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Birch
Highlands & Islands, Inverness - Café
Pint-sized outpost from speciality coffee purveyors based on Skye
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Best of the North West: Lupo’s Nico Pasquali on the art of Italian coffee
PUBLISHED ON 11 Aug, 2025
Our winner of Best Local Restaurant in the North West this year is a homely little Italian trattoria, tucked away in an unlikely corner of a Prestwich industrial estate. Since opening in 2014, owner, baker and barista Nico Pasquali has ...
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Britain's Best Local Restaurants 2025: top 10 trattorias
PUBLISHED ON 11 Aug, 2025
In this year’s Best Local Restaurant list, the charm of old-school Italian trattorias has won the hearts of communities around the country. From the lived-in warmth of London winner, Ida, to the chequered tablecloths at North West winner, ...
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To drink: Bench's martini recipe
PUBLISHED ON 08 Aug, 2025
Co-founder of Best Local Restaurant Bench, Jack Wakelin began his hospitality journey in Sheffield’s renowned cocktail bar Public. It’s also where he met co-founder Ronnie Aronica, and fast forward to now the pair are propagating their South Yorkshire patch with ...
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How to make a proper carbonara
PUBLISHED ON 08 Aug, 2025
Lupo in Prestwich, Manchester, was crowned our Best Local Restaurant in the North West thanks to its authentic, honest and downright delicious Roman cooking. Owner Nico Pasquali wears many hats in his business: when he’s not tending to his home-grown ...
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23 of Britain’s top spots for oysters
PUBLISHED ON 06 Aug, 2025
'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster' said Jonathan Swift. Whether you know your Carlingfords from your Cumbraes or enjoy the sense of occasion that comes with a platter of oysters and a glass of Champagne, here’s ...
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Where to eat in Whitstable
PUBLISHED ON 05 Aug, 2025
An easy day trip from London by car or train, the independent charm of cool, sceney Whitstable is a magnate for summer holiday makers, out-of-season weekenders and spur-of-the-moment day trippers. Between the working fishing harbour, shingle beaches, pretty cottages ...
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Nothing if not ambitious: a first look at Margaret's, Cambridge
PUBLISHED ON 05 Aug, 2025
The latest restaurateurs to open a second business are Sam Carter and Alex Olivier, the talented couple behind Cambridge’s Exceptional-rated Restaurant Twenty-Two on Chesterton Road. Just two doors down, Margaret’s is Twenty-Two’s easy-going younger sibling. An ordinary furniture ...
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