Try the gin when you treat yourself at the Tolly
By Penda A perfect sunny afternoon with a visit to a country pub is the stuff of a tourism marketing executive’s dream. Thankfully in Northamptonshire we get to do it for [...]
Food and Drink
Cheese of the month: Rosary (ssshh, it’s a goats cheese)
Steve and Caroline Ward bring you choice fromages… You may blink and miss the English summertime, but you never know! We could be in for hot , balmy evenings and [...]
The secret ingredient that makes Northampton County Beer Festival at Becket’s Park such a success
You have to hand it to Northampton Beer Festival, nothing brings the town together quite like it. It enjoyed its best opening night since it moved to Becket’s Park on [...]
Northampton Beer Festival will be a celebration of county’s drinks makers
Northampton County Beer Festival is taking place on the 1st to 3rd June 2018, writes Elisha Dexter. The beer festival showcases the finest drinks from the county’s best [...]
Royal Showstopper baking revealed at Althorp
In an array of baking creations of which Prue and Paul would have been proud, two of the county’s finest cake-makers are now celebrating after being named joint winners of [...]
Bill Urquhart – the brewer who started a micro revolution
Alaric Neville of the modern Phipps brewery tells the story of the last head brewer of the old Phipps brewery and his determination to keep beer real… In the 1950s and [...]
Cheese of the month: Sparkenhoe Farm Vintage Red Leicester
Steve and Caroline Ward bring you choice fromages… The 1970s: the decade of bad taste. Terrible clothes, bad haircuts, dodgy racist TV sit-coms and the demise of real [...]
Who won the giant chocolate egg?
If you’re going to shell out for a giant chocolate egg you want to make sure it ends up in the right hands. That’s why Steve and Caroline at St Giles Cheese [...]
Join the fun at Blackpit Brewery birthday bash
Silverstone’s Blackpit Brewery is celebrating its first anniversary with a birthday party, writes Elisha Dexter. Over the past year the brewery has produced over 85,000 [...]