Yes, I do talk about Il Botanico quite a lot, so you can imagine how thrilled I was to have the chance to meet one of the owners and learn more about the café! Not only did I get to experience making my current favourite thick hot chocolate, I also got a mini cannoli & bombolone workshop which was the perfect way to spend my Saturday morning! Seeing the hot chocolate … [Read more...]
Review: Blush St. Bakery
Blush St. Bakery is run by four lovely sisters who are based in West Oxfordshire. They bake an array of decadent treats that, let’s face it, we're all in need of every now and then (or every day with how good these ones were!) Their assorted cookie box consisted of milk chocolate, white chocolate, 100% cocoa, and red velvet cookies. These cookies were beautifully … [Read more...]
News: The Killy scoops Oxford’s leading gastropub award
As a roving writer on the country fine dining scene in and around Oxford, The Killingworth Castle in Wootton near Woodstock has been a consistent favourite of mine for the last two years. Finally "The Killy" has been rightly recognised on the biggest stage of all for the UK gastropub world. The Killingworth Castle has this week just been named the top pub in Oxfordshire .... … [Read more...]
Interview: Halima the baker
A Galaxy cookie crumble cookie and a Ferrero Rocher bun? Yes, please! After discovering Halima at the Headington market a few months ago, I had the pleasure of speaking to her one on one to find out more about the business and her passion for baking. Halima set up the business in 2017 and began baking around 2014. She bakes all sorts of delicious sweet treats including … [Read more...]
Behind the Scenes at: Lula’s Ethiopian & Eritrean
When did Lula’s first open? The restaurant opened in October 2021, but we’d been doing catering at the Gloucester Green market and other places for over three years before that. Lots of our customers at the market always said it would be lovely to have a place where they could sit down to enjoy the food instead of having it as takeaway or delivery. And thanks to Oxford … [Read more...]
