Vat and Fiddle: Fish and Chip Friday

The Vat and Fiddle launched their new menu recently and I was truly delighted to see that they had included ‘Homemade Fish & Chips‘ as one of their Main Meals Finally I can write up a proper Fish and Chip Friday post from the Vat and Fiddle in Nottingham. In the past I have half…

Pub Grub at Sir John Borlase Warren

The Sir John Borlase Warren up at Canning Circus is a great pub for a pint and along with it’s neighbours The Falcon Inn, The Good Fellow George and The Organ Grinder one of several in the near vicinity to make a good pub crawl It was on one such beer bimble that we found…

Mother Hubbards Fish and Chips

It’s Fish and Chip Friday so lets talk about the chippy action at Mother Hubbard’s in Beechdale. Located on the site of the former Beechdale Baths on the retail park, Mother Hubbard’s leapt onto the Chipshop scene in Nottingham back in January when they opened offering fish and chips for 45p. Now that was just…

The Cod’s Scallops in West Bridgford

The Cod’s Scallops opened their latest restaurant on Wilford Lane in West Bridgford back in April. It is the sixth location for this much lauded small chain of chip shops one of which won the National Fish and Chip Shop of the year awards back in 2020. I have enjoyed eating at both the Sherwood…

Cods Scallops in Wollaton

The Cod’s Scallops in Wollaton is the groups original restaurant and also the one that won the award of Best Fish and Chip shop in the UK in 2020 I last wrote about this place in 2013 (read more here) and I really cannot believe how time has flown past since in the chippy world….

Pub Lunch at the Bread and Bitter

The Bread and Bitter, another one of the excellent Castle Rock pubs in Nottingham, sits up at Mapperley Top on the Woodborough Road. It is tucked away off the main road alongside the spoons pub and is located within a former bakery I have supped a fair few pints in this pub over the years…

Lunch at The Cods Scallops

The Cods Scallops group has had many plaudits over recent years and with good reason. They do serve up some excellent food and one of their outlets did win the National Fish and Chip Awards in 2020. That was the branch in Wollaton which was the groups first branch, since then they have grown to…

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…