Personally I love a good stereotype and see no need to fight them- old ladies and sherry, Yorkshiremen in flat caps and who doesn’t like a good old cockerney eating pie and mash whilst doing a dance that seems to invole only the knees? Exactly, all good fun. However it seems that there is a […]
Read More Beer Naked Ladies!On a routine visit to Her In Law last week it was announced that we would attend her own new favourite place to eat in the wee Essex estuary town that is Maldon. El Guaca. Have to admit, the boy and I have walked past on more than one occasion and ignored a repeat Groupon […]
Read More A Little Plug- EL GuacaJust a quickie, but if you’re local try out Bombay Palace on Magdalen St, Colchester. The boy and I just attended for a lazy Sunday tea and have filled the buffet gap left by swearing off our ex haunt of choice, House of China. A la carte is available but we went for the all […]
Read More A Little Plug- Bombay Palace, Colchester.Jamie Oliver. Now there’s a bloke who raises a mixed opinion. Yeah, he’s a bit of a nob with all the over affected Essex boyisms and unnecessary pounding of work surfaces and yes, his shows are often full of painfully scripted ‘friends and family’ who randomly turn up to devour and praise his makings but […]
Read More Jamie Oliver’s ItalianOriginal post from June 2013- we are sad to add that Hughes have now closed. Are we bored of me banging on about local businesses and independent suppliers and the general evil of mass supermarket chains yet? No? Good. In that case I shall instead cut back to a point in history some ten years […]
Read More A Little Plug- Hughes’ Fish Co.It’s easy to get cynical about foodie events these days, particularly if one is restricted to public transport. In these parts, this pretty much leaves you to a few affairs in Castle Park and the Christmas market. I recently found out that most of the events around Colchester are organised by the same soulless money […]
Read More Mersea Food FestivalI don’t need to explain to anyone who has ever ground the nine to five grind that there is something very special about a Friday. Magical things happen around this portal to the weekend. Things like swapping the suits and sensible shoes in favour of ‘dress down’, the sudden abandonment of weekday diet righteousness for Friday Cakes, […]
Read More A Little Plug- CHeFS at Colchester Institute.Should you find yourself on the jolly old endless concrete run of boring doom that is the A12, round about Woodbridge, you will find yourself going past the Farm Cafe & Food Market at Marlesford. And if you do find yourself here on the endless concrete run of boring doom that is the A12 round […]
Read More A Little Plug- The Farm Cafe at MarlesfordIt’s the best kind of story!!!!!! And it begins with myself and the boy, wandering past a small cakery at least once every Saturday whilst about our business in sunny Colchester. With each passing we at least slowed down, if not all together stopped to admire the edible artworks in the window. We didn’t go in, […]
Read More The Cake StoryI’m all for getting behind local produce, supporting local businesses and reducing carbon footprints and wotnot. Getting your hands on local produce may not always be as easy as you think though- some time ago whilst shopping to assemble a tart tartin I made a purposeful detour past Tesco to a small independent greengrocers for […]
Read More A Little Plug- The Essex Bee Keeper
Food. Boom. 