A treat with meat but service needs stations
Review: Hops and Chops. 6 Kent Road, St Crispins, Northampton, NN5 4DR There are two high landmarks that always make Penda glad to be home: Northampton’s Express Lift Tower [...]
Restaurant reviews
Late lunch a winner at the historic Lamplighter
Review: The Lamplighter, 66 Overstone Road, Northampton, NN1 3JS Penda’s small dining companion is trying to eat with her hands again. She’s gnawing on a chunk of [...]
Tea for twelve was an icy treat
Review – Beckworth Emporium Restaurant, Glebe Road, Mears Ashby, NN6 0DL. That chilly, dark section of the year – post-Christmas, pre-spring- is not Penda’s [...]
Hits and misses at laid-back Red Lion
Review – The Red Lion at Brafield, 6 Bridle Path, Brafield- on-the-Green, NN7 1BP After being recommended a visit to The Red Lion at Brafield by a family of [...]
The Press brings you tomorrow’s chips today
Matt Moore finds he has a taste for a pun… Hot off the press… it’d be a great way to start this review, but instead I’m just namechecking one of the many burgers [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stuffed by saucy steaks at Miller and Carter, Northampton
Penda is old enough to remember when the height of dining sophistication was to go to an Angus Steakhouse. They may have gone on to have a reputation for serving shoe-leather [...]
The Smokepit is still hot
It took a while for us to get to The Smokepit in Northampton, which opened in 2015. The building had been so many things before, including the Blue Plate Diner and briefly [...]