I launched the start of an investigation to reveal the full findings of the food premises rated zero duirng inspections over the past year. You can read the findings from the first two councils … Continue reading
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Time to vote for the north’s Deli of the Year
If you’ve got a local deli you love – it’s the final public stages of the national Deli of the Year competition and your vote is needed. So far there’s been 18 delis nominated in the north east and 17 … Continue reading
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Where to get a value Michelin lunch in the north
If you’re looking for some top nosh food at a reasonable price, heading for the lunch menu can be a way to sample the best menus at a more restricted cost than the full dinner menu. The train company Trainline … Continue reading
The Mere Golf Resort & Spa official re-opening
As part of its £15 million investment, The Mere Golf Resort & Spa tells me it has expanded its food and beverage team and is officially re-opening this week. The Mere’s food and beverage team now consists of 19 chefs … Continue reading
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Mapped: Northern Food Bloggers
There’s quite a few of us now! In an attempt to keep track of some of the food blog I follow from across the north of England I’ve plotted them on a Google map which you can see here; [googlemaps … Continue reading
Christmas dinner extras
One of the best things about Christmas lunch is all the extras so I thought I’d get prepared and gather together some of the recipes for all the accompaniments for the main course. Honey-glazed carrots recipe – Recipes – BBC … Continue reading
Organic food hero due in the north west
Prominent organic campaigner Guy Watson is going to be leading a debate about the whys and wherefores of organic food in Altrincham next month. Guy, who has been tilling the organic furrow for the past twenty years and is responsible … Continue reading
The Legh Arms @ Prestbury
Seeing as we travel around the country with enough electronics to remotely navigate a super liner into a berth on the other side of the Atlantic (phones, GPS, PDAs, laptops etc), the sort of confusion thing I’ll go into here shouldn’t really happen. But, precisely because of the reliance on such equipment over the commonsense and paper map efficiency of times gone by – they do.
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