A new addition to our recommended
map, courtesy of our Derbyshire editor, Steph 🙏

📍 The Holly Bush Inn, Holly Bush Lane, Makeney, Belper, Derbyshire, DE56 0RX

Epitomises everything that’s wonderful about traditional British pubs. Full of charm and character.

Chef Dom Clarke is bidding farewell to The Stag & Hounds, Burrough on the Hill, Leics. 😢

Dom & his team's talent earned the pub a Michelin Bib Gourmand. We named them our Pub of the Year 2020/1.

Dom is planning his next move. The pub is awaiting a new licensee & remains open

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📸 Last week, the John’s House Restaurant team received their 2024 Michelin plaque. ⭐️

John's House remains Leicestershire's only Michelin-starred restaurant. What a cracking place it is!

Photo: John's House.

📍 139 Loughborough Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, LE12 7AR

There's no sterner test than the test of time. ⏳

Nottingham food writer Alec Frusher has picked out nine excellent places that have hit the spot for a decade or more.

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Votes are coming in thick and fast in the Great Food Club Awards 2024/25.

If you haven't yet, please vote here.

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Pre-football father & son brunch at The Knight & Garter last Saturday. 😍

The Knight is an excellent weekend breakfast option in Leicester. One of very few places to serve white pudding with its Full English.

📍 14 Hotel St, Leicester, LE1 5AW

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What a book 💥

Well done to all the places recognised in the Great Food Club Awards 2023/24! LeicestershireLive Matt Wright
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holiday packing.

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#summer12 🍻

The Sun Inn, Great Easton near Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

The menu changes daily with locally sourced produce and meat from the owners' own farm.

Here's another good excuse to visit – half-priced wood-fired pizzas every Wed, Thu, and Fri lunchtime.

Hitchen's Barn in Oakham has made it into the Good Food Guide's list of Britain's 100 Best Local Restaurants! 👏

Hitchen's Barn was also Great Food Club's Restaurant of the Year 20/21. Pics are from my most recent meal at HB.

Top place!

Recognise this, Stratford Haven? Illustrator Paul has been having some fun!

#pubs

Good Food Guide names Rutland restaurant as one of the 100 best in Britain LeicestershireLive #Rutland #GoodFoodGuide
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Alp Blossom – a new cheese at The Cheese Shop in Nottingham.

From the Allgau region of Bavaria, Germany, made from the milk of the Brown Swiss cow. The rind is coated with flowers and herbs including cornflower, marigold, rose and lavender.

See you in a bit!

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