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Thursday, April 25, 2024

Food and Drink

Have yourself a Spanish Christmas

Chef Maxi Lorenzo from Barcelona gives a flavour of a festive season in the sun...   A greedy charcoal maker, a risqué Christmas log and feast upon feast! From the bonfire jumping 'Hogueras' celebrations on the 21st of December to Epiphany...

Cheese of the Month: Colston Bassett Stilton

Steve and Caroline Ward bring you choice fromages... During the first week of December, our Stilton delivery arrives. A pallet load, 150 kilos, there or thereabouts. Every year we get that same feeling of dread: where are we going to...

Cocktail of the Month: Cua Cua

Pronounced “Kwa-Kwa” this boozy beauty blends the quintessentially Spanish caramel flavour of Liquor 43 and cointreau. Freshly squeezed lemon juice adds a little citrus. Ingredients: 25ml Liquor 43 25ml Cointreau or triple sec 1/2 a fresh lemon, and lemon zest Crushed ice - Method: Add the spirits...

Fabulous fine dining in theatre’s top room – Hibiscus, Northampton review

Penda had been looking forward to this. A promise of an up-market dining experience in Northampton for less than £30 a head? Yes please. Hibiscus is tucked away upstairs in Royal & Derngate’s building, in the former Crown Room, a...

Carlsberg Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards results

After much anticipation and a great deal of excitement, the winners in the Carlsberg UK Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards 2017/18 are finally celebrating being named the best of the county’s best, writes Anna Murby. The competition, now in its...

Godfather of Italian cooking Antonio Carluccio has passed away

Culinary legend Antonio Carluccio OBE passed away this morning, according to an announcement on his social media accounts. He was due to perform the prize giving at the Carlsberg Food and Drink Awards in Northampton next week, which has a...

New cheese to be unveiled at Northampton Winter Food Festival

Northampton Winter Food Festival organiser Crispin Slee has news of an exclusive cheese available at the event... Cheese-maker Gary Bradshaw has something to please the crowds at this weekend’s Northampton Winter Food Festival – a limited edition cheese. Gary, Northampton’s only...

Antonio Carluccio will make Carlsberg Food Awards a special night

Master chef Antonio Carluccio OBE will be performing the prize-giving honours at this month’s celebration, writes Anna Murby. The event being held at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate is considered one of the highlights of the county’s social calendar as chefs,...

Lee Scott: feeding the tastemakers

Chef Lee Scott cuts a relaxed, no-nonsense , figure as he greets me in the dining room of Hibiscus, his new fine dining restaurant at Royal & Derngate in Northampton. He’s in a white T-shirt, apron over the top and...

Kids rocked at Foodies.(Rock)

NQ's Penda looks at another county eaterie... There were  furrowed brows from the younger Penda friends as they looked at the menu at uber-trendy Foodies.Rocks (not my punctuation). They were conflicted: they’d been given their own menus and a little tick-box...
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Strictly star lined up for next Royal and Derngate panto

Strictly champion Joanne Clifton and CBeebies star Andy Day to lead the cast of Royal & Derngate’s pantomime Cinderella Strictly champion and musical theatre...
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