*Editor’s note: This eatery is now closed. This review remains online as part of an archive.* "Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake." - Edward Morykwas How do you celebrate your birthday? I tend to jettison my usual stoicism for the day and feel recklessly indulgent on my birthday. How else…
Read more
*Original review date July 2018* Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. Sophia Loren I adore pasta, in all forms, from fat ribbons of tagliatelle to plump raviolo. I have made pasta from scratch, and loved it, yet my pasta machine is buried deep in the back of the cupboard, like a crammed commuter on…
Read more
*Editor’s note: The West Bridgford site reviewed is now closed. This review remains online as part of an archive.* Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, yet summer’s lease hath all too short a date. I have never…
Read more
*Original review date June 2018* Weekends are for writing, indulging in good food, reading and chilling out with loved ones. The sun was out in a cloudless sky, and the weather was set for a tapas review, and so it was, that I found myself heading to Baresca Nottingham to check out the food a…
Read more
*Original review date June 2018* What is your go-to place for a special visit? If you haven’t got one, read on. Hart’s Nottingham is one of those places that has been on my radar for some time. Finally I found myself booked in for lunch at Hart’s. The first thing that strikes you, is that…
Read more
*Editor’s note: The Friar Gate Derby site is now closed. This review remains online as part of an archive.* With temperatures set to soar over the coming week just in time for the nice long bank holiday weekend, you’re probably on the lookout for a good eatery. You know, the sort of place where you…
Read more