The Community Kitchen is a project about food in mouths and smiles on faces. This was a lunch cooked by 4 Sudanese young people using Surplus Food to help celebrate food from their home. An education on so many levels and a properly delicious eye-opening experience for any cook!

My hunt for great fry ups continues. This time its Ma Bakers Cafe in Prees, Shropshire. A fairly mundane breakfast packed with happy nostalgic memories and a great example of where great food isn’t just about great flavour!

My Wife’s Schnitzel - juicy, tender, rich and delicious when its smothered in brown butter…..

This is a love letter about my favourite meal cooked by my favourite person.

Chapters, a Michelin Green Star restaurant in Hay On Wye. Delicate, delicious and considered. A produce led meal, packed with sustainability, great flavours and a beautifully delicate and elegant touch. Highly recommended!

A meal with such consideration for the diner. Memorable, inspirational, aspirational and seriously delicious. I can’t remember the last time I ate so well, where on the surface there was so little, yet absolutely nothing was missing. My perfect meal at Rochelle Canteen

Mighty M’s is situated in a lay-by on the A49 between Shrewsbury & Ludlow, they serve English and Jamaican food. Proper hospitality, proper flavours from real people cooking with love. It’s a flavour packed experience, redefining lay-by food. This is how I got on!

I fear the proper pub lunch is fading away. Lost and on it’s way to becoming folklore. There is a shining light though. The Tally Ho In Bouldon! Proper Pub Lunch! Wizards vs Dark Forces vs Sally Gunnell…..this is what I found when I went for lunch!

I’ve been guilty of some taco bashing in the past. Can Shrewsbury’s coolest new food spot, Bobby’s change my mind?

The Beech Tree, Oswestry is a great example of getting generosity right! Highly recommended!

Hot off the heels of a visit to Novello Lounge in Telford (2 months ago) we headed to one of it’s cousins, Floro Lounge in Shrewsbury for some breakfast……..

Montford Bridge Cafe, just off the A5 - value, generosity and a brilliant cooked breakfast!

Bamboo House’s turn on this merry-go-round of mediocre Chinese food in Shrewsbury!

I’m roaming around Shrewsbury searching for the perfect breakfast! Proper caffs, not cafes! Churchill’s Cafe in Shrewsbury is incredible value and just about ticks all the right boxes for a proper old school breakfast close to the centre of town!

This months Seasonal & Surplus is Swede!

This is comfort, this is happiness. A nostalgic flavour of my childhood that means the world to me. It would be on the shortlist for my death row meal. My love for this dish is eternal. It’s my Mum’s British 70s style Curry!

The Royal Oak, Whatcote - a great example of where Michelin Starred dining can incorporate the entire local community!

My first visit to any of these ‘lounges’………heard amazing things about the coffee, let’s find out what this Telford branch has to offer!

Christmas Dinner can be a really daunting task - here is my faultless prep list, chef style, to get you in front and organised for the big day!

The Royalist restaurant in The Prince Rupert Hotel is like Shrewsbury’s best kept secret and has potential to be a culinary destination for our town!

Petit Glou - a great example of considered, sustainably focussed food that doesn’t disappoint with flavour. Light, fresh, delicious!