Warm salad of braised cuttlefish with ink vinaigrette by Nathan Outlaw If you like squid, you’ll love cuttlefish, an underutilised product of the sea that’s well worth getting to know because, unlike its other relative octopus, the cuttlefish’s fleshy body is substantial. Nathan Outlaw, whose eponymous Cornish eatery Restaurant Nathan Outlaw has been named Best Fish … [Read more...]
Pub groups post positive numbers
Three major pub groups all report positive latest figures. Marston's, the pub operator and brewer, saw like for like sales in its managed pubs grew 7% in the eight weeks to 21 January, with food up 8% and drink sales ahead 6.5%. Douglas Jack, analyst at Numis, commented on Marston's saying that he believed the sales improvement had been volume driven: "With the food spend … [Read more...]
The UK’s best Chinese restaurants
Celebrate the Year of the Dragon by feasting at one of these fabulous restaurants...MSN Food have selected a choice worthy of further investigation...The mark of any decent Chinese restaurant is not necessarily the awards that it's won or its trendy interior, but whether the Chinese community eats there or not. If it's popular then you should be in for a treat. The … [Read more...]
Win lunch or dinner at a 10 in 8 Michelin Star restaurant
Villeroy & Boch the tableware providers to 10 in 8 have created the opportunity for three of our visitors to each win a voucher worth £250 to enjoy lunch or dinner at the 10 in 8 restaurant of their choice. The restaurants to choose from are...L’ortolan, based in Reading, Berkshire and already boasting one Michelin Star under Alan Murchison’s name. La Bécasse, based … [Read more...]
Britain’s pub and restaurant groups enjoy Christmas sales boost
Britain’s pub and restaurant groups enjoyed a major sales boost over Christmas and New Year. Collective like-for-like sales for December were up 9.9% on the same period last year, with total sales ahead 13.7% on December 2010, according to latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker data. The figures come from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker*, the industry sales monitor for the … [Read more...]