APRIL 2023 – FIVE FOODIE MUST HAVE’S
This is April’s five foodie must-haves, brought to you by Velvet magazine
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Velvet Food & Drink Awards
With our area home to an increasingly delicious food and drink offering – where both old-favourite and start-up brands continue not only to survive but thrive, often against the odds – we felt it was time to give the people behind this culinary success a pat on the back. . . and so the new Velvet Food & Drink Awards were born!
With Grub Club Cambridge as networking partner, the awards are designed to give credit where the residents of our area genuinely consider it due. So we’re asking YOU to nominate your favourites in each of eight categories: Producer, Farm Shop/Deli, Pub/Bar, Tearoom/Coffee Shop, Street Food/Pop-up, Restaurant, Chef and Food Hero of the Year. Just follow the link below. . .
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Lorenzo’s Bakery, St Neots
Few pleasures in life are as simple or as sweet as consuming a truly good coffee and croissant. That’s just one of the treats in store at Lorenzo’s Artisan Bakery, which has just opened its doors in St Neots Market Place.
Founded by James Costello, who quit a career in TV production to take an artisan baking course at the world-renowned School of Artisan Food, it’s fast becoming renowned for its pastries – croissants, pains au chocolat, Danishes – along with breads and freshly filled sandwiches, with everything scratch-made onsite.
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Treat It
Puddin’ in Thetford, Photo credit: Bury Free Press
With signatures including millionaire’s flapjacks layered with freshly made caramel and chocolate brownies topped with toasted marshmallows, it’s little wonder queues have been forming at the door of new Thetford cake and bake shop Puddin’.
It’s the brainchild of former chef Jess Doe, who started baking during pandemic lockdowns “to perk people up during a rough time”, going on to stock a stand at her local church for a year. Thanks to sell-out demand, she scaled up first to a horsebox stall in the town’s market place and now to her bricks-and-mortar site, which opened on The Shambles this spring.
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Book It
Prana Sharing Menu
Prana, the award-winning restaurant on Cambridge’s Mill Road, has launched a pair of Sunday sharing menus – featuring both street-style small plates and four-tiered ‘food roulette’ tiffin boxes.
Available for both lunch and dinner from April 2, the Street Bites menu includes Pau, the pillowy street-style bun from Maharashtra, prepared three different ways – filled with keema minced lamb and spiced peas, crunchy crushed masala potatoes or, a riff on the chip butty, Sylhet fries and Bengali tomato relish – while Tiffin Roulette sees four box tiers, each big enough to feed two, filled with the chef’s choice of mains, sides and desserts.
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Eat It
Adam Wright @ Wright’s. Photo credit: Bury Free Press
It started life in 2018 as a Bury St Edmunds market stall selling seasonal salads and speciality toasties; fast forward to today and Wright’s is poised to open a second bricks-and-mortar site in the grounds of a Suffolk estate.
Already a fixture on Cornhill, Wright’s, founded by chef Adam Wright following 20 years in London hospitality, is opening a cafe in the Old Coach House at Stowmarket’s Helmingham Hall this month. It will run seasonally, May to September, in line with the estate’s open gardens. Announcing the move on their website, the Wright’s team say it’s a chef’s dream, “with a centuries-old walled garden at our disposal and acres of game”.
Pay a visit to Wright’s
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