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The Advice, Reviews & Ramblings of A Food Obsessed Chef!
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The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads
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 Wife’s Schnitzel: A Love Letter
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, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered
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!
Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner
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
Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics
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
The Beech Tree, Oswestry is a great example of getting generosity right! Highly recommended!
Floro Lounge, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury
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!
Montford Bridge Cafe, just off the A5 - value, generosity and a brilliant cooked breakfast!
My Mum’s 1970’s ‘British’ Sweet Curry
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 Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community
The Royal Oak, Whatcote - a great example of where Michelin Starred dining can incorporate the entire local community!
Petit Glou - Light & Fresh Lunch Packed With Quality Produce
Petit Glou - a great example of considered, sustainably focussed food that doesn’t disappoint with flavour. Light, fresh, delicious!
The Hotel Continental Breakfast! How Circumstance Beats Flavour!
How circumstance is the greatest ingredient of all! Explained through the means of a Continental Breakfast!
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!