Reviewed: The Anchor Inn, Seatown, Dorset
Michel Hooper-Immins enjoys a superb lunch at the Anchor Inn on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
Read articleSpyway 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…
Read articleReviewed: 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.
Read articleReviewed: 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.
Read article20 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.
Read articleCAMRA West Dorset pub guide published
YOU KNOW the scenario – you’ve arrived in a place you don’t know well and you need to find a fine pint of real ale –…
Read articleDorset’s Mash Hit returns with Drimpton’s 4th Potato Day
You Tubers: on the World Wide Web it means video-makers. In Dorset it means something else.
Read articleReviewed: The Poet Laureate in Poundbury
It’s good when it comes, but Michel Hooper-Immins has to wait for his beef and his beer.
Read articleReviewed: The Royal Oak at Cerne Abbas
Deliberating from the orgy of puddings is difficult, but I opt for bread and butter pudding
Read articleReviewed: A night out in Bridport’s new Lidl
IT WAS Saturday evening so I decided to give the long-suffering Mrs Bladder a bit of a night out. I swanned her along to take a look at Bridport’s new Lidl; do I know how to show a girl a good time or what?
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