Colombo Street, a new Sri Lankan restaurant opened recently at Fletcher gate in the building formerly occupied by Rub Smokehouse. If the name seems familiar that could be that you had spotted them at various street food events around town over the last couple of years in their brightly coloured food truck. They were at…
Breakfast at the Quayside Cafe
The Quayside Cafe located on the Colwick Quays Business Park is a rather good cafe hidden away on the industrial estate in Colwick. I had heard excellent reports on social media about the place so figured I needed to come here myself to check them out We popped over for lunch, which ended up being…
Breakfast at the Trent Navigation
The Trent Navigation Inn on Meadow Lane is adjacent to and the Tap pub for the Navigation Brewery. It has always been a solid and reliable pub for a pint and a bit of pub grub and we have been here many a time pre and post football and cricket matches. Over the years I…
Pub Lunch at The Stratford Haven
The Stratford Haven on Stratford Road in West Bridgford is an excellent local pub for a pint and a bit of pub grub. I can still remember the days when the building was a pet shop as we used to go there to get stuff for our cats and dogs, that was back in the…
Pub lunch at Fellows, Morton & Clayton
I have written a lot of blog posts about eating at the Fellows, Morton & Clayton pub over the years. In that time it has change hands a fair bit and was closed for a while, so each time I do come it has been different. We were out on a beer bimble this particular…
Lunch at Kurna Chata: Fabulous homemade specials to delight
A few weeks back I was checking out the Polish Hot Dog at Kurna Chata (read more here), while we were there we found that they have daily lunch specials so we made a pledge to come back and try them. Each day they post on their Facebook page what the daily offer is and…
BANQUET 1415 at Streetfood Club
Banquet 1415 , ‘a self sustainable, evangelistic, food trailer‘ were at Nottingham Street Food Club over the weekend serving up their Argentinian BBQ. I had seen them out and about at various events in Nottingham but had not eaten their food before so when we saw them in the Victoria Centre Streetfood location on Sunday…
Pho at Viet 80’s
Viet 80’s on Friar Lane in Nottingham is the latest Vietnamese restuarant to open in Nottingham. People have said that it is very authentic and that the menu and the food matches that expectation. Indeed with a dish of Pigs Tripes and Black Pudding being a special it certainly isn’t catering for the vanilla diner….
Checking out Kurna Chata in Sneinton
Kurna Chata is a family run Polish Cafe and Restaurant located just off Meadow Lane in Sneinton. It is right next to the Twoj Supermarket and seemed quite popular when we visited. The menu was all in Polish but there were pictures and the owners were quite happy to talk us through the details. There…
Breakfast Buffet at Limes Cafe
The Lime’s Cafe on the Rufford Road / A164 is a classic roadside truck stop kind of joint. I would rather stop off somewhere like this for breakfast than any motorway generic service station. On their website they say “We’re an independent Cafe, located just off the A614 near Rufford Park. We’re proud to be…