Newark Notts’ favourite far-out haunt receives award Sydney, Chicago, Sao Paulo, Laxton. Laxton? You heard right. Thanks to the brilliant management duo at The Dovecote Inn, Laxton is now up there with the great eating capitals of the world. How come? Sara Chadd explains…. Whether you’re looking to dine out in style or to spend a select weekend away, where ... Read More »
Category Archives: Food & Drink
MAKE YOUR BID! MADNESS COCKTAIL ROCKS THE MOORINGS
“While he is in inventive mood, I’ve suggested to Carl that he may like to create a Madness Cocktail. Wonder what ingredients it will contain? Something “London” to remind us of Suggs, I should think. That would have to be pink gin and stout, then. Send us your suggestions. The winner and guest can claim their winning cocktail for free ... Read More »
SECRET LIVES – BEN NEVIS COULD BE CHEF’S SURPRISE
Roll over Heston Blumenthal! A new chef is whipping up an inventive storm at Newark’s famous Trentside restaurant. Carl Wright, chef-manager at The Moorings, is determined to shake up the menu at the traditional restaurant and bar, using unusual ingredients to create mind-boggling dishes worthy of the master kitchen-scientist, writes Sara Chadd. Blumenthal is famous for his chemical cuisine and ... Read More »
Café Amore Newark’s Open for Breakfast!
Are You Ready For Breakfast? We Are! – from our Full English to our Smoked Salmon bagel! We are open from 7.30am. Grab & Go or sit in. We’re ready! We hope you are. (All our Breakfast Menu comes with a free drink of your choice). Café Amore (for the love of coffee) has landed in Newark to a fantastic ... Read More »
Holy Dovecote, a May Day Pilgrimage
The Dovecote Inn, Cross Hill, Laxton,Newark, Notts NG22 0SX 2 May 2013 “Heaven,” and “The best food I’ve ever tasted,” are not common epithets, but today it seems we’ve found the Holy Grail of menus and on May Day, of all cross-quarter days. As we trundle up the hill on a lovely sunny day, golden cowslips are just coming into ... Read More »
Balanced views on fine Spanish wine
A wet and windy Hallowe’en in Newark was perhaps the best possible time to go off on a virtual tour of Spain and some of its sun-drenched wines, writes Graham Keal. Especially so when the ‘tour guide’ is as knowledgeable and personable as Master of Wine Ed Adams, and the venue is the convivial wine bar of Ann et Vin ... Read More »
Warm welcome and appealing cuisine at Romano’s
Going out for a meal at Romano’s Italianissimo provides potent reminders of why we’ve been to Italy for holidays five times in the last six years. It’s not just the wonderful food and wine, it’s the welcome too. But you don’t have to endure Ryanair to sample such delights – just head for Romano’s in Stodman Street, Newark, and restaurant ... Read More »
Restaurant Review
Invite us to review your restaurant – and take your bill off our bill! Expertly written advertising features on Newark Notts cost a very reasonable £99 (500 words), £129 (750 words) or £139 (1000 words) – but invite us to review a meal for two and you will get a vivid, appreciative account of your dining experience, which we will ... Read More »
ADD Your Takeaway Business – From £10 per month
Why not use the power of our high Google ranking to get your restaurant or takeaway noticed? We have 6000 people a month looking at our website, searching for local services – and hundreds of them will be hungry! Tempt our visitors to try your food – at these rates (from just £10 a month) your ad will pay for ... Read More »
Graham Keal’s Food and Drink Diary No 3
An occasional series that takes in dining out, dining in, food bargains and wines to watch out for. I thought I’d start with the end of the meal this time – and talk about coffee. I’ve had four coffees out in assorted Newark pubs and restaurants recently and it’s been a mixed experience, I must admit. Of those four, all ... Read More »
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