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Eating In or Out
Majestic performance
I like dealing with Majestic. For a start, I can believe their price list. Unlike many supermarkets where the prices go up and down on a marketing man’s whim, and where it is dangerous to buy a wine at full price in case it goes to half price next week, Majestic publish a price list which shows all their wines and prices.
Restaurant Review: Cross Scythes, Totley
The Cross Scythes is one of those solid suburban roadside pubs that could easily have gone the way of Sky Sports and microwaved pies. Luckily for the good people of Sheffield (and Derbyshire), someone had a much better idea. Tell you what, why don’t we create a really pleasant environment, put some good beer on and serve interesting, value for money food?
Pub Of The Week: Scarbrough Arms, Tickhill
No, you haven’t spotted a spelling mistake, it really is Scarbrough, and not Scarborough, with an added ‘o’.
Clash of the tannins
Asparagus contains a whole collection of sulphur-containing flavour components, which add to the taste but these flavours, variously known as mercaptans, thiols and methionine clash horribly with anything tannic giving harsh metallic flavours. And while it is perfectly possible to enjoy your asparagus without wine, it is much better to get around the wine clashes and find something that goes well.
Restaurant Review: City Café Double Tree by Hilton, Leeds
It’s a hard trick to pull off. One of the biggest names in hotels across the world (Hilton) scoops up an existing brand (Mint) at the same time ensuring that the food side of the operation maintains a certain standard that doesn’t just deliver, but does it with panache and above all, quality. I’ve had a couple of cocktails in the stunning sky lounge (unparalleled views over Leeds – if you’ve never been, go) when the Hilton was Mint but didn’t eat in the ground floor restaurant, so can’t make a comparison. But pull it off they have, with considerable adroitness.
Pub Of The Week: Wolds Inn, Huggate
It may be an unusual distinction, but the Wolds Inn in Huggate can legitimately claim to be the first pub that David Hockney ever got drunk in.
Writers on menu as Dales food fair pulls in the crowds
THOUSANDS of visitors and dozens of exhibitors revelled in the return of spring at the Dales Festival of Food & Drink at Leyburn, “capital” of Wensleydale.
Restaurant Review: Ogino, Beverley
Only a couple of weeks ago, I was bemoaning to friends the lack of a decent East Asian restaurant in the East Riding.
The elixir of youth
I have a weak spot for Guigal’s Côtes du Rhône. This modestly understated wine delivers reliable warm, spicy red fruit aromas, full-bodied flavours and just enough tannin to accompany a mid-week grilled lamb chop or a weekend roast. The 2009 vintage has just been released and, while it costs rather more than an average Côtes du Rhône, the quality of the wine inside the bottle is well worth its £9.99 price tag. The Wine Society has it in stock already and it is starting to make its way into Waitrose stores right now.
Restaurant Review: Frewin’s Café and Bistro, Addingham
There is no disputing chef/owner Andrew Wilson’s enthusiasm. For knitting. Food too, but we begin our conversation by remembering the side-to-side shooshing sound of a knitting machine operated by our respective mothers in their front rooms circa 1960.
Difference a year makes
While Tesco struggles with its a drop in profits and embarks on a programme to enhance its customers’ shopping experience, our own Yorkshire-based Morrisons managed an eight per cent rise in profits, apparently by attracting a whole lot more customers.
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When Foot and Mouth Disease raged in 2001 Wensleydale suffered more than most and that’s when the seeds of next weekend’s Dales Festival of Food and Drink were sown.
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