Tag: food wine matching

A Burns Night Supper (with a twist): lamb, pearl barley and haggis hot-pot

You don’t have to make your own haggis to cook up a feast fit for Rabbie this Burns Night, says our chef Stewart Turner. His riff on the classic neeps and tatties dish is simple, substantial and very, very tasty. This is my take on a Burns Night supper dish: a hearty lamb and pearl […]

Bank Holiday BBQs

The Whitsun bank holiday at the end of May is almost here and the whole of Britain is hoping for good weather, but even if the recent spate of sunny days comes to an end, hundreds of men (and women!) up and down the country will be braving the elements and dusting off the barbecues […]

Fine wine at reasonable prices in restaurants? Well I never……

The UK restaurant scene has changed beyond all recognition in the last 5 years. The boom years of the early and mid noughties has been replaced by more stringent times. Faced with the harsh realities of a global economic down turn, weak stirling and rapidly rising food prices restaurateurs in the UK have had to […]

How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?

 …Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician (1890–1970). Thankfully the recent French Wine & French Cheese evening in our Pickering Cellar didn’t quite aim to cover all of the above, but we did get through quite a few…Here at Berrys we have been hosting wine & cheese events with our neighbours Paxton & Whitfield for many years, […]