• Charcoal: Naughty gone nice?

    From its debut in your Christmas stocking for relentless naughty behaviour (you know who you are, you bad, bad people!) to your dinner plate: we are now welcoming charcoal into the foodie world of 2017. It is the lumps used to help fire up the barby in summer. We...
  • Don’t Blame the Hooters Girls

    Nottingham: a great Anglo-Saxon settlement. A manufacturing powerhouse, an important historical site. Also, the proud owner of the only Hooters in the UK. I was quite confused when my friends suggested Hooters for lunch on the second day of their visit. I couldn’t imagine why any self-respecting, educated woman...
  • Eggsclusive Good Fry-Day Special

    Easter: a religious festival or socially acceptable chocolate binge? Whatever the reason, it’s a spiritual and celebratory time for many of us. But what does your Easter egg choice say about you? Nestle Egg and Bar Option – £1.50 Sure, it’s Easter, you don’t mind an egg, and it’s...
  • Some Egg-citing Alternatives This Easter

    As Easter slowly creeps up on us, I think it’s safe to say that everyone has chocolate on the brain (thanks Tesco with your annoyingly tempting and reasonably priced £1.50 Easter eggs). If the idea of eating another chocolate Easter egg makes you sigh with resignation instead of filling...
  • Yo fancy a Yo mama’s?

    “Yo Mama” is a project inspired by Uber and mums while being born from the Nottingham Entrepreneurs Launchpad event in December 2016 by Inshaal Ahmad and Adnaan Shakur. It’s simple, all you have to do is fill out a survey and get your homemade dish delivered to either Jubilee...
  • Are ‘superfoods’ really all that super?

    With the world becoming more health conscious, a superfood is a diamond in the rough. The foods that earn this prestigious label are suggested as foods with incredible nutritional value, along with other promises of longevity, disease prevention and far more. However, it all seems to be getting out...
  • A plethora of Pieminister pies: a British Pie Week special

    So here we are, in the middle of British Pie week! Were you aware that Pie week was a thing? I sure as hell wasn’t but since I’ve been e-mailed by 3 different people regarding this entity I guess it must be! Well the good folks at Pieminister were...