Norwich Restaurant Week is NOW – – until Friday 9th November 2018 That’s one delicious weekend and 2 mid weeks for a choice of 2 or 3 courses at lunch or dinner at a selection of 86 restaurants in Norwich and Norfolk beyond. Certain days may be excluded in certain restaurants but it’s always a great …
Maybe I’m old school or maybe it’s because I just about remember the insurgence & demise of Cordon Bleu cookery, then a decade later the Modern British minimalist style arising in London, now we have the tweezer generation. I love food – – I’m not a greedy pig (ish!), I’m not into eating until …
This year I’ve had or booked in are 60 cookery courses, last year it was 48, the year before 39 – so its fair to say it’s getting busier every year. I’ve been teaching cookery for over 15 years now, first working for Adult Education & Family learning where I got my qualifications in teaching …
It’s incredible what CHEESE we have in this fine county. As I wrote this list, even though I’ve tasted the majority of them and nearly always buy local cheeses for my cheeseboards and cheese fueled recipes, It had escaped my mind what an amazing selection of gorgeous cheeses we make. (I say we!) Cream cheese, …
When I heard the Ivy was coming to Norwich, I was overjoyed – I’m all for BIG-ing up Norwich but to have a company like The Ivy choose us that’s gotta mean something, right! We’ve already got the biggest Jamie’s in the UK & the biggest open-air market & we’ve got the best produce known …
Way back before Percy Pigs, Five Guys & The Great British Bake off – I decided to go in to catering. Yes, admittedly I wasn’t doing that great at school, dyslexia inhibited me to get straight A’s but I had an amazingly practical brain and an entrepreneurial spirit. I thought if I studied catering I …
If you’re like me and you travel to eat, then when you’re on holiday you wouldn’t want to waste a single meal – ever restaurant & every meal counts. So, I was thinking if I was coming to Norwich for a week on holiday where would I choose to eat from the experience that I …
About a year ago I noticed a buzz on social media about Nelsons Gold. Then a few months later I bumped in to Steph and Matt at a trade fayre, the couple behind Founding Drinks. Now the proud parents of three little beauties – Wild Knight Vodka, Nelsons Gold and the new baby Boadicea Gin. …
I was watching ‘Victoria’ last night and Albert commented that the British press referred to him as a sausage. That’s quite typical of the British with our good balance of sarcastic, a twist of irony & a big measure of xenophobia. So, typical that even back then the press would refer to Prince Albert, as …
Whenever I’m coerced on to a committee I’malways in charge of the catering –so when over a decade ago I was organising the ice-cream for St Christopher’sschool summer fate, I taste tested a local ice-cream (not in existence any more) – – it tasted like a horrible mass-produced product from a factory shop and I …