Restaurants

The Huntsman, Cheadle: Alan Cookman's restaurant review.

Friday, February 05, 2010

Alan Cookman

visits The Huntsman, Cheadle

ONCE touched the Titanic.

I hope you're impressed because this is not something I divulge at the drop of a hat.

It's reserved for special occasions, like the fact that I once sang on the stage of the...

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My Favourite Recipe: Wendy Bursnell

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Wendy Bursnell loves this recipe for pork steak cooked in port, lime and red onions. The 45-year-old is a library assistant and Cambridge Diet...

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The Wheatsheaf, Stoke: Alan Cookman's restaurant review

Friday, January 29, 2010

IT'S always gratifying when children of the fast food generation show an interest in the cuisine of strange and distant lands, such as Scotland....

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La Dolce Vita, Stone: Alan Cookman's restaurant review

Friday, January 22, 2010

Alan Cookman visits La Dolce Vita, Stone STANDING between me and my dinner was a stretch of pavement menacingly overlaid with an inch of solid ice. ...

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Romazzino, Nantwich: Colette Warbrook restaurant review

Friday, January 15, 2010

AN ITALIAN restaurant in a street called Love Lane – what better recipe for a romantic evening. And as we headed out into the wintry air, my...

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The Varsity, Hanley: Alan Cookman's restaurant review

Friday, December 18, 2009

THEY serve filthy dirty food in the Varsity bar. I know this because it says so on the menu, right next to a snarling cartoon dog with the spiked...

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The Cat At The Townhouse, Leek: Alan Cookman's restaurant review

Friday, December 11, 2009

LIT from within, the bowl-shaped urinals in the gents change colour like traffic lights. Red, blue, green and so on. I wasn't sure if this was the...

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The Swynnerton Arms, Rough Close: Alan Cookman's restaurant review

Friday, December 04, 2009

I WAS told about a restaurant where they'd given up asking a couple of habitually awkward customers if everything was all right with their meals. ...

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The Caldwell Tavern, Talke: Alan Cookman's restaurant review

Friday, November 27, 2009

THE Son & Heir invited me out to lunch to make amends for his zombie act at The Fitz last week. I said he could hardly be blamed for being...

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Fitzherbert Arms, Swynnerton: Alan Cookman restaurant review

Friday, November 20, 2009

THE Fitzherberts, whose ancestral seat is just across the road from the pub, supplied us with the coolest cat we ever had. Victoria wasn't exactly a...

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