On the Menu

A class act with Foraging Free quail egg

SOMERSET free range egg producer and supplier, The Traditional Free Range Egg Company, has teamed up with The Devilled Egg, a new online cookery school, to create 10 elegant and easy-to-follow canapé recipes using its Great Taste Award-winning Foraging Free quail eggs. Designed to make the most of the delicate and dainty quail eggs, which…

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Tastes of the seaside on the Jurassic coast

A RESTAURANT with rooms that welcomes sandy feet, windswept dogs and weather-beaten walkers who have worked up an appetite is now tempting visitors and locals with a new cliff-top ice cream bar. The Seaside Boarding House in Burton Bradstock is a foodie destination with a timeless feel, and an amazing location with the dramatic panorama…

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Flower power at The Queens Arms,

FROM pansies to parsley, roses to rosemary, the summer menu at the award-winning Queens Arms in Corton Denham, near Wincanton, is blooming with fresh flavours and floral flourishes from the pub’s kitchen garden. New head chef, Steven Mesher, is working closely with the gardening team, visiting the plot on a weekly basis with owners, Jeanette…

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Tastes of summer at Summer Lodge

DORSET is blessed with great food, gorgeous scenery and some wonderful hotels and restaurants where you can enjoy the best of both. There are few that can compare with Summer Lodge at Evershot, an 18th country house which is one of the region’s finest hotels, set in one of the loveliest parts of West Dorset,…

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Ten years at La Fosse

TEN years have just flown since Mark and Emmanuelle Hartstone moved to the long-established La Fosse restaurant at Cranborne in 2007 and this week they celebrated their anniversary with a special tasting menu. Mark and Emmanuelle met when both were working at the famous Chewton Glen Hotel on the edge of the New Forest at…

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The best thing since sliced bread?

by David Perry   THE  other day I had to stand up and talk about what we sell. It was impromptu so I didn’t have time to think about it much at the time so I used the theme of making informed choices about food but washing it down with an uninformed choice of wine….

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It’s raining……nothing

Philippa Davis’s clients have a frustrating but very well-fed week in Scotland SKIING, when snowfall has been poor, gets rather tricky. Beach holidays without the sun are pretty miserable. Camping in torrential rain is not much fun (well actually camping in any weather is not my idea of fun) and fishing weeks without water are…

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Tastes of the South West at the Queens Arms

THE Queens Arms at Corton Denham has launched a new menu, featuring selected produce from across the region, to mark the owners’ eighth anniversary at the helm. Reflecting changing tastes and evolving approach to eating out, the menu is a collaboration between owners Gordon and Jeanette Reid, and new head chef, Steven Mesher. Many of…

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Something for everyone

EATING out is the answer to eating in as one gets older. As my confidence in my own cooking wanes, and as it takes me longer to organise, invite, shop and cook for an entertainment which lasts only a very few hours, I look with gratitude at all the eating-out possibilities we have around us….

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