The TownHouse bar & restaurant – review

The TownHouse Bristol

The Townhouse Bar & Restaurant, 85 Whiteladies Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 2NT t: 0117 973 9302 e: reservations@thetownhousebristol.co.uk w: thetownhousebristol.co.uk twitter: @TownHouseBris Tucked away on Whiteladies Road is The TownHouse bar and restaurant – previously Picture House East. With a new look and a new menu these guys really are traditional with a twist. They [...]

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Homemade fish in beer batter

Homemade battered fish and chips

Fish and chips – the British classic and the key to its success is all in the batter and the frying. We were lucky enough to get Hugh’s River Cottage Fish Book as a Christmas present – filled with innovative recipes as well as the old classics – like fish and chips. I can safely [...]

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Severn Shed Bristol, tried and tested review

Severn Shed, The Grove, Bristol, BS1 4RB t: 0117 925 1212 w: http://www.severnshedrestaurant.co.uk/ e: info@severnshedrestaurant.co.uk I’ve eaten at Severn Shed, just off Welshback three times now over the past four months – more than enough I think to do a just and fair review. A contemporary bar and restaurant, the left hand side is a [...]

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Bream with crispy pancetta and sweet potato mash

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For me, a Jamie Oliver recipe simply isn’t a Jamie Oliver recipe without a few key ingredients – chilli, garlic lemon or lime (or both!) and a bit of coriander – and this is definitely one of those recipes. I cooked it for the first time a couple of weeks ago but will definitely do [...]

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Haddock in tomato salsa and breadcrumbs

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I think that you know a good recipe when you cook it time and time again – this is certainly one of those! Originally from Jamie’s 30 minute meals, this dish is meant to be “Tasty Crusted Cod” however in the name of sustainability (and cost) when it comes to buying fish we always use [...]

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Corn Street farmers market, Bristol City Centre

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Corn Street farmers market Every Wednesday 9.30am – 2.30pm Walk down Corn Street on a Wednesday and you are absorbed by a hubbub of passionate foodies scrabbling to get to the stalls of the weekly farmers market. There’s a brilliant selection here, two or three of most types of thing but each with their own [...]

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Source Cafe, St Nicks Market – Review

Source Cafe 1-3 Exchange Avenue, St Nicholas Market, Bristol t: 0117 927 2998 w: http://www.source-food.co.uk Previously known as taste, Source cafe is a delicatessens slash cafe on the edge of St Nick’s Market. It boasts hefty wooden tables for a spot of outside inner city dining and promotes its specials on a blackboard to entice [...]

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10 Salads To Get You Through Summer – Warm Tuna and Potato Salad with Pesto Dressing

This salad (originally from BBC GoodFood, but adapted slightly) is a bit of a staple in my house now, as it’s substantial enough to have for tea with some crusty bread, but the leftovers are also ideal for lunch. Add to this the fact that it’s super quick and easy, as well as dirt cheap and [...]

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Swedish Beetroot Pesto

This nifty little recipe is from the Delicious cookbook by Valli Little, and took me completely by surprise. As someone who has always been on the fence about sweet and savoury combos, I would normally have turned my nose up at the orange in this recipe and skipped it altogether, but I’m really glad I [...]

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Quick and easy summer greens

Super quick but amazingly tasty summer greens inspired from the recipe in Jamie’s 30 minute meals. Even my salad dodger boyfriend enjoyed this one – can be eaten hot or cold and goes really well with fish. Ingredients: Broccoli, Asparagus (I also threw in some mange tout which worked amazingly) Soy sauce (I used fish [...]

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