https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog daily 0.75 2026-03-09 https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/death-by-tacos-chester monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/1f704cd7-21ac-47e8-b61f-be62ecafdc2e/tempImageRCqKTO.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - I definitely think this era gave me some balance. After all, while purveying rock on the outside, I was also still very much enjoying listening to The Spice Girl on the odd occasion (maybe frequent occasion). I stand firm on the my belief that the best people have dabbled in the world of alternative music, skating, rock, grunge and even the full emo life. They have generally found a better balance, they have more reasonable opinions and a decent outlook on life in general. I found my balance through Green Day, NOFX, Blink 182, Nirvana, Old School Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, darker shades of just about everything (from clothes to humour); watching A LOT of the WWF WWE attitude era and of course rumours of Marilyn Manson removing a rib to perform an act of self gratification - these were the foundations of my teen years and really the building blocks of the current me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5c273fb7-df09-490f-abcf-ad6b7784a35c/tempImagefqB4ce.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - You might start to wear brighter clothes, you might start to appreciate lighter music. You might find that balance in your life and accept that The Undertaker was never actually from the dark side and Paul Bearer wasn’t his real Dad and you may even be able to accept that WWF WWE isn't quite as real as you thought it was but you’ll almost certainly have the balance and presence of mind to walk the tight rope of reality and happily fall on either side, as and when you choose, without compromising the fun, enjoyment, the escapism and imaginative stimulation that only the genius of professional wrestling provides. Of course, you will always understand that Hulkamania is within all of us, will live forever and will always be running wild! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d71524b2-f8de-42b8-839c-0adabdcfcda0/tempImagexUoY6G.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - My own journey has taken me to more colourful clothes, a seriously eclectic taste in music and to a place where this 41 year old Dad will happily admit his addiction to professional wrestling has never waned. I’ve also developed a complete obsession with food. Especially good food! For me, there was no greater sense of home than walking into Death By Tacos. Dark interiors, music blaring from loud rock to metal, skateboards all over the walls. Skateboards covered in old school professional wrestlers. This is less dining experience and more a 15 year old Steve Wonderland. An actual dream! The fire within my soul, my inner child was ignited. Pure unadulterated excitement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/45f741de-e1fc-4bc0-a37c-e6deaed0f5e2/tempImageQFNcRu.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - The menu is almost irrelevant, I would eat everything on it. I’m indecisive at the best of times, I feel like a ‘Let The Kitchen Feed You’ option would be ideal! The main focus is of course the tacos but there is plenty around the tacos to offer a balance to everyone. I’ve previously struggled with tacos, not how delicious they are but more in the ‘taconomics’ and the way we eat them in a restaurant environment in this country. Their value for money and their soul is often lost by restaurants who do a great job of gentrifying them for the middle classes. Especially in very taco specific restaurants. I've recently been proved wrong in my own town, Shrewsbury and I’m delighted to say it's happened again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/56100980-0360-4787-8a63-52ea4178f026/tempImageQaLGRm.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - The ‘taconomics’ in this place are bang on point. So often places serve tacos in too much of a delicate way, under filled, too refined. Ultimately too expensive and not great value for money, often leaving me underwhelmed. We ordered the tequila chicken tacos - the first of many great decisions we made with this lunch. The corn tortillas were completely engulfed in the most wonderfully generous, well cooked chicken. Plenty of herbs and coriander and just enough tequila to peak an interest without giving you flashbacks of ‘that’ horrendous night in a Yate’s bar in 2006. There’s a sort of generosity here that makes eating the fun side of ‘too messy’. Impressively stacked but not daunting, that makes you sit back, move your head closer and sway from side to side to look at the food from all angles. Not just to admire how inviting it looks but also to plot and plan just how you’re going to eat it. If I didn't want to cheapen the image of them, I would be tempted to describe them as one of my most hated descriptions of anything ‘loaded’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/07d7892d-754c-45f7-a6a1-83f882d66219/tempImage0eANPB.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/90c5a52d-35b4-4017-ab6d-c40db37ff0b4/tempImageJimQJn.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - Whether this was intentional or not from the kitchen I’m not sure, but our best two decisions were left until the end. The chicharrones, two large chunks of deep fried pork belly, came out glistening in their own fat. A squeeze from one end and a river of beautiful molten lard trickled all the way down, flowing between every porky nook and cranny akin to a birdseye view of the Nile delta and somewhat reminiscent of my sweaty back at the end of a busy service back in my restaurant days. The sort of food porn moment that the influencers and food creators would flock to capture! But a food porn moment that also backs itself up when, after 5 minutes of filming from every angle, you finally get round to shoving it in your gob. They came with a pot of habanero and mango hot sauce which made the whole experience even more exciting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/0017d26b-5b0a-41c7-a2df-707ed5ec9292/tempImagevPqxpp.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - Caramelised, roasted and flavour packed hispi cabbage (or sweetheart if you're feeling a little more romantic) on a crema that's been revved up with chilli and everything else it needs to bring it to the exact point of sheer balanced delight. It was topped with some slightly salty, acidic queso fresca to bring it all back into line and to hold it right on the point of stepping over the flavour line. I was convinced that the addictive richness only comes with butter or a heavy seasoning of Hulkamania but my wife was convinced this was a dairy free option without the cheese. So it must have been the Hulkamania. Both of us were too busy guzzling it down to double check; we’ll just put it down to the Hulkamania and move on. [Note to self…..season more often with generous amounts of Hulkamania] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/9f1fe904-ffe0-401b-a7e1-36b52704190d/tempImagetA1xUx.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - Its flavour packed and food focussed without either the food nor the flavours ever overstepping the line. The menu is written with the eater in mind which is the exact point so many places go wrong. I didn't think the perfect lunch spot existed but maybe it's just because I’ve never eaten under the gaze of Andre The Giant and Macho Man Randy Savage listening to the soundtrack of my youth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e80cede8-9859-428b-8137-124d7ddf1d55/tempImagenh3Fm9.jpg My Blog - Death By Tacos, Chester - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/the-diaries-of-the-community-kitchen-5-willing-sudanese-lads monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/c1a010ce-89d1-46ac-ada3-7d98e50ec5f6/e4ea0e19-8c4d-4719-806a-82c78fcc57d8.JPG My Blog - The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads - There were now only 4 lads but their willingness remained and it was in the form of cooking lunch - a Sudanese lunch. An example to show off their food, their culture and what they love while they are now living in a new and very different land. A lunch that would be about integration as much as sustenance and from a selfish point of view an opportunity for my own ultimate educational activity. I constantly have internal thoughts about authenticity vs traditions. How they overlap and how personally subjective they can both be. I have previously been found to be searching for the authentically OG recipe or dishes when actually all I want is to find food cooked by people, eaten and enjoyed in homes and shared with loved ones. Dishes that have maybe been tweaked over generations, that aren’t written down but simply cooked using simple equipment. Real food cooked from the most earnest and honest roots in the most real of ways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2bc155b9-0021-4812-8bdc-68923e8fc273/c03b7500-1370-4a53-9f29-9ac3be06adce.JPG My Blog - The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads It was lovely to see that cooking was far from a rare occurrence in this house. In fact, it was the cornerstone of their household. Weekly meetings and rotas deciding who was cooking, washing up, dusting, tidying distanced this house from just about any other late-teen house share I have ever experienced. An even larger distance from my own personal experience of that age - particularly when it came to the dusting, cleaning and tidying. A distance I am still yet to shorten. Food was the first discussion - the top of the list. But not just the cooking, the time meals were set. They ate together every day. Far too often these days (I sound like my Dad, soz!) we seem to save eating together for a ‘special occasion’ rather than it just being the normal occurrence. It's quite obvious that this is so engrained in their culture, so deep rooted that they don’t even realise. The ultimate habit, it’s just what they do. I was happy to be already steeply climbing this learning curve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/3e8ecd8d-198d-4ca3-b84e-40cdeffa5322/tempImage3P9Etu.jpg My Blog - The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads - I asked them who taught them to cook. There was a little more confusion. I assumed some language barriers but it was more that they didn’t know you had to ‘learn’ to cook. Something so naturally passed on from generation to generation that it feels a little like dressing yourself or tying your shoelaces, it just happens, you just sort of know. If you don’t cook, you don’t eat so it’s literally a do or die approach to cooking! The kitchen now had an almost rhythmic feel. A well oiled machine or engine smoothly chuntering along. The high heat, the pace, the constant chatter between cooks and the fufu stick pulverising the tomato paste. The clunking of pots and pans; it all created a beat and a busy rhythm - everything seemed to be wonderfully in time. I was totally engrossed by it! The cast of Stomp would have been proud! It's a joy to watch such attentive cooking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4ccaa47c-17ba-4a30-af51-813bc90810f3/tempImagezgTksp.jpg My Blog - The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads - The business of the kitchen suddenly began to quieten, heat was reduced, the chatter slowed, lids were placed on the stew to be left to slowly tenderise and the fried lamb was left to rest. I was left staring and slobbering over the fried lamb chunks wondering how on Earth everyone else were controlling themselves. Thinking ‘please tell me if this is the snack while the stew cooks????’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e9a16f75-9e5e-43b6-bcde-5b2a71a360f7/IMG_2133.jpg My Blog - The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads - As cooks these lads were extremely generous. From the smile-inducing ‘pinches’ of salt to the generous amount of garlic they crushed, chopped and mashed to add to the stew, it was obvious that these guys loved to eat, they loved flavour, they also loved to cook. They used some lightly crushed coriander seeds. They were really keen to show me this bag of spices. They were delighted that they had a shop nearby that sold it. I’ve only ever seen coriander in whole or ground form - this middle ground was interesting. Without a pestle and mortar it would be hard to recreate. To these lads it was integral to get the balance of flavour just right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/35bef6a5-51d5-455a-ae85-d17fc04e927d/tempImagevetWwx.jpg My Blog - The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads - The confidence these lads had in the kitchen was delightful and way ahead of their age. When it came to finishing all the dishes, it was generous dousings of lemon juice, pinches of salt and cumin thrown from height across entire dishes. The confident turning out of the fufu in one swift movement and the confidence to just plonk the food in the middle of the table and invite us to eat without any fuss. The table was packed with generosity and thoughtfulness, not just in the way they cooked but they piled up a loaf of Warburton’s Toastie white sliced bread (their favourite) and they bought out a pack of bottled water. An unnecessary extravagance for us, but by their own words, tap water wouldn't be good enough for their guests. It’s always the small but thoughtful gestures that amplify the enjoyment of any meal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2324a22b-fe13-4e58-8e59-6b9528d7cd0a/835bb049-dc91-4b88-84a1-93ccdd9567ea+2.JPG My Blog - The Diary Of A Community Kitchen - 5 Willing Sudanese Lads - I couldn’t bring myself to tell them that I had a gluten intolerance. When they had gone to such generous lengths to host us, I had to bite the bullet, or in this case, the gluten laden fufu and my first piece of white bread in 3 years (and what an orgasmic moment that was!!!) - the least I could do was put up with the 2 belt loop bloating and the 4 days of constant flatulence…all apologies directed to my wife and kids… I am eternally grateful for the lessons I learnt during this lunch. My lunch finished on a thought about choices. Simply having a choice is a privilege so many of us take for granted and yet its something so many people are looking for. A simple choice. But when given a choice and we get used to that, what do we choose? So often its to be wasteful, especially when it comes to food. We choose not to fulfill the hope that we are so fortunate to have. We so often choose to prioritise our laziness at the expense of vital resources. Something this lunch has made me very conscious of. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/ma-bakers-prees-a-mundane-breakfast-full-of-happiness monthly 0.5 2025-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/3f46f2b6-4cb2-4e6b-bf56-0b11937e8791/IMG_9489.JPG My Blog - Ma Bakers Cafe, Prees - A Mundane Breakfast Full Of Happiness - I’m not always right, I can’t ‘always’ be right…right? That’s what my wife tells me, anyway. But she is always right. So that’s something to consider. I don’t mean that in a 1970s working man’s club circuit comedian’s content sort of way but in a genuinely, she is always right, kind of way - even when I’ve got my stubborn head on (most of the time) and I really don’t think she is, she really is! But of course, there are always going to be situations where it’s impossible to understand someone else's point of view. However hard you try, it will never make sense. For instance, people who think immigration is this countries biggest issue….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4163ba30-42dc-47c4-a192-c1df2c3d8fab/tempImage9WNCy8.jpg My Blog - Ma Bakers Cafe, Prees - A Mundane Breakfast Full Of Happiness - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a7e52338-f40f-4720-99de-f28a6eaed10b/tempImagekyj2Lf.jpg My Blog - Ma Bakers Cafe, Prees - A Mundane Breakfast Full Of Happiness - So with one mouthful of this breakfast, that has much like my University approach to seasoning, left all responsibilities with the bacon, suddenly I’m back in my University living room, proudly presenting underseasoned bowls of pasta to my housemates watching Alan Partridge, The Office or Phoenix Nights with anticipation in the air as to exactly how much of our student loan we were going to put behind the bar that night. From a flavour point of view, this is far from a good meal. One egg is slightly over cooked, both are completely unseasoned. The beans, like the ketchup are confusingly well balanced in their lack of flavour - neither sweet, tangy nor salty and definitely not tomato-ey. A sort of nothingness like the contents of a ‘food is just fuel’ person's head when they eat a meal. It says a lot when the highlight is the addition of BOTH fried bread AND toast on the plate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/248937f8-f3db-40a1-855d-4160e1a3457b/tempImageCOX0gL.jpg My Blog - Ma Bakers Cafe, Prees - A Mundane Breakfast Full Of Happiness - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/my-wifes-schnitzel-a-love-letter monthly 0.5 2025-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e1aa85c9-6ca5-4cee-b52c-86ca97baaf71/tempImagel5B7Mq.jpg My Blog - My Wife’s Schnitzel: A Love Letter - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/fd017364-fdd6-4711-9502-0dfe0a7faacb/tempImagehcPvil.jpg My Blog - My Wife’s Schnitzel: A Love Letter - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/chapters-hay-on-wye-delicate-delicious-considered monthly 0.5 2025-08-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/cc6a5665-8da2-4b41-9105-629853db70f2/tempImagelCau2w.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - The tables are spacious and laid up minimalistically with nothing superfluous. There’s plenty of room, perfect for somewhere serving small plates at lunch time which offers a freedom of choice as to how you want to dine. What order, what cutlery, where you want things to live on YOUR dining table. Restaurants can be guilty of prescribing your meal to you in too many ways, many forgetting that the dining table is the diners - not the chefs, not the front of house staff’s, not the owners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f77641a2-1ad1-453a-b9bf-737787fd795b/tempImageNUFuuI.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - The whole atmosphere of the restaurant is consistent to such an effortless level. It all seems almost too easy yet that is one of the hardest impressions to achieve! It reeks of authenticity. Charmaine (co-owner and front of house magician) is understated but so welcoming and friendly. Her approach is meaningful, delicate and like the rest of this place, considered. A true understanding of when to interject and when to give the diner some space. That sort of service when you think you might need something, look up and they are already on their way over, service senses are tingling! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8df11eb6-9345-41dc-8d93-0b2bfe366f6c/tempImageFC0295.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - I would like to add that we brought our 4 year old with us. Any slight trepidation soon dissipated with Charmaine’s service with offers of toning down spices in dishes and recommendations for her. The welcome for Cece was as warm and inviting as it was for us. We are so keen to make Cece feel at ease around food and restaurants, which isn’t as easy as it might sound. The drinks menu is something to behold. They run a bottle shop and have a wonderful range of natural and biodynamic wines. Clearly these have been selected carefully and with due consideration to stick to the overarching theme of this restaurant; considered but not contrived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/24a12d85-0c13-497c-b99d-762cd18a28db/tempImagevpVVee.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - Chapters are long term supporters of the Slow Food Movement, an organisation so close to my heart. One that pushes for a different world, a better world, a world of good, clean and fair food. A happier world, a world I want to be part of, a world I want everyone to be part of. You’ll find no better demonstration of everything Slow Food than Chapters. If I could orchestrate the perfect meal to show the world what Slow Food is all about, I would just bring everyone here. The place is littered with produce from Slow Food producers. The vegetables grown in their own market garden just a few miles away, tended to by Charmaine. The jars of foraged goodies fermenting and pickling on the shelf in the middle of the restaurant, a great reminder of what they are trying to do here with the whole focus on showing the value of food. Local is at the heart of everything on the menu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/df482d5d-2c74-4f3f-8bcf-09a7c34e5124/tempImageyHyVIH.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - There’s a general consensus that eating less but better quality meat is an ideal approach to alleviating the environmental pressures our food systems are placing on our planet. It’s something so often talked about but so rarely acted on. Chapters is the perfect example of just how wonderfully balanced you can orchestrate a menu, demonstrating this very point, without ever having to call it out. There’s one meaty dish on the menu, yet the meal doesn't lack any substance. Out of interest, It’s a delicious middle white pork terrine with a take on a salad cream that might inspire you to throw away your squeezy bottle and get you into making it yourself, plenty of pickles and some expertly, delicately handled salad leaves. So fresh, so delicious! Just like that salad cream, this meal has plenty of inspiration throughout. That magic balance where things feel achievable and your feel energised to try more, to cut less corners. It makes you really consider how you eat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/55fbf775-75cb-4b95-8d44-9fa8dd06641d/tempImageLZYqQc.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - The whole menu is gluten free apart from one flatbread dish. Not in a contrived way, crowbarring in gluten substitutes for dietary purposes but in a way that makes the menu better - no compromise! There’s no signs about it being gluten free, no flags in the food so other diners can watch the ‘freak show’. This isn’t about catering for specific dietary requirements, it’s about considering what's best for the menu and the diners. It gives the whole menu a much lighter feel, all to its credit. For example, the brilliant crackers that are lighter, thinner and more crackerish than their glutenised counterparts - the perfect scoops for the previously mentioned pork terrine, the light as air carlin pea houmous and the cheese, green fig and pickled walnut dish. Again, it's executed in a way that doesn't leave you missing anything nor wanting more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4799eef2-80cf-4ddc-bf20-f6c12b4a7c9c/tempImageTzCUu9.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - What I will say, is to take caution if you bring a 4 year old with you. You won’t have a look in when it comes to pud! Cece first took my wife’s plate of Baked Alaska, then turned to me, reached her spoon over, flattened my Alaska before staking a claim to half of it. I’m a proud father who finds it hard to argue with her eating habits……… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d2d3989d-558b-4810-ba42-470babc81d9f/tempImager8UXz5.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered The food is all executed with such a wonderfully delicate touch. The delicate approach shines a light on the respect this restaurant clearly has for the food, the processes involved in preparation and the message they want to offer to the diners. The seasoning is all perfect and follows this continuous theme of Chapters giving you everything you want but never in excess - constantly the perfect balance. At first glance it doesn't seem like much, but everything you need is there. The curry for example, a dish so easily and often overcomplicated with garnishes. Distractions from what you're actually trying to achieve in the hope to make it more presentable. When you think about the origins of a curry, what it is there for and where it came from - the garnish is largely superfluous outside of presentation! What is more presentable than simply a beautifully spiced, wonderfully flavoursome bowl of aubergine and British chickpea curry? No herbs, no oils, no crunchy bits, just curry! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/cc1cba68-4974-4dfb-b3f2-6e18e131b1b6/tempImagexzVZ99.jpg My Blog - Chapters, Hay On Wye - Delicate, Delicious, Considered - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/rochelle-canteen-food-focussed-on-the-diner monthly 0.5 2025-05-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e62d5b0c-a3ae-4cff-afa9-1551756211d2/tempImage2wrOcu.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - The tranquility is unavoidable. It’s instant when you make your way through what seems like a magical door. I feel like there's an almost spiritual force in the doorway when you enter. A force whose job is simply to lift all weight off your shoulders and to hang it by the door, you can collect it on the way back out if you need it. The shared garden, brilliantly sunny with glowing green grass and a few pub style benches dotted around is quite possibly the most perfect welcome to any meal. Try not to smile, it’s impossible. The high walls that shut off the world have forged an oasis. An oasis that feels almost like another world. It’s as if we’ve walked through a door into a wonderland. It’s transformative and totally juxtaposed to the hectic streets of the trendy end of London just a few hundred yards away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4c27a36e-8f8f-4b17-afd6-83d6b8842e0e/tempImagetDPR8u.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - The dining tables are large, there’s plenty of room and there’s no clutter. They are laid up with all the essential tools you need and nothing more. It’s not confused, it’s not complicated. There aren’t any place mats - but why do we need them? I know where I’m going to sit - the chair is there, my single knife, fork and napkin are there. My wine glass and water tumbler are there, along with my menu - that’s all I need. The only other items on the table are small pinch pots of salt and pepper - a demonstration of a restaurant and kitchen without much ego and a focus entirely on the diners' experience. The table has everything you need, nothing is superfluous. The dining tables are set for exactly what they are, to eat off. The food sets the scene, so there is no need for the complication of table decorations and it’s a complete breath of fresh air. The tables are clear, clean and light, like the wonderland, like the conservatory. They fit perfectly. There isn’t much there but nothing’s missing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/89dbe399-7e46-4a50-bcd3-01a2809713ee/tempImagelD5LG2.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner I am at my happiest talking about food with my wife. The breakfast conversations about what we might have for dinner that night, a glancing thought about what we might cook for guests the following weekend or simply sitting at a dinner table considering a menu. We are so aligned with food. We never just choose, we curate. We share everything and collaborate to make sure we taste as much as we can. There is never a bad suggestion, nothing is off the table, no idea ever shot down, merely balanced with a counter offer. Eventually we hit the nail on the head and it just feels right. It curates the delicious journey we are about to set off on as much as it puts the reins on me and stops me from ordering one of everything. Something I genuinely suggested in this case and something my wife knows I was not joking about. This was probably the most enjoyable menu to toss to and fro. I found delight in discussing every nuance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/76cd2126-9be4-4384-a5ff-a9b193a1f2f5/tempImageaiZsqj.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - The bread was extraordinary. Sticky, chewy, almost heavy sourdough with the most toastiest of toasty flavours on the crustiest of crusts. It would be beyond delicious on its own but smothered with the delicious butter and a little sprinkle of salt from those magic pinch pots, my internal Meg Ryan fired up again. I should never be left alone around this bread. My wife has the most amazing amount of restraint with these things. I admire her for it so much, I copy it whenever I can and I’ve never regretted it, something I would do well to remember more often! I don’t eat much bread these days, my pesky gluten intolerance has put pay to my bread gorging days. Which has actually taught me just how special real bread is, and this bread is as real as you’ll ever get. I urge you to quit bread for six months, then go to Rochelle Canteen and order the bread - then just let Meg Ryan out right there and then! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2cad82a8-54fa-4c65-9c70-3fc3173b563f/tempImageBzDt0J.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - This whole idea that you can strip things back to the essentials, be generous with those and serve a dish that comprises very little but misses absolutely nothing! It’s simple when you look from the outside but creating it is pure genius and so complex. There are some confit onions and garlic spread generously all over the goat's curd toast but the unexpected star of the show is the mint. It’s freshly picked and the leaves are left whole. Tossed generously in a vinaigrette to order, it’s so freshly dressed, the tart vinaigrette hasn’t had a chance to even slightly dampen or wilt the mint yet. The whole leaves allow you, as the diner, to construct each mouthful. Whenever fresh herbs are around, the temptation is always to smash, to chop, to sprinkle and scatter over everything. This mint is kept in its finest form. The diner can do as they wish. There is no intention from the chef in this sense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/bf5d9740-0662-4f7d-9f51-3bc6864b039d/tempImageBdtQhI.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - Nothing demonstrates this better than the lamb shank with romaine lettuce, a few capers, some raw peas and a delicious aioli dressing. The lamb is revolutionary in its simplicity; roasted in the oven until golden, crisp and just cooked enough. It doesn’t fall off the bone, it doesn’t come with a red wine and mint gravy! This is a celebration of a cut of meat the way it should be enjoyed. There’s plenty of fat and plenty of juice in this cut so it doesn’t have to be drowned within an inch of its life and cooked until it falls apart. It can be enjoyed with texture. Trying to create an unctuous softness is so often the name of the game when cooking slightly tougher cuts, an unnatural softness for this particular cut. An example as cooks, where we fight against the status quo of our ingredients rather than embracing their natural state. Rochelle Canteen seems to embrace the natural qualities of their ingredients in the most inspiring and accepting of ways. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/36b6a7b3-7ff1-4f63-b81c-a3e12e0c1d27/tempImageTnaP3r.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - Generosity is a common theme in my food thoughts. I think almost every cook would or should consider themselves to be generous. But generosity has to have restraint, and this is the balanced sweet spot all cooks should be hunting for. It’s the difference between good food and great food. The trout was an exceptional and magnificent piece of fish. It felt steamed, or maybe poached but regardless of how it was cooked, it was so unbelievably soft, rich and flavoursome. Everything you want an oily piece of fish like this to be. It was as generous in flavour as it was in size. Served swimming in a deliciously seasoned stock with some spring vegetables and asparagus. The vegetables were roughly chopped more than wastefully trimmed and immaculately diced, the way I feel that vegetables want to be chopped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d9b43de8-7184-4d8d-b546-e00464607f33/tempImageuIxofC.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - I find dessert is still largely an over complicated beast in many restaurants. People chasing ornate complication on plates. I am overjoyed that we all survived that horrendous period of dessert deconstruction. Everyone ‘taking inspiration’ from a classic dessert, focussing on the deconstruction but forgetting the all important reconstruction. It was an underwhelming experience, an underwhelming period for everyone. So many mundane mouthfuls of pudding, wishing each one was just a good old version. Classic desserts living disrespectfully on menus contained within apostrophes. Years gone by, I would have feared the word Pavlova on a menu for these very reasons. When you order this pavlova, it arrives exactly how your heart desires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/ee594ba5-9da4-45d9-a831-e56c8c759a53/tempImagewwig7K.jpg My Blog - Rochelle Canteen - Food Focussed On The Diner - My wife sat eating her scoop of rhubarb sorbet with another one of her mixed looks. One moment content watching my happiness at what had been put in front of me, another confused (possibly with a touch of disgust) as to where I was actually fitting this extremely generous dessert……’are you not full yet?’......In Rochelle Canteen, I am unsure that I could ever be full! So perfectly delicious, I will always be able to make room for more! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/mighty-ms-bacon-sandwiches-amp-jerk-chicken-on-the-a49 monthly 0.5 2025-10-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8c964c9f-b4b3-4bc6-9059-93a3dd894cf7/tempImagewsUDtU.jpg My Blog - Mighty M’s - Bacon Baps & Jerk Chicken On The A49 - I had a very judgemental approach to eating. Concerning myself more with only eating in ‘hot spots’ than focussing on the important things. The foundation of these eating habits were set around selfish bragging rights to appear ‘cool’ and ‘ahead of the curve’ to all 400 of my social media followers. I collected restaurant awards and wore them myself as badges of honour. Medals as if I had been to war for the greater good. Leaving my bank account very much feeling like it had been to war and had very much lost. It’s a sad memory to think of a time where I may have missed so many opportunities to eat. The fantastic meals I may have missed out on, solely down to my ignorance but with experience comes wisdom (apparently). This wisdom formed the shape of an unsustainable eating habit for a hungry chef extremely strapped for cash. What that eventually created was a more resourceful eater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/9d21d86c-6de1-4a89-bffd-00198b26d395/tempImage0cYKA5.jpg My Blog - Mighty M’s - Bacon Baps & Jerk Chicken On The A49 - There is a freedom to eating with an open mind. Approaching every meal without prejudice, willing to accept the risk. Picking up every set of cutlery with the thought that this could be the greatest meal of your life. The markers of so-called good food had gone for me. I ditched my judgemental gut instincts and stopped judging places on the sign above the door, the awards on the wall, the type of glasses they served the drinks in and the font they used on their menus. All irrelevant now, my eyes were wide open! In a way, good food had now become good meals. This new world order was formed with an open mind and an eagerness to eat without breaking the bank but resulted in me eating more richly than I ever had before. I had a realisation that good food doesn't have to cost huge amounts of money nor do the surroundings have any prerequisites to follow . Much like love, it's everywhere and can exist anywhere. With an open mind and a bit of patience, eventually you’ll find it or it might even find you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4909e358-93a1-42ad-9143-6ec5671269c7/tempImageNjDECz.jpg My Blog - Mighty M’s - Bacon Baps & Jerk Chicken On The A49 - I think back to the start of my food journey. It’s not somewhere I would have given the time of day. There are no notable chefs working there. No awards, no social media. No self absorbed bragging rights. What’s the point? And this is where the old Steve was missing out. Where he had it all wrong. There is the most notable chefs of all working there. People absorbed in this style of food, with a life long experience cooking it. These days my tastebuds and ultimately my belly has all the bragging rights (says the man writing occasionally self indulgent articles about his food adventures). The happiness of a fully satisfied appetite is all I need. The natural glow of eating somewhere delicious is me bragging! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2d1e739c-1d43-40a9-93a1-791783e79c3f/tempImageL52CpC.jpg My Blog - Mighty M’s - Bacon Baps & Jerk Chicken On The A49 - This place is a bit of a sensory oasis. There's the synonymous sounds and smells of cooking oil and bacon sizzling on a plancha only it's accented with roasting chicken and spices. There are bright colours and Bob Marley posters dotted around with reggae music blaring. It all drowns out the sights and sounds of the A49 and even the railway tracks on the other side of the fence. You get transported out of Shropshire. You almost forget where you are. The English food is proper truck stop breakfasts and sandwiches. The usual suspects lined up across the grill, sizzling away happily. Pre-orders are in for local ground workers and drivers. It’s a busy place at 11am. Deliveries being unpacked, boxes being moved, proper sandwiches being stuffed with sausage, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, the whole shebang. Red or brown sauce being splodged across everything. Labourers arriving in vans, leaving with white paper bags bursting with honest, real food; no doubt on a tight time schedule to get back to site for the morning break time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2399287d-f732-42ba-94fe-7374b8b7e361/tempImageDWJAtG.jpg My Blog - Mighty M’s - Bacon Baps & Jerk Chicken On The A49 - It’s not just the hunger inducing smells that are noticeable here. There is an atmosphere of authenticity. You can feel the generosity of the people running it. It feels about as real as you’ll ever find. That all translates straight into the food. What arrives in front of you is a box full of generous, flavoursome, real food. It’s delicious and it’s really genuine. The chicken is well cooked, juicy and tender and even more excitingly, really well seasoned. The goat in the curry is cooked on the bone - the way it should be. There’s some necessary theatre when eating goat curry. Your hands must be involved as you munch through the tender pieces, never quite sure which part of the animal you just ate. You try to work it out but ultimately it’s irrelevant as you get totally bogged down with just how delicious it is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/75e2a85c-eea9-4c86-a7a3-52ed802c1b4c/tempImageykWOr7.jpg My Blog - Mighty M’s - Bacon Baps & Jerk Chicken On The A49 - Trains and traffic flying hecticly past either side of the layby seem to enhance the experience. It's all magnificently juxtaposed. It’s a windy day but the food and the warm welcome are enough to counteract any negative impact this might bring for some people. A far cry from any experience in a swanky pants restaurant in so called comfortable surroundings. I’m in the happiest place sitting in a busy, windy, cold layby on the A49 in early March. A place that I never would have thought would bring this much happiness. An experience that would have previously passed me by thanks entirely to my own narrow mindedness and selfish outlook. A stark reminder not to allow the old Steve back to the dining table! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/the-tally-ho-bouldon-the-lesser-spotted-proper-pub-lunch monthly 0.5 2025-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/6a3c4bc7-52e7-40b2-8743-c6f7dd130cf4/IMG_9966.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - Commercially the food world has never been so risky. Unfair VAT, rising overheads, customers not wanting to part with their cash so easily. Even a certain argument that middle class cooking habits have risen to a height where the ‘I can cook better at home’ is ringing more true than ever; and so the decision to look at convenience kind of makes sense. Let’s face it from a business owner and employee point of view, the food world pays so many peoples bills, keeps roofs over families, food on their table and school uniforms on their kids. So why would you take risks? Why not just follow the pattern, follow the foolproof way to make something work? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/363f19ec-9eba-41e3-b7f1-24457ccf1f06/tempImageyx3yzL.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - I know what you’ll be thinking…..’he’s off on one of his rambling tangents.....but what on Earth has this got to do with a pub lunch, Steve?.....Have you woken up on the wrong side of the bed?....What’s with the whole Negative Nelly thing?.....There are pub lunches literally everywhere?!’ The thing about a pub lunch is its steeped in tradition and utterly joyful nostalgia. From sunny days in a beer garden to rainy days inside. It’s an all encompassing comfort that always delivers something for everyone. Smothered in a familiarity from pub to pub, every menu hits a similar note. Yet at the same time every single one is completely unique. There’s true joy in that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/eae4c79b-034a-4852-82b5-1e4714aacec8/tempImageRZ9pX8.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - From this point the dark clouds started to gather over the traditions of the old school pub lunch, the shining celebration was a little more tarnished, a little less exciting! The overlords become more and more powerful as time ticks on. Corporations casting their black magic over it all. Forcing commercial efficiency and creating a new system where freshly cooked uniqueness can barely survive, suffocating it with its unrivalled pricing, changing expectations to fit their business plans and consistently delivering mediocrity ‘at the right price’. They’ve created a misguided value for money that really shouldn't exist but which bizarrely seems to be what a lot of people are looking for?! But there is hope in this fight against the dark forces. A good wizard, fighting the good fight, a beacon of hope, you might say. I wish there was a popular and well known ‘wizard vs dark forces’ story that I could reference but for the sake of this, we’ll call this particularly strong wizard, The Tally Ho, Bouldon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/96b44201-9a0e-4366-91da-ecc8ab912e7b/tempImageKzcojR.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - The rumours of this wizard's strengths had reached me but they are located in a part of Shropshire that I rarely find myself. So much so that on this particular day, I didn’t even realise I was nearby. When I finally did at midday on a Thursday, looking out of the window of my banged up, old codger mobile, desperately trying to find some signal to check if they serve food on Thursday lunchtimes (only a fool assumes a kitchen is open in this day and age), it was a proper full blown stars aligning feeling. I couldn’t find the signal so I rocked up, utterly delighted that the doors were open. The delights of this place start from the moment you set eyes on it. There is an essence of old school. A whiff of tradition but all set well within the fresh air of modern comfort. A balance that is so hard to find and so few places manage to execute with such perfection. The outside of the pub looks great. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/9522b131-d583-4d73-8a80-967d29a1d815/tempImage058ctM.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - If you’re in the beer garden, it’s almost impossible to take your eyes off the view but when you do you're met with impossible decisions. A familiarity to the choice of dishes on display. A feel of tradition but all with an air of modern cooking and flavours. It’s all approachable and all sounds so bloody delicious! There's an a la carte menu as well as a set lunch time menu with 2 dishes for £20 or 3 for £25. The sort of offer that lulls me into gorging all 3 courses - totally unnecessary on what was going to be a quick working lunch. There really is something for everyone and to tip my hat to them one more time - plenty of gluten free options! I’m terrible with most decisions, even worse with delicious sounding ones. A brief look back at the view didn’t do much to help other than distract me once again from the inevitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/98181e9e-4d04-4f41-9b7c-108fa92a2669/tempImageaexvdy.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - The food is cared for; a rare sight - it’s made fresh in house and it screams everything you want from a pub lunch. The Korean Bites were a tiny bit too sweet for me, or maybe the pickle wasn’t tangy enough but they were succulent, tasty and packed with flavour. This is the sort of thing you should argue the toss over with a pub lunch! A debate I would more than happily enter (if I wasn’t eating alone) by ordering another plate, engulfing those and emphasising my point with a ‘SEE?!’. The fish was exactly how I would want it, freshly battered, crispy, just the right amount of oily but really well cooked and flaking all over the place. Generous pots of mushy peas and tartare sauce waiting to be poured onto the plate alongside a huge splodge of ketchup to create the condiment version of a neapolitan ice cream. Perfect to swipe some chips all the way through. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/ee21a46d-fdcc-4d3e-a93f-2b344b4eb82c/tempImageq3JUXC.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - There’s personality, uniqueness and authenticity in abundance in this place. Everything the dark overlords of the pub chains are trying to squash. It’s a shining light on what the modern and new country pub lunch should look like. A respectful display of tradition, joyfully essenced with modern twists and turns. A showcase of local produce and booze and all sat at the perfect price. It’s how it should be. It’s a demonstration of what can be done and despite all the hurdles today’s society lays down, it glides gracefully over each one by sticking to its plan and sticking to its identity. An underdog fighting the good fight in comparison to the commercial overlords, like the Sally Gunnell of pubs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e706ffbc-890f-42ae-b316-23d70fbad496/tempImageapbXcq.jpg My Blog - The Tally Ho, Bouldon - The Lesser Spotted ‘Proper’ Pub Lunch - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/bobbys-tacos-its-about-the-taconomics monthly 0.5 2025-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/6de22bcd-7b0b-4944-a5f5-da7a26fbfb6f/tempImageXDYSQh.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics - Well, I am never scared of proving myself wrong so I finally bit the bullet and went to Bobby’s for the tacos! As most people from our town would know, Bobby’s is part of arguably the coolest cafe/bar/restaurant family in Shrewsbury. With the sourdough pizza slinging Dough & Oil and cocktail and craft beer gluggin Oil as older siblings, there is an expectation (almost a requirement) of effortless cool. Trendy, good vibes, good flavours, it’s had some big shoes to fill, shoes in the form of tacos in this case. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/0508cf85-1097-48a5-8c07-c0d945cfd827/tempImagebRObzy.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics - Of course Bobby’s has a bar to sit at. Every cool place does! If there is ever an option wherever you are, always choose the bar! The staff are just as laid back yet attentive as before. It’s lunch time so we toy with the idea of a lunch time jalarita but then soon realise we have the school run to do - we’ll stick to the pink water!......and a non-acoholic cocktail…..both to die for! I always adore a small menu. I’ve said it a million times before, it’s confidence, it’s being ok with your identity. Dare I say it, it's the cool thing to do! It also helps my indecisiveness when it comes to trying to pick the coolest thing on the menu. A choice of 4 tacos, a burrito, some sides and some chilli and chips to choose from. Perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5f87a9e6-d3a3-480f-a07d-1ec697086460/tempImageiO7cFK.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics - Freshly fried tortilla chips! It’s a bit like making your own corn tortillas for the tacos (which is also what they do here). It’s just that little process and bit of extra effort that makes everything a million times better. These are dusted with some lovely spices. I think it must be Tajin but I can’t be sure and quite frankly it just doesn't matter - they are delicious. If you ask me, there is a lot of lazy guacamole out there. (I am noting Lazy Guacamole down on my ever expanding list of band names) Pop the green flesh into a food processor and blend it until you get something that might make you wonder if the Incredible Hulk has a severe gluten intolerance. 9 times out of 10 it’s also seasoned to death. Too acidic, too salty, it takes away from all the rich creaminess of an avocado. Such a waste of avocado - totally devastating considering the environmental impact the avocado trade has!........I’ve slapped myself on the wrist, I wasn’t supposed to drag this down with doom and gloom! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4d9e0511-8cce-4f47-a23c-1d12e992aea1/tempImageUGAWKO.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics - The food did take a bit of time to come out but I am getting less and less fussed by this. Good company, nowhere to be and fresh food - it should take its time. They have goat on the menu - I will forever order goat. Anywhere. Wherever I am, if there is goat, you'll be sure to see me eating it. We really wanted the battered cod but the gluten police were out again so we went with the super exciting veggie option which was halloumi and onions in 3 ways - roast, fried and pickled. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/56ff20cc-58df-4073-b8aa-e7bd98f8984f/tempImageh9bZxE.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics - I expected the star of the show to be the tacos, naturally you would. But what blew me away straight away was how delicious the black beans were. My god - keep those coming for an eternity! Rich and indulgent but light at the same time and the crumbled feta was everything they needed. We both tried our hardest not to just devour those before moving on! Three tacos on each tray arrived plentifully stacked and with a little pot/bowl of rice and some yummy how sauce. The rice looks tomato-y. It tastes a bit bland if I’m honest. It reminds me quite a lot of Uncle Ben’s microwavable pouches in its texture and flavour but it’s still good to have on the side and definitely puts my mind at ease that this is going to be too much food for us! The rice felt a little like an after thought but then it should be. We’re here for the tacos, who really cares about the rice? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/39d24394-018d-47cb-9160-91fca405236e/tempImage9OnZC7.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics - My first bite was pretty aggressive. Not quite half the taco gone in a flash. Is this my problem? It’s not the tacos, is it me? Am I the problem? These are the kind of internal discussions I quickly shut down with a resounding ‘No’ - mostly so there’s no chance of me discovering the real truth and no chance of that existential crisis rearing its head again. My mind turned to taco economics - or taconomics and my pesky internal battle with the substantiality of tacos. A more reasonable first bite and it becomes a comfortable 3 bites per taco. That's 9 bites per dish (I’m pushing the rice to one side, that doesn't count….yet). So that’s £1.44 per bite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/10cc1149-d7c9-4b91-a7c2-1a98d166f207/tempImageB7njft.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics - Watching my wife delicately, slowly and enjoyably eat makes me realise that this is total nonsense anyway. I eat like a pig, there is every chance that all of this is entirely on me and my greed! She has to be working to the same taconomics as me, or it’s all pointless and risks my requirement for at least a 50:50 share of the goat. No one is working on the same food economics as me - I know that. It’s been the same for 40 years. What I should have done was to take a large bite out of all 6 tacos in front of us, put them back on the plates and completely distort my wife's idea of how big they were in the first place. That would be a plan apart from she’s patrolling the tacos like a lioness protecting her prey - she’s onto me before I even start! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b6243087-61da-4c4f-924f-0e81ebea09d8/tempImage4CkOvB.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - It’s About The Taconomics When I’m surrounded by something delicious and it ends, there’s a real sadness there. I don’t like it! There’s a real sadness when these tacos end and I really don’t like that! It will never matter how much I’ve eaten. This is the basis of the taconomics. How can I prolong the enjoyment, make it last longer. Smaller bites mean more but less meaningful bites. It lasts longer but it’s less satisfying. Will that help? No! I hide it behind a £/bite philosophy when really it should be a dopamine/bite system - problem being there is only one way to go in that taconomy for this dopamine junky - Down in one!......ooooor order 2 trays of tacos just for me! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/the-beech-tree-oswestry monthly 0.5 2025-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/673a1dad-e399-40f5-8417-7670ddf0d5c0/tempImageq5tE2M.jpg My Blog - The Beech Tree, Oswestry - I suppose this throws out some questions and internal thoughts on the value of things in general. What am I looking for? What’s my expectation? Maybe I am being too harsh on my expectations of Oswestry? But what about the food in Oswestry? Much like any town or any unawarded restaurant or cafe, there aren’t many benchmarks to go off when it comes to expectations. So it quickly all becomes about value for money. The first glance is almost always at the prices on a menu. I would argue that this is actually the primary benchmark for anywhere. Michelin starred, AA rosetted or any other badge of honour. What is that value set around? Is it generosity? Seems like the easy answer but that in itself throws out a million different questions. Starting with ‘what is generosity?’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4d0ee252-c93a-47d5-8112-d94dc17805f7/tempImageEoaD1L.jpg My Blog - The Beech Tree, Oswestry - Sometime ago I started to have some quite dystopian thoughts about our food future. Powders, sachets, meal replacement tetrapaks and filling stations where we just plug ourselves into a drip, nutrients pumped straight into our blood stream for 5 minutes. Our daily nutritional requirements dished out in scientifically perfect liquid form in a matter of minutes. The future of the dining table is gone from memory! This might seem extreme but it’s actually becoming far too real, far too quickly. I didn’t quite expect such thoughtfulness to come out of me when I set about writing this but I suppose it’s my long winded way of saying that when it comes to food for me, a small amount of care and attention is where the value lies, it’s so appreciated. If there’s any sort of thoughtfulness involved I like to think I can spot it and I can tell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/09c3b52a-0ad9-4605-9138-a490737275cf/tempImagevkkwwn.jpg My Blog - The Beech Tree, Oswestry When you realise that it isn’t a treasure map and there is no ‘X’ marking the spot, it’s reading the menu that starts The Beech Tree to come into its own. Such an exciting selection of dishes. Temptation on every line. I am an indecisive eater at the best of times but this decision was teetering on the absurdly impossible! I have a bizarre hatred for eggs benedict, eggs royale and whatever the other one is, I don’t know why, I just do. It’s a lonely place to be, there are very few of us ‘anti-benny’s’ around. But even their ‘benny’ comprising of a fishcake is really tempting. Finally a reason to be thankful for the gluten intolerance - I don’t have to eat any humble pie and prove myself wrong, or in this case eat my humble eggs benny! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/16596ffb-66fe-47a9-8951-3165286969b7/tempImagevZkP3Q.jpg My Blog - The Beech Tree, Oswestry - My excitement for the food was very well demonstrated by the perfectly poached eggs. Bursting over at the gentlest of nudges! The colours on the plate of Turkish eggs was almost too much to take in. The rare time that a black plate actually works. The perfect back drop for the clean white of the yoghurt and egg whites being interrupted with the bursting flow of those bright yellow yolks and drizzles of dark red chilli oil forming a sort of pathway for your eyes to take in all the wonder. Green and purple leaves were the perfect choice that just add to the splendour. They say you eat with your eyes. I must have devoured this dish about 10 times before I got close to shoveling in my first mouthful. Clapping your eyes on dishes like this start a sort of cascade reaction. A chain reaction where my brain is demanding confirmation of its deliciousness. The salivation floodgates wide open. A bottom jaw numbing effect, it’s set to wide open. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/61426e6d-c397-4cb6-8666-0ec3a359e6f8/tempImagetGyYpO.jpg My Blog - The Beech Tree, Oswestry - There are very few better feelings than the instant gratification that your eyes were right! The heat of the chilli, the cool of the yoghurt, the richness of the eggs. It’s a magic combination. It’s balanced but never at a flat line. There’s excitement everywhere. All the better to have some bread to mop it all up. Albeit wishing more than anything to have the flatbread the menu promised, I had to make do with some gluten free bread. An unrelenting life sentence in this gluten intolerant prison. The masala potatoes followed suit. Spicing balance just right. A lovely heat, balanced nicely with mushrooms and potatoes in abundance. Perfectly cooked eggs, this time fried. Crispy on the bottom, perfectly runny yolks. It all brings texture into the fray - even more lovely balance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/6d575439-3de4-4f77-8bff-78469d173e1b/tempImageLd9nom.jpg My Blog - The Beech Tree, Oswestry - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/floro-lounge-pride-hill-shrewsbury monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/bab6c265-3782-4223-b586-e17aff760790/tempImageTul9cB.jpg My Blog - Floro Lounge, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury - As you would expect any decent chain, walking into this branch felt much like I had walked into the Telford one, only in a slightly different parallel universe. Same interiors, same feel, same menu, marginally different sofa orientations! In the Novello Lounge blog I was speculating about the coffee. Since then a good friend and coffee nerd has verified that these ‘Lounges’ do in fact use Clifton Coffee - a very reputable and trendy roaster and they get their coffee in unmarked bags for wholesale cost saving purposes, not because of my original speculation, Clifton’s associated shame! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a51b9c08-5014-4b11-846c-911d7641059c/tempImageliHNQr.jpg My Blog - Floro Lounge, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury - To share (because that is just how we roll) we chose the Gluten Free Big Lounge Breakfast and the Gluten Free Smashed Avocado Brunch. I adore the ordering system in these lounges. I really haven't seen a better segregated and more easily understandable gluten free menu anywhere. The place was quiet as a whole but that’s to be expected on a Monday morning. The downside was that we were forced to listen to the staff moaning about whoever closed down last night and didn’t put the sauces out! Judging from the anger this has caused and the tone of the conversation, I can only imagine that the job of ‘putting out the sauces’ is far more complex, complicated and time consuming than it sounds. I’m unsure where these sauces are kept or where they need to be released from but it must be a seriously arduous task! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e732e332-89c0-4198-abfe-e73b0f845ff6/tempImageO6KaSo.jpg My Blog - Floro Lounge, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury - It arrived on possibly the largest, single serve plate I have seen for some time. When does a plate become a platter? Big questions that need answering…… The large plate was largely unnecessary. While a great spectacle for any crockery enthusiast (I am talking about myself) as a land mass it was somewhat reminiscent of Australia. Very large with very sporadically situated populated areas surrounded by quite a bit of barren land. I wasn’t sure if maybe the eggs hadn’t put the sauces out the night before and now the hash browns didn’t want to be on the same plate as them? Or maybe the sausages had flirted with some black pudding and now the bacon was sulking? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b1f6f016-794b-4d18-821a-17bbbd1bbea7/tempImageq27mUr.jpg My Blog - Floro Lounge, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury - The bacon had been cooked to within an inch of it’s life, dry and quite sorry for itself and one of the eggs sat there deflated. Most likely punctured during the belligerent use of a fish slice with a once non-stick pan that is now just a ‘stick’ pan. Slowly oozing it’s life blood before being put back into the hot pan to seal it’s wound and stem the flow before before finally being dropped onto the enormous plate. It was a sad looking egg, looking like a sad, deflated balloon at a very sad birthday party! The toast, hidden under said eggs hadn’t been buttered nor had any butter been supplied for said buttering. Bizarrely, one piece hadn't even been toasted. I can smell a kitchen drama here! Total meltdown! Maybe the sauce fiend from the closing shift also forgot to put the butter out? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e4698129-4817-411a-8949-8271cea1a589/tempImagehWylpU.jpg My Blog - Floro Lounge, Pride Hill, Shrewsbury We fared marginally better with the Avocado Brunch. It was really generous with loads of avocado. Actually too much, it was a mountain that not even a fully glutenised piece of toast could handle! It leaned towards the side of baby food texture, simply over worked in a food processor or some horrendous bought in mix but the avocado itself tasted ok and had enough accompaniments to offset the texture. It just lacked some balance as a whole, it was all a bit over sweet. The pickles and harissa sauce were both too sweet and lacked the right amount of feta for the generosity of avocado. Not even the extra portion of bacon we ordered helped balance the sweetness. It was a shame because it sounded delicious on the menu! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/montford-bridge-cafe-just-off-the-a5 monthly 0.5 2025-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/772ec57f-a133-45b2-952d-d00dbe099af4/tempImagekkbI9t.jpg My Blog - Montford Bridge Cafe, Just Off The A5! This is what I love about the cooked breakfast. It has something for everyone. It’s something that everyone has a close affiliation to and something everyone has an opinion on. It’s something everyone knows and it’s rich in nostalgia, which will always draw out the most emotion! It’s what you know that counts when it comes to a cooked breakfast and I’m all here for it! A rare dish that evokes strong opinions in a food culture that is slowly slipping into oblivion and disappearing into a ‘I don’t really care’ black hole. Opinions are great. We need more of them when it comes to food. It shows we care, it shows we are thinking and this is where my love for a cooked breakfast knows no bounds! Whether you want fresh tomatoes or tinned. Hash browns, fried potatoes or even chips. Whether you want your beans to be in a separate bowl, smothered all over everything or whether you have strong feelings towards what the beans can or cannot touch. That’s before we even go anywhere near the egg debates! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b9768ed2-b83d-44ea-9bc9-e03c6abf872f/tempImage1KI8Ah.jpg My Blog - Montford Bridge Cafe, Just Off The A5! - This breakfast he dreams of exists, it’s at Montford Bridge Cafe just off the A5. What I could only really describe as a cooked breakfast oasis. Somewhere between a truckstop and a caff but not quite at a cafe, it’s just about the perfect setting. It’s an unassuming but comfortable place; light, airy and plenty of sunlight shining through the almost entirely glass frontage, it even has an outdoor terrace that I cannot wait to enjoy when the warmer months finally arrive. From the moment I walked in I felt like I would be back. It had that familiarity to it, despite having never even set eyes on the place before. There’s an approachable and welcoming feel. The menus on a blackboard. I always feel safe when the menu’s on a black board. There are plenty of choices for breakfast and lunch and there’s no confusion about the way you order or how things work, something that's becoming far too regular of an appearance in more trendy cafes. Go to the till, order, sit down…..exactly how you want it to be. Authenticity oozes in this place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a5691287-9a3a-48ab-b89d-a81c0ad6af5c/tempImagemcAPtP.jpg My Blog - Montford Bridge Cafe, Just Off The A5! - They have some coffee from a local roaster but with a proper cooked breakfast, I need a proper cup of tea! The tea is served in a mug, bag in, ready for me to do as I wish. Milk, sugar, condiments and cutlery and everything else I might need are all on an island in the middle of the caff. The authenticity of this place is so apparent that despite it being my first visit, I seem to already know where everything is. Before even getting to my table, right back by the glass front to absorb all that winter sun, I chatted to some of the staff and some other customers; everyone seemed cheery. This seems like a happy place for people! Big smiles and good food are almost always hand in hand! I love an air of optimism before eating! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/28099425-dd73-4410-955c-2707a909437d/tempImagegVySgm.jpg My Blog - Montford Bridge Cafe, Just Off The A5! The back bacon is thick cut and is cooked beautifully - a far greater skill than people give credit for! That even golden fat lining the entirety of each slice of back bacon. People get the idea of ‘crispy bacon’ so very wrong. They cook it to death on a mission to make it as ‘crispy’ as possible. This is closer to perfectly rendered gammon steaks than bacon from a caff. The hash browns are perfectly crisp and golden without a drop of excess grease. The eggs are glistering, the yolks almost urging you to pop them, another heart wrenching sausage forget-me-not. The beans are in a small pot. I’m a smother on the plate kinda guy but I get it. People want that to be their own choice! If I’m honest the tomato and mushroom needed more cooking. Particularly the mushroom, it needed a good 5-10 minutes more but small issues like that are so unbelievably forgivable when this beautiful breakfast was only £9.50 including the tea! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/6f46b290-cbee-4483-b171-fedf87bc78a8/tempImageTi8Y1B.jpg My Blog - Montford Bridge Cafe, Just Off The A5! - Quality wise all the produce is way beyond its means. The bacon is high quality, not overly salty and very real tasting. The owner came over to check if everything was all good and I found out they use Appleyard’s (local Shrewsbury Deli) for their bacon and sausage and the eggs are from local free range hens. There’s a consideration to this place that is set entirely around value and generosity! Way beyond their prices and way beyond my expectations. I feel like I’ve found a new regular spot. Nicely off the beaten track and a caff with more value and generosity than I could ever have hoped for. The staff told me there are plenty of walks into the surrounding woods and the menu offers something for everyone. It’s left me with excitement, not only for the great food but because this is a place I can bring the kids that we will all enjoy without any compromise! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/bamboo-house monthly 0.5 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a90f4f74-6a2f-4a5d-adba-d3b02c2ada6d/Screenshot+2025-03-01+at+16.52.52.png My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - Their menus on Just Eat but you can’t order from there. I am absolutely in love with this! You get all the benefits of the Just Eat system without supporting those awful sharks and you aren’t giving the Just Eat fat cats a single penny to fuel their pursuit in destroying our precious food systems and industry! It really feels like a great display of dominance by Bamboo House, a real 2 fingers up to the supposed ‘system’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a2af4654-4c17-4fad-b27d-c6b9eb738090/tempImageQrOJpF.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - The Order: Hot And Sour Soup Chicken Yuk Sung Singapore Noodles Szechuan Mixed Vegetables Chips Curry Sauce Sweet & Sour Sauce OK Sauce Prawn Crackers (FOC) Spring Rolls (FOC) The Price…… A Wallet Pleasing £40.40 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8de48817-ee5e-4e49-bcbc-9040879e53d0/tempImagePdMTZW.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - We took a few breaks to give our hands a rest from the heat and enjoyed tucking into the chips. I say enjoyed, it was a welcome relief from the consistent steam burns we weren’t enjoying! The chips were fine - nice and crunchy with the typical chewiness you get from any delivered chips. No seasoning but one of the biggest lessons I’ve taken from this journey has been my knowledge that that is actually how they are supposed to be! After what seemed like an age, the heat was still emanating from just about every element of this takeaway but maybe that was the 14 layers of plastic insulation each tub was wrapped in. Stripping off layer by layer a really great smell started to fill the kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/719d163b-409d-49c2-81db-d375fdfa8ca0/tempImagexgNo8p.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - Unfortunately the answers were in the eating and left me feeling like maybe eating any of it wasn't the most intelligent move I’ve made! So much of this was bizarrely off the mark. The curry sauce had a decent level of spice to it but lacked any level of depth, it wasn’t just missing seasoning, it just about missed every mark apart from some raw tasting spices. It was too sweet and just very one dimensional. It crossed my mind that maybe it was lacking MSG and this was in fact a freshly made sauce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b90e8e1d-4fb8-482a-bf36-b7f10ac34ed0/tempImagetd8EEf.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - The Yuk Sung was of the wet variety….the very wet variety! Something we have encountered on this journey, something we now know is not our bag. This one was overly wet and the once crispy noodles had been dumped in with the sauce so it was all in all a bit of a wet mess!....rare for me to complain about a wet mess……The flavour of the Chicken Yuk Sung was actually pretty good but the textures just let the whole thing down. Maybe with some crispy noodles it might have been better. Plus the nuclear heat of everything had really wilted the lettuce in the box so even that was a bit floppy! It’s rare to find anything that’s better floppy……..as my wife……. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b80a6e00-b3e0-4258-95b2-de1dcedfaa25/tempImageeALOW7.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - The highlight was definitely the Singapore Noodles. A dish where the bit of extra sweetness was to its benefit thanks to the decent peppery heat. Similar to the Szechuan Veg, it just felt a little better balanced. The menu at Bamboo House is a little more intriguing than other takeaways. With a few dishes that maybe aren't as prescriptive as usual. You can have a portion of Happy Family - something I often crave when the kids are being kids. The Wandering Dragon sounds exciting or the Ying Yong Chicken has an approachable intrigue about it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d778caa4-a287-4164-8ddf-8237e082b067/tempImage7Mxpyt.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - Then down in the sauces section there is something that just sounds too good to miss…….the OK Sauce……… Surely anything labelled as OK is putting itself out there with an air of understated self confidence. How are you at cooking, Steve? Yeah, I’m OK……..it’s a protective layer, an imposter syndrome armour plating that levels off expectations. There’s a quiet confidence with the label ‘OK’. A confidence that I always find intriguing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/0032551b-0a86-4456-ace6-200507020806/tempImageVd5yVP.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - If your expectation is OK; and let’s face it, my expectations for any of this project have been all but buried in a mountain of average food; then it’s really hard not to reach or even exceed that conjecture. OK is a safety blanket and a crash mat for potential failure, the perfect guise for putting your neck on the line……what could go wrong……. 9 times out of 10, if you described something you did or made as terrible, it’s going to be OK. If you say something is OK, surely it’s going to be good, potentially even great. What I am trying to explain is my thought process when I see a sauce labelled as ‘OK Sauce’......surely that is a sauce I need to try. An understated, maybe even over achieving sauce? A sauce that is not on any other menu so far but one that might well be delicious! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f3fea6f3-6bc3-4fda-b7e4-6dc46240ca45/tempImageRkbFQI.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - It originally caused a minor existential crisis where I had to completely rethink my self-branding as being OK. Am I this bad? It was short lived because let’s face it ‘No, no I'm not. Nothing is that bad!’ The result was actually a boost in confidence. Freedom from my OK shackles! Maybe I am more than OK. Maybe this is why it’s called OK sauce……a rejuvenating tonic that boosts confidence to make you really feel like you are more than OK....if this is the case, I'll chuck it down my gullet by the gallon! I’ll be a superhero…..or at least an OK superhero! All joking aside, I googled it and OK Sauce is a branded sauce by Colman’s. One which has slipped through my condimental net! It is basically brown sauce with added ingredients (and there I was labelling my palate as merely OK) and there is a claim that it actually represents ‘a testament to the multicultural fabric of the UK's culinary scene’ and ‘has also become a cornerstone in British Chinese cuisine’.....the only thing it should be the corner stone of is a U-bend! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7de5772e-80b8-4682-ba53-2186327dafc5/tempImageLOPIYf.jpg My Blog - Bamboo House, New Park Road - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/churchills-shrewsbury monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5d4320f5-8360-4f3b-ae03-faf3e9f41d86/Screenshot+2025-02-03+at+15.19.02.png My Blog - Churchill’s Cafe, Shrewsbury - I’m keen to point out that this project is about doing away with my middle class privilege. I’m searching caff’s not cafes (there’s a great instagram page doing just that - go check them out). I’m doing away with beanies, tattoos, oversized t-shirts, 90s caps and boot cut jeans (I will have to actually chuck most of my wardrobe away). I don’t want to see any of the 5000 interpretations of ‘eggs benny’. I want proper old school breakfasts, unapologetic and focussed on the all important comfort! I want these breakfasts to be silver tea pot situations (great band name). I want wipe clean PVC gingham table cloths, laminated menus using 90s 3D coloured word art, condiments on the tables and a sense of hope in the air. People starting their day off ‘the right way’..... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/80da9666-970e-4d10-913e-952ad720fe89/tempImage6Caz1W.jpg My Blog - Churchill’s Cafe, Shrewsbury - The welcome was lovely! Very attentive staff who went above and beyond, rummaging in their store rooms down stairs to find the high chair, they ‘definitely had’ - they did have one and it made my life considerably easier so a huge thank you for that effort. The cafe is part of a members club, The Beaconsfield. I have no idea what happens in these sorts of clubs. Not sure why but I’ve never been invited to one! It’s actually a Conservative Club, despite the name of the cafe, I hadn’t actually realised. I’ve never been to a Conservative Club, not sure what I was expecting, maybe big blue rosettes and Tory paraphernalia all over the walls, busts of John Major on the counters and Tony Blair themed toilet roll? In reality, I wouldn't have had a clue I was in a Conservative stronghold and really, I’m not sure that it matters! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e75ee19e-e833-4e14-9f9a-2caa3b340141/tempImagetynP2H.jpg My Blog - Churchill’s Cafe, Shrewsbury - The actual menu has just about everything you would want from a good old British caff. The usual ‘on toast’ suspects with the closest nod to international cuisine being some avocado and of course, proudly top of the list is their cooked breakfast. Sitting at a very handsome £8.95 you get this feeling that you're going to get exactly what you expect! No surprises, no unwanted items, no attempts to be different or innovative - just a proper old school cooked breakfast! Churchills’ proper caff status is all but assured when the tea turns up in the form of 2 silver tea pots. One with the tea, the other with the all important water refill! No chance I can over brew my 2nd cup of tea, a relief and an almost forgotten ritual living in this loose leaf, middle class cafe world!......wasn't that part of a Madonna song? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/653f6f57-ef46-41c1-88df-960d77b6c8c4/tempImageyaadRN.jpg My Blog - Churchill’s Cafe, Shrewsbury - In terms of quality, you just can’t complain at this price. It’s so generous and overall the produce is decent enough and looked after well in the kitchen! The sausages and bacon weren’t the very best, but they were above the standard I would expect for an £8.95 brekkie and largely the whole breakfast was cooked nicely. One half of the tomato was considerably more cooked than the other, offering a good balance to this politically charged fry up and the mushrooms were on the over cooked side, totally forgivable and really me picking hairs. If I was choosing a side for my mushrooms to be on (which I’m not in this politically balanced opinion), it would be on the overcooked side anyway. At these sorts of prices, the margin for error with me is so big, it’s just about value and these little niggly things just don’t matter! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/94ac0350-b8c5-4159-9b9d-651a3718081e/tempImage345gKM.jpg My Blog - Churchill’s Cafe, Shrewsbury - I am wolfing this sort of breakfast down, largely because of it’s nostalgic, comforting existence but also because at any point the 2 year old could drop a ‘poo-nami’ and this doesn't feel like the place overly equipped for those sorts of incidents! I am not sure there would be time or the notice required to head downstairs to find the baby changing facilities from the store room and based on the clientele, I am unsure they have many 2 year olds in! Disappointingly for me, said 2 year old also wolfed down her breakfast. A fantastic display of eating! I found myself both proud and disappointed at the same time….must be the feeling of losing a local election! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/456f1edc-fe9d-4789-9201-d490d50621b1/tempImagefVwlfk.jpg My Blog - Churchill’s Cafe, Shrewsbury - Churchill’s is very much a ‘does what it says on the tin’ kind of cafe. The whole Conservative Club thing is bound to divide the crowd somewhat and you’ll find other fry ups in town that have better quality produce but they’ll also be more expensive! All in all, both breakfasts and my tea was under £18 so considering the price, it’s an amazing option for a proper start to the day regardless of your political alignment! Food has the power to change things and decent food at decent prices can easily make people put their political differences aside! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/5waystouseswede monthly 0.5 2025-01-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4959da3b-7e7c-4bb6-b4c4-84d5b3a7adf2/IMG_7649.JPG My Blog - Seasonal & Surplus - 5 Exciting Ways To Use Swede! - It’s that time of year where fresh produce in the UK is lagging. Things are starting to fall back and we are left with a load of root veg! The problem with some of these root veg is often their size. They can take a real effort to get through and as a result they can easily end up in our bins or compost heaps rather than our mouths! Swede is so much more versatile than anyone gives it credit for! While crushing it is utterly delicious, there are a million other ways to use it up! I have thrown together 5 simple ideas to hopefully give you some inspiration and build some serious swede love! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/my-mums-1970s-british-sweet-curry monthly 0.5 2025-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/491de6b0-d314-4956-8b2e-a986a1d10a7c/tempImagei6XJvk.jpg My Blog - My Mum’s 1970’s ‘British’ Sweet Curry - THE RECIPE: 4oz Onion, Diced 8oz Chicken Breast, diced 4oz Cooking Apples, Peeled, Cored & Chopped 1oz Plain Flour 2oz Margarine 2oz Desiccated Coconut 2oz Sultanas 1oz Tomato Puree 1 Clove Garlic, Chopped 1oz Mild Curry Powder 1oz Branston Pickle or Mango Chutney 1 Pint Chicken Stock Salt & Pepper https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/the-royal-oak-whatcote-a-michelin-star-restaurant-built-around-a-community monthly 0.5 2025-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/69de3c9f-1619-4806-99ae-5cc82638b6d1/tempImagefBnk1O.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - People buy from people is a bit of a sales cliche but it’s so true. The older and (maybe not) wiser I’ve got the more I’ve appreciated this and the more I’ve adhered to it. After meeting Solanche at the bar, we couldn’t resist the open fire and comfy sofas so we had a couple of glasses of lovely English fizz and played some dominoes. Never sure if we actually play by the correct rules, it was lovely to have some of the locals at the bar come over, chat to us and confirm that we are in fact playing the correct rules for 5’s n 3’s! There’s that magical community feel to the place again! A sort of feeling that you’re in everyone’s home, not just the local pub! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d094d47d-d095-4150-b6c6-fa2bcb199b37/tempImagepg9wpK.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - The menu at The Royal Oak is set around local, sustainably sourced produce so there is naturally a focus on Game. We started with some seriously intense Amuse Bouche(‘s) - lovely nibbly bits of really powerful flavours. A rich combo of duck liver, prune and ginger, with a refreshing and light smoked eel, apple and dill tart really set the stall out but the star of the whole show and in my opinion, the whole meal, was the fallow buck (deer) consommé. Outrageously delicious. I would hate to think how long that had been simmering away on the stove for. Hours and hours of care and attention! The sort of flavour in a stock/consomme that I can only ever dream of achieving. Proper cooking! Served in a cup for you to drink, the ultimate, Michelin starred Bovril! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e8ae96a0-f9bc-4790-a02f-910e2a2ee1cf/tempImageoQn5X1.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - You might know, we are a couple who have in the last 2 years become a little tricky with dietary requirements. My wife is lactose and gluten intolerant, I have a confusing relationship with gluten. Sometimes its ok, other times I have catastrophic gluten consequences. Solanche had asked for our dietary requirements and despite the menu stating they can’t cater for allergies, they went so far out of their way to welcome our requirements. They’d been out and sourced some local slow fermented sourdough for my wife and even constructed specific gluten free adaptations of dishes for her. I’d actually kept my gluten issues under wraps. I figured it would be worth the potential gluten consequences and I was absolutely right! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/1f9fc970-49ed-46e0-9801-e0d79d9824e4/tempImageGacHB8.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - Richard serves every course at the table, which is such a lovely touch. He wants to serve you the food he has cared for, he wants you to enjoy it, he wants to talk to you about it. I admire this so much, especially as its done with absolutely zero pretence. It’s not because he thinks its what people should do. It’s not a stunt for those inspectors, its a genuine want from a genuine and generous cook. It’s also important to note that he is constantly impeccably clean. His whites look like he’s freshly changed and ironed between every course. I also have no idea how he remains so calm, serving each table, while the kitchen is also prepping the next course (and it’s a small team - I asked!). More aspiration for me and further confirmation that my kitchen technique is just chaos! Pure chaos! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/9e9846ba-d210-4b05-b754-b05c14965f10/tempImagexSS9Ck.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - The rest of the menu is a lovely journey of brilliant technique and cooking. It’s a masterclass in delicious subtly. Each course shines the light on it’s centrepiece, whether it’s lovingly made pheasant stuffed pasta or some perfectly cooked local partridge. He builds around that centrepiece using local produce. If you turn the menu over, you find a fascinating map of where all the local produce has come from. Although there isn’t much need for it, you can simply walk to the bar and meet the person who supplies the plums for the partridge dish. Then later a local interjects mid-course and asks how our meals going (in a totally genuine, non-invasive way), only to find he supplies to walnuts! That’s when you realise that you aren’t eating in a restaurant but you’re eating in a community! This is less Richard and Solanche’s pub and more Whatcote’s pub! A pub completely adored, supported and powered by its locals! You can tell the pride they have in having this restaurant in the village. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a9d6fff4-cf8f-4499-9f13-edec12a351fa/tempImageDhilKh.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - Richard keeps the delicious courses flowing. Perfectly cooked Cornish cod, followed by some local Fallow Buck, the Buck that had helped create that incredible consommé we had. The story ties in so nicely. The loop is completed. Its about respect for the animal and the produce. It’s that care and attention that these two give to everything. So you know, the sauce made for this course was just like an intense version of the consommé. Absolute heaven! Bring me a saucepan full of that and another loaf of bread please! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/56973c09-fdd9-438d-835a-934056823789/tempImageVowZkK.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - After the cheese, it’s all about the savoury-sweet train and into the realm of the dessert world. In my old age, I have gone so far off overly sweet desserts. Richard takes you from the semi sweet cheese course, through a really subtle, sweet/savoury quince, walnut and celery dish based loosely on a Waldorf Salad, into the main pudding. An expertly made mille-feuille with apples, hazelnuts and cider. The cider is a stroke of genius. It just gives you that little reminder that you’re in the middle of the Countryside, that sort of farm yard-y cider flavour that transports you into the Cotswold countryside while stopping anything from getting too sweet. By this point, I was half expecting the local cider maker to roll in a barrel ready for our dessert. But maybe they were driving one of the Christmas tractors? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a4380be3-749e-45b9-a1e7-b3ebc42db6b2/tempImageaRpXN6.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - Time just left us while we were in The Royal Oak. We were so immersed in everything that they offered us and more importantly, chatting to Solanche and Richard, that we had absolutely no idea how late it had got or whether our Bentley was now outside. I could get used to that…..’Excuse me, do you know if our Bentley’s outside?…..’ It didn’t matter, this Bentley was talk of the village so the entire population soon let us know that a white Bentley was outside. We didn’t have time for a coffee, which was a shame but we did have time to throw the Chocolate & Birch syrup tart petit fours down our throats. A great, rich and bitter finish to the meal. A meal that in it’s entirety left you feeling a perfect level of ‘indulged’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2d17987c-0660-410d-aa41-d5904e9611df/tempImagenPew8A.jpg My Blog - The Royal Oak, Whatcote - A Michelin Star Restaurant Built Around a Community - My only regret from this entire experience was that we didn’t allow our selves enough time for a game of pool or darts. The thought of this sort of juxtaposed world where you can eat some of the best food, then follow it up with a pint and a few arrows is so appealing to me. It’s how fine dining should be. It’s really accessible! That is the real glory of this place. It’s about the community, its about the locality and that is all set around its accessibility to people. It’s about Richard and Solanche, two of the most lovely, real, honest and genuine people you’ll ever find wearing their hearts on their sleeves and doing things their way. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/novello-lounge-telford-town-centre monthly 0.5 2025-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f0cabf06-45f1-4536-a2b1-cba1e3c642ec/tempImageLZcW3U.jpg My Blog - Novello Lounge, Telford - In truth, I am a terrible skater, so it’s no great loss. When I do go, I feel very much under the eyes of all members of staff. The way I am crawling all over one of those skating guide penguin things must look a little like I am sexually harassing them. This is a first for me, I am live blogging! This wasn’t going to be the topic I was going to write about today, I have a back log of blogs (sounds like something I had the day after Boxing Day after eating about 10000 calories in 2 days) to catch up on but then the moment struck. Did I twang that trapped nerve or was it just a good idea? Let’s do a live blog! I’ll type as I eat, sip and slurp whatever Novello Lounge supplies me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/96a51a7b-b08e-42e1-9e8f-ad0db16ef872/tempImagesLi1TA.jpg My Blog - Novello Lounge, Telford - As someone had told me, the coffee is really good here! I was seriously surprised. I would go as far as to say it’s the best ‘chain coffee’ I have had. That is absolutely in no way a difficult award to win with me, but hey, there’s got to be a top dog in every category. If I’m being unnecessarily picky, the milk is maybe a little over frothed, maybe a touch burnt but not a cardinal sin, it tastes great. There could have been some latte art but I’ll always take a good tasting coffee over an ornate swan with a heart for a head any day! Flavour first, looks second……… In fact, I want to order another. Hmmmm. Problem is though, it’s an order at the bar thing and the online ordering isn’t working. Do I leave my laptop and head to the bar? It’s quite busy and while I don’t want to be ‘that guy’ I am also sat in the window in Telford Town Centre (this is Telford Town Centre, right?). But then what would someone do with a laptop largely packed with nonsense and 5000 sauce recipes?……..Or do I just not have another coffee? Consistency is key, I am trying another……….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/26ec0c88-77ca-4075-9f5f-835c6226b53a/tempImagekF6QPQ.jpg My Blog - Novello Lounge, Telford - When I order anything Gluten Free and bread based my expectations drop considerably. GF bread products just don’t cut the mustard, especially when charged with holding greasy breakfast goods like sausages, bacon and fried eggs. They don’t have the dexterity to also manage the heavy touch of my animal paws. For reference, I had a choice of bacon or Cumberland sausage. I went sausage. I feel like that’s the choice from my heart of hearts. I’ve always been more sausage than bacon. Actually, that’s a lie. I was and will always be more BOTH sausage and bacon. It’s arrived looking in top order and the Gluten Free bap looks great! I can’t tell what brand it is, which is a plus. I have tried every single readily available product. I know, ok! It’s in 2 halves. The top of the bap has a semi melted plastic cheese slice topped with an absolutely perfectly fried egg - shaped to the size of the bun lid which has already calmed my trepidation about bun dexterity and the imminent eggy mess I’ll be in! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/36ce28f6-7eec-4bef-b190-1f2c223805df/tempImageoYy2Sz.jpg My Blog - Novello Lounge, Telford - I need ketchup. Who wouldn’t need ketchup for this? I can see a stand with all the condiments on. Is this a self serve situation? I also need cutlery but there isn’t any cutlery on the condiment stand. Hmmm, I’m in a dilemma. Have I found a chink in their communication armour? With my trapped nerve moving like Universal Soldier am I about to rip this place apart? The waitress has returned with cutlery and asked if I want sauce. Phew! Good save, Novello Lounge! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/42b9995b-0e3b-42d8-87d4-26173a24c34e/tempImageNVygcN.jpg My Blog - Novello Lounge, Telford - The ketchup is in a fun tomato squeezy bottle. Lovely stuff! It also holds a secret lock into my nostalgic food vault! It’s a really faint, slightly opaque orange colour and almost jelly like in its texture. It’s the cheapest stuff you can possibly get your hands on! Probably about 2% tomato. It’s the stuff you get in truck stops and old school ‘caffs’. Tomato replaced with plenty of water, vinegar, sugar and cornflour. I know because I was once a lorry driver and in case you forgot, a sauce designing behemoth. Nostalgia is a massive secret to getting me to love food and I have some weird and quite specific ones. Instant coffee in a polystyrene cup coupled with the smell of a commercial vehicle auction is one. Another is jelly like, faint opaque orange, cheap ketchup drizzled over cheap processed pork products and a runny egg in soft bread is another……..I’m in heaven! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/3b977c7b-e267-4186-9e49-703123b4f62b/tempImageY3INHl.jpg My Blog - Novello Lounge, Telford - My other coffee has arrived - almost identical to the first. Dare I say it, it’s really consistent! Another point to Novello Lounge! This place is pretty packed now! There is a real hustle and bustle atmosphere. Very enjoyable to be part of! The staff don’t seem stressed and everything seems to flow well. This is where good chains come into their own. They are so well trained in their robotic systems that even when it gets busy and the staff are miserable as sin, it takes a real kick in the nuts to bring the place down! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/christmasdaypreplist monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/29c7a8e7-f9c9-47a2-b1b4-bb0b5cff8458/tempImagealhFnF.jpg My Blog - Christmas Dinner - Top Tips, Portion Control Calculator & Prep Lists - Chef Style - This is just a little insight into how a Chef might organise themselves and approach Christmas dinner! It’s about tips, tricks and A PREP LIST! Not everyone loves sitting down and planning things but having this approach towards Christmas Dinner will seriously lift the stress and will almost certainly make the whole process more enjoyable! Especially if you’re not feeling too confident! I have stuck a link down at the bottom of this waffle that will take you straight to a sort of spreadsheet/check sheet that you can download if you want…..so if you’re not into my waffle, head straight down there but if you want a little more of an insight, keep reading……… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e15d3036-9e97-4c83-86d9-49558382974a/tempImagezdshHY.jpg My Blog - Christmas Dinner - Top Tips, Portion Control Calculator & Prep Lists - Chef Style - The best prep lists aren’t necessarily just a list of jobs but its also about time management - starting at the time you want to the food to be ready and working backwards to work out how to fit all the jobs into the time you have! You’ll end up with almost like a script to follow - then all you have to do is stick to it, and you’re off and running with ease! It takes away all of the thinking and frees you up to concentrate on the actual cooking and getting that right! The idea behind all this is quite simple, it’s just about getting in front and staying in front! I find people often pile too much pressure on themselves on the actual day, they try to do too much, they get too overwhelmed and it all goes wrong pretty quickly! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/ef377f20-6673-432b-b031-f45844e99719/tempImageIhJh9Z.jpg My Blog - Christmas Dinner - Top Tips, Portion Control Calculator & Prep Lists - Chef Style - OK, back to the prep list…….. I start with thinking about absolutely every single job that I could get done the day before…..to the finest detail. We are talking about vegetable prep, sauce making, traying up things ready for the oven, bowling things up, slicing stuff ready…….all this kind of jazz can be done on CHRISTMAS EVE………it might seem like a you’re sucking out all the fun of Christmas Eve but by spending some time in the kitchen and putting in a few hours graft on Christmas Eve will make all the difference on the big day and will free you up to actually enjoy yourself! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/6423e484-5f52-4177-84d6-f135d80d9e95/tempImageHY0J0S.jpg My Blog - Christmas Dinner - Top Tips, Portion Control Calculator & Prep Lists - Chef Style - THE BIG DAY: Always start your prep list with the service time, the deadline, what time you need the food on the table! If I have told people lunch is at 2pm………..my target service time is 1.30pm! That means starters can go out in advance, everything will be ready before you sit down to eat them and it gives you 30 minutes grace or anything that goes wrong, if it’s all going to plan, you can always slow down and have another Sherry and enjoy the peace if you like! Then its about working backwards - then start thinking of the big jobs….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/1ae5e11f-a9ee-458c-8d1f-d74a3acfc50f/tempImagevUwdjg.jpg My Blog - Christmas Dinner - Top Tips, Portion Control Calculator & Prep Lists - Chef Style - THE BIRD - work out your cooking times, for most people, the bird is going to take 3-4 hours (depending on size) in the oven before resting - so remember, you have UP TO 90 MINUTES RESTING TIME if you don’t leave it near an open door or window, so my target time to get the bird cooked and out the oven is 12pm - so the time I need to get it in the oven (lets say its going to take me 3 hours) is 9am. Just to complicate things earlier, you want your bird to be as close to room temp as possible so take it out the fridge at least 1 hour before cooking! With having smashed out so much prep on Xmas Eve, it gives you so much leeway for the actual day, its largely reheating and cooking - all of which can be done in the turkey resting time - 60-90 minutes is enough to get everything else cooked/warmed up! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/the-prince-rupert-whys-no-one-talking-about-it monthly 0.5 2024-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/184e45d5-1cd6-4465-8a61-44bff4cd3e92/Screenshot+2024-11-04+at+14.11.28.png My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - …..THERE’S A BLOODY HIDDEN GEM OF A RESTAURANT IN SHREWSBURY!… …..And I am lost for words as to why or how no-one seems to be talking about it. So let’s smash that taboo right in its tabboulehs (that’s where the word comes from right?)…….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/0aaf32c9-d2e3-4516-9843-b4b2c09d4160/tempImage6RqtdJ.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - We were taken into a large dining room. An extremely old school dining room, with extremely dim lighting and old school tableware. It was also unfortunate that it was also extremely empty with only a handful of diners. To repeatedly say this place is old school is an understatement. What they had done very well was set up half of the room ready for breakfast, so it didn’t feel quite as empty as it looked. Should have seen it coming but the menus arrived hidden deep within a plush, thick, leather book. Looking around, the walls were adorned with armour, helmets and muskets. We started to wonder if this was some sort of old school theme bar/experience, almost Fawlty Towers esque but we also knew that if we got wind of the roundheads approaching, we would be ready! There wasn’t much chance of that happening, the Michael Buble album on loop would surely be enough to calm any disgruntled Parliamentarian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/36f1237a-ab50-4d38-89a5-7e180e50443a/tempImagebPghgG.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - I joke about it and while this is the absolute oldest of the old school to a point of it almost being ridiculous, there is an authenticity in this dining room that you can never achieve without the magic ingredient of time. I would not change a single thing. For some reason, at the Rupert it works. They also have the most amazing over head spotlights on every table which is a photographers dream. I mean you cannot get better lighting for photos! No awkward shadows when trying to take over head shots, no need to manoeuvre things around to take pictures. It’s an influencers dream!…..if only people knew about it?……. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7880fb93-8394-4101-b8c5-cdefd1586719/tempImageSL5gvT.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! I love a small menu but what is even more exciting is when you then can’t choose between those dishes. What Gareth does with his food is not stray too far from well established flavour combos. In fact, what he does is centralise his food around things that everyone knows, there’s a familiarity to it all. The classics, the crowd pleasers. He smashes you right in your comfort food jugular and so every dish makes you think ‘ooo yeah, ahhh yes, wow that sounds great’ and so on and so on…….he sails you straight down the river, straight into the heart of your comfort zone and plonks you down in the comfiest of places before drowning you in your heart’s desires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f2baed93-852a-42fd-8108-3dba08449347/tempImageI4YaXy.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - Take one of the starters for instance, all the calling cards and inspiration of a chicken caesar salad but with a comforting and indulgent hug that most salads struggle to achieve. Soft chicken terrine wrapped in cured ham with braised lettuce, Caesar dressing and anchovies that just added the salty punch my comfort jugular was praying for…….perfect! The real shining examples of how Gareth thinks and cooks came with the main courses. I’m not the biggest fan of so called ‘fine dining’. I have an issue with labels and food in general. Why does everything have to be boxed into categories with stupid labels? Every style of food, every type of eater. You can’t be free to just eat what you like, you need to pick a name for it, then make sure you tell everyone what you do or ‘what you are’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/cb401a8e-c34e-4234-b867-d942b6c8c54c/tempImagek3aT3K.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - The so called ‘fine dining’ - a term so dated in itself often can have focus on making things looking pretty, creating art on a plate, rather than performing the main reason of a meal, feeding someone. It can sometimes be a little style over substance. I find it hard to comprehend that this also seems to be people’s benchmark for good food in this country. If you’re not doing fine dining it’s almost impossible to be considered the best. Take Masterchef for instance. People are pushed into a corner of creating ‘culinary genius’ with a million different components. Why can’t you just serve an incredible risotto? I would argue that’s harder and more skilful than hiding behind a load of complicated techniques. Anyway, that was an unexpected side rant….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5caef627-1110-4209-87ef-aab6a019e2ba/tempImageCIQRwv.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - The fish main course was the star of the show. Here comes another tangent……I don’t eat much seafood. It’s not that I don’t love it, I undoubtedly do but I’ve always been conflicted with the idea of a land locked county demanding fish out of the sea. It can’t be at its best. It’s also really hard to know what you’re eating or buying, the industry is pretty disgusting and with the whole farming thing, it just makes me feel a bit icky! Save it for the holidays by the seaside and adore it with the smell of the sea and the bitter cold wind in your hair (or my stubbled scalp). But this fish dish was something else! A beautiful, generous piece of Hake, cooked to utter perfection. The kind of flaking where it was clinging on to itself, almost urging itself to fall apart as you approach it with your cutlery. From the moment I saw it, it was giving me the side eye. It wanted to be in my mouth! That is testament to Gareth’s extremely fancy but also stripped back, approachable plating up. That brilliant balance of art vs food. He is a master in the power of restraint, knowing when to stop! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8343ed4e-5ba3-49f4-b128-29d99b198a57/tempImageGkumJ1.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - This isn’t pretentious cooking in any way, shape or form. This is real and really really good! My dining partner, good friend and also chef, Tom summed up the main courses brilliantly……’they are just big plates of really good friends all having a lovely time, what more do you need?’……. 10-15 years ago if you asked me what my favourite course was, it was pudding. I once went to a fancy one star restaurant that let you pick 7 courses from an extensive menu. I chose 6 desserts. I feel like I have matured in my old age and this isn’t so true anymore but regardless, my favourite type of pudding is a free one! All hail Shrewsbury Restaurant Week!…… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b264a6c9-6016-4cf0-833e-269c8ccd919a/tempImage7BTwsU.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - Baked Alaska, come on! You can never go wrong with that on the menu. One thing people should definitely be doing is following Gareth’s idea and combining a sticky toffee pudding sponge with some toffee apple things and tying it all together with a beurre noisette parfait! Another list of just lovely things, this time crammed under an Italian meringue shell! I am a firm believer that brown butter makes everything better. For me, sticky toffee puddings, toffee, apples and all that jazz are pretty close to perfection. I am now demanding they all come with brown butter. Gareth has proved me right….thank you! I am becoming a little lost for words with this and if I am honest, I kind of want to go and eat there again right now! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/fcdf3625-f325-4123-80ac-6e403b07b171/tempImageMfG0Yh.jpg My Blog - The Royalist Restaurant - Shrewsbury’s Best Kept Secret! - I can’t remember the last ‘fine dining’ meal I left so fulfilled in so many ways…….I can, it was at Arzak in San Sebastián on my honeymoon but I have to file this away as a different experience to eating out, it’s not fair on any other restaurant or my own cooking and if that became my expectations, I would be very sad!…… The other thing to note is the value for money. Another sticky issue with me and fine dining food! It’s costly to make, so if it doesn’t hit the mark with the customers experience, you can feel really really underwhelmed. Starters and desserts were around £10-12 each and the mains were £26. Don’t underestimate, this is a generous meal. Made with real skill and real love. The attention to detail is magnificent and I wouldn’t begrudge paying an even higher price tag for it. We have to remember where we are in the world with the price of food these days. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/petit-glou-light-amp-fresh-lunch-packed-with-quality-produce monthly 0.5 2024-11-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/44795842-1320-44da-be84-66dc9f434f2b/tempImage5HJcEs.jpg My Blog - Petit Glou - Light & Fresh Lunch Packed With Quality Produce - Thankfully that’s changed. I actually went in for lunch. They have a nice little range of options actually. From the aforementioned nibbles and selections of house made bread to little small plates of lovely houmous and cheese fondue. Of course they serve cheese and meats - what self respecting wine bar wouldn’t, but these are all locally sourced and a great advert for the Shropshire food scene. The main feature of the menu are the ‘Paninos’ and some salads. I have never heard anything called a Panino, it sounds a term my 4 year old would coin for a Panini but it definitely isn’t a typo. An assumption that its an Italian sandwich similar to a Panini is quickly confirmed on a google search…..I do not want to look like a sandwich fool……… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/58a0a43c-a3ca-4cb9-83b5-c77b650abd97/tempImageiyRH67.jpg My Blog - Petit Glou - Light & Fresh Lunch Packed With Quality Produce - That’s partially a lie. We did have some cheese but in the form of fondue. One of the most pleasurable forms of cheese. Offering 3 cheeses, unsurprisingly it was cheesy but surprisingly it was very light. Maybe too light? I’m on the fence with that. I usually make my fondue thick enough to lay bricks with and strong enough to make people wonder if it is anything BUT cheese. Demanding an Instagrammable cheese pull that I can never capture because I’m too busy trying to lift the heavy cheese with two hands, the camera just ends up on the table facing the ceiling, capturing the odd glance of a flared nostril as I strain to lift the dense dairy…. The kind of cheesy that induces the heartburn from merely smelling the molten goodness…..so maybe that’s just a me problem. What the lightness does however, is give you a fondue consumption super power - I could guzzle this stuff down all day long! It comes with some really lovely mushrooms that add a bit of richness and earthiness to it all. A lovely light indulgence! But not a fondue that is going to make you feel naughty (if that’s what you’re into). The fondue also offered my first glance at their house made focaccia. We flirted enough that I knew I needed some more of it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b2db2fca-ddb2-4229-9b4f-198c4b35712d/tempImagexlwVDG.jpg My Blog - Petit Glou - Light & Fresh Lunch Packed With Quality Produce - Great sandwiches start with great bread! The house made focaccia was everything you want focaccia to be. I once worked with an Italian chef who passionately spoke about ciabatta being the best bread in the whole world. Bemused, the rest of the kitchen looked on before everyone chimed in to let him know that it wasn’t even the best bread in Italy! All hail the Focaccia!…….I do think we could learn something from Giorgio and the rest of the Italian food culture. Their passion is incredible. They will risk death to convince you that whatever is from their region in Italy is the best in the world. You have to admire it. I mean, you don’t really see Garry from Accrington on a mission to Turin to convince the Northern Italians that his Nan’s Hot Pot is the greatest stew on Earth. But why shouldn’t he? I support you Garry. I stand with you! Go get em tiger!…….I mean, the Italians are right though, it’s not even the best stew in England………. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/023fa551-c7e1-47bb-b0ec-c68921acf1e7/tempImage1ztCWN.jpg My Blog - Petit Glou - Light & Fresh Lunch Packed With Quality Produce - The final piece in the sandwich puzzle is always some sort of pickles. While my 1/4 German wife has just about improved every single aspect of my life, one of the things I hold most dear is how much I now love a pickle. Everything’s gone from butter and cream to mustard and vinegar. Low and behold, these sandwiches are packed with delicious homemade pickles. It’s acidity that’s the key flavour profile most people miss! They added the perfect balance to the bread and the fillings! All in all, great sandwiches. £10 a pop is a fair price, they are a really good size, decent amounts of fillings and when you consider the quality of the produce, really worth a go! They also come with a lovely crunchy, fresh side salad, one of my favourite parts of the entire lunch (and that is not doing the sandwich a disservice, quite the opposite) - a brave chef adds raw, shaved fennel into a salad in Shropshire, a brave and very much correct chef! Lovely! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/20219bae-f634-4ba0-a9ea-588b3587a982/tempImage13BTmG.jpg My Blog - Petit Glou - Light & Fresh Lunch Packed With Quality Produce - Almost as if as a town we are trying to ward off sesame loving vampires. I was more than happy with the restraint shown in Petit Glou when it came to the garlic. You knew it was there but it wouldn’t compromise my chances of kissing a vampire later that night. As with the rest of the meal, all the flavours were lovely, light, fresh and clearly all the food was freshly made. My qualm came with the word ‘warm’ on the menu. Unfortunately everything was fridge cold. This is a long way from being a deal breaker for me, but the dish would have really benefited from being room temperature. I actually mentioned this to the guys and they pointed out that it actually was served at room temperature, it just so happened to be about 2C that day and the Market Hall is genuinely freezing cold! That’s a tough one to solve in an already tiny kitchen but they are working on it. From my experience, you’ll crack that problem after months of trialling different things, right when the sun starts to come out and everything warms up! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/fabf26e0-1594-46eb-8a7e-b2887790a654/tempImagegPAcpr.jpg My Blog - Petit Glou - Light & Fresh Lunch Packed With Quality Produce - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/circumstance-will-forever-trump-flavour monthly 0.5 2024-11-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b4b5f7bd-7f16-42fa-803b-7337674c531e/tempImagetAzh4f.jpg My Blog - The Hotel Continental Breakfast! How Circumstance Beats Flavour! - Make it stand out (Now before you all start screaming ‘WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, HOLD YOUR CONTINENTAL HORSES - THAT’S NOT A CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST?! THATS GOT EGGS AND SAUSAGE ON IT???!!!!’ I class this as a continental breakfast…anything on offer that isnt kept in the separate hot counter secction of a breakfast buffet is continental……so shove that on your over sized plate and eat it!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2a904104-b554-4e73-94e5-000e52104baa/tempImageunzgh5.jpg My Blog - The Hotel Continental Breakfast! How Circumstance Beats Flavour! It’s on the way to your table that you cross the random section. The ‘also ran’ part of the buffet. The cherry tomato, cucumber, condiment, bread and whole fruit basket displays……you’ve already assembled a pretty mental plate of food, but what’s missing?….a mini par cooked baguette/roll (now just cooked and cold), a couple of unnecessary sachets of ‘El Ketchup’, a whole banana and large orange to stick in your bag for later and an arrangement of berries and yoghurt that you’ll eventually decide need to go in a separate bowl….you now have 2 trays and you’re on your 4th trip around the buffet……at home, this would present a level of stress……. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f42cc4cd-7298-4027-9690-ab3115832f89/tempImage4PeevI.jpg My Blog - The Hotel Continental Breakfast! How Circumstance Beats Flavour! Coffee is always something that has high expectations on holiday. But nothing will beat the underwhelming satisfaction of an over roasted, glorified instant coffee pumped directly from the Wetherspoon’s refill machine main frame that must run under the entirety of Europe into every single coffee machine across this great continent….I imagine the real reason for the Channel Tunnel…..The thick, black, horrendously bitter good stuff to perfectly compliment the already wild and outrageous food combinations you’ve put on your plate. And of course, the mugs are never the right size for the coffee that’s dispensed or on the other hand, the machine never dishes out a sufficient dose. You’ll just have to do 2 trips to the coffee machine! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d1908a21-32f4-4b13-9832-584257bc7382/tempImagelbPDMr.jpg My Blog - The Hotel Continental Breakfast! How Circumstance Beats Flavour! - But why is this meal so special? It is without question, not the food! It’s a world away from a meticulously crafted meal but why is this such a firm favourite? Why is it as delicious as a meticulously crafted meal?and why do we enjoy it so much? Why is this the only time and place that almost all of this style of eating is acceptable? It’s because the entire meal is seasoned with hope. It’s peppered with a stress free outlook. A day of positivity. You’re hungover but it doesn’t matter. You have minimal responsibilities, so for a change, absolutely nothing matters! On holiday you’re living in a state where you aren’t dragging yourself through til bed time, each day is about a different, more fun style of survival, no longer about counting down to the weekend. It’s the opposite, every day is hopeful. You want everyday to go on as long as possible, packed with as many positive experiences as possible. You don’t want it to end. It’s exciting! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4e7f0bc9-b2c1-44b2-8ab0-4912dec0a436/tempImagekvxzuZ.jpg My Blog - The Hotel Continental Breakfast! How Circumstance Beats Flavour! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/bobbys-tacos-brunch monthly 0.5 2024-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7e867049-87ee-4f6d-a266-091c37d075e6/tempImageDaYlG7.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - ARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! There, I said it! It’s out there. Similarly to my other unpopular opinions and thoughts towards, caviar, truffles, lobster, champagne and just about every other overpriced ‘luxury’ item that carries no actual substance and when you break it down there are just way better value for money alternatives out there. Burgers! There’s another one. Overated, they’re fine but what’s all the excitement about? I will never be that person who will regularly be happy to shove a £15 glorified sandwich into my gob. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f50ed904-48e8-4734-8f47-84ae1b134a1a/tempImagemBaX2W.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - To be clear, I am not saying that Bobby’s tacos aren’t delicious, let’s recap…..I haven’t been yet……but with the price of the meal, I would be more inclined to head to their sister restaurant, Dough & Oil and smash one of ‘those’ pizzas and end up feeling way more fulfilled with the whole experience. I am sure that if we had an MTV style Celebrity Death Match, Taco vs Pizza, we would unveil their costs and find them totally comparative but for some reason, the pizza just seems a more satisfying option! Before we all get our knickers in a twist, remember, I am but one man, albeit one man with an opinion that I am always more than happy to share without anyone asking for it, an opinion that is sometimes hard to swallow……… Having said all that, if anyone wants to prove me wrong, I am more than willing to attend Bobby’s for tacos as someones guest. You have the chance to change my opinion, as I am extremely open minded to these things….especially towards free dinner! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/663e8ca7-e7db-4c84-b70b-0705bb2efef9/tempImage3huuLu.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - They are banging out burritos, Mexican eggs and some homemade granola on those now synonymous metal ‘taco trays’….. There was a rare occurrence in our house a few weeks ago. We stayed up beyond 10pm. I mean, it’s rare to be up after 9 but it can happen. But to pass 10????………we even passed midnight. This is roughly when I get in if I am working late but even then I am usually tucked up in bed by 12.30……..we passed 12.30……..In fact, we stayed up until the insane time of 1.30am! Mum & Dad were well and truly on the lash! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/87948eb6-6ca6-4a12-b730-b14175ed1d4e/tempImageLgQSQz.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - The first thing I saw when we walked in was a smiling welcome from the staff. Precisely what I needed when I was still so blurry eyed, reliving and questioning every single shot of ‘Galliano’ I had the night before. It was precisely the sort of uplifting cuddle my soul needed that made me feel like I was in the right place, a place where someone was going to look after me! The second thing I noticed was the most amazingly beautiful and stunningly organised fridge of Pacifico. All in a line, all neat and tidy. This is the kind of thing I used to need when I was hungover in kitchens. 10 minutes starring at the perfectly organised and labelled tubs in the dry stores helped ease the ‘hang-sixty’ or 5 minutes sat on the floor in the blast chiller stroking a bunch of chervil…..such pretty, soft leaves……..Again, another feeling that I was in the right place for my state…… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8b9d1453-9b03-4924-8078-ead1f5a497f2/tempImageIMdosf.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - I was the only person in our group either not driving or not too hungover to order a cocktail. I had the Jalarita and I think it was probably the best cocktail I’ve had in Salop. Spicy, sour but without a single suggestion of heartburn, a grand achievement considering my reflux issues! A compounding moment that made me truly realise that I was without question in the right place. I want this and the pink water on my back with 2 straws. I would be a happy, happy man! Quite often, empty restaurants bother me. There is a lack of atmosphere and a constant overwhelming feeling that the staff are desperate to do something to avoid the inevitable cleaning, tidying and organising jobs. The pressure can be quite daunting and overbearing. Not here, it was gorgeously laid back and the service amazing (I’ll get on to that shortly). The food arrived swiftly, the one definite positive of an empty place……… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d125ad0a-698a-472d-9f5e-f8ef26454795/tempImage07Kp8r.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! There was a little confusion about the glutenisation in the wrap for the burritos but after checking and confirming that the burrito wrap, unlike the in house corn tortillas, had been touched deep inside by some wheat, we opted to have the burrito laid bare. Shamelessly ripped open and spread across out tray. We were delighted to see that they had given us some corn tortillas instead of the wheat wrap. We now had breakfast tacos………time for me to get confused about where I stand on the whole taco bashing thing……… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b214d2b9-1f1d-4457-b85c-936eb80b53a8/tempImageeCNgvz.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - For £12 it was great value……had I found a taco format that I agree with? Maybe I need tacos when I’m hungover?……. The house made granola looked like a great option for something a little lighter. My friend who was potentially in the worst state of anyone had that. It arrived with lots of little bowls so you could construct every mouthful however you choose. Our friend was largely concentrating on making sure she was breathing but did take a second to look up to let us know it was delicious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b347ae95-b590-4a4e-92d7-004ec8929f32/tempImageZ4B32q.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - As 4 extremely hungover close friends, who had spent the last 12 hours pretty much laughing non-stop we were, as you can imagine talking a hell of a lot of nonsense while being largely unhelpful and indecisive about pretty much everything. We were navigating conversations about 90s one hit wonder super group Extreme, reminiscing about a particular wig laden performance of ‘More Than Words’ my best man and I performed the night before. It spiralled into us forming our own Extreme tribute act, called Houmous & Chutney, before finding out one member of the original band’s name was Pat Badger. Which in turn led us to creating his solo project and hit album ‘Badger Loves….(mashed potato)’……. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d4760b4c-250d-40b9-ba63-796028323110/tempImageVVVj5f.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - You have to sort of acknowledge the laughter and fun, but not get too involved and risk knocking the wind out of our sails. You have to acknowledge the laughter but not let your customers think you are trying to get in on a joke you have no chance of understanding because it’s hardly even a joke in the first place. Fortunately for us, Sir Alex had donned the form of a waitress! A waitress who walked straight in to this, full on and absolutely smashed it. The perfect level of attentiveness; understanding the state we were in and delivering everything we needed and maybe even more. The even more bit, being when she came over and asked if we wanted some FREE CAKE! They were closing the kitchen for a week and had some cake to get rid of. Such a simple but generous gesture. Something so many places will overlook. The first instinct would be to put an offer on, to try to flog it. Then when that hadn’t sold, just chuck it in the bin! They would rather waste the food than offer out freebies. The food waste warrior inside me roared! What a stunning way to approach your food waste! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f63411cc-60a4-4ed4-9397-4440dca3b4a5/tempImageNlbUl6.jpg My Blog - Bobby’s Tacos - They Do Sunday Brunch! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/wok-king-sundorne monthly 0.5 2025-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/14cd0ede-ed39-4a83-907d-4f87c831ccdb/images-4.jpeg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - The scene for the takeaway was a bit of a chaotic weekend. It was our wedding anniversary. We hired a full table setting for the weekend and set that up in our tiny (and I mean tiny) kitchen/dining area. We were doing a 70s theme, food, fancy dress, table decor, terrible James Last records from the charity shop, we went the whole hog. The party was Saturday night but the salmon mousse and the monster sized chicken terrine wasn’t going to set itself so we spent all day Friday prepping. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/caa18747-dc7b-415c-8938-d04a34da5282/tempImagek4nRt1.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - The Order: Singapore Noodles Prawn Egg Foo Yung Special Egg Fried Rice (with Sauce) Sweet & Sour Sauce Curry Sauce Mixed Vegetables with Cashew Nuts Small Chips The Price…… An Eye Watering £57.50 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e53047bc-38ef-49a6-a70b-69bc6da385b8/tempImage1trJgf.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - When bringing the takeaway back to our chaotic nest, I had noticed that it was bizarrely uniform in its bag. There was some chaos missing from the bag. It was pure container, what if the Wok King hadn’t deemed fit to show us some mercy and deliver some free prawn crackers……….what if he had kept them all for himself a la Henry VIII?…….the kind of news I couldn’t face in the current stress pit I was in, don’t look at it, don’t think about it…… It wasn’t long until I had to face the music. I pre-warned my wife that she may on a direct train to prawn cracker disappointment. I dropped the prawn cracker bomb in the only way a husband knows. While running out the room as quick as possible…..to put the bab to bed….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/fb9333cb-6c36-4bce-a62a-9a2e048efea1/tempImageAf5U3v.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - Another obsession of mine when it comes to this project has been the varying glow of sweet and sour sauce. This one was up there, nice and unworldly. But it was also quite thin. Yet still had a certain level of gloopiness. A sort of watered down, thickness that still just about holds its own. Its a really hard texture to achieve. It’s to do with the Water Activity in the sauce and the amount of available water left in the sauce. Essentially without boring you too much about sauce science it means they’ve used a really effective starch or the starch has been absolutely cooked to optimum perfection in the sauce. Not something the Wok King can claim, this is the work of one of his cronies. Wherever he bought the sauce from - they are the water activity heroes here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/fc85e7de-703d-4e90-855b-9509e6c06d5a/tempImageOwyyva.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - The lack of aroma continued across every aspect of this takeaway. As if the King had sent out a decree that no-one in his realm shall smell anything again. My mind was in quite a negative place by this point. The spiral of negativity was real. I was on the look out for problems. WHERES THE SAUCE FROM OUR EGG FRIED RICE? …..actually the rice had been tossed in it. Not that you ever would have noticed, as the rice also lacked any flavour or aroma. It was adorned with those now synonymous juicy but tasteless prawns and also scattered with chunks of frozen meat. My days in the ready meal world mean I am more than familiar with the tell tale signs of low quality frozen meat - the marks of the factory conveyor belts shamefully brand every difficult to chew chunk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/ed7773af-5b4b-4f9a-a808-7e71ed30a306/tempImageZVRRtK.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - Whenever I get this negative I try my hardest to find balance and when I am on a bit of a negative run, I have actually got really good at taking a step back and trying to change my mindset. It’s one of the wonderful skills that my wife has bought out of me and really helped me develop. The positive saviour of this entire meal were the vegetables. Especially the vegetables! The broccoli in particular was absolutely brilliant and amongst the best we have had from any takeaway. The texture was just perfect. A hard thing to achieve in a takeaway that has to be delivered, then left in containers to continue to steam! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/80b8c4ef-cf51-4df3-b5c2-f529b0ec429b/tempImage8JR9zp.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - The mixed vegetables and cashew nuts were a highlight for me. The cornflour gloop that normally adorns the mixed vegetable dishes is often a highlight. It doesn’t work anywhere else, but with a Chinese its almost what you want. There wasn’t too much gloopy water in the Wok King’s version, which again, is a balance of good for some, bad for others. In this instance it was a nice, light relief from the otherwise largely watery consistency. The other positive dish, both thankfully for my taste buds and also the survival of my marriage was the Singapore Noodles. A decent flavour and in stark contrast to the rest of the takeaway, on the drier side. Some more light relief! It could have had more seasoning and a slightly more lingering flavour but it had some decent heat and was pleasant enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e455182f-1787-48ca-83f0-c2be0091e981/tempImagefJ51C7.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - I was more than content with just finishing my first serving and leaving it at that. Maybe that was the influence of my wife’s plan to not over eat ahead of our indulgent Saturday plans? Sunday was the real day of reckoning. Hungover, gasping for some sort of hangover cure. We were right in the midst of some serious reminders of our age and why we don’t go out anymore. Although we were childless (thanks to some Grandparent heroes) so it wasn’t all bad. Tucking into this takeaway cold was where the problems really showed themselves. Now completely tasteless, my science around the volatility of molecules being proven correct. All the dishes were swimming in some stagnant water, some dishes tasting quite soapy, while others being a confusing mix of dry and watery at the same time. It was not enjoyable at all. But you can’t blame the Wok King for this. He didn’t design his food to be eaten cold! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/85c07acb-5443-4dce-83af-c4639b7f44d6/tempImage75BoFw.jpg My Blog - Wok King, Sundorne Ave - The one thing I cannot get over is the price tag. With such a mark up, I just need more bang for my buck. The Wok King is obviously a belligerent and selfish ruler, refusing the share his wealth with his subjects. It’s a real shame but also for me a great example of what some simple generosity like a bag of prawn crackers can do to put people in the right frame of mind. I say it all before, the most important part of a meal is setting the customers expectations in the first 5 minutes and on arrival. Get off on the wrong foot and it’s an uphill struggle to get people back on board! I should also point out that I am very aware that I don’t ‘deserve’ freebies and I acknowledge the responsibility for ensuring prawn crackers are delivered lies with me, not the Wok King. But it worries me that that would have tipped the total price at over £60, which is barmy for a takeaway for 2, even one ordered to feed one an a half meals. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/shrewsburyrestaurantweek monthly 0.5 2024-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a5973e43-28e5-4e03-af75-992bf69a3a75/IMG_3416.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week has been and gone! What a week it was! 38 different restaurants, cafes, bars and food joints are sticking on specials, offers and deals to help showcase the amazing food scene in Shrewsbury! You might have seen my previous blogs about what’s going on all week and some of the places I thought might have been worth a punt this week. It’s so important we are supporting local hospitality as much as we can. As in industry it’s been repeatedly kicked in the nuts lately and the latest budget hasn’t exactly helped the already struggling business owners. But let’s not get bogged down with the doom and gloom - this is a week of celebration! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/9e68a780-0b2d-49aa-a9ff-036861181bbf/tempImageEmx6bD.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - I loved seeing the place already busy from the get go! We couldn't even sit in our usual spot (the horror!!!) but this is Restaurant Week - new horizons……so we took our chance to take a window seat! A couple of delicious bagels and 2 coffees for £16, you just can’t go wrong! I love everything about this place, the vibe is just amazing! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/aa21dfb1-4bd6-4768-b4fa-092304d22aa6/tempImagezhW5QV.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - Wednesday morning took me off on my first adventure! A cafe that I have been meaning to visit for some time. One of those mysterious places. I know which street it’s on but for the life of me, I can’t picture where it is? It’s always sounded so delicious and the foods looked amazing. Some good comments and reviews too so I was over the moon to see it on the restaurant week list. This was actually the place I was most looking forwards to visiting. Their specials sounded right up my street and it’s open on Mondays. So it could be new spot for our family debriefing sessions each week! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/681d5b80-e332-451d-8f57-24ba727edac1/tempImagelzt3MH.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - The cafe looks like exactly how I want a cafe to look. A proper cafe, nothing pretentious! I was met by the owner with a beaming smile and a lovely welcome which really set everything off perfectly. It might have been cold out, and I might have been dining alone but I was not missing out on sitting on that magical terrace, so I headed out and grabbed a table. The staff were all lovely and took my order swiftly. I ordered the masala potatoes and fried eggs. I was so excited about this dish. It is totally a bit of me. The kind of thing we love to cook at home too. It had some coriander heavy chutney and some coconut raita splodged with it……it sounded magic! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b108be01-7bb2-4b7e-a256-6907ad6c82db/tempImageDUoXzt.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - I was more than content with my breakfast. It was yummy. It filled the gap, I didn’t need anything else. However, I have big issues with my appetite when I’ve had something delicious. My inner hunter/gatherer/scavenger kicks in and totally unnecessarily I seem to demand cake. I casually enquired about options unsure if I would have anything……. When the words, Chocolate Brownie, Warm and With Clotted Cream come out of someones mouth, I’m not sure there is anyone in the world with a power to say no to that…… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/57e3b8a6-d4e5-428c-8487-8d0dfb15837f/tempImageYJhKIn.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - I wrote a blog about the best coffees in town a while ago. Pont featured on having the best Mocha. Me and Pont is quite a tragic story. I found out I was gluten intolerant a week after they opened so I have been limited to enjoying their chocolate brownies and Basque cheesecake since they opened…..I know, life is hard, right?!…….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4c3bd69b-347b-4892-842c-6c5e5c4b73c6/tempImageOfGU9n.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - In my Restaurant Week battle plan, Thursday was always going to be the big one! I was going to go out for dinner without my wife! This is almost unheard of in our house. Not in an overbearing sort of way from either of us, but just in a more sort of, we love each others company too much. Why would you want to go out for dinner with someone else, kind of way. We have one of those relationships! Our love of food is pretty much equal too and we both have this thing where if we have something yummy, we instantly want the other one to have tried it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/86035fe0-9b63-4b6b-8f18-58093bf333d2/tempImageSYCsHU.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - If I am being honest, the houmous was fine. A little bit of a non-event, there was a white houmous (regular, I think) and a purple houmous (beetroot, I assume?) both kind of tasted the same, kind of just white beans with nothing else much too them. I didn’t note if they were white bean houmous’s’s’s’s’s (or houmii) but they didnt have the heavy richness of chickpeas so I assumed they were. They were in no way unpleasant at all, both were light in flavour and texture so they did the job they had to alongside the fizz. The total winner was the whitebait! Really delicious, crispy, freshly fried whitebait and a great mayo to dip them in. This is the kind of thing we all need more of in our life. The perfect bar snack! We sat really content alternating cracker in houmous dips, followed by whitebait in mayo dips. I even pushed the boat out and dipped my crackers in the mayo at one point! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d8f14820-de6b-41ef-bdba-4e42787e5e97/tempImagexuc8R3.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - Following St Vincent, we stumbled over the road to The Prince Rupert Hotel. A few months back, I found out that Gareth Howarth was now cooking there. I have been totally bemused as to why people aren’t rushing there or why the Hotel isn’t lighting the Shrewsbury night sky with the fact that they have commandeered one of Shropshires best chefs?!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2abab368-be57-47d1-a4f1-03434be14d09/tempImageItTfvC.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - The place is extraordinary. A sort of time warp from the 70s. Like a mock Tudor decor that was set in the 70s. An almost Fawlty Towers kind of feel to it in a way. And I mean that in the most loving of ways………suits of armour on the walls, muscats, helmets from the Norman conquest all adorn the walls. The drinks are all served in classic crystal style glasses. The menus in leather bound pouches. The dining room is large and dark yet each table is brightly lit with an almost spot light. Which is great. It means the lighting for pictures is just excellent! Good for all those food bloggers who love a good picture on their insta grid! I was a bit taken a back by the retro style of this but there is a unique authenticity about the dining room that I would not change a single thing. It is part of the hotel, so it fits the bill perfectly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f56c24bf-1fe1-476d-85bd-2238fa741f58/tempImageozUYXq.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - Myself and Tom shared every dish and quite frankly it was just perfect. For the money, it’s just spot on. Mains were the same price as some gastro pubs in town are serving and quite frankly, far superior in terms of cooking. What I adore about Gareth’s food is the relatability. I’ll write more about that on my blog. What he isn’t afraid to do is take you right in to the centre of your comfort zone, then absolutely drown you in everything you love! The food is generous, familiar, seasoned beautifully and cooked with a kind of technical ability that makes it perfect for Shropshire! The Hake was out of this world…….. Tom put it really well when he said, it’s just a load of really good mates on a plate together, everything you want in just about the right amounts, brilliant! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f1bc7002-113f-4721-bfc2-9f32bc2464e6/tempImage69sjn4.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - The most surprising thing about this place was the fact that it isn’t packed. They need to go on a massive press release campaign, I would hate for this not to work, it is such an asset to Shrewsbury and with the Hotel, I can see it becoming Shrewsbury’s first truly destination restaurant. The hotel should be packed with guests, on gastronomic weekend adventures, desperate to eat the food. It would be so good for the town to get this off the ground! Go, let me say ‘I told you so’, then tell everyone you know to go! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/1b71415d-a786-4e65-a16d-51c3d576ea46/Screenshot+2024-11-16+at+22.07.47.png My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - If you aren’t visiting refill shops yet, you’re living in the past. They are definitely the future. They offer a huge range of flexibility. Buy 10g, buy 100g, buy 1kg, whatever suits. No more having to buy massive bags of nuts when you only want a small handful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/95a027d6-b8eb-4bb9-804d-23fc93380630/tempImagez7D34u.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - I’m unsure why I hadn’t been to Osteria yet. I’d heard mixed reviews. As many die hard fans as people who weren’t quite so sure…..Like I have said, we fear making a mistake when it comes to going out these days. Babysitting tokens are hard to come by and the last thing we need is a bad experience. Also being gluten intolerant for over 18 months, its a tough sell to go for pasta/pizza. Even if I know that there is so much more to the food than that…… Osteria v2.0 was one of the restaurants I set my targets on for Restaurant Week. Determined to get there! We thought this would be a fitting end to the week and also a fitting celebration that the entire family could enjoy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2059e8f5-1ca4-4199-823d-11585970ba9d/tempImageaNsSgS.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - We shouldn’t have worried. What we ended up having in Osteria was quite possibly the best family meal we have ever had. The kids relaxed into the place in a second. Enjoying themselves, feeling at home, playing, laughing, most importantly eating! Italian pop and rock music was blaring out, the decor very akin to what you expect in a small town on holiday in Italy, it was everything we would want from a family meal. The food is generous in a way that only Italians can be. Big portions, massive flavours. We had the most enormous antipasti board you’ve ever seen. Delivered on a Lazy Susan; I hadn't known what a Lazy Susan did to my wife. Ends up it turns her into a giddy child. Spinning the antipasti with such gusto that I got covered in Tuscan Beans on numerous occasions. Who cares, though, the kids are happy, I was on cloud 9!!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4e3892b2-5ee2-4b5d-83dc-b05e49ac147f/tempImageAEQQ5O.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - My own personal highlight was when we asked to see the dessert menu, only to look up and see the service team hauling a massive blackboard onto their hips! I can't remember the last time I saw this. Likely on holiday in Italy as a kid but I am all on board with it! Just amazing! It was actually the service that stole the show for this meal. Our waiter was so attentive. It was actually quite unreal! With the kids and our own scattiness there were multiple times during our ordering process where I felt like just interrupting and saying ‘hold on guys, this is too complicated, lets start again’….kids food before the antipasti, but dont wait until they’ve finished to bring the board. Desserts for the kids when we have just finished our antipasti, but could that be delivered to the table before we have our mains………it went on and on…… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b9925a1e-67a6-4cd2-b24b-1589ca40587d/tempImagec9nKzj.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week - My Delicious Week 2024 - From reviews I have read, there are lots of feelings that the place is expensive. I can see that. But when you look across the whole menu there is something for everyone. £12 for the pizza was out of this world great value, opt for a mid way risotto or lasagne for £15-18, both seem reasonable. Or splash out on one of the more expensive mains for £24-26. You actually have complete control of your budget. Everything we had was so generous. Maybe too generous. We certainly had more than enough food for the money. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/wheretoeatmondaysshrews monthly 0.5 2024-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a5973e43-28e5-4e03-af75-992bf69a3a75/IMG_3416.jpg My Blog - Monday Food Top Picks In Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week 2024 - It’s Shrewsbury Restaurant Week! This marvellous scheme has been cooked up by the wonderful people at Original Shrewsbury, and is set around showing off the amazing food scene we have in Shrewsbury! I bloody adore the food culture in our town. Packed with independents, I think we are genuinely spoiled! We should all stand so proud that we have created a town where independent businesses can thrive. It’s proper inspirational! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7ac60c0e-fe97-40c5-9da9-bd6c722dbc36/unnamed.jpg My Blog - Monday Food Top Picks In Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week 2024 - The vibes are what makes this place. The music, the lighting. The just general lovely laid back atmosphere. Not to mention the lovely staff - they either have the most amazing recruitment skills or the greatest training programme on earth! It just so happens that they also serve really lovely Hundred House Coffee (locally roasted in Ludlow) and their menu is also entirely gluten free. But they dont shout about it. They dont need to, the quality of their ingredient sourcing is so good that even that hardened gluten guzzling connoisseur would struggle to notice that everything was gluten free. Dare I say it, some gluten free items are better than their ‘normal’ gluten packed cousins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/be03bbb9-b8f9-4c07-872b-c0245979b393/Screenshot+2024-11-01+at+23.01.40.png My Blog - Monday Food Top Picks In Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week 2024 - I’ve had my eye on this place for a while now! It’s on my Monday radar but for some reason we never quite make it over. The vibe it’s giving me is just classic cafe done really well. I have looked over their menus a few times and there is always something that grabs my interest. The food looks and feels homely and homemade and price wise, it seems bang on the money! Definitely worth a punt and with 15% off I’m not sure you can actually go far wrong? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5db94c4a-7a5d-49c0-9e20-0f03901c0e18/images.jpeg My Blog - Monday Food Top Picks In Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week 2024 - Outset are a coffee shop newbie to the town. It’s really hard to set up a coffee shop in a town where there are literally endless coffee shops, but what Outset have done is really find their feet quickly. They’ve settled into a little gap nicely. They serve speciality coffee but in a really approachable way. They always have 2 or 3 coffees to choose from. The staff are great, knowledgable, really friendly and helpful and quite obviously keen to serve you well - which they always have done to me! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/dbe10a29-f1ab-4395-99fe-d734b3d717d9/images-2.jpeg My Blog - Monday Food Top Picks In Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week 2024 - If I had to choose a place for a pint, I’d be choosing Cromwells! Great choice of beers, lovely pub, lovely secluded beer garden with great big brollies on every table so the changing weather doesn’t matter. The staff are always really knowledgeable, they know what they are serving and always ready to answer any questions. The beers change regularly which is always a plus point! It’s also really worth pointing out that they always have a great selection of Gluten Free beers to try - which is rare in this town! I haven’t eaten here since it became Cromwell’s Tap House, but I would very much be tempted to have a nosey at their new menu, have a couple of pints and exploit that 10% discount to give it a go! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/84128465-d3e5-4ead-871d-8b634b82d891/Screenshot+2024-11-01+at+23.05.48.png My Blog - Monday Food Top Picks In Shrewsbury - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week 2024 - I almost can’t believe it myself that I haven’t tried this place yet! Multi award winning restaurant, serving my favourite style of food - Italian comfort food! I think it was Midlands Best Italian Restaurant and Midlands Best Italian Chef that they recently won….for the second year in a row. So they must be doing something right? https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/wheretoeatonmondayinshrewsbury monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f69c8991-4b63-4a2a-8912-29628ac4d929/IMG_3416.jpg My Blog - Shrewsbury Restaurant Week 2024 - It’s Shrewsbury Restaurant Week!!!! If you’ve read some of my other blogs, you’ll be familiar with my ramblings and maybe expect to not have a clue what I am on about but to save any confusion let’s lay it out on the table! This is an amazing initiative cooked up by Original Shrewsbury. For the first time ever, they have got a whopping 35 of Shrewsbury’s restaurants to sign up and create offers and specials that are going to be available throughout this celebration of the Shrewsbury food scene! The full list of restaurants and their offers are on the link at the bottom - head over to Original Shrewsbury to scope it out! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/greentomatoes5ways monthly 0.5 2024-12-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/13349467-7ec6-4ba8-8a50-a90ae2514c0e/tempImageQ8pWIf.jpg My Blog - Green Tomatoes - 5 Exciting Ways To Use Them - Green tomatoes are a delicious micro seasonal treat that flies under just about everyones radar. Well, everyone who doesn’t grow tomatoes. Any seasoned tomato grower will be well aware of their existence. These are simply unripe tomatoes. Available at the end of the growing season, the weathers changed, it’s getting colder, the sunshines fading - the plants are on the final countdown. However, their vines are packed with tomatoes that are trying their hardest to get over the line and ripen - using every ounce of energy to try to get themselves over the line. Unfortunately though, the plants just don’t have enough left in them so they are stuck in this sort of tomato purgatory. Harvested before the plant finally packs in, they are often wasted and chucked onto the compost heaps or in a worst case, the bin!!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/02466b93-14a2-4e83-8bc4-e2c1837297cf/tempImageg6WQef.jpg My Blog - Green Tomatoes - 5 Exciting Ways To Use Them - Ripening them is great, I have had mixed results. Sometimes its great, sometimes it just doesn’t seem to work. So I much prefer to accept them for what they are. A super seasonal and surplus food that needs to be celebrated for their unique attributes and allowing them to be who they are! Its 2024 for Christ’s sake, if they want to be green, they can be green! Who are we to stop them being who they want to be!!!!! Its really important not to confuse these with actual ripe green tomatoes, the green tomatoes that are available throughout the growing season. There are heritage varieties that are naturally green, even when ripe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/36d97b2a-79d1-468a-8b94-3d52dcbe5c2e/tempImageoJXtkL.jpg My Blog - Green Tomatoes - 5 Exciting Ways To Use Them - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/lee-sing monthly 0.5 2024-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7d04818a-d8e9-4499-ac12-d6f78278dab2/Screenshot+2024-07-28+at+09.55.30.png My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - I set out this Lee Sing number with an intention of writing more about the food than my previous write ups……its going well………I have genuinely edited and removed loads of waffling…..so to the business…..by The Business, I don’t mean me, I mean the takeaway business…….. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7b8cd6ff-a2c9-48ed-b7be-816c7c5a15ab/tempImageFNf0Pa.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - The Order: Pork Yuk Sung Mushroom Curry (recommendation) Szechuan Tofu Stir Fried Broccoli & Garlic Mixed Vegetables Singapore Noodles Chips (Free Prawn Crackers) (Free Spring Rolls) The Price: £41.80 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/84ffe99f-d635-4f15-864a-2fd0ab30f596/tempImageOfLz2a.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - The smell from this Lee Sing box of wonder is pure joy. Like I am unsure anything has smelt this good on the doorstep - we haven’t even unwrapped it! Its super well packaged in a cardboard box, loosely but also very neatly covered in greaseproof paper. I really appreciate this attention to detail. It shows they care how it arrives, they care about the first impressions. I wish more places understood this. More bars and restaurants need to stop focussing entirely on their food and drink offering and more on customer experience. What’s the first thing you see when you walk in off the street? That should be a priority - that’s what sets the tone. I don’t want to see dirty glasses, clipboards with rotas on, staff looking stressed and out of control and I definitely don’t want to see printers and laptops stuck on the bar with stacks of amazon branded paper on top. Files and notepads stuffed to the brim with invoices and scraps of paper sticking out. Even better when you can see it’s final reminders for invoices……you would not believe how many sins you can cover if you make a good first impression. The excitement of eating or drinking out gets me so giddy that all you have to do is sustain the excitement for 5 more minutes, just until I have sat down and looked around - then you’ve won! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7338bc3d-b4cb-4906-9533-f58f8bcb8e88/tempImageNc4KfG.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - The first thing I notice is that they left the bag of chips open! Absolute touch! Biggest mistake you get is when they seal up the chips - one way ticket to soggy town! Having said that, I have always wondered why we all pretend with want crispy chips anyway? No-one actually does. What we really want is our hot chips, smothered in vinegar, then wrapped in greaseproof and then newspaper, then left to sweat out until they are completely soggy. Right? Or is that just for chippy chips? Different chip altogether? Different chips, different needs? First chip impression is that they are going to be crispy and not too soggy. Quick glance over each shoulder to check noones watching. Time for a quick chip sample. First impressions ok - maybe a little underwhelming. But it’s not time to judge, there is a large bag to eat before we get that far! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/58c568d5-2792-427a-a09f-174dfc97938b/tempImageFxpqhz.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - The heat, the smell, this box is giving off the very best delicious pheromones any box of food possibly could. 41 minutes to get delivered but its basically fallen straight off the stove, and straight into our house. Its quite remarkable how hot and fresh this all felt. Considering it arrived in a cardboard box. The food from those cowboys at those god awful delivery services and their insulated bags can’t deliver food this fresh. Must be because they are spending too long figuring out how else they can rip everyone off. Anyway, all the food is piping hot and absolutely the perfect temperature! You never want your takeaway too hot, you dont want to have to wait before you tuck in. But also, it can’t be too cold, or else, by time you’ve moved it onto a cupboard cold plate, its going to be too cold. If you’re going to eat your Chinese cold, its going to be the next day and its going to be fridge cold! It’s showtime - our plates are loaded………… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/bfdcc10f-c5e0-4ddc-8360-f4b0e175eef6/tempImage8NJgLK.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - We had a strange Yuk Sung experience with Tim Tim, the only real let down. It was very wet. Which left the crisp lettuce leaves fairly redundant. One of the joys of a yuk sung is the scoop and munch with the lettuce leaves. The wet Tim Tim Yuk Sung just wilted to lettuce leaves and took a little enjoyment away. No such problem here. Yuk Sung order has been restored - this is a nice, dry, scoopable mix. And the lettuce is super crisp - another surprise considering how hot the food was in the box! Sensible packing helped keep the lettuce fresh, another example of great judgement or incredible luck. Benefit of the doubt - so we’l’ go with the former. The Yuk Sung was well seasoned, potentially a little too salty, but I’m a salty kind of guy, so that’s fine with me. Helped to balance the slightly underseasoned Curry too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/cac316d4-0ffd-4ff3-be57-3ce40805b56d/tempImageM2cWj9.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - My initial chip impression wasn’t great. When I had my official chip tasting, they hadn’t got any better. Slightly cardboardy in texture - but not cold. Just dried out, I think. Also completely lacked any seasoning. Who doesn’t put any salt on their chips? Come on, this is surely the very basics of chip cookery? Maybe this is why we all want our chips sweaty and maybe if we all just admitted it, we would all be better off. We would lose the crispy chip no-mans land! Everyone would know where they stand. Still, the slightly cardboardy chips soaked up the curry sauce well. Just make sure you also dip them in a big bowl of salt too, or else you’re in for a seriously underwhelming curry and chip situation. I went rogue with one order. You will have picked up on my love of Szechuan flavours, so I try to pick out a Szechuan hit on every order. This time I went tofu. Something we would never normally order. This project is about broadening horizons, right? Getting rid of preconceptions. I have a cheap tofu preconception that it’s going to be slightly rubbery and tough when cooked like it has to be for a Chinese takeaway. I also have some level of Tofu PTSD from when I was in China and I got served some sort of smoked tofu dish that legit smelt and tasted like rotten flesh! Struggled to touch the stuff since! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2f2940a6-9d4a-4bfd-8d91-f6b48cfee78c/tempImage3FErim.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - The business end of my takeaway judgements will always be the vegetables. Based on the heat on arrival and tightly packed box, I am not confident that we are going to get veg on the right side of al dente. Unfortunately I was proved right. The veg was soft and overcooked. There was a lot of Chinese Takeaway vegetable water gloop - the cornflour packed god stuff. I think this has likely continued to steam the veg in the box. Making the veg roughly the same texture as the gloop. I think this might be the downside to delivering super hot, super fresh takeaway food. Hard to avoid it happening and really shows the skill of some of the other takeaways that have achieved and maintained that freshly cooked vegetable vibe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/79e681dd-8430-41c3-a221-b3a9dcc618ad/tempImageoRE0ks.jpg My Blog - Lee Sing, Monkmoor Road - Our eczema flaring, stomach bloating, generally debilitating gluten intolerances can really come to the fore when ordering Chinese. Developing a gluten intolerance is definitely going to be classed as one of the harder periods of my career. A low point that I had to work through. But one which ultimately makes me stronger. Much like the training montage in Rocky IV when Sly is up in the moutains training the ‘good old American way’ by shoulder pressing tree trunks and pulling boulders up a mountain for no real reason. Gluten is Ivan Drago, we are the all American heroes determined to punch gluten into submission! This is how I hope this period of my career is shown during the highlights show. We accept the soy sauce situation (great band!) as its pretty much unavoidable, but noodles are a step too far. So it largely renders us unable to order chow meins. A sad situation. A sad situation made much better when you consider that means we are forced to order Singapore Noodles with every single takeaway. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/timtim-44knr monthly 0.5 2024-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4b441c79-a8e2-42c8-a210-2c256b52752f/IMG_3347+2.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - I feel like we need to set a bit of a scene for this one. It’s the weekend before me and ‘the Mrs’, the ‘old ball and chain’, are off on our honeymoon and we are super excited (a trip of a lifetime with the women of my dreams - what’s not to be excited about). We are excited to a point where we have been slowly zoning out of work for days. Palming things off wherever possible. ‘Let’s pick this up when I’m back’ came out of my mouth (or fingers) so many times that I almost started saying it to absolutely everyone about absolutely anything. Every time I said it, a little pulse of excitement. A feeling like I had won. A victory, a rare and sweet, sweet victory. Maybe this is what absolute sex feels like? A rare and sweet victory? The problem is, all these ‘sweet victories’ stack up to a major stress pile when you get home and can’t keep up with just how many people want to ‘pick something back up’ let alone what it is you ‘dropped’ before holiday. Makes me think this can’t be absolute sex - surely there shouldn’t be repercussions to ‘absolute sex’ - is there a price to pay? Maybe I don’t want to experience it? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/9750c12e-845d-439a-a8f1-3d57ab24e515/tempImageEBIQGt.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - The woman did answer…………….'Good news and bad news, guys’……….. I’ll jump in at this point and say that someone’s recommendation for this place included ‘the lady when you order is always very cute and sweet!’. I couldn’t think of a better way to put this to the test. A giddy, excited, 3 pint deep, pub and sunshine fuelled Dad is on the line………..I find placing large orders super stressful. Doesn't matter what it is. I wish you could see the sweat dripping off me when I’m placing a hire order with Tipples for a large event. The shakes are real. I’ve written and checked my list more times than Santa does (actually, that’s not the best example, he only checks it twice…..apparently) but it doesn’t stop me feeling the pump. WHAT IF I FORGET THE TEASPOONS!!!!!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/495419d7-e8c7-4988-bcfc-76224a5c0954/tempImageLbjP3R.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - The menus had pretty much everything on them you would expect. Nothing really stood out as different. The vegan menu was handy and actually a really nice touch. It can be really hard trying to filter through long menus trying to see the symbols to see what is or isn’t vegan - well done Tim Tim! This is the most useful part of any menu I have seen so far on this project. Although I did feel marginally let down. I am unsure why, but I had imagined this mystical vegan menu as being something totally different, containing special dishes - almost like a secret sort of menu. What was I actually thinking? A menu that only vegans can order off? Like you have to give some sort of vegan ID to prove you can have it? Honestly, I do not know what is wrong with me sometimes! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/08ae6cc3-ba34-40bc-b25f-251bc7606b81/tempImageF4XCRK.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - The Order (its a big one): Pork Yuk Sung Singapore Vermicelli Noodles Salt & Pepper Chips Special Curry Crispy Shredded Beef Shrimp Egg Foo Yung Mixed Veg & Cashew Nuts House Special Fried Rice Sweet & Sour Dip Prawn Crackers The Price: £59.50 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/c53cfe58-c542-4925-94db-4462c0acbf67/tempImageeyUtCt.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - ….'How much are your prawn crackers?'…………..'We will send you a large bag for free’………Dad’s nailed it! Absolute cloud 9! I am unsure if ‘absolute’ sex could feel this good! Absolutely everything ordered. Absolutely everything accounted for. The customer service was exemplary and the lady on the phone was amazing - good shout whoever put that on their recommendation! …..'NOTHING BUT GOOD NEWS GUYS’……… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b49227c7-3d55-424a-bc26-b27d13ae63bf/tempImageND1O26.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - They gave us an hour for the food to arrive but it got to us way quicker than expected. By a whopping 20 minutes!!! It caught us a little by surprise but just meant one of the Dad’s on the cash and booze run had to leg it home to pay up! (that Dad was not going to be me, I had already done my work for the day). The smell of the food was amazing! But then the quantity was so large, it’s not really surprising it rapidly filled the house! The first thing I actually noticed about the food was just how good the veg looked. Really vibrant, really fresh and it looked like it had some bite to it. Very impressive for a delivery service that has all the veg sweating away in those plastic boxes while it’s delivered. The other notable observation is the colour of the sweet and sour sauce dip. Vibrant, illuminous, gleaming, luminescent. There aren’t words to describe the unearthly glow the dip had. The reddest of reds you can imagine. ‘Absolute’ red, if you will. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/c8bb9a46-430d-431a-99bd-8310a2fe6721/tempImageIVdJI2.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - The yuk sung was much wetter than others. Also much spicier. I wasn’t too sure about the wetness, it made it a little more difficult to eat in the lettuce leaves and that split the room down the middle, but I was all over flavour, as was everyone - really tasty. Really nice to have something with some serious punch to it. I have found most dishes on this project to be marginally lacking on the seasoning front. Like almost getting there but then maybe toned down a touch for our feeble western palates. A big bug bare of mine when it comes to UK Chinese food. I always thought yuk sung was traditionally a very dry mix but I have no idea if that’s right or not. And does it even matter? It was delicious, that will do! Powerful flavours was across the board with this takeaway. In a really good way. Everything seemed to pack a punch. Even the vermicelli noodles and egg fried rice seemed to carry more flavour than others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/713d18a5-62ea-459e-a38f-bc6313007f1d/tempImageVEvzcn.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - Egg Foo Yung was a new dish to us and something we discovered early in this project. A big eggy omelette/frittata thing packed with your choice from the usual suspects off a Chinese takeaway menu. They usually arrive in a big chunk, but this one was cut into smaller pieces. I have no idea what is the traditional way they are served but the cut up chunks are definitely easier to eat. So it’s nice to feel like Tim Tim have thought about the customer experience and gone with that option. A small amount of extra work in the kitchen can sometimes make all the difference to peoples eating experience. The crispy beef was almost bizarrely crispy. In a good way. Although part of me is also let down a little when you don’t get the traditional stodge you expect. The nostalgic stodge that gives you a big comforting hug and a huge bout of indigestion! The beef was coated in what looked like the radioactive sweet and sour sauce so at least there was some indigestion on it’s way. Glowing red, ‘absolute’ indigestion! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/7e747b78-9226-4984-9696-a1e67e31870e/tempImage6ibfnZ.jpg My Blog - Tim Tim, Monkmoor Road - The most special mention for me on this menu has to be the veg. The absolute freshest, best cooked veg so far. Bright coloured, well seasoned. I wished the veg on every one of these takeaways was cooked like this. It’s no exaggeration when I say it tasted like it had been served straight out of the wok. Like it hadn’t been packed and sent across town - that takes some seriously good cooking and skill! Maybe we were lucky, we ordered early as soon as they opened. Maybe a little later when the rush was on, it might have been a different story. But those are the kind of maybes I don’t want to think about. What we had was utterly delicious! https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/wakaka monthly 0.5 2024-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/f9af7588-7970-4cd2-860f-7c4fceefb505/tempImageT6N301.jpg My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - So le’ts get to the tasty stuff. Previously Hong Kong City - I judged this place the first time I walked past it in Shrewsbury. Some sort of god awful attempt at a kind of god awful ‘Wok n Roll’ noodle place you find around Leicester Sq in London. Terrible. Awful. Not worth even trying it. In my head the deal is already done, without even setting foot in the place! Sorted! No need to ever go. Chapter closed. One of the many amazing things my gorgeous wife has bought into my life is so much more self awareness and appreciation for the fact that I am wrong most of the time. Now I don’t mean this as a sort of terrible Jim Davidson joke from a gig in a working mans club in 1993. You know the sort, a packed room of blokes, having a good old fashioned moan about the ‘old lady at home’ and why ‘her rightful place is chained to the sink at home’ . No. The true fact is, I really am wrong all the time. Even when it comes to guessing. If were ever in a casino, and I say it’s going to be black, pick red. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2a24f150-8608-46a6-82eb-17b250fd38fe/tempImageN6Mq1W.jpg My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - We popped in for a quick lunch. We had our smallest, hungry little human with us so needed something ‘kid friendly’. We were doing our usual walk around town thinking we want to try something new but where? We always feel like we have tried everywhere (that I haven’t already disregarded as not worth trying) so what to do? We were literally sliding into one of our usual hotspots when the lightbulb went off - let’s go try Wakaka! Cece loves noodles, she’ll be fine! The place is brightly lit, modern, clean and well organised. It’s actually a really lovely spot to sit. ( Although majority of furniture is high stools..not for the tinier humans but fine for our noodle munching 3.5 year old ) Incredible people watching - the entire world walks past that place at lunchtime and let me tell you, I love a bit of people watching! Noodles also provide the perfect people watching cover. You can easily be peering out of a window with noodles dangling from your chopsticks, looking like you are day dreaming, when really you are totally invested in the unfolding parking ticket drama over the road in the car park! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5a25f02d-00a6-416d-b408-b257ce9967b0/tempImageEvgiYL.jpg My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - The Order: Yeung Chow (Egg Fried Rice) Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup Vietnamese Summer Rolls (Sweet Bean Curd) A drink each - can’t remember what - I didn’t write it down! The Price: £19.20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8a019146-17bf-46f7-bccd-5f4762dd616b/tempImageWMfTmE.jpg My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - This is where Wakaka shines! Clearly labelled gluten free options!!!! We couldn’t believe it! By the book, it must mean that these dishes are suitable for coeliacs. But if you are coeliac, please check with them first! I would hate for you to go there based on my recommendation, only for you to find out that I am wrong a lot of the time! Another massive tick for Wakaka is the service. Super attentive, friendly, energetic, happy to answer questions - everything you could ask for. Unreal service for the tiny human, her own plastic plate and cutlery, extra napkins and a plastic cup for water, without one hint of us asking or in fact needing! Good, friendly, happy service is such a good sign and so easily overlooked. I am a firm believer that good service can make up for a multitude of sins! Mistakes happen, it’s how you deal with them that makes all the difference - I came up with that, just now. Anthony Bourdain, eat your heart out! Maybe I should have my own meme with this sort of inspirational nonsense splattered everywhere? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/1415654a-5b20-41f1-bdd0-e0af8a717d0c/90cd21b3-8eee-419b-b4a1-930462222b4c.JPG My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - As a whole, the food was great and very surprising! It was all lightly seasoned - not drowning in soy sauce. My memories of the food in China was exactly this - the majorities of meals were lightly seasoned, with hints of soy. Not gallons of the stuff. I think we are really guilty of assigning an ingredient as synonymous with a certain cuisine and then deciding it goes in everything. And even worse, we seem to assume that if it includes that ingredient, it’s now authentic so we should add some more. I would imagine that would probably be a first time UK tourists impression of Bovril! ‘All they had was meat cooked in bovril. Under potatoes, next to potatoes, in pastry, under pastry - always Bovril’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8353894a-6206-4933-9126-1752d4e9210f/tempImageDuTFvM.jpg My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - I feel like if you don’t sense a certain level of globby kids snot in a dish, you aren’t really eating a Chinese meal. You know, the cornflour and stock gloop that coats your mouth before slipping down your throat as a complete globule. I can think of what it might feel like, but I haven't tried that, so I best not mention it! As with everything, lovely light seasoning and a nice light dish to eat. Also a winner with the little one - after the first few sips, I could see her instincts kicking in and the eating speed was cranking up! It fast became a mission to separate her from the soup, or else there would be nothing for either of us to enjoy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/28317579-cbba-47eb-b000-7597cb78918e/tempImageTgIK6n.jpg My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - We were delighted to see that the rice paper was perfectly soaked, perfectly rolled and packed with delicious veggies and sweet bean curd. The dipping sauce was ok. It was a little sweet for our tastes but packed a good chilli punch. Not only has my wife bought me into a new, more open minded world. She has also opened my eyes to the wonder of sour flavours. A few years ago, this dipping sauce would have been a bit of me, I would have loved it. But not the new me, not this open minded, willing to try everything without prejudice me. This me needs sourness! Where’s the bloody tang! Lemon, Lime, Yuzu, Vinegar - whatever, just don’t hold back on the tang! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5c77b24f-49ab-4fc5-81f7-8f601e06b59b/tempImage0vROLw.jpg My Blog - Wakaka (formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre - This was an absolute turn up for the books for me. Light but deliciously seasoned food, brilliant and attentive service. A lovely little restaurant that we will definitely be taking the little ones to in the future. A nice bright place to eat and watch the world go by! Good value for money and really good, generous portions - it is definitely worth more than one visit! I had been heading down a bit of hole with this adventure. Enthusiasm was waning, I was becoming a little disheartened and I was losing faith! Everything has been much of a muchness of averageness. Some real highlights and some real lowlights from every place we’ve tried. Maybe there aren’t any hidden gems in Shrewsbury, maybe the haters were right? https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/oscars monthly 0.5 2024-05-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a8b2d988-d832-4d3d-a173-4d2d141484ce/tempImageN0BLPU.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook - This week fit in perfectly with a Saturday night plan. All the kids were with us. We planned to watch the new Gladiators and have a Chinese. I would love to say this was like a welcome back to 1994 for me. Chow Mein dribbling down my chin while I battled with my confusing feelings towards Jet as she set off up the wall in pursuit of Erica, a personal trainer from Hemel Hempstead. Trying to conceal what I was really thinking about from my parents with vague references to Wolfman and John Fashanu…..'Yeah Dad, remember that belter he scored for Wimbledon’…….. But we didn’t eat Chinese takeaways when I was a kid. We didn’t really eat takeaways at all. So for me, it was just a bowl of warm weetabix and a room full of pure sexual tension! And looking back, exactly the same for my Dad! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/9950dc73-19bb-4edb-9eca-234d7e291da8/tempImageQWeHGz.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook - The Order: Young Chow Egg Fried Rice Kung Po Stir Fried Beef BBQ Glazed Ribs (Starter) Stir Fried Vegetables Plain Chow Mein (for the kids) Special Curry Curry Sauce Chips Fortune Cookies (free) Prawn Crackers (free) The Price: £41.30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8189113b-51d8-455b-b0a6-c4a6090d34c5/tempImageLfhfDb.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook - Parking up outside - it looks a bit fancy! It looks new. Shiny signs, clean windows, new fixings. A far stretch from the weathered look of most well used Chinese takeaways. Should I take my shoes off? It’s that kind of clean and fancy.Parking up outside - it looks a bit fancy! It looks new. Shiny signs, clean windows, new fixings. A far stretch from the weathered look of most well used Chinese takeaways. Should I take my shoes off? It’s that kind of clean and fancy. Parking up outside - it looks a bit fancy! It looks new. Shiny signs, clean windows, new fixings. A far stretch from the weathered look of most well used Chinese takeaways. Should I take my shoes off? It’s that kind of clean and fancy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/6dea70c5-161f-4d26-bdc8-e4eb301b90c7/IMG_5200.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/b254a5a4-e337-4029-a2e2-a367fd60cc63/tempImagegf1hWd.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook - First thing I wanted to check were the ribs - £7.20 - it just kept going through my head! The portion was enormous - like loads. Opened the lid and they ribs were almost flying out all over the place. Think old school can of snakes from the joke shop type full - unbelievable! They tasted fine. The sauce was nice enough and seasoned well enough. They could have been a bit more tender but they certainly weren’t tough. The cartilage was also not too soft. I find ribs awful when the pork is so bad that even the cartilage is soft - makes me sad to think about the poor pigs. Also reminds me of spending too many evenings almost licking the floor in Morley’s after a 14 hour bender in Brixton - hoping the awful ribs might breath some level of life back into me. The Kung Po Beef was also fine - well cooked, nicely seasoned and the beef still had a level of tenderness, again, not the textbook tender pieces of beef but well within the acceptable level of a Chinese takeaway, where the meats been gently steaming in its tub for 20-25 minutes on the drive home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/2fb80491-ef83-40ae-ac8c-4c3dc952d999/tempImageR8DEBU.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook - Things started to take a turn when we noticed the kids weren’t into their plain chow mein noodles. Oh here we go, the picky eaters were out. What’s wrong with it this time, kids? After attempting to force them to eat some. Using vague and totally pointless threats like not going to The Works tomorrow if we they didn’t eat some more - we resided defeat. ‘It’s just the plain noodles you always have girls - what’s wrong?’ Was it the noodles or had they been put off by a glancing view of one of the Gladiators contestants where their harness had been tightened a bit too much and certain areas were showing a little more than they should? Of course not, this is TV for Gen Z - its not the 90s, they couldn’t possibly risk insulting an entire population with a bulging crotch. So we decided to risk the results of glutenising ourselves and tried some. We realised that actually, for plain chow mein it was really strongly flavoured. Really rich soy flavour - almost like dark soy. So it was kind of understandable that they weren’t digging it and a good reminder as parents that sometimes the kids are right. Gotta trust them a bit more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/3d38f407-b53d-4725-b7e8-414f1bf4e779/tempImagehFMM7Q.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook They were a shining beacon in proving just how actually great Lee Fung House chips were. If you recall, Lee Fung’s highly recommended chips spent 45 minutes in a sweaty oven keeping warm before we ate them and were still marginally crispy and well seasoned. If someone told me that little Michelangelo had fried these in his tank in the waiting room, I wouldn’t have been surprised. Soggy, under seasoned and just generally a total disappointment. Having said that, it didn’t stop us all devouring them all. Chips are chips, right? You’ll eat them regardless of how soggy they are. I’ve actually come up with a blog topic about this. We all talk about crispy, fresh chips, yet that’s the last thing we want from the chippy - what’s that all about? I don’t think this is too much of a problem. I just wouldn't order any chips from here. I mean, it’s hardly the main attraction to order a Chinese. Think about it, there are actual shops who’s entire focus is cooking chips - lets just go there next time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5e114bf4-cd80-4043-b14d-7d98e96e8d11/tempImage6IZys9.jpg My Blog - Oscar’s, Reabrook - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/embers-coalbrookdale monthly 0.5 2024-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/3855c56a-0876-4c04-bbde-40ebacbb8565/tempImageUYGNgQ.jpg My Blog - Embers, Coalbrookdale - With all this going on, and bearing in mind the man himself has openly said he would never open his own joint; it was all a bit of a shock when he revealed he was picking up the keys to a picturesque, local spot at the Greenwood Centre in Coalbrookdale. I am sure I wasn’t the only person who’s first response was ‘how the hell is he gonna manage that as well?’ Well, he seems to be?! It was formally a much loved vegan cafe which unfortunately had to close. All part of the covid hangover and something we are seeing more and more often lately. This was actually a cafe that we took our now 3 year old to when she was 1 day old - we needed the quiet and the calm to sit and enjoy the peace. The closing cafe had definitely left a gap in peoples hearts so it was lovely to see a local food hero take the reigns. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/c17c7997-151b-4e07-87fa-4bf6868318e2/tempImage986iOE.jpg My Blog - Embers, Coalbrookdale - The menus are printed and waiting on the tables - its an order at the bar system, no problem there as long as it’s obvious that that’s how it works - and it was! Perfect. It’s a lovely small menu - not too much fuss. Only 3 choices for main, Beef, Chicken and a veggie wellington. Not too much complication - I love that. This is usually a benchmark for when I am forming an opinion of somewhere. Anywhere brave enough to do a smaller menu usually means they are doing a better job! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/55785dfc-237d-4f97-8167-44adb82ef885/tempImageYoQWmP.jpg My Blog - Embers, Coalbrookdale - In my opinion all good marriages are based around a joint decision that when you go for dinner, you order different things and share. It’s not discussed, its written deep within your love for eachother! We go one beef, one chicken. We started with some peri-peri chicken wings. The kids have started to enjoy eating chicken on the bone, especially chicken wings. So this is a nice way for them to try some more adventurous flavours. Albeit with the back up plan of us sucking off all peri peri marinade and them enjoying the chicken wings. Well, blow me down - our 9 year old, loved it! It puts me in such a happy place when the kids try something new, especially when its way out of their comfort zone - so this is a massive plus from us! For my own particular taste, I found the marinade a little sweeter than I would normally have my peri-peri and felt much more like a sweet chilli sauce. But let’s not get caught up with the nitty-gritty - they were delicious and that’s all we should care about. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/ca93a986-d0fc-48eb-a873-31753460ac48/tempImage5qWPCT.jpg My Blog - Embers, Coalbrookdale - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/4804fcc8-87e9-46ed-9722-d6353f2178b6/tempImageGeLPZf.jpg My Blog - Embers, Coalbrookdale - It’s nit picking time. And this is actually the nit picking that Sas told me at lunch to basically shut it. But I thought the carrots was slightly under seasoned and maybe fractionally little undercooked. The same with the broccoli - the tender stem stalks were really crunchy. A bit too crunchy for me but Sas loved them. She also did a great job of reminding me that I would much prefer slightly crunchy veg than overcooked, sad, sweaty veg - and she is absolutely right! I also think that these kind of small things are so forgivable when everything else is so on point! Sas also made the point that the crunchy and maybe slightly under seasoned veg actually gave everything some light relief - outside of these carrots and broccoli it is a total flavour onslaught……and a total delight! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/01c8d1c6-7a1d-42c7-9f83-c130e4bd734c/tempImageBK99zE.jpg My Blog - Embers, Coalbrookdale When the food is this good, even when there is this much of it, it almost instantly makes us want pudding. Again, not too many options - a crumble, a grasshopper pie (can’t remember what that was) and an ice cream sundae. We opted for the Ice Cream Sundae - with the silly idea that with 2 kids we would be able to share it. Sas is both lactose and gluten free, so no ice cream for the anti-roast. So it’s a 3 way dash to guzzle as much as possible. It’s fair to say I lost the battle comfortably. What I did manage to get hold of was lovely. Really good portion, good quality ice cream, nice sauce, good crunchy bits (I may have allowed my self to get glutenised a little), some fruit (I think it was blueberries) but it was a great way to finish off the meal. Another completely clean bowl. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/lee-fung-house monthly 0.5 2024-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e524aade-f9c6-406d-9268-2cea7318be90/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+12.50.55.png My Blog - Lee Fung House, Hereford Road - This was quite passionately recommended by a couple of people. Both staunch in their position that this is the Chinese for them. Giving me the feeling that they would go to war for this place. I love this kind of passionate dedication to a restaurant - they must be doing something right! This place looks like the kind of takeaway I am looking for, its basically a converted house, sat a bit out of town, no just eat, no uber eats, no card payments (becoming a standard). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d5fd02bf-641d-48fd-bf0b-25054ca57656/tempImagepCcvvX.jpg My Blog - Lee Fung House, Hereford Road - The Order: Vegetable Pancake Rolls Pork Yuk Shung Vegetable Chow Mein, Curry Sauce & Chips (recommendation) King Prawns & Cashew Nuts Chicken Satay Prawn Crackers (free) Fortune Cookies (free) The Price: £45 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5848c8af-c9ec-4f23-87d9-5352efed9024/tempImageabGFCR.jpg My Blog - Lee Fung House, Hereford Road - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/eatwise-longden-coleham monthly 0.5 2024-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/306ca4da-f6b4-4c63-93b3-f376819db93b/tempImagej1jqHn.jpg My Blog - Eatwise, Longden Coleham - Driven entirely by my own laziness, I decided to start my Chinese adventure as locally as possible! Here’s hoping I solve this problem and find a great Chinese takeaway in one go, right? Up until this point my laziness had driven me to only ever try the 2 or 3 takeaways on Just Eat, Shrewsbury Eats, Uber Eats, Shark ‘whatever they are called’ or one of those other total rip merchant delivery systems. For anyones info who cares, these sharks firstly charge a huge ‘set up fee’ to each restaurant to cover (and then exploit) the cost of some dodgy printer and what other pointless piece of technology they ‘have’ to install to fuel their thievery; they then charge each restaurant 20% of their takings for the pleasure of delivering the food cold, late and with some seriously bad delivery driver attitude!……I am so sorry that you struggled to find my house in the middle of a built up area, armed only with my accurate postcode, road name and full address……what’s that? You didn’t think to call me on the phone number I gave you……soz…..IDIOTS! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/3711c348-6889-4dfa-a68d-54f0ef14f17a/tempImageCc2jzT.jpg My Blog - Eatwise, Longden Coleham So, to the case in hand and what we are all here for; the food! Lets start with the menu…….massive as you would expect from a Chinese. The menu was suitably adorned with badly translated information - a positive sign if you ask me! ‘MEALS ARE INSTANTLY COOKED AND SUPPLIED WITH HYGIENIC DISPOSABLE CONTAINERS & PLASTIC CARRIER BAGS’ - all very much reassuring information. Although how instant is instant? I personally couldn’t wait to find out! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/667654f8-f333-492a-8cd3-42a9a1cf816c/tempImage1ghly8.jpg My Blog - Eatwise, Longden Coleham - The Order: Crispy Szechuan Chilli Beef Singapore Noodles Sweet & Sour Chicken Cantonese Style (on recommendation) King Prawn Egg Foo Yung Vegetables with Cashew Nuts Free Prawn Crackers The Price: £32.50 odd - something like that! Actually really good value! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a4ea91cf-c9b7-4a24-9769-dcb10d2f37ba/tempImagenFNMGJ.jpg My Blog - Eatwise, Longden Coleham - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/aaf5076a-b0a6-4a63-b864-c47c2d633881/tempImageGK4Vd5.jpg My Blog - Eatwise, Longden Coleham - The real winner of the meal was the Egg Foo Yung! Have any of you heard of this before? It was totally new to me - how have I missed it? I have no idea - but it was bloody delicious! Basically an egg omelette with tons of big juicy prawns in it - really well cooked. It was very reminiscent of my visit to China. I can remember being surprised with how many simple flavoured omelettes everyone was eating in China - and they were all super delicious! I was over the moon with this dish! Everything else was very much middle of the road and solidly cooked/seasoned. The Singapore Noodles were tasty and the veg wasn’t too soft - still had a bit of life, and tasted like fresh rather than frozen veg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/c2adde36-4e74-4760-9fc2-b719d7757a7f/tempImageVeGXFS.jpg My Blog - Eatwise, Longden Coleham - The massive highlight is the value for money - £32 for all of that, and all cooked at a reasonable standard - that is a massive bonus and makes it a really attractive prospect for my regular return. The best Chinese I have tried so far…..but joking aside, a good start that has left me with hope in my heart! Roll on the next part to my adventure………. Big Love & Keep it delicious! Steve https://www.thehungryguy.co.uk/blog/the-great-hungry-guy-shrewsbury-chinese-adventure monthly 0.5 2024-11-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/8dd0abb6-2a13-4caf-802a-cb555b019491/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+12.43.42.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - TIM TIM, 33 Monkmoor Road 5 Recommendations - The Most Recommended https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/5d08c6b8-dcc0-41b3-be15-fa8edd97c277/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+12.47.42.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - ZENNA’S, Main Road, Pontesbury 2 Recommendations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/c3ced8de-6d14-4d4d-9b2d-bfc84757194c/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+12.50.55.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - LEE FUNG HOUSE, Hereford Rd (Belle Vue) 3 Recommendations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/0a6e35e7-d0c2-4ec0-86d7-c7a6a5149242/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+09.28.22.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - EATWISE, Longden Coleham 3 Recommendations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/ba971668-be8b-4b7c-9f5f-b8d0cb2df898/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+12.54.19.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - WEM’S KITCHEN, Wem 1 Recommendation (I know this isn’t Shrewsbury but a friend recommended it and I won’t hear the end of it if it don’t post it!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/6f2cce6b-8e56-41b3-984d-1a0a1c78e6f8/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+12.55.42.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - HONGKONGER, Fish St (Town Centre) 2 Recommendations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/ae5a2f1a-39c0-455b-9981-50c5b2ff4b86/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+12.57.13.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - NEW LI SING, Monkmoor Rd 1 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/1c30fb46-433a-40b6-83e9-a4d953012a98/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+13.00.19.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - AMBROSIA EXPRESS, Oakfield Centre, SY3 1 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e67ef344-766b-4e1c-a502-f60046374957/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+13.02.24.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - WAKAKA (Formerly Hong Kong City), Town Centre 1 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/0ba650f3-5d1a-4664-9baf-05c098728509/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+13.03.48.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - BLUE JADE, Bicton Heath 2 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d39b7b86-bd03-4d76-9192-1382ff274e6e/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+13.05.19.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - MANDARIN, Frankwell 3 Recommendations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/e2bb7b22-bdfd-4337-88fe-712e7b91444b/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+13.07.43.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - STAR FERRY, Castle Gates 1 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/347f36ef-92fd-4c3c-9ff7-2c277f5a6172/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+13.09.10.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - HONG KONG CITY, Bayston Hill 1 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/da8c0155-b229-41f1-a680-c1c15f00fff1/Screenshot+2023-12-24+at+13.10.47.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - STAR KITCHEN, Bayston Hill 1 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/1e863e89-579d-4ef4-86f6-01d11eb6298b/Screenshot+2023-12-30+at+16.42.45.png My Blog - The Great Hungry Guy Shrewsbury Chinese Food Adventure - PEKING GARDEN, Mount Pleasant Road 2 Recommendation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d0148a93-1cb2-4310-ad49-9301a68e6809/Screenshot+2023-12-30+at+16.48.37.png My Blog - 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My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury So I’ve always been an avid coffee drinker. I’m a chef, right. It’s engrained in our day to day survival. Walk in the kitchen at 9am, demand front of house make you a coffee. Admire the latte art with gratitude, then leave it on the side for half an hour. Pop it in the microwave, take sip - it’s too hot, leave it on the side again for 30-40 minutes. Repeat this 2-3 times before finally drinking it cold around midday! I am by no means a total coffee nut, I certainly wouldn’t call myself any level of knowledgable expert but I do know what I like and as with most things I put in my mouth, I can be picky about it! Shrewsbury is actually where I really started to gain an interest in the finer details of coffee, where they are grown, the art of producing coffee, making the cup of coffee and the all important latte art on the top (don’t ask me to try any latte art - at Jamie’s we had training from the World Barista Champion in Milan - even he gave up on me!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/0f54526e-c85d-4c7a-bb3e-a822040ba0e3/IMG_912D3257E567-1.jpeg My Blog - My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury - Then, a few days later, another social media post went up - PATCH WAS BACK! Cue total pandemonium in my head! Think that famous Jonah Hill GIF when you search (excited) - that was what was happening inside my head! Over the moon to see that Patch’s coffee standards hadn’t slipped one bit. Utterly delicious! Coffee from really good UK based roasters. All the trendy packaging. The sort of bright, fresh, cool craft beer style packaging and a product that doest disappoint! What sets Patch’s coffee apart isn’t the great coffee beans he buys and serves. It isn’t the masterful technique he has when it comes to making a coffee. It’s the pure happy, positive vibes that goes into every cup of coffee he makes. It’s the beaming smile, the consistent friendliness. It’s the total happiness! There isn’t a happier coffee in Shrewsbury - not even close! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a7bcda80-87f2-4cf4-ae1b-de19ff72e4fe/tempImagezs3DSa.jpg My Blog - My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury This place absolutely shouts about all the fine things about coffee. Raul and his team make one of the best, smoothest coffees you will find anywhere, not just Shrewsbury. Love, care and attention are the name of the game. Coffee making is a skill and a total art in this place. Nothing will ever be rushed, nothing will get served that isn’t on the money! Good vibes, good music, nice and light coffee shop with an spacious feel to a relatively small space, its perfect for a quick takeaway grab and run or (he’s popped in some new tables and chairs) you can sit in, relax and enjoy the awesome vibes on offer! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/d985c2a9-01b7-4f86-ad65-738920e83890/tempImage47rpjy.jpg My Blog - My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury Anyone with a sweet tooth in Shrewsbury most likely knows about these guys! Lauren and the team have bought a Parisian style bakery to Shrewsbury and it has been a total hit since they opened. I reckon it was weeks before there wasn’t a queue forming half an hour ahead of opening time! The weekend’s are still rammed but there’s definitely a little more room in the week! Don’t let the queues put you off though - it’s always worth the wait! The pastry’s and cakes are insane and of a standard nothing short of the best bakeries in the biggest cities - Manchester, Birmingham, London - I haven’t really seen a bakery that far ahead of what Lauren is offering - but they also have a secret weapon! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/051b0019-d244-45ce-8fea-8cee83e8da9a/tempImageTM4iG4.jpg My Blog - My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury The Birds Nest in the Market Hall is somewhat of a Shrewsbury legend - amazing cafe! Great food, great coffee, great music, amazing hustle and bustle atmosphere - to quote their own tag line ‘Good Vibes Only’. But what they do best is the thing most places struggle with, consistency - whether its the food, coffee, cakes or just general happiness and attitude of the staff - it’s always on the same level and always on point! They either have an incredible recruitment system to find the best people, or they've created an amazing place to work! When the staff are always so happy to be there, it makes you happy to be there - a proper good welcome! It’s also one of my favourite places to work from - in fact, I’m sat there now, enjoying their vegan breakfast (with some scrambo’s on the side, obvs) and a flat white from a new coffee they are trying - they tell me it’s a controversial choice as it’s not quite the total crowd pleaser they normally go for - I can tell you, its bloody delicious! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/a7e21f29-6b54-4e8a-91cd-95d0c2b6a959/IMG_0278.jpg My Blog - My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/34a33178-610b-4009-bf79-1540582d59aa/tempImagenduGqt.jpg My Blog - My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury If you want good wine that’s ethically and responsibly sourced, with a focus on flavour and process rather than label and name - then you probably will have come across Petit Glou and Glou Glou, both parts of the Iron & Rose empire - Shrewsbury’s specialists in natural, organic and biodynamic wines. What you might not have noticed, is just how good their pour over coffees are! As a business focussed on regionality, it’s no surprise they choose Hundred House as their supplier - both also members of Slow Food Ludlow - we like to support each other the best we can! It’s always a good sign when you see the little red snail! Petit Glou often has Hundred House’s latest crazy creation from their Freak & Unique range on offer and only serves their coffee as a pour over - a way to focus on the flavours of the coffee and the skill in making it - this sits perfectly with the overall ethos of their business. Also served in a carafe - why wouldn’t you?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6466466fe09af144000e517a/bf300236-7000-4ba8-938b-6200465e407b/tempImagertmLxo.jpg My Blog - My Must Try Coffees In Shrewsbury Plantkind is delicious, there’s no need to say much more! Renowned for the very best falafel/salad boxes and wraps and more recently a journey into the world of all kinds of delicious, plant based street food - with local delivery available, its a total winner. The falafels are a full time fixture, and I hope that never changes but with the street food, they offer a different theme every month, taking you on a journey around the world with delicious examples of amazing cuisine, some you will have heard of, other regional dishes you might not have (who doesn’t love to keep learning though, right?!)! Nothing contrived, everything delicious! 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