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Andy Mossack reviews The Frog Restaurant by Adam Handling. Adam wall Press Image

The Frog Restaurant. Discover the culinary magic of Adam Handling.

The Frog Restaurant is the perfect stage for Adam Handling’s extraordinary culinary creations and the new Frog by Adam Handling Covent Garden promises more of the same but for the less on-trend perhaps.

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The Vineyard Hotel. Discover the impressive Judgement of Paris Tasting Menu

Tucked away in a corner of prime Berkshire countryside may be a strange location to remember an incident that literally rocked the wine industry. Yet when you consider The Vineyard Hotel in Stockcross is pretty much all about the fruit of the vine, then it all makes sense.

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The Vineyard Hotel's motto Eat. Sleep. And drink wine leaves you in no doubt as to what is front and centre here

The Vineyard Hotel. Discover a hotel immersed in fantastic wine.

The Vineyard Hotel’s motto Eat. Sleep. And drink wine leaves you in no doubt as to what is front and centre here. And I fully intended to embrace that sentiment wholeheartedly

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Stuart Forster visits the Piece Hall in Halifax following its re-opening. SF Halifax PieceHall 015

The Piece Hall. Halifax’s Classical Georgian Cultural heart.

The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire, reopened on Yorkshire Day, 1 August 2017, as a cultural and commercial hub at the heart of the town

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Steak frites Bearnaise at Petits Pois restaurant

Petits Pois Restaurant. A magnificent place to discover fine food.

In these days of clean eating, a restaurant in right-on Shoreditch actually pushing meat is a rare treat  indeed. And the deceptively-named Petits Pois, which offers that other rarely-found treat in Britain, a perfectly-cooked steak frites Bearnaise, is making the first Sunday of every month particularly attractive for carnivores, with a few extra treats some would consider beyond the pale.

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The welcombe Hotel

The Welcombe Hotel. Elegance in Shakespeare country

The atmosphere was just right; sitting in a large graceful dining room looking out over an Italian garden – and beyond to 30 miles of rolling countryside. The romantic setting for our first dinner at the Welcombe Hotel.

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