We seem to start most of our Friday nights in Town with a pint or two at the Vat and Fiddle which has been our ‘local’ or one of our ‘locals’ for many a year. Surprisingly I had only written three blog posts about the place, I hadn’t realised that until recently when I finally…
Tag: Food Blog in Nottingham
Edwalton Coffee and Snack Bar: Checking out Breakfast and Brunch
Edwalton Coffee & Snack Bar on Earlswood Drive is located in the Post Office and takes over the space formerly occupied by The Tea Cosy Cafe and before that Chai and Coffee. They are serving up a decent selection including Breakfasts, Cobs, Wraps, Sandwiches, Panini, Jacket Potatoes, Salads, Burgers, Tea, Coffee and Cakes. Basically all…
Fish and Chip Friday at The Sir John Borlase Warren
The Sir John Borlase Warren lies up at Canning Circus in Nottingham. It is on the triangular island where the road splits into Derby Road and Alfreton Road and sits next door to the Falcon Inn where we recently scoffed a Sunday Lunch (read more here) This Friday though we were here in search of…
Tapas at Vida by Lorentes
Vida by Lorentes in the Lace Market is a family run tapas restaurant that has recently opened in the space formerly occupied by The Last Chance Saloon. I popped along recently to check them out and to try a couple of dishes. Spoiler alert is that the food was really tasty so I suspect that…
Sunday Lunch at the Keans Head
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…
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…
Kushi-Ya: The lunch special
Kushi-Ya Japanese Grill do a very reasonably priced lunch time offer. For just 10 quid you can get 1 Snack, 4 Skewers and a Rice, now that my friends is a real bargain. I came and dined here shortly after they opened and spent about £50 eating many of the same sorts of dishes that…