Category Archives: Cumbria
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
Mapping the Food Standards Agency reports
The latest updates to the map of food premises rated zero for hygiene standards are updated today at The Northerner blog. I’ve started this process with five northern cities in order to reveal what lies behind those ‘scores on the … Continue reading
Filed under Cumbria, Manchester, News, north-east
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
Filed under Cheshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire, News, north-east, Yorkshire
M6 service station food praise
I accept that very few people ever travel to a service station to experience the food. Aside from Heston’s Little Chef experiment, our roadside eateries are, on the whole, places known only for over-priced stodge, unclean toilet facilities and burger … Continue reading
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