What is it ? – A very laid back 500 year old country house hotel a short drive from the Border city of Carlisle. The Michelin starred Restaurant `Cedar tree` is the hotel Restaurant. What`s Cooking ? – Classical modernised French with Indian influences , stunning cooking techniques using Cumbrian sourced produce where possible and meticulous attention…
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LENCLUME – What`s the best Camera for the Geeky food blogger.
If i were to hazard a guess I think you`ll all know pretty well by now that i`m quite a big fan of Chef Simon Rogan and his Lenclume restaurant in the Cumbrian village of Cartmel. I suppose i can even manage to call it my “local” seeing as though it`s only an hours drive…
Rampsbeck Country house – Ullswater.
The problem that i always encounter when dining out is that basically i`m a total creature of habit. I always seem to go for the places i`ve been to before and where i know i`m going to get well taken care of…..hence all of my repeat visits to the same places. On this occasion it…
Brett Grahams Autumn Game and Truffle feast at The Ledbury – London
It was to be our last foodie trip to London for 2011 and we`d planned to squeeze in two lunches and two dinners on this visit , Friday dinner at The Ledbury , Saturday lunch at The Savoy , Saturday dinner at Marcus Wareing in The Berkeley and finally classic Sunday lunch at The Ritz.I had a…
LENCLUME – An Autumn lunch by Simon Rogan.
Another great year for Simon Rogan and Lenclume in Cartmel Cumbria.The team seem to be going from strength to strength by the week lately. Their newly opened Roganic in Marylebone, London headed up by Ben Spalding has been receiving rave reviews from both critics and diners alike.My meal on opening day was fantastic ( click here to view…
Gilpin Lodge – A Country house Sunday lunch in the English Lake District.
According to my Sat Nav the journey through the lakes from Whitehaven to Windermere should have only taken me just over an hour, but thanks to the assortment of various `sunday` and `pointing at mountain` 20 mph road users it took me almost 2 head banging hours to reach my destination.The wonderful Gilpin Lodge country…
The Good Food Guide celebration dinner.
The Good food guide celebration dinner with Simon Rogan and Jason Atherton at Lenclume , Cartmel. Opportunities like this don`t tend to crop up every week up here in Sunny Cumbria, so as soon as this special Good food guide celebration dinner came up on my radar i grabbed the chance to sample what two of the…
L`enclume – Michelin Star food on my doorstep
“A gastro-laboratory in the middle of nowhere that redefines the notion of food? Is this yet another paean to Ferran Adrià’s El Bulli in northeastern Spain? Actually, no. This is a paean to Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume in the village of Cartmel at the southern end of England’s Lake District. When El Bulli closes for two…
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