The Farm's resident chef will teach you fish prep techniques from scaling, gutting and filleting a range of fish, as well as how to cook those fish on the...
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The Farm's resident chef will teach you fish prep techniques from scaling, gutting and filleting a range of fish, as well as how to cook those fish on the...
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Boxing Day brekkie at a beach cafe, you say? Not what I'd envisaged when we decided to escape to Devon for the Christmas period, but certainly a tradition I'd be more than happy to repeat.
I've read about the Beachhouse at South...
Read More >Mike Bullard is a little bit fed up of chicken wings. He says it affectionately and with a smile on his face, because they've been there with him from the very start. But after a few years of frying them virtually non-stop, he's happy for them to...
Read More >The last time I went to Hotel du Vin I was a cub reporter at a news agency sent to stalk Simon Cowell. I'd love to say sitting there for hours hiding behind the menu hoping to spot him in a clinch with someone was as good as trying out the...
Read More >Some time ago, I took up a slightly off-piste invite to try the Queens Road Bar and Grill at the Ramada Hotel in Coventry. Not an obvious choice, but I'm always keen to take a look at local places. In Rugby and Coventry we don't always have the...
Read More >It seems apt that I'm writing this whilst in the middle of what feels like a holiday whose sole aim is to eat as much seafood as humanly possible. As I shovelled down fresh oysters in yet another French coastal town, it occurred to me that it would...
Read More >Do you ever get hangry? I do, especially 8 miles into a day of walking in the sunshine when it's way past lunchtime and you're craving a crisp glass of wine in front of an amazing view. As we staggered round yet another bit of headland on the Wales...
Read More >Once upon a time I ordered a chorizo tapas dish from a pub that very nearly ruined my love of this gorgeous smoky Spanish sausage. Bulbous little balls, deep-fried to oblivion until they'd morphed into weapons of mass destruction, ready to burst...
Read More >Can we stop already with the snow now? At first it was fun, and we lived the dream of dog walks in crisp, white, crunchy stuff. Now it's a pain. And it's wet, and slushy, and cold. I'm going to remedy the winter blues with another fond foray back to...
Read More >I'm not really someone who does trendy very well. Since I was a kid I've always been slightly behind the curve when it comes to anything fashionable, whether it's clothes, nightclubs or TV programmes I should be binge-watching. Either that, or I...
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