Reviewed: The Crown Inn, Uploders, near Bridport
How does Michel Hooper-Immins fare on his first ever trip to The Crown at Uploders? Clue: There’s Dorset Blue Vinny on the menu.
Reviewed: The Anchor Inn, Seatown, Dorset
Michel Hooper-Immins enjoys a superb lunch at the Anchor Inn on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
Spyway at Askerswell wins CAMRA’s West Dorset pub of the year award
THE SPYWAY INN at Askerswell near Bridport has been named as the Campaign for Real Ale’s West Dorset Pub of the Year. The free house has been owned for the last eight years by Kevin, Tim and Vivien Wilkes. It’s now reckoned by local real ale drinkers to be the best of West Dorset’s 263 pubs. [...]
Reviewed: The Spyway Inn at Askerswell
Michel Hooper-Immins enjoys haddock topped by Welsh rarebit and a nice pint of Otter at The Sypway in Askerswell.
Heston Blumenthal: ‘Ashley makes me feel like a proud dad’
Dorset-born chef Ashley Palmer-Watts is to launch a new restaurant in London for Heston Blumenthal. Mr Palmer-Watts was originally a protege of Maiden Newton restaurant owners Geoff and Lin Chapman.
Reviewed: The Pilot Boat, Lyme Regis
Michel Hooper-Immins feels well restored after a good lunch of Lyme Bay fish and some well-kept real ale.
20 Dorset cider apples rediscovered
TWENTY varieties of traditional Dorset cider apple have been rediscovered by the award-winning Powerstock Cider Festival supremo Nick Poole and the renowned cider apple expert Liz Copas, author of A Somerset Pomona.
For the last four years Liz and Nick have been hunting through orchards, fields and gardens for apples that used to make Dorset cider.
In the case of Golden Ball from Netherbury, there was only one tree left. Marlpits Late Bittersweet may also have been unique. But no more.