From a distance Goose Fair assaults your senses with a blanket of noise and a sea of light, once inside, walking along the paths between the food stalls and the rides, the smells and sights of the food gets your tastebuds a tingling and your stomach a rumbling. As you duck to avoid bags…
Category: Nottingham
Nottingham Riverside Festival 2014 – Some Local Food, Some Fairground Food and Plenty of Fun
This weekend between the 1st and 3rd August we visited the Nottingham Riverside Festival which was sprawling along the banks of the River Trent between Trent Bridge, the Suspension Bridge and spilling out over onto the playing fields by the Meadows. For some of us it would be all about those fairground rides like the Roller…
Featuring some of the Best of Notts Streetfood – A little bit more Porco
Porco Streetfood I was walking across Slab Square on Friday after work when I saw this chalk board sign asking passers by ‘Have you tried our amazing Porchetta and Pulled Pork Sandwiches or Boxes??”. I looked to my right to see the lovely Porco Streetfood stall and mentally said ‘Yes I have and it was jolly…
Grosvenor Pub Grub – All Day Breakfast
The Grosvenor Pub at 291-293 Mansfield Road has quite some history behind it. A pub has been on this corner since the early part of the 19th Century when it was known as the Blacks Heads Inn. In 1873 it was renamed the Grosvenor Hotel when it was bought by John Robinson who was the founder…
The Bridge Sandwich Bar in the Old Toll Booth by the River at Wilford
Despite being surrounded by tram works and barricades the Bridge Sandwich Bar on the Nottingham side of the Wilford Toll Bridge appears to be alive and kicking. You just need to follow the chalk boards to find your way inside. Hopefully it will not be that long until the Bar is released and the trams start…
Bon Appetit in Netherfield- A Favourite spot for a Roast Pork Cob
About 10 years ago I flirted with being a house owning grown-up and bought myself a small terrace house in Netherfield. Just around the corner from that house was a really good local butcher called Robinson the Butcher and inside that butcher was decent and honest sandwich counter called ‘Bon Appetit’. I often popped in and…
Taste in the Park – More StrEAT Streetfood action
Last weekend I took a walk up into the Park to visit the Taste In The Park. This is the latest incarnation from Toni Jarvis’s Tiger Projects strEAT team. In recent times they have set up the market in the Lace Market creative quarter and on Nottingham Light Night in the Galleries of Justice and we have…
Ye olde trip to jerusalem sandwiches
The Trip or the ‘ye olde trip to jerusalem’ is one of the classic ‘go to’ pubs in Nottingham for your visitor in search of some historical pub action. It certainly has all the attractions for the tourist with cavernous rooms, the cursed galleon and the chair that if you sit on it you supposedly become pregnant. As…
The Navigation Burger Bar – An easy recommedation – Eat Here
This week I visited The Navigation Burger Bar at the Navigation Inn on Wilford Street. I have to say it is Good to find that burgers are being flipped there once more. After a short hiatus following the departure of Annie’s Burger Shack to the Lace Market, a new chef is in place and they are…
Lady Bay Cafe is well worth a look – “It’s a wrap!”, a chicken wrap that is.
This week I was driving through Lady Bay in West Bridgford on a lunch time food hunt and I found the Lady Bay café on Trent Boulevard, number 147 to be exact. There was not a lot of easy parking outside, but there was plenty on the side streets. Outside there were a few bench…