Tag Archives: eating out

Cross purpose

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Neil Thomas gets round to dining at The Royal Oak in Welshpool — and rather wishes he’d visited earlier.

Cut from cloth of gold

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Neil Thomas enjoys some thoroughly modern cooking in the thoroughly unmodern surroundings of Drapers’ Hall in Shrewsbury

Consummately congenial

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Neil Thomas goes in search of style , and finds it in abundance at a south Shropshire hotel

When in Rome . . .

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Neil Thomas takes an early measure of a new venue in the county town

May fortune favour the brave

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In defiance of the economic gloom engulfing most sectors of the economy, The Yockleton Arms has recently reopened. So the least we could do was go and have a look . . .

Something to crow about

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Neil Thomas muses over Shropshire’s Olympic connections and awards gold to The Raven

Season for goodwill

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Andy Richardson samples the Saturday evening dinner menu at Dinham Hall

A star in the making

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The Roebuck at Brimfield, near Ludlow, is subjected to The Shropshire Magazine’s critical analysis, and emerges with a glowing report

Fishing for compliments

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Neil Thomas explores the potential at a newcomer to the Shrewsbury dining scene

Speaking volumes

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Neil Thomas ponders the vexed question of portion size and finds that, in Oswestry, it’s no problem securing quantity AND quality

Inn a state of grace

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Henry Carpenter enjoys a meal a deux in the north Shropshire village of Grinshill

A ton of taste

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They say the beginning is a very good place to start. But to anyone planning a meal at the Hundred House it might be worth starting at the end and working backwards, finds Jaclyn Green.