Goose Gate Cafe in Hockley is located (unsurprisingly) on Goose Gate in Hockley. At first sight you might think that it is just another cafe selling lattes and sandwiches, and to some extent you are right. But look closer, come inside and you will find a Nepalese chef serving up food from his homeland. I…
Category: City Centre
The Pop In Cafe in West End Arcade: Chinese Street Food Snacks
The Pop In Cafe in the West End Arcade in Nottingham has taken over the space formerly occupied by Audrey’s Creperie. This brightly coloured pink cafe is now serving bubble teas and a variety of Asian Street Foods. The menu includes dishes such as fried chicken, dumplings, steak, braised beef, and somewhat ironically given the…
Breakfast at Hartleys
Hartley’s Cafe lies Carlton Street right on the confluence of Broad Street, Goose Gate, and Stoney Street., and is as they say in their own words “In the Heart of Hockley” I had been walking past over recent months, often mid morning on a weekend and had seen loads of people sitting in the window…
T4: Iced Lemon Tea and Taiwan Super Star Popcorn Chicken
T4 on King Street in Nottingham sells Bubble Tea, and Taiwanese Teas, and a small selection of fried street food snacks. There seem to be quite a lot of these bubble tea places popping up across the city, but it was the sign outside promising fried chicken that lured me in not the drinks. Taiwan…
Kings Walk Kitchen: Full English Breakfast
Kings Walk Kitchen serving Breakfast, Lunch and Afternoon tea has opened up recently on the corner of Kings Walk and Forman Street, just across from the Corner House and Trinity Square where Le Petit Four used to be. It is apparently run by the same people who also run Hartley’s on Broad Street and The…
Temple of Heaven – Beef Brisket Noodles
Temple of Heaven at the end of Broad Street is one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in town. It is kind of tucked away just past the Lord Roberts, and the Newmarket pubs down near the junction with Lower Parliament Street so you just need to keep walking down from Hockley to find it. I…
Penny Lane | Bar, Kitchen & Arcade: Cocktails, Hot Dogs and Fried Chicken
Penny Lane recently opened in April located in the space that once housed the Burger restaurant Griddle and Shake on Fletcher Gate next to the Lace Market Tram Stop. It is described as being a ‘seaside arcade bar‘ The sort of place that you might find on the coast at a beachside resort. I popped…
Solo Grano: Pizza and Pasta
Solo Grano on Wheeler Gate in Nottingham recently opened it’s doors in the last couple of weeks to serve us pizza and pasta, or as they say ‘artigianale – pasta fresca & pizza napoletana’, so what I said then 🙂 They have set themselves up in the space formerly occupied by that Treat Kitchen Sweet…
Suhan Restaurant in Hockley: Southern Sichuan Style Braised Beef Noodles
Suhan Restaurant on Heathcote Street in Nottingham has recently opened up serving up a lot of Sichuan , Authentic Chinese, and Hotpots. It is located in the same space that was formerly occupied by Hometown Cuisine. I had often walked by and seen Hometown closed up but a couple of weeks ago I was passing…
Lunch at Botti di Mamma
Botti di Mamma on Broad Street owned by Edin Gondzic is the most recent reimagination of the space formerly occupied by Edins Deli Cafe and Edins Continental Cafe. The last time I was eating here was in July last year when they had knocked the Deli Cafe through into Lee Rosies Tea room to expand…