All Entries in the "Food" Category
James Martin headlines Liverpool’s Festival of Food
From strutting his stuff on the Strictly dance floor to becoming the housewives choice on Saturday morning TV, top chef James Martin now has his sights set firmly on Liverpool as he oversees proceedings at this year’s Liverpool Food & Drink Festival. James will be guest celebrity chef at the festival launch day on Sunday [...]
Casting open for Channel 4′s Cookery School!
Red House TV, founded by John Silver, the man behind hit TV series MasterChef Goes Large, Celebrity MasterChef, Grand Designs and Jamie’s Kitchen are looking for people to take part in a new cookery show for Channel 4. Casting has now opened for Cookery School, and they’re accepting applications from passionate amateur cooks from all around the country. [...]
Birmingham Food Fair returns
We might all be on a health-kick here, but we still enjoy our food and thoroughly look forward to any excuse to stuff our faces with loads of tasty treats. So, good news, The Birmingham International Food Fair returns this week and has doubled in size following the huge success of last year’s inaugural event! [...]
Show Us Your (favourite) Kebab!
Now we here at 69 are classy healthy folk, but sadly there are times late on a Saturday night when we let our food morals slip and some hot juicy meat is all we crave. Thankfully food and drink writers Ben McFarland and Tom Sandham are on a mission to find the top kebab house and [...]
Cooking up a storm
If you’re adventurous with your food choices but not hugely accomplished in the kitchen, or even if you’re a dab hand at the Sunday roast but you’d like to expand your repertoire, an Intafood cookery class is a great way to spend a few hours. Based in Manchester, Intafood runs a range of classes that [...]
Liverpool One Serves Up Jamie’s Italian
Jamie Oliver is to open his first ‘Jamie’s Italian’ restaurant in the North West in Liverpool ONE. The 6,251 sq ft restaurant, trading on the ground floor with a mezzanine and situated opposite John Lewis in Paradise Place, will open in June. Offering high quality, authentic Italian food at an affordable price, and critically acclaimed [...]
Win! A Meal For Two- CLOSED
We’d just like to say a big congrats to Chef Dean Crews for reaching the (deep breath) finals of the British Culinary Federation’s national Chef of the Year 2010 competition. Yay! Dean is the main man at some of our favourite hotels – he’s head chef at the Opulence restaurant in The Cathedral Quarter in [...]
Healthy Eating
This is possibly the closest we will get to a public service announcement but it was felt that this information needed to be shared. Apparently too many people are self-diagnosing food allergies and could be restricting their diet unnecessarily, according to a new report that is. Research shows that up to 20 per cent of [...]
Valentine’s Fun
Valentine’s Day comes but once a year. In a time rivalled only by Christmas for tacky decorations, over indulgence and frivolous spending, Sunday 14th February (put that in your diary forgetful spouses) will unite loved up ones around the country for a day of magic and romance. And for the singles amongst you fear not! [...]
69 Saving You Money On Food
It’s not just Nottingham folk that can save money on eating out this January (read about how to save 30% on hotel eating in Nottingham by clicking here.) We here at 69 Towers have been trawling the internet for those special discounts which means you can enjoy tasty treats and keep the pennies in your [...]
Hotel Dining, The New Way To Eat In Style?
Ten of Nottingham’s top hotels have joined together in a three month exclusive Food and Beverage Campaign, to run until 31st March 2010, with the aim of changing Nottingham people’s perception of hotel restaurants and bring hotel dining back into fashion. The campaign, called “Dine in Nottingham”, is spearheaded by Rachel Pressley, Business Development Executive [...]
Lasan Wins ‘The F Word’s Best Local Restaurant’
Birmingham’s Lasan has beaten off competition from 10,000 restaurants to be crowned The F Word’s Best Local Restaurant 2010 as part of Gordon Ramsay’s Channel 4 series. Ramsay’s nationwide search came to a climax last night when Lasan went head-to-head against British restaurant, The Pheasant, to win the prestigious title of Best Local Restaurant. Jewellery [...]
Post Party Season Detox
January (and what feels like never ending snow) is upon us and after the large amounts of alcohol and food over devoured over Christmas I think it’s time for a detox. So here are some hints and tips for a speedy recovery. Eating: Eliminate all processed foods – no fast food or ready meals. Have [...]
Pinky
So you’ve bought that perfect pink bag that matches your snazzy pink shoes, but there’s something missing. Step forward Pinky Vodka. Lovingly crafted by champion wine tasters in Scandinavia and distilled five times from pure glacial water and Swedish winter wheat, Pinky is the first and only vodka to be created especially for women. Encased [...]
Restaurant Review: 1573
There’s something about steak specifically and red meat generally that’s kinda primeval, visceral almost. I think we’re meant to eat it. Cue howls of outrage from all the vegetarians, and those folk who witter on about ‘cutting right down on red meat’, but you walk by any decent burger place (basically, one with plates) and [...]
Plink plink FIZZ
69′s Guide to Christmas Champagne. Emma Bailie bubbles up. Aliens studying the human custom of house parties will observe a guest enter the house and make a ritualistic exchange with the host; we swap our coat for a glass of sparkling alcoholic liquid called Champagne. Then the fun begins… If you’re hosting a party this [...]
The Almanack opens in Highcross
A stunning new gastropub opens in the heart of Leicester. The Almanack, a modern British gastropub, has opened its doors in Highcross, offering great food and drink and a warm welcome. The pub is the eleventh opened by Peach, an award-winning pub company who run ten other great pubs across the West Midlands and down [...]
