Restaurants Archive

  • We weren't expecting too much it has to be said but it was actually one of the nicest Indian meals we've had in a long time.

    Restaurant review: Mumbai, Stainforth

    Posted on October 22, 2012 | No Comments
    We weren't expecting too much it has to be said but it was actually one of the nicest Indian meals we've had in a long time.

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  • A weekend camping sojourn with the kids to the foot of the Wolds near Pocklington led our rumbling tums to this quaint village pub in the wonderfully-named Fangfoss.

    Restaurant review: The Carpenters Arms, Fangfoss

    Posted on August 20, 2012 | No Comments
    A weekend camping sojourn with the kids to the foot of the Wolds near Pocklington led our rumbling tums to this quaint village pub in the wonderfully-named Fangfoss.

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  • We’re not used to all-you-can-eat buffets here in good old blighty. Well, up north at any rate. Sure we get the odd Chinese or Indian buffet dotted around and Pizza Hut do an all-you-can-eat lunch but they’re all quite specialised. Taybarns therefore are aiming at a distinct market niche that feels like a direct import from the US.

    Restaurant review: Taybarns, Barnsley

    Posted on August 1, 2012 | No Comments
    We’re not used to all-you-can-eat buffets here in good old blighty. Well, up north at any rate. Sure we get the odd Chinese or Indian buffet dotted around and Pizza Hut do an all-you-can-eat lunch but they’re all quite specialised. Taybarns therefore are aiming at a distinct market niche that feels like a direct import from the US.

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  • Don't they say that Yorkshire folk are the most welcoming in the World? If that's the case, someone ought to tell the Landlord of the Old Moor in Broomhill near Barnsley.

    Restaurant review: The Old Moor Tavern, Broomhill

    Posted on March 20, 2012 | 4 Comments
    Don't they say that Yorkshire folk are the most welcoming in the World? If that's the case, someone ought to tell the Landlord of the Old Moor in Broomhill near Barnsley.

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  • Threading through this cosmopolitan, free-spirited city are a maze of cobbled streets and closeted buildings and with it, an endless array of culinary and other delights waiting to be discovered. Look deeply enough and you'll find El Piano, located on Grape Lane, one of the oldest quarters in town still standing.

    Restaurant review: El Piano, York

    Posted on March 20, 2012 | No Comments
    Threading through this cosmopolitan, free-spirited city are a maze of cobbled streets and closeted buildings and with it, an endless array of culinary and other delights waiting to be discovered. Look deeply enough and you'll find El Piano, located on Grape Lane, one of the oldest quarters in town still standing.

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  • I wanted to hate Nando's, I really did. I don't know why either and I can only put it down to an irrepresible yet irrational urge to dislike anything that's remotely corporate, uniform and homogenous.

    Restaurant review: Nando’s, Sheffield

    Posted on February 21, 2012 | No Comments
    I wanted to hate Nando's, I really did. I don't know why either and I can only put it down to an irrepresible yet irrational urge to dislike anything that's remotely corporate, uniform and homogenous.

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  • Taking advantage of a fleeting pre-theatre meal at Relish was our first visit to this modern, funky eatery on East Laith Gate in Doncaster.

    Restaurant review: Relish, Doncaster

    Posted on September 29, 2011 | No Comments
    Taking advantage of a fleeting pre-theatre meal at Relish was our first visit to this modern, funky eatery on East Laith Gate in Doncaster.

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  • You've got to love Jamie Oliver, he's built himself a pretty good brand name and whether it's his accessible books, TV shows or funky tableware, there's a certain 'quality' to whatever he does.

    Restaurant review: Jamie’s Italian, Covent Garden

    Posted on September 27, 2011 | No Comments
    You've got to love Jamie Oliver, he's built himself a pretty good brand name and whether it's his accessible books, TV shows or funky tableware, there's a certain 'quality' to whatever he does.

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  • Nether Hall Road is Doncaster's equivalent to Chinatown in London, albeit on a much smaller scale. A high concentration of restaurants and eateries are bunched together in a small area so it takes some doing to stand out from the crowd, so to speak. Luckily, Turkuaz has a lot going for it and despite all the nearby competitors, it's actually Zest, that thoroughly-modern Mediterranean diner located several streets away that perhaps draws the more obvious comparisons.

    Restaurant review: Turkuaz, Doncaster

    Posted on August 17, 2011 | No Comments
    Nether Hall Road is Doncaster's equivalent to Chinatown in London, albeit on a much smaller scale. A high concentration of restaurants and eateries are bunched together in a small area so it takes some doing to stand out from the crowd, so to speak. Luckily, Turkuaz has a lot going for it and despite all the nearby competitors, it's actually Zest, that thoroughly-modern Mediterranean diner located several streets away that perhaps draws the more obvious comparisons.

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  • The menu (and decor) is a reflection of the changing nature of modern Indian cuisine. No doubt the influence of Atul Kochhar and his contemporaries is spreading and that's got to be a good thing. Not only that, there was no single dish over £10.00. Even better. While these kinds of up-market curry-houses are cropping up all over London and surrounding areas, here in the North of England, they are less common so in the spirit of Carling lager, it makes a refreshing change. Even the much-lauded Aagrah chain will have to sit up and take notice here.

    Restaurant review: Thaal, Darfield

    Posted on August 1, 2011 | No Comments
    The menu (and decor) is a reflection of the changing nature of modern Indian cuisine. No doubt the influence of Atul Kochhar and his contemporaries is spreading and that's got to be a good thing. Not only that, there was no single dish over £10.00. Even better. While these kinds of up-market curry-houses are cropping up all over London and surrounding areas, here in the North of England, they are less common so in the spirit of Carling lager, it makes a refreshing change. Even the much-lauded Aagrah chain will have to sit up and take notice here.

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  • Travelling round the suburbs surrounding Doncaster doesn't exactly fill one with confidence when it comes to finding a salubrious dining establishment. An endless supply of fried chicken huts and kebab shops cater for the burgeoning waste-line but fine dining is notable by its absence. There's the odd exception, sure, but they seem to be getting harder and harder to find.

    Restaurant review: Trattoria Toscana, Doncaster

    Posted on June 27, 2011 | No Comments
    Travelling round the suburbs surrounding Doncaster doesn't exactly fill one with confidence when it comes to finding a salubrious dining establishment. An endless supply of fried chicken huts and kebab shops cater for the burgeoning waste-line but fine dining is notable by its absence. There's the odd exception, sure, but they seem to be getting harder and harder to find.

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  • The modern-looking building is situated at the far end of a public car-park serving the boating lake area of Cleethorpes, near the Meridian Way. Be careful, as there's a little confusion as to where to park. It has its own free-for-customers car-park to one side, NOT the large pay-and-display right in front. On an evening, this wouldn't be so much of a problem but during the day when squalls of parking attendants roam in packs like rabid hunting dogs, make sure you're in the right place or you'll come back to find the carcass of your car stripped of all its meat.

    Restaurant review: Oriental Express, Cleethorpes

    Posted on June 27, 2011 | No Comments
    The modern-looking building is situated at the far end of a public car-park serving the boating lake area of Cleethorpes, near the Meridian Way. Be careful, as there's a little confusion as to where to park. It has its own free-for-customers car-park to one side, NOT the large pay-and-display right in front. On an evening, this wouldn't be so much of a problem but during the day when squalls of parking attendants roam in packs like rabid hunting dogs, make sure you're in the right place or you'll come back to find the carcass of your car stripped of all its meat.

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  • The Wellow is a restaurant, bar and hotel (of all things) situated towards the south of Cleethorpes, alongside the main thoroughfare of Kings Road. The building itself is so ugly, the doctor slapped its mother but inside it's all rather swish with lots of chrome and hefty wooden tables. This is a review of the restaurant.

    Restaurant review: The Wellow, Cleethorpes

    Posted on June 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
    The Wellow is a restaurant, bar and hotel (of all things) situated towards the south of Cleethorpes, alongside the main thoroughfare of Kings Road. The building itself is so ugly, the doctor slapped its mother but inside it's all rather swish with lots of chrome and hefty wooden tables. This is a review of the restaurant.

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  • Chain-pubs have a lot to answer for when it comes to the food they serve. Facilitating a bastardisation of locally-sourced, home-cooked food, they're responsible for a dumbing-down of regional cuisine in the pursuit of profits. Of course, this isn't the sole domain of chain-pubs as the same charges can be levelled at any restaurant chain offering a national 'menu' but they do seem to provoke the ire of the more savvy diner. The Cheswold pub and family restaurant in Doncaster is seemingly the perfect embodiment of this sanitized and languid approach, being part of the Brewers Fayre chain, it is the Berni Inn of the Noughties.

    Restaurant review: The Cheswold, Doncaster

    Posted on June 2, 2011 | No Comments
    Chain-pubs have a lot to answer for when it comes to the food they serve. Facilitating a bastardisation of locally-sourced, home-cooked food, they're responsible for a dumbing-down of regional cuisine in the pursuit of profits. Of course, this isn't the sole domain of chain-pubs as the same charges can be levelled at any restaurant chain offering a national 'menu' but they do seem to provoke the ire of the more savvy diner. The Cheswold pub and family restaurant in Doncaster is seemingly the perfect embodiment of this sanitized and languid approach, being part of the Brewers Fayre chain, it is the Berni Inn of the Noughties.

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  • The Royal Electric Theatre on Bank Street in Mexborough is none of those things. It's not a theatre (but used to be), the electric part probably refers to the newness of the theatre when it was built (but isn't any more) and I doubt Wills and Kate will be spotted here, lunging out of the glass-fronted double doors at 3 in the morning, drunk and very much worse for the wear, snapped by hordes of paparazzi as the regal duo clamber into a waiting limo in a state of inebriousness.

    Restaurant review: Royal Electric Theatre, Mexborough

    Posted on May 2, 2011 | No Comments
    The Royal Electric Theatre on Bank Street in Mexborough is none of those things. It's not a theatre (but used to be), the electric part probably refers to the newness of the theatre when it was built (but isn't any more) and I doubt Wills and Kate will be spotted here, lunging out of the glass-fronted double doors at 3 in the morning, drunk and very much worse for the wear, snapped by hordes of paparazzi as the regal duo clamber into a waiting limo in a state of inebriousness.

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  • Reeds Fine Dining was originally a private enterprise, occupying the lobby of the Pastures Hotel in Mexborough. As these things do, the hotel and restaurant was taken over by Best Western and now comes under that banner. The name remains however, and Reeds Fine Dining sets itself a high standard by virtue of its nomenclature. I'm a bit suspicious of anything self-proclaimed. Surely it's up to the customers to decide if Reeds offers fine dining?

    Restaurant review: Reeds Fine Dining, Mexborough

    Posted on April 17, 2011 | No Comments
    Reeds Fine Dining was originally a private enterprise, occupying the lobby of the Pastures Hotel in Mexborough. As these things do, the hotel and restaurant was taken over by Best Western and now comes under that banner. The name remains however, and Reeds Fine Dining sets itself a high standard by virtue of its nomenclature. I'm a bit suspicious of anything self-proclaimed. Surely it's up to the customers to decide if Reeds offers fine dining?

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  • Doncaster is renowned as a bit of a party town it has to be said. It has more pubs per square inch than a collapsed neutron star has molecules. 'Party Town' is also another way of saying it's an absolute hole, a dive, a den of iniquity or a cess-pit of lost souls where the tanked-up brethren are condemning themselves to the very bowels of Beezlebub. I think it's just a bit shabby, but there you go.

    Restaurant review: Zest Bar and Grill

    Posted on April 15, 2011 | No Comments
    Doncaster is renowned as a bit of a party town it has to be said. It has more pubs per square inch than a collapsed neutron star has molecules. 'Party Town' is also another way of saying it's an absolute hole, a dive, a den of iniquity or a cess-pit of lost souls where the tanked-up brethren are condemning themselves to the very bowels of Beezlebub. I think it's just a bit shabby, but there you go.

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  • The Staithes pub and restaurant in Wath-upon-Dearne was once the darling of the local restaurant scene, building up a reasonable reputation as a decent steak house. Those shining times have diminished somewhat and The Staithes was very nearly turned into a footnote. It didn't help that the old owners sold out to a brewery who proceeded to kill the venue with their own brand of 'sizzlin' steaks'. It got so bad, even the brewery had had enough and they palmed it off onto the current owners, obviously rubbing their hands with glee at the turkey they had just got rid of.

    Restaurant review: The Staithes, Rotherham

    Posted on February 23, 2011 | No Comments
    The Staithes pub and restaurant in Wath-upon-Dearne was once the darling of the local restaurant scene, building up a reasonable reputation as a decent steak house. Those shining times have diminished somewhat and The Staithes was very nearly turned into a footnote. It didn't help that the old owners sold out to a brewery who proceeded to kill the venue with their own brand of 'sizzlin' steaks'. It got so bad, even the brewery had had enough and they palmed it off onto the current owners, obviously rubbing their hands with glee at the turkey they had just got rid of.

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  • It’s not often I get into the nations capital, in fact it was about ten years ago since the last time, so I was really looking forward to some eclecticism...

    Restaurant Review: Pierre Loti, London

    Posted on December 6, 2010 | No Comments
    It’s not often I get into the nations capital, in fact it was about ten years ago since the last time, so I was really looking forward to some eclecticism...

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  • Crikey, we had a real craving for a nice Sunday roast dinner and while on an outing to deepest, darkest Derbyshire, the Bull I’th’ Thorn on the A515 from Buxton...

    Restaurant Review: Bull i’th Thorn, Buxton

    Posted on November 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Crikey, we had a real craving for a nice Sunday roast dinner and while on an outing to deepest, darkest Derbyshire, the Bull I’th’ Thorn on the A515 from Buxton...

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