Food & Wine
World Pancake Menu at Heathcotes Brasserie
Celebrate Shrove Tuesday at Heathcotes Brasserie with a feast of luxury pancakes. Fed up with bland topping like lemon and maple syrup? Why not try something special on pancake day. Heathcotes World Pancake Menu lets you experience Shrove Tuesday like never before. Paul Heathcote and Head Chef Carl Noller have devised three mouth watering pancake-inspired courses for just £19.95 per person. This is a wonderful [...]
103 days ago by Tony Worrall Share
The 20th Annual Preston Beer Festival
Early notice for one of the city’s most popular annual events. St Walburge’s parish hall hosts the 20th Annual Preston Beer Festival. As ever, there will be a magnificent selection of cask ales, bottled beers, ciders and perries, at the festival which starts on Also this year there will be live music, raffle and limited edition St Walburge’s Beer Festival T Shirts to buy. Something [...]
103 days ago by Tony Worrall Share
Restaurant review: EastZEast Punjabi cooking meets Preston
EastZEast is a very modern looking Punjabi restaurant and since it opened in 2009 it has become quite a popular meeting place in Preston. A very handy location right at the top of Church Street. So one Saturday night when I found my first choice for the evening fully booked I popped over. Even though I hadn’t made a reservation and the place looked very [...]
112 days ago by Tony Worrall Share
Taste Lancashire: First Event of 2013
Wednesday 30 January will see the first Taste Lancashire Produce Event of 2013 taking place at The Villa, Wrea Green, just outside Preston. Head Chef Matthew Johnson will feature local producer Pugh’s Piglets of Garstang who have been rearing pigs for over 45 years and whose skill and knowledge is second to none. On his menu is Pugh’s Piglets porchetta medallions, with potato Anna layered [...]
123 days ago by Tony Worrall Share
Church Street takeaway Dixie Fried Chicken up for licensing review
Police have triggered the review of a licence granted to a problem takeaway on Church Street. Dixie Fried Chicken, next door to Lava Ignite, could be stripped of its licence when councillors meet later this month. Police Sergeant John Lovick, who heads up the police licensing team, outlines in documents how the takeaway has failed to keep to conditions imposed on it following a licensing [...]
124 days ago by Ed Walker Share
Restaurant review: Pond Tapas worth a dip
I’ve visited Pond tapas restaurant in central Preston a few times since it re-opened and can say it is up there as one of my favourite place to eat locally. It really is a shining star on the culinary map of Preston. Pond, an off-shoot of Duk which was born in a deserted basement Preston in 2006, is an electric mix of tapas from chef [...]
130 days ago by Tony Worrall Share