Food Review – Mangia, Mangia of Lichfield By Jono Oates As anyone who knows me will tell you, I do love my Italian food and although I’m a big fan of pizzas I’m equally fond of pasta, so I was really keen to try out some classic Italian cuisine, with a home-delivery service from the […]
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Friday 27 August 2021 at 6.30pm Beacon Park, Lichfield Review by Jono Oates After an enforced break last year IKP production company were back in Beacon Park with another one of their knock-about, family fun, gag-filled takes on a well-known fairy tales – this time it was Beauty and the Beast. Now a regular event […]
It’s Coming Home, it’s Coming home, it’s Coming…Shakespeare’s Coming Home! ‘All the World’s a Stage’ – Shakespeare in the Park Review 29 June 2021 By Jono Oates As I drove up to Maple Hayes at 8pm on Tuesday evening, still flushed with the giddy success of England’s success over Germany in their Euro 2020 (in […]
Dining Review – by Jono Oates We’ve eaten at Café Prego several times in recent months and so know that their food and quality of service is first class – so when we heard that they were hosting an Italian Brunch on a Saturday early in August we couldn’t wait to book a table! Café […]
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Review – Staffordshire Distillery Gin By Helen Smith Gin has, in recent times, become more and more popular and is now, once again, one of the nation’s favourite drinks. It also happens to be mine, so when a surprise package containing three 50ml miniatures courtesy of Staffordshire Distillery landed on my doormat, I couldn’t wait […]
Food Review: Pizza by Goli By: Rebecca Hill Pizza by Goli, located on Tamworth Street, is one of Lichfield’s most-established and well-loved eateries, having been in situ since 1987. Serving authentic Italian cuisine, the restaurant still delights locals and those further afield, with its vast array of mouth-watering dishes. Lockdown has certainly not stopped business […]
Review – The Little Dessert Shop, Bore Street, Lichfield By Rebecca Hill When I was a child there was no such thing as ‘dessert shops’ around (I think if there had been, it may well have been where all my pocket money got spent!) so I was delighted to be invited to try just a […]
Food Review by Jono Oates The weather outside was not exactly summery as we pulled in to the car park at Café Prego in Shenstone, but the fabulous food certainly transported us to the sun-drenched olive fields of Tuscany, providing us with a lovely slice of Italian food sunshine in deepest Staffordshire! Café Prego is […]
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Food Review for the Three Tuns on the Walsall Road By Jono Oates Lockdown restrictions have definitely put a halt to most cafés and restaurants in and around Lichfield, but with the restrictions starting to lift slightly, some of them are now providing innovative ways to start trading again – and this includes the Three […]
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Cafe Prego at Creative Plants, Shenstone Food Review by Jono Oates It’s not often you can sit under an olive tree and gaze across open countryside with a coffee and a panini in front of you, shade your eyes and imagine that you are in Italy…but you can at Café Prego, which is not in […]
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