Tag: beef

Mr M and I have explored a fair bit of the UK, especially since we got the good old camper van last year. But we always seem to head south rather than north. That means one place we've seen very little of is Scotland. Well, I've visited once or...

Don't you just love it when a new place opens up in town? If you're reading this and you're in a big city then maybe you don't get the same little buzz of excitement when you get an addition to the food offering in your local area but for us small...

In the Manning household we don't have Sunday dinner that often. Don't get me wrong, we love a good old Sunday roast with all the trimmings, but it's just not something we do religiously each Sunday. Maybe it's the fact I didn't grow up with...

There are times as a blogger when you wonder if it's all a bit too good to be true and any minute someone's going to jump out and scream: "Ha, joke's on you". Well, I do anyway. And as we drove around pitch black roads, across gated fields, and...

Since this week has been all about the big 'M' word (Michelin, not Manning) and debates over where the best food in the country can be found, I thought it was high time I shared with you our experience of what the marvellous Mr M has described has...

Who doesn't get tempted by the prospect of dinner on a boat? As you probably noticed recently, Mr M and I headed down to Bristol with his sister and her other half for a weekend of meaty madness at Grillstock. Before the chaos ensued, we managed a...

I reckon somewhere there must be a 10 Commandments for restaurants. If there are, I imagine that list would probably include the instruction: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's main course". Easier said than done though, isn't it, when your...

Well, it's safe to say Christmas was a wee bit of a washout in the Manning household. Mr M has been struck down with some kind of awful illness that rendered our many plans dead in the water. I'm not gonna harp on - after all, there are many people...

You'll remember that I'm not the only Branagh who loves food - my brothers are equally obsessed and generally much better at the cooking part of it than me. Last time we went to my big brother's we had what I dubbed 'restaurant food without the...

By now we know that I’m no vegetarian - far from it in fact. I don’t really need to list all the evidence, the trip to Meatopia probably sums it up. So of course I was going to be up for trying Birmingham’s latest newcomer, Meating. Amid...