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Bar & Restaurant in Nottinghamshire

Bar Iberico

Bar Iberico is a Nottingham gem in the heart of Hockley. This award-winning all-day tapas bar offers a stellar Spanish menu and excellent service…
Bar & Restaurant in Nottinghamshire

Restaurant Six at Trent Bridge

Restaurant Six at Trent Bridge offers a view of Nottingham like no other, with cocktails, service and fine dining to match…
Pub in Leicestershire

King Richard III

The King Richard III in Leicester city centre is an intimate city-centre pub and chophouse. The menu will appeal to enthusiastic carnivores…
Restaurant in Cambridgeshire

The Old Fire Engine House

The Old Fire Engine House in Ely is a special restaurant (and art gallery). It’s charming, eccentric, unique and insulated from fads and trends…
Restaurant & Street food in Leicestershire

Kuru Kuru Sushi

Kuru Kuru in Leicester has been producing some of the best Japanese food in the city since 2014 – especially its sushi and sashimi…
Deli/cafe in Leicestershire

Leicester Coffee House Co.

After four years running a home-based roastery as their side hustle, Gail Brown and Aaron Keen opened this stylish coffee house with a difference…
Deli/cafe in Yorkshire

Tiled Hall Café

The Tiled Hall Café in Leeds is handy for art-lovers, but frankly, you’d walk halfway across the city to have a cake in surroundings like these…
Bar & Deli/cafe & Restaurant in London

Cheese at Leadenhall Market

You’ll find ‘Cheese’ in Leadenhall Market in the City of London – a fantastic restaurant, cheese shop & bar in a beautiful covered Victorian market…
Producer & Wine, beer, cider, spirits in Lincolnshire

Ovens Farm Vineyard

Ovens Farm Vineyard is a wonderful vineyard in the Lincolnshire Wolds. The vines grow in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on a south-facing slope…
Restaurant in London

Ognisko Restaurant at The Polish Hearth Club

Ognisko Restaurant at the Polish Hearth Club in South Kensington offers Polish food in style in the grand surroundings of a Victorian townhouse…
Pub in Beds, Bucks & Herts

The Robin Hood at Clifton Reynes

A consortium of 46 members of the local community bought The Robin Hood at Clifton Reynes near Olney in 2017, and they have turned it into a gem…
Bakery in Leicestershire

The Tiny Bakery

The Tiny Bakery on Leicester’s Clarendon Park Road sells artisan pastries, bread, cakes and coffee. Simply a lovely independent shop…
Fishmonger & Restaurant in Suffolk

Sole Bay Fish Co

Sole Bay Fish Co in Southwold is a treat. A wooden shack from the outside, once inside you’re faced with a wet-fish counter and a buzzing restaurant…
Wine, beer, cider, spirits in Nottinghamshire

Mr & Mrs Fine Wine

Mr & Mrs Fine Wine – also known as The Wine Bank – in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, was named Independent Wine Retailer of the Year in the IWSC Awards…
Pub in Cambridgeshire

The Crown Inn at Broughton

The Crown is a charming Grade II-listed pub in the attractive Cambridgeshire village of Broughton near Huntingdon…
Wine, beer, cider, spirits in Beds, Bucks & Herts

Woburn Wine Cellar

Woburn Wine Cellar is a family-run wine retailer with bags of knowledge and experience. It focuses on artisan wines produced by family-owned wineries…
Pub in Lincolnshire

Hope & Anchor at South Ferriby

The Hope & Anchor at South Ferriby was recommended to us by two-time GFC Producer of the Year, Jane Tomlinson of Redhill Farm…
Butcher & Producer in Leicestershire

Melton Charcuterie

Melton Charcuterie is an artisan farm-to-fork producer in Melton Mowbray producing Coppa, Guanciale, Salami, Pastrami and Pancetta…
Bakery in Nottinghamshire

Bake Off & Pie Wholesale Bakery

Bake Off & Pie of Nottingham is a small wholesale craft bakery. It supplies around 30 businesses around Nottingham with freshly baked goods each day…
Pub in Lincolnshire

The King’s Head of Stamford

The King’s Head of Stamford is a small, charming, friendly pub. It’s neat and well-cared-for, offering simple but good pub food…
Street food in Manchester

Northern Soul Grilled Cheese

Northern Soul Grilled Cheese provides Manchester’s ultimate comfort food. At the heart of every sandwich is its signature three-cheese blend, ‘The Soul’…
Deli/cafe in Derbyshire

Rose Cottage Café in Castleton

Rose Cottage Cafe in Castleton is a charming tea room in a building dating back to at least the 15th century. To the rear is a beautiful hidden garden…
Deli/cafe in Leicestershire

Petite Chouette

Petite Chouette in Hinckley brings a little bit of France to west Leicestershire, offering simple French classics prepared well…
Restaurant in Suffolk

Pea Porridge

Pea Porridge in Bury St Edmunds is a restaurant where sustainability and nose-to-tail cooking play a big role. So does the “Bertha” indoor charcoal oven…
Producer in Lincolnshire

Hay Hampers

Hay Hampers of Lincolnshire curates high-quality gourmet foods and drinks from smaller producers and packs them into beautiful, unique hampers…
Caterer & Restaurant in Rutland

Knife, Fork and Spooner

Knife, Fork and Spooner is a relaxed and stylish supper club (and caterer) in Ketton, Rutland. Expect innovative, creative food…
Deli/cafe in Derbyshire

Edensor Tea Cottage

Edensor Tea Cottage is a charming café serving delicious breakfasts, lunches and cakes. It has a sublime setting on the Chatsworth Estate…
Deli/cafe & Fishmonger & Restaurant in Yorkshire

Clam & Cork

Clam & Cork is a wonderful fish stall at Doncaster Market. Arrive early and fight for a stool so you can see the chefs lovingly preparing your meal…
Pub in Nottinghamshire

The Red Lion at Thurgarton

The Red Lion at Thurgarton in Nottinghamshire, three miles from Southwell, had been closed for two years until the community clubbed together to buy it…
Bar & Pub in Lincolnshire

The Copper Room

The Copper Room in Stamford is a small, cosy, sociable, high-class drinking den that serves a carefully chosen array of distinguished drinks and snacks…