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With the cost of setting up a fixed-location restaurant spiralling all the time, it’s no wonder more startups are looking to upcycled shipping containers as a more economical way to launch their business.
With the cost of setting up a fixed-location restaurant spiralling all the time, it’s no wonder more startups are looking to upcycled shipping containers as a more economical way to launch their business.
We talk to the head chef of The Castle Hotel in Taunton
The largest of the Channel Islands is a self-governing bailiwick off the northwest coast of France. On a clear day, from one of its many fortified eminences, where the old cannon have fallen silent and the defensive towers turned into bijou residences, you can see Normandy. Hydrangeas festoon large in private gardens, while summer sees outbreaks of startling, purple-headed agapanthus line the verges. There is a local language – a reconstructed Norman tongue called Jèrriais – which around three per cent of the inhabitants still use.
Southwold is a quintessentially British seaside town, where on sandy beaches crab sandwiches are enjoyed and fish and chips closely guarded from swooping seagulls. A walk along the beach hut-lined promenade is a fitting way to take in the sweeping Suffolk coast. Up and down it, by the shore or tucked away inland, there are plenty of places to stop and dine well. Local writer Tessa Allingham knows the score.
Some of the UK’s best-loved restaurants are sending their finish-at-home meal kits nationwide. As a second lockdown for England starts on 5 November, The Good Food Guide inspectors tuck in