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  • The restaurant that won a Michelin star in its first year

    Keeping the children amused on a rainy day was no problem for the Thompson family, Victorian mine owners who built the beautiful Farlam Hall in a remote corner of Cumbria. One of the gardeners was charged with the task of bringing Phoebe the donkey

  • Family dining at White Row Farm near Frome

    Eating out with our toddler can be, shall we say, interesting. Will he eat anything on the menu? Will he sit still for longer than 30 seconds? Will everyone else in the venue hate us if he starts pretending to be a T-Rex? So, we arrived at White Row

  • Horsforth’s brilliant new French bistro

    ‘Bavette is a love letter to all of our favourite places, the ones we’ve worked and ate at,’ says Sandy Jarvis, who has opened Horsforth’s brilliant new French bistro Bavette with husband Clément Cousin. ‘We’ve drawn on parts of all of those places

  • Dining at The Black Swan, in Ravenstonedale.

    This month's feature could easily fall under the heading 'Irini’s Other Half Finds' as it is John who has been enthusiastically encouraging me to write about The Black Swan, in Ravenstonedale. I suspect that his eagerness lies partly in his fondness

  • A Greek odyssey in St John's in Manchester

    Fenix is the holistic creation of two imaginative and brave brothers, Adam and Drew Jones, who are busy transforming the restaurant scene in Manchester, and in London, Dubai and elsewhere. They took the Chinese culture and food scene, turned it on

  • 3 strawberry-themed recipes for Wimbledon

    Wimbledon is finally upon us, with the tennis championship kicking off on July 1. It will see two weeks of us glued to our screens, watching top tennis stars battle it out against each other. And there’s no better way to celebrate the tennis