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

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

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

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

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 . . .

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

Andy Richardson samples the Saturday evening dinner menu at Dinham Hall

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

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

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

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

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.