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DISCOVER THE VERY BEST PLACES www.greatfoodclub.co.uk The Handbook 2016Club A GUIDE TO THE MIDLANDS’ BEST LOCAL FOOD & DRINK INDEPENDENTS Welcome to the Great Food Club Handbook 2016. If you’re looking for the best independent food and drink businesses in the Midlands, you’ve found the right guide. In this Follow us on... handbook are some of the region’s best, most characterful and /GreatFoodClub passionate restaurants, pubs, food shops and producers. Each has been chosen on merit and the aim is @greatfoodmag to showcase our finest local food and drink businesses. EDITOR IN CHIEF: The page opposite shows you how Great Food Club Matt Wright works and if you haven’t already joined... well, why not?! ENQUIRIES: 01664 500070 or It’s free and the membership card we’ll post to you will get 07970 384013 you more than 200 amazing deals, from a free round of INFORMATION: This handbook was published in cocktails at one of Britain’s best pubs, to 10% off at November 2015. All several award-winning farm shops. More importantly, information has been checked carefully. Great Food Club will guide you to some superb places and PRINTED BY: make it easier for you to support our local independents. Warners Midlands Over the past year we’ve gone past the 7,000 member SEO & DIGITAL: Inbound.co.uk mark and launched the Great Food Club Awards (see p7 PUBLISHED BY: and p14). We’ve also recruited a team of local food writers Rocco Media, 1st Floor, 10 High St, with their ears to the ground. Their local knowledge allows Melton Mowbray, us to find even more brilliant places to share with you. Leics, LE13 0TR You can join Great Food Club at greatfoodclub.co.uk. Your Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy – and use – this guide! map and index is on p4 [email protected] THE GREAT FOOD CLUB HANDBOOK 2017 – OUT AUTUMN 2016 2 Great Food Club Handbook 2016 www.greatfoodclub.co.uk HOW IT WORKS... Go to greatfoodclub.co.uk, click ‘join’ 1 and fill in the short form (it’s free). DISCOVER THE VERY BEST PLACES Receive your www.greatfoodclub.co.ukClub 2membership Enjoy great card in the post, food and drink No. 0000 free of charge. Explore this Use your card to 3handbook and 4 claim the exclusive greatfoodclub.co.uk member offers that to discover the many choose to run – all best handpicked offers are on show at greatfoodclub.co.uk: local independent type a postcode into the restaurants, pubs, farm box on the home page to shops, producers, delis find recommendations and cookery schools. and deals nearby. The businesses we add to the Great Food Club network are carefully NB chosen: we visit each restaurant, pub, food shop or cookery school before adding them to our recommended list. When we visit we’re looking for businesses that share Great Food Club’s ethos, which includes having a passion for superb food, drink and customer service. www.greatfoodclub.co.uk Great Food Club Handbook 2016 3 @greatfoodmag Index The champions revealed! The inaugural Great Food Club Awards took place in summer 2015. They comprised a public vote in three categories, followed by a judging process involving Great Food Club’s writing team. Here are the winners. People’s Choice Nottinghamshire Producer: Chazwinkle’s, Elton, Cambs ..........p26 Producer: Maxeys Farm Shop, Kirklington .....p62 Pub/restaurant: The Mad Turk, Pub/restaurant: The Clock House, Upton ......p29 Stamford, Lincs ......................................................p59 and Hart’s, Nottingham (joint winners) ............p47 Shop: Harker’s Farm Shop, Clipston on the Shop: Welbeck Farm Shop, Welbeck .................p93 Wolds, Notts ........................................................... p46 People Choice Award winners are the businesses that received the highest Derbyshire number of public votes across the entire Producer: Lindsay’s Still Room, Turnditch.......p57 Midlands in each category. Pub/restaurant: Calabria, Chesterfield .......... p24 Shop: Hackwood Farm Shop, Radbourne ........p44 Leicestershire & Rutland Producer: Hambleton Bakery, West Midlands Exton, Rutland ....................................................... p44 Producer: Talton Mill Farm Shop, Pub/restaurant: The Olive Branch, Newbold on Stour ................................................. p88 Clipsham, Rutland ................................................ p68 Pub/restaurant: Purecraft Bar & Shop: Thrussington’s Village Stores, Kitchen, Birmingham ............................................p73 Thrussington, Leics ............................................. p89 Shop: Loaf Bakery, Stirchley .............................p57 Lincolnshire Producer: Brewster’s Brewery, Grantham........p19 How the awards were decided Pub/restaurant: The Jews House, Lincoln .... p50 First a shortlist was created by public vote, Shop: Stamford Deli, Stamford .........................p87 comprising the top three vote winners in each county for each category. All independent food and drink businesses in the Midlands were Northamptonshire eligible (UK and global chains were excluded) Producer: Warner Edwards and 1,750 votes were cast. Final winners from Distillery, Harrington ............................................p92 the shortlist were decided after a judging Pub/restaurant: The Swan, Braybrooke .........p88 process involving GFC’s writing team. Shop: Beckworth Emporium, Mears Ashby .....p12 To cast your vote in the 2016 awards, visit greatfoodclub.co.uk/awards www.greatfoodclub.co.uk Great Food Club Handbook 20167 facebook.com/greatfoodclub No. 4 Wood St 4 Wood Street, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 1QA small and stylish restaurant situated in a restored 19th century A maltings, No. 4 Wood St has since August 2012 been driven by the passion and skill of chef-patron David Robbins, who previously worked under Gordon Ramsay. David is succeeding in his aim of giving Mansfield residents a first-rate dining destination, with his seven-course area, or book the private 12-seater Tasting Menu offering dishes such as Laurent-Perrier Champagne Room. Taste of Local Beef, Horseradish, Marrow Wine and spirits are also important to and Vegetable Textures. the No. 4 Wood St experience: the wine Diners can choose to enjoy such list is carefully chosen, and gin lovers will delights in the comfort of the main dining be in their element. BOOK ON: 01623 424824 WEB: 4woodstreet.co.uk 45 West Distillery & Gin School The Collection Yard, Bawdon Lodge Farm, Nanpantan Road, Nanpantan, Leicestershire, LE12 9YE he 45 West Distillery is a craft gin distillery situated in the heart T of Leicestershire’s Charnwood Forest. It is the home of both Burleighs Dry London Gin and the ’45 Gin School Experience’, where students learn how to make their own gin in mini copper stills at weekly classes. Burleighs Dry London Gin is made by world-renowned master distiller Jamie courses where you create your own Baxter, who produces Burleighs gin in unique gin using botanicals of your choice ‘Messy Bessy’, a 450-litre copper pot still. before bottling and sealing your own 70cl 45 Gin School runs weekly three-hour bottle and adding a personalised label. CONTACT: 0116 278 8492 WEB: 45westdistillers.com 8 Great Food Club Handbook 2016 www.greatfoodclub.co.uk @greatfoodmag A-Z of Great Food Club Amalfi White 50 Derby Road, Melbourne, Derbyshire, DE73 8FE malfi White describes itself as an Italian restaurant, cocktail and A Prosecco bar. Situated in Melbourne, the building was originally a 19th century bank, which has been dramatically and expensively modernised. The restaurant is on the ground floor, there is a function room upstairs with more chandeliers than excellent too and the staff were Downton Abbey, and a brilliant garden. knowledgeable and helpful with gluten- After his visit, Great Food Club’s free choices. Amalfi White feels more like reviewer wrote: “The cod bites were a restaurant in London, Birmingham, presented beautifully and tasted light and Auckland or Rome. But that is the whole flavoursome. The other seafood was point and they are to be congratulated.” BOOK ON: 01332 694890 WEB: amalfiwhite.com Amber Valley Wines Back Lane, Wessington, Derbyshire nyone brave enough to plant their own vineyard in the middle of A rural Derbyshire gets a nod of respect from Great Food Club. That’s exactly what Duncan Mercer and Barry Lewis did in early 2011, when they toiled to dig their vines into a gentle south-west facing slope in the Amber Valley. The fruits of their labour have now arrived, with bottles of Lindway White and Pink available from the web address below. With their Adopt-A-Vine scheme and “We believe the Amber Valley provides vineyard tours, Amber Valley Wines want the best wine-producing conditions in the as many people as possible to join them north of England,” says Duncan. on the journey of making Derbyshire wine. CONTACT: 07970 666181 WEB: ambervalleywines.co.uk www.greatfoodclub.co.uk Great Food Club Handbook 20169 facebook.com/greatfoodclub Croots Farm Shop Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, Duffield, Derbyshire, DE56 4AQ roots Farm Shop opened in 2008 after Steve Croot decided to add a C new string to his herb and vegetable growing business. He also chose to attach a restaurant – Shires Eatery – which adds to the shop’s draw and means there is somewhere to sit, and Croots’ own lamb. Many items here relax, eat, drink and enjoy the vista. are produced in-house and in total have Inside the large shop you’ll find food won more than 60 awards. Prize winners and drink made by over 40 of the region’s include the shop’s own Boozy Banger, and producers. In addition, there’s a large a variety of Croots’ pies, which won gongs butchery stocked with locally reared meat at the British Pie Awards. CONTACT: 01332 843032 WEB: croots.co.uk The Crown All Saints’ Place, Stamford, Lincolnshire, PE9 2AG he Crown is several places in one: bustling bar, fabulous courtyard, T characterful lounge, plus informal restaurant and function rooms. Each area has its own character, introduced by Michael Thurlby when he took on the hotel in November 2014 and added it to his Knead Pubs group. There is attention to detail and quirkiness: original Stamford stone has been uncovered in the restaurant, and old fact, many of the highlight ingredients, signs deck the walls.