The Keans Head is located opposite St Mary’s Church in the historic Lace Market district of Nottingham on the narrow cobbled pavement of St Mary’s Gate. I read that the building once housed a factory producing Nottingham lace, but these days it is one of the numerous Castle Rock Brewery pubs scattered throughout the area. It…
Buns: Burgers Shakes and Fries. Checking out the Classic Cheese and the Triple Stacker
Buns on Ilkeston Road in Nottingham is one of the latest burger emporiums serving up a ‘smash burger’ in the City. Their menu tells us that their ‘House Beef Buns’ are ‘all handmade fresh to order using 100% halal angus beef’ and that they ‘only use the highest quality ingredients to construct the perfect burger…
Fish and Chip Friday at Plumtree Fish and Chip Shop
Plumtree Fish and Chip shop is located on Nottingham Road just opposite the Sainsbury’s local where the road bends to intersect with Debdale Lane. Officially the address says that this is in Keyworth? I thought I was in Plumtree but anyway whatever I am not in charge of the maps, my job is just to…
The Next Episode in Ruddington: serving ‘an assortment of New York style food’
The Next Episode in Ruddington was a really excellent find when we were meandering our way around the South Notts Villages looking for lunch. They are serving , in their own words, ‘an assortment of New York style food’ Now ‘that’ is my kind of eating so I was going to be all over this…
East Leake Fish Bar: Fish and Chips Friday
There is nothing quite like the joy of getting a tray of Fish and Chips on a Friday Lunch. This week were were at the East Leake Fish Bar on Main Street in East Leake to check out their offerings The place was pretty popular on a Friday which I thought was a pretty good…
Sunday Lunch at The Falcon Inn
The Falcon Inn at Canning Circus is an Old Shipstones Pub and one of the great traditional Real AIe pubs in the City. In the past I have enjoyed drinking some nice pints of ale in here and some tasty bar snacks while on a pub crawl up Derby Road and Alfreton Road to Canning…
Sunday Lunch at the Lincolnshire Poacher on Mansfield Road
This week I was out on another long walk bimbling about town, we were walking past the Lincolnshire Poacher on Mansfield Road, it was raining again, we were hungry again, and it was a Sunday. I think that what is coming next might not be a major surprise. I poked my head in through the…
The Sobar Breakfast
The Full English at Cafe Sobar is described as being 2 bacon, sausage, egg, beans, hash brown, mushrooms and white or brown toast for £7.95. You can double it up a bit to get an extra egg, sausage, and hashbrown if you pay £2 more, ooh and then you get black pudding too. If you…
Yumuchi Japanese Kitchen and Bar: Time for Chicken Ramen
Yumuchi Japanese Restaurant & Bar on Gordon Road in West Bridgford opened back in August this year. It is the sister restaurant of Yumacha which lies not that far away on Central Avenue. I have had my eye on this place for a while now as the menu lists out so many things that I…
Sunday Lunch at the Poppy and Pint
Poppy and Pint This Sunday we headed up to the Poppy & Pint pub in Lady Bay for Some Sunday Lunch action. I have written about this place on the blog before way back in 2012 when I had a lovely Bœuf Bourguignon (read more here) and more recently when checking out breakfast back in…