Food & Drink
Our favourite restaurants, traditional and contemporary dishes, best markets, and artisan producers around the south west of England.
Our review of The Scallop Shell in Bath, where we find out whether their fish and chips at twenty-four pounds a portion is good value or overpriced.
Review of The Circus in Bath, a restaurant with a focus on good seasonal ingredients where classic and familiar dishes are tweaked by a talented chef.
We went to The Farmers Arms in Combe Florey simply because it was the only place open… It was Jack’s birthday so we wanted to go out for lunch to somewhere we had never been before which really should have been an easy mission. Except that it was a Monday, and it was the day before New Year’s Eve. This…
Returning to Britain wasn’t likely to throw up anything new, nevertheless it has been an education over the last couple of years getting to know the best things to eat and drink in Devon, Somerset, and Cornwall.
The Royal Oak in Hillcommon serves excellent food and is participating in this year’s Exmoor Food Fest throughout February.
The Blue Ball Inn was everything we hoped for from a country pub. It’s a 13th-century coaching inn on the edge of the moors and close to the coast.