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I love trains. Not in the notepad, rucksack, end-of-platformclicking-camera sort of way, but the concept of the golden age of trains – Brief Encounter style, with well-maintained stations and attentive, smart, uniformed, platform staff helping with luggage and directing confused travellers towards trains which arrive, and leave, on time. Some of my most memorable travels [...]

The renowned ‘Harden’s Brother’s’ who edit the annual ‘Gastro-Emmies’ have this week announced that the regions restaurants fair well, but not as well as they could! Top Gourmands are ‘home-grown’ Chris and Judy Bradley, proprietors of the much loved Mr Underhills of Ludlow. This unassuming team, have presided over the river-side restaurant the last 30 [...]

Jean Christophe Novelli, Louis Barnett of Chokolit, and James Day of Gourmet-life Dining Club Celebrity Chef Praises Local ProducersLast night Celebrity Chef Jean Christophe Novelli praised the regions producers, and thanked them for his generous gift presented to him by fellow foodie James Day of Midlands Dining Club Gourmet Life, and producer Louis Barnett of [...]

The regions producers rallied round at this weekend’s food shows to donate their finest products towards a hamper created as a gift for Celebrity chef Jean Christophe Novelli, to be presented to him later today. The ‘Taste of Shropshire and the Marches’ hamper will be presented later today by Midlands foodie James Day of Gourmet [...]

Last night saw the star studded launch of Louis Barnett’s chocolate Week Celebrations hosted by the Mint Leaf Restaurant at Haymarket, London.

This morning saw an early start for young Chocolatier Louis Barnett f Shropshire based ‘chokolit’. Louis is Celebrating National Chocolate Week (12th-18th October)  by creating his ‘chokolit Tasting Menu’ in association with Michelin accredited ‘Mint Leaf‘ restaurants in London. The early 8.30 train from RAF Cosford was Louis first call – service provided with complements [...]

Regional  ‘celebrity’ Will Holland, Michelin Starred chef of Ludlow’s La Becasse, is set to become ‘National Celebrity’ tomorrow during his appearance on James Martin’s BBC show ‘Saturday Kitchen’. Will who won his first Michelin star earlier this year, who at the age of 29 is only one of 5 UK chef’s to hold this coveted [...]

Voted as one of the UK’s most influential food writers and bloggers, our favourite gourmand is Simon Majumdar. Half Welsh and half Bengali, Simon is an avid, and positively prolific blogger, writer, publisher and broadcaster – not to mention world traveller for his recent book ‘Eat my Globe’ which documents his recent tour of the [...]