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Written below are some of our recent blogs about our business. Here you’ll find tips for picking drinks to accompany certain foods, recipes and general blogs about what it’s like running a restaurant.

Orange Wine

Posted: February 8, 2023 by Simon

Have you tried orange wine? Perhaps you’ve never even heard of it. I’ve tried it a few times and had a mixed view until now. But I’ve been converted, so much so that I have the wine available as our current guest wine at the restaurant. What is Orange wine? It’s a white wine that […]

A Taste of Portugal – Food & Wine Tasting Evening

Posted: February 6, 2023 by Simon

Our first food & wine tasting event of 2023 We kicked off 2023 with a Portuguese themed food & wine tasting evening at the Courtyard Bistro in Wombourne.  Want to join us next time? Our events are held on Fridays (apart from the Festive Tasting in December) and start at 7.30pm.  Places are booked in […]

Our 5 Top Tips for Brilliant Bread Baking

Posted: January 5, 2023 by Simon

Bread Baking at Home  Baking bread can be fun and embarking on a bread-baking journey is a delightful adventure, yet it’s understandable that it might seem a bit daunting for beginners. We know this firsthand as we’ve passionately delved into the world of bread baking at the restaurant. Through countless kneads, rises, and over-proved moments, […]

A Cake of Cheese!

Posted: June 15, 2022 by Simon

We had a particularly disastrous experience with a cheesecake on Mother’s Day 2020.  We had made a strawberry (I think!) cheesecake for dessert and very quickly had to adapt by sending our Mother’s Day lunch out in boxes as we’d been told to close on the Friday evening due to Covid-19.   For some reason […]