Food & Drink Archive
(September 2018)

1 September 2018

The White Hart Hotel, Lincoln

Sarah Eddy and guest visited The White Hart Hotel, Lincoln to experience a Pimm’s Afternoon Tea. We were seated in the lounge area of The White Hart Hotel, Bailgate and we soon started to chat with another couple of afternoon tea takers, at the table next to ours. Uphill Lincoln does have a special quality Read more…

Café Culture, Downtown, Grantham

This month Katrina Burrill visits Café Culture at Downtown, Grantham where family recipes are the key to their homemade cakes, scones and savoury dishes. THE motto ‘All under one roof’ could not be more appropriate for a day spent at one of the Oldrid family-owned stores. Their department stores and superstores in Grantham, Boston and Read more…

Flower power!

Like the bees and the butterflies, we have been bonkers about eye-catching, fragrant summer blooms for millenia. And as Nikki Bawn finds, they make for extra special recipes too. Who doesn’t love fresh cut flowers for vases, crystallised blossoms for cakes and dried petals for pot-pourri or tea? Somewhere along the line though, many have Read more…

Ye Olde Bell Hotel and Spa

Katrina Burrill and Claire Weeks visited Ye Olde Bell Hotel and Spa in Barnby Moor to experience the old world charms of this former coaching inn. It has been more than 350 years since this building first opened as a coaching inn in 1650. Situated on the busy London to Edinburgh route, the inn was Read more…