Food and Drink

Hot on the heels of hit BBC food competition The Great British Bake Off, contestants are being sought for a new BBC2 cooking competition looking for Britain’s Best Home Cooks.

A delicious breakfast menu has launched at Stamford’s ASK Italian restaurant and you could be among the first to try it.

An event showcasing the region’s best breads, wines, cheese, beers and other goods attracted hundreds of people to Stamford at the weekend.

The founder of the Rutland Pie Company is celebrating after winning a prize at the Newark and Nottinghamshire County Show.

Producers of breads, wines, cheese, beers, crafts and other goods are being invited to take part in the 2016 Stamford Food and Drink Festival.

Heritage farm attraction Sacrewell has teamed up with The Grainstore Brewery to produce a beer.

Birthplace of “peasant poet” John Clare, Helpston is also on my route of choice to Stamford, on this occasion the Burghley Fine Food Fair, and home of the dreaded railway crossing, which made us a good 10 minutes late for our lunch booking.

Come on down to Burghley this weekend for this year’s first Fine Food Market, taking place on Saturday and Sunday, from 10am to 4pm.

A new ice cream parlour/ dessert place has opened its doors in Stamford, wetting the appetite of those young and old.

This week’s review left me feeling like I had been to a gig and given the headliners a miss to watch the support act instead.

A sixth branch of the award-winning Hambleton Bakery - specialising in artisan bread made with traditional ingredients, and baked using traditional methods -opens next week in Oundle.

Food lovers with a sweet tooth are in for a treat from Saturday when the great-looking new TAMU dessert lounge in Peterborough opens it doors to the public.

It is not the first time I have come away from a very decent Sunday lunch confident I haven’t seen the best of a restaurant.

Come and have a taste of New York at Stamford’s new deli-style sandwich outlet, Bread Meat Cheese.

I have long admired Hambleton Hall - to be fair it is hard not to: stunning location, fabulous country house setting and a restaurant with a Michelin Star chef – what is there not to like?

For those who enjoy going out and about dining locally, the options have certainly improved in the Peterborough area in 2015.

A Bourne-based artisan butchery is celebrating after winning awards for nine of its sausages in the National Sausage Awards.

It has been a busy time for Stamford Deli owner, Kelly Combes as the festive season fast approaches.

It is a great time of year to be eating game - and an even better time to be eating it at the William Cecil in Stamford, where head chef Phil Kent is the recently crowned Game Chef of the Year.

Stamford’s brand new coffee shop, Javawocky is playing host to Pop Out Dining this month, aiming to redfine quality eating in Stamford.