"house won the CAMRA award for West Dorset pub of the year. The Bottle Inn hosts the annual World Nettle Eating Championships as part of a charity beer festival. Competitors are served long stalks of stinging nettles from which they pluck and eat the leaves. After an hour the bare stalks are measured and the winner is the competitor with the greatest accumulated length of nettles. The contest began in the late 1980s when two farmers argued over who had the longest stinging nettles in their field and evolved into the World Nettle Eating Championships when one of the farmers"
"beauties. The Bottle Inn The Bottle Inn is a 16th-century public house at Marshwood in Dorset, England which hosts the World Nettle Eating Championship. The building started life in 1585 as an ale house, being close to a church where people came to pay their tithes. It was named The Bottle Inn, some time late in the 18th century, when it became the first inn in the area to sell bottled beers. The Bottle Inn was purchased as a free house (not tied to any one brewery) in 1982 from Ushers Brewery by Michael and Pauline Brookes. In 2014, the"
"The Bottle Inn The Bottle Inn is a 16th-century public house at Marshwood in Dorset, England which hosts the World Nettle Eating Championship. The building started life in 1585 as an ale house, being close to a church where people came to pay their tithes. It was named The Bottle Inn, some time late in the 18th century, when it became the first inn in the area to sell bottled beers. The Bottle Inn was purchased as a free house (not tied to any one brewery) in 1982 from Ushers Brewery by Michael and Pauline Brookes. In 2014, the public"
"Marshwood is home to the world stinging nettle eating championships. It is also the 2016 Regional (Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire & the Channel Islands) CAMRA winner for its range & quality of ciders & ales. Marshwood Marshwood is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the northern edge of the Marshwood Vale approximately northeast of Lyme Regis. Dorset County Council estimate that the parish had a population of 310 in 2013. Figures published from the 2011 census are for Marshwood parish combined with the small neighbouring parish of Bettiscombe: the combined population was 346. The village school"
"Sunday in May. The festival also includes such events as a knob and spoon race, knob darts, knob painting and guess the weight of the knob. Dorset Blue Vinney is a hard, crumbly cheese with a strong taste and smell. It is made with unpasturised, skimmed milk. Historically the cream was removed to make butter which was highly regarded in London and carried a premium price. William Barnes asks for Blue Vinney cheese in his poem, 'Praise O' Do'set'. Since 1986 an annual nettle eating competition has been held in the village of Marshwood. It attracts nettle eaters from across"
"recounts that this is why thereafter the inn became known as the ""Shave Cross Inn"", after the shaved heads of its pious guests. The village which shares its name with the vale, Marshwood, stands on the line of hills to the north, and from the churchyard the whole vale can be viewed to the south, with the coastal hills and the English Channel beyond. Marshwood Vale The Marshwood Vale (or Vale of Marshwood) is a low-lying, bowl-shaped valley of Lower Lias clay, in the western tip of the county of Dorset in south-west England. It lies to the north of"
"and was preserved in the isolated Blackmore Vale until the arrival of the railways when the customs and language of London arrived. The rural dialect is still spoken in some villages and is kept alive in the poems of William Barnes and Robert Young. The Dorset Knob is a hard, dry, savoury biscuit peculiar to the county. They are typically eaten with cheese such as Dorset Blue Vinney and are said to have been a favourite food of local author Thomas Hardy. A Dorset Knob throwing competition is held in the Dorset village of Cattistock every year on the first"
"Tit"" from the Marshwood Vale. In ""Slow Dorset"", Alexandra Richards comments that the inn is known for its food and range of local beers, as well as being very dog-friendly. The inn was recommended by Lesley Gillilan, writing in ""The Guardian"" in 2013, as worthy of investigation for its cider alone. In 2014, the inn was recognised by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) as their ""Cider Pub of the Year"". CAMRA said, ""Their commitment to real cider and perry is second to none and the quality of drinks they have in the pub at any one time is truly"
"French Horn, Sonning Eye The French Horn at Sonning is a luxury hotel and restaurant on the banks of the River Thames next to the Sonning Backwater Bridges, at Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire, England. The speciality of the restaurant is duck, roasted on a spit in front of the fire, and the extensive wine list is one of the most acclaimed in Britain with exceptional vintages of 1st Growth Claret. The restaurant has a panoramic view of the gardens and river Thames beyond. The riverside trees are floodlit at night. It is possible for diners and other visitors to moor on"
"Marshwood Marshwood is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the northern edge of the Marshwood Vale approximately northeast of Lyme Regis. Dorset County Council estimate that the parish had a population of 310 in 2013. Figures published from the 2011 census are for Marshwood parish combined with the small neighbouring parish of Bettiscombe: the combined population was 346. The village school was opened in 1842 and covers the catchment areas of Marshwood, Pilsdon, Bettiscombe, and Blackdown Ward of Broadwindsor. Secondary education is provided at Woodroffe School, Lyme Regis. The Bottle Inn on the outskirts of"
"Berkshire bank over the main historic Sonning Bridge is another riverside hotel and restaurant, the Great House at Sonning. French Horn, Sonning Eye The French Horn at Sonning is a luxury hotel and restaurant on the banks of the River Thames next to the Sonning Backwater Bridges, at Sonning Eye, Oxfordshire, England. The speciality of the restaurant is duck, roasted on a spit in front of the fire, and the extensive wine list is one of the most acclaimed in Britain with exceptional vintages of 1st Growth Claret. The restaurant has a panoramic view of the gardens and river Thames"
"entered the popular lexicon with nicknames such as ""Wreck the Hoose Juice"", ""Commotion Lotion"", ""Cumbernauld Rocket Fuel"", ""Mrs. Brown"", ""Buckie Baracas"", ""Coatbridge Table Wine"", and a bottle of ""what the hell are you looking at?"" It has also earned the unofficial slogan, ""Buckfast: gets you fucked fast"". The drink's prominence within the ""Buckfast/Buckie Triangle"" – an area east of Glasgow between Airdrie, Coatbridge and Cumbernauld – has raised concern. In addition, the glass bottle has been blamed for contributing to litter and providing drunkards with a weapon. Several Scottish politicians and social activists have singled out Buckfast Tonic Wine as"
"of the period, known for his Martini, Manhattan and White Lady cocktails. Craddock invented the ""Dorchester of London"" cocktail here in the 1930s. The bar was refurbished in 1979. It was designed by Alberto Pinto with bleached wood, Provençale blue and white ceramic picture panels, and a mirrored ceiling. As of 2012, the bar is curved and is furnished with rich ""blacks, browns and aubergine – combined with lacquered mahogany, mirrored glass and velvet"". In the evenings, jazz is played in the bar. As of 2002, the Dorchester had 460 different wines in stock. A plane tree, with its monumental"
"Richmond Design Group. Today The Dorchester has five restaurants: ""The Grill"", ""Alain Ducasse"", ""The Spatisserie"", ""The Promenade"", and ""China Tang"". Alain Ducasse's restaurant is one of the UK's four 3-Michelin-starred restaurants. Afternoon tea, a tradition which has taken place at the hotel since its opening in 1931, is served every day of the week at five in the afternoon in ""The Promenade"" and the ""Spatisserie"". Harry Craddock, a well-known barman in the 1930s, invented the ""Dorchester of London"" cocktail here at the Dorchester Bar. A well-lit plane tree stands at the edge of the hotel in the front garden, and"
"the duration of shooting. Oliver Cromwell’s pewter dinner service was reputedly exchanged on the way to the Battle of Worcester and this is on display at the pub. Even if this account is not true, it is an example of 17th century Jacobean English Pewter ware. Although of earlier, medieval origin, the gabled manor house, listed Grade II, was originally built in the 12th century but was rebuilt of local stone in 1105 and substantially remodelled in 1177 by the long-standing Ashwin family. It also has a secret priest-hole in the library. Popular legend describes the panelling in the hall"
"and crockery, with Corinthian columns made of marble, glittering chandeliers, French tapestries and potted plants in the background. Tea is served by waiters dressed in English-style long coats. Hollywood actor Charlton Heston, a frequent guest at the hotel, once commented on the aspect of service at the hotel: “The cooks and bakers, the clerks and porters, the maids and the flower ladies, the bell men ""are"" the hotel”. The choice of tea offered to the guests is diverse, and includes the hotel's own Dorchester Blend. The service includes a first course consisting of finger sandwiches with sliced cucumber, cream cheese,"
"Marshwood Vale The Marshwood Vale (or Vale of Marshwood) is a low-lying, bowl-shaped valley of Lower Lias clay, in the western tip of the county of Dorset in south-west England. It lies to the north of the A35 trunk road between the towns of Bridport and Lyme Regis, and to the south of the two highest hills in Dorset, Lewesdon Hill (279m) and Pilsdon Pen (277m). It is drained by the River Char, which flows south-west to its mouth on the English Channel coast at Charmouth. All of the vale lies within the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There"
"variety of traditional biscuits in addition to the Dorset knob. Dorset knobs are only produced during the months of January and February. They are normally sold in a distinctive and traditional tin. A Dorset knob throwing competition was held in the Dorset village of Cattistock every year on the first Sunday in May. The record throw of was set in 2012. The festival also includes such events as a knob and spoon race, knob darts, knob painting and guess the weight of the knob. In 2017, the Dorset knob throwing competition moved from Cattistock to Kingston Maurward House and in"
"left on the doorstep of those who ordered it on the black market. The fungus used for blue cheeses, ""Penicillium roqueforti"", also produces the mycotoxin aristolochene, as well as the neurotoxic Roquefortine C. Dorset Blue Vinney Dorset Blue Vinney (frequently spelled ""vinny"") is a traditional blue cheese made near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows' milk. It is a hard, crumbly cheese. ""Vinney"" is a local Dorset term related to the obsolete word ""vinew"", which means to become mouldy. Another explanation has it that ""vinny"" is a corruption of ""veiny"", referring to the blue veins running throughout the"
"and stilton. Other traditional soups include vegetable, oxtail, cauliflower, artichoke, asparagus, spinach, parsnip, chestnut, watercress and chilled cucumber. Broth consists of meat and vegetables cooked in stock, sometimes thickened with barley or other cereals. Brown Windsor soup appeared in the 1953 Ealing film comedy The Captain's Paradise and, although opinion is divided as to whether and for how long it actually existed in real life, recipes for it can now be found. Worcestershire sauce and brown sauce, along with ketchup, are distinctive English condiments. Bovril and Marmite are food pastes with a distinctive flavour. English desserts include (Bramley) apple pie,"
"and indulging in a diet of fried foods, overboiled vegetables, cheese-and-tomato sandwiches, and steak and kidney pudding. Every day he visits ""Pomeroy's"", a wine bar on Fleet Street within walking distance of the Old Bailey and his chambers at Equity Court, at which he contributes regularly to an ever-increasing bar tab by purchasing glasses of red wine of a questionable quality, which he calls variously ""Cooking Claret"", ""Pomeroy's Plonk"", ""Pomeroy's Very Ordinary"", ""Chateau Thames Embankment"", or ""Chateau Fleet Street"". (The last two terms are particularly derogatory: the subterranean Fleet river, which flows below Farringdon Street in a culvert and crosses"
"sexy voice that attracted him - and she happens to be dining at the next table, so that's the end of Miss Brahms's upward mobility. Captain Peacock then calls over the waiter to request a slight change in their order: ""Egg and chips four times, and a pot of tea."" The dish's status as a cornerstone of authentic British cuisine is solidified by its regular inclusion in modern popular culture. It features regularly in television depictions of British life, such as the long-running soap series Coronation Street, where it constitutes part of recurring character Johnny ""Doc"" Docherty's infamous catch phrase,"
"and open moors. Located near the Derwent Reservoir, it provides facilities for sailing and fishing. The Lord Crewe Arms Hotel has a vast fireplace where 'General' Tom Forster hid during the Jacobite rising of 1715. W. H. Auden stayed at the Lord Crewe Arms with fellow student Gabriel Carritt at Easter 1930, and later remarked that no place held sweeter memories. Blanchland may have been the model for the village in which was set the opening and closing scenes of Auden and Isherwood's play ""The Dog Beneath the Skin"" (1935). Another celebrated poet Philip Larkin used to dine at the"
"Cherry Tree Inn is a Brakspear tied house. The Crooked Billet, a free house, was built in 1642 and is reputed to have once been the hideout of highwayman Dick Turpin, who was said to have been romantically attached to the landlord's daughter, Bess. It was England's first gastropub and was the venue for Titanic star Kate Winslet's wedding reception. In June 1989 the British progressive rock band Marillion played its first performance with Steve Hogarth as frontman at the Crooked Billet. A documentary DVD called ""From Stoke Row To Ipanema – A Year In The Life"" was subsequently produced."
"AA who notes its ""starters of guinea fowl and leek terrine wrapped in Cumbrian ham served with apricot and sultana chutney, and mussels steamed with garlic, parsley, cream and white wine"" and main courses [which] might include ""rich, gamey venison loin in damson and gin jus plated with a sage and onion-flavoured polenta cake"". As of 2016 the chief chef is Gordon Topp. Aynsome Manor Aynsome Manor is a country house hotel in Cartmel, Cumbria, northwestern England, in the Lake District. It is set in the Vale of Cartmel, with views of a Norman priory, meadows and woods to the"
"tea, frozen in liquid nitrogen, a snail porridge that was described by one food critic as ""infamous"", and ice creams of both crab, and egg and bacon, each of which resulted in increased media attention for the restaurant. The mock turtle soup has an ""Alice in Wonderland"" theme, where a fob watch formed of freeze-dried beef stock covered with gold leaf is dropped into a tea cup and has a beef stock ""tea"" poured over it that dissolves the gold and the watch. A plate of ox tongue and vegetables is served alongside it to place into the soup. Toast"
"alumni and friends of the college, and by a significant loan. There is now an unimpeded view of the Observatory. The most recent construction in Somerville (2013), the college bar in Vaughan replaces the bar in House. The bar is housed in a mainly glass structure, with seating in the college colours of red and black. Following a campaign by the JCR Guinness is now available on tap, and the pool table costs 50p per frame. The college drink, the ""Stone-cold Jane Austen"", is made from blue VK, Southern Comfort, and Magners cider. Other college drinks are the ""Somerville Sunset"""
"town of Devizes, Wiltshire. The details of the dish had supposedly been lost for generations—although it appears in a recipe book of 1830—until a recipe was discovered in the 1960s and the dish was then served in the Bear Hotel in Devizes for several years. After falling out of fashion again, it was revived in 2006 as part of the Devizes Food and Drink Festival. In 2009 it was claimed to ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome due to the high quantities of nucleotides in the offal. A recipe published in ""The Times"" in 1956 specified the main ingredients"
"opened to 42, resulting in a ratio of one kitchen staff member per customer. The restaurant gained its first Michelin star in 1999, its second in 2002 and its third in 2004, making it the fastest in the United Kingdom to earn three Michelin stars. It lost its status as a three-starred restaurant in the 2016 guide due to renovation preventing it from being open for assessment. The restaurant regained three stars in the following year's Michelin guide. The restaurant is known for its fourteen-course tasting menu featuring dishes such as nitro-scrambled egg and bacon ice cream, an ""Alice in"
"The Greyhound in Newcastle-under-Lyme, The Royal Exchange in Stone, The Sun Inn in Stafford, The Roebuck in Leek, The Hollybush in Seighford, The Cheshire Cheese in Buxton and The Olde Kings Arms in Congleton. The Titanic Brewery has won many awards, often awarded by CAMRA (the Campaign for Real Ale), from the 1990s to the present day. The Titanic Brewery's bottled Stout beer's first award was Gold in the 1994 Guardian Bottled Beer of Britain, and more recently it won first place in the CAMRA West Midlands Beer of the Year 2009 (Stout Category). Titanic's Iceberg Beer won its first"
"Dolphin, the Fo'c'stle, the George and Dragon, the Lion Inn, The London Inn, The Marine, the Pack o' Cards and the Top George. As part of the annual Carnival celebrations, there was a wheelbarrow race over the length of the village, competitors having to stop at each pub and consume a glass of beer before continuing. In 2008 the wheelbarrow race was replaced by a Fun Run and alcohol free wheelbarrow parade. The wheelbarrow race was reinstated in 2009. The annual procession ""The Hunting of the Earl of Rone"" features the rare hobby horse of England and a character called"
"writing for the ""Daily Mail"", giving the restaurant three stars. Matthew Norman, reviewing the Waterside Inn for ""The Daily Telegraph"" in 2010, praised the setting and the attentive service but criticised the value for money of the food served; he gave it a total of six out of ten, but described the cheese trolley as ""spectacular"". Also in 2010, John Walsh for ""The Independent"" visited the Waterside Inn shortly after it celebrated 25 years with a Michelin star. While he also criticised the cost of some of the courses, saying ""I knew it was expensive. Everybody knows that."", he celebrated"
"restaurant's walled kitchen garden in 2015 by the vintners. The restaurant was one of ten restaurants in the UK to be selected to hold a full allocation of six bottles of the new vintage. Krug Champagnes are popular at the restaurant, with Krug Grand Cuvee being matched to the signature tasting dish of smoked lobster. This dish is created by removing the meat from the lobster shells, cold smoking it over whisky casks, and placing it back in the shells, before baking it at a high temperature with butter, herbs and lime juice. Gillian Glover visited the restaurant in 2004"