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REVIEW: Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Festival Place, Basingstoke - plus your chance to win a family meal

A GBK kids meal

3:41pm Monday 20th May 2013

IT has been an age since I was in the Basingstoke branch of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and it has changed. A lot.

Preston Candover's Purefoy Arms named Good Food Guide Readers’ South East Restaurant of the Year

12:00am Tuesday 14th May 2013

THE Purefoy Arms in Preston Candover has today been crowned The Good Food Guide Readers’ Restaurant of the Year for the South East.

Win a copy of the new book from Great British Bake Off winner John Whaite!

John Whaite Bakes

12:00am Thursday 9th May 2013

LAST year, John Whaite was a law student who spent his spare time baking.

REVIEW: Mary Berry At Home, BBC Books

Mary Berry At Home

12:00am Monday 29th April 2013

BELOVED British cook Mary Berry has written an unbelievable 70 cookbooks which have sold in their millions to her devoted fans.

REVIEW: La Tasca, Festival Place, Basingstoke

12:00am Monday 22nd April 2013

I HAVE a friend who adores La Tasca – she’s addicted to its hugely popular calamari. But I haven’t been to the chain much myself, possibly twice in my life.

National award for Hampshire's Gilbert White's Tea Parlour

10:05am Monday 15th April 2013

GILBERT White’s Tea Parlour in Hampshire has won an Award of Excellence in The Tea Guild’s highly coveted Top Tea Place Awards 2013.

MasterChef's Greg and John present their Easter favourite - roast lamb

MasterChefs Greg and John present their Easter favourite - roast lamb

12:00am Monday 25th March 2013

ENDLESS chocolate eggs, slabs of simnel cake and heavenly hot cross buns might be tempting, but there's only one treat that turns MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace's head at Easter, and that's roast lamb.

REVIEW: The Bowler's Meatball Cookbook, Jez Felwick, Mitchell Beazley, £16.99

12:00am Monday 18th March 2013

SICK of the same old type of cookbook? Then this fun and innovative tome might be for you.

Queen of home cooking Delia Smith praises the power of baking as therapy

Delia Smith

10:59am Wednesday 13th March 2013

SOME turn to therapy in times of need. Others phone their friends. But for queen of the kitchen Delia Smith, there's only one proven way to lift the blues - cake.

REVIEW: Nando's, Festival Place, Basingstoke

REVIEW: Nando's, Festival Place, Basingstoke

12:00am Monday 11th March 2013

Nando’s, Festival Place, Basingstoke, RG21 7BB, 01256 335 477, Nandos.co.uk.

BOOK REVIEW: The Hummingbird Bakery's Home Sweet Home

home sweet home cover web.jpg

12:00am Monday 4th March 2013

The Hummingbird Bakery Home Sweet Home: 100 new recipes for baking brilliance, Tarek Malouf, Collins, £20.

BOOK REVIEW: Paul Hollywood's Bread, Bloomsbury, £20

Paul Hollywood's Bread

12:00am Monday 25th February 2013

THERE’S only one master baker - and doesn’t he have the perfect moniker for stardom?!

Michel Roux Jr talks to Diana Pilkington about souffles, his new cookery school, the horsemeat scandal and the revival of the BBC's Food and Drink

Michel with Diana c PA Photos

12:00am Monday 25th February 2013

"ARE you left-handed?" jokes Michel Roux Jr, as my right arm prods limply at the ingredients of my first ever creme patisserie. Wincing from the heat of the stove, I am clearly a far cry from the professionals the two-star Michelin chef is used to scrutinising on TV.

Yotam Ottolenghi returns to TV screens at the weekend

1:05pm Wednesday 20th February 2013

ACCLAIMED chef Yotam Ottolenghi is back with Mediterranean Feasts, which begins on Sunday, February 24 at 7pm on Channel 4.

REVIEW: The Tucci Cookbook, Simon & Schuster, £30

The Tucci Cookbook

11:46am Thursday 14th February 2013

I BETTER confess from the off that I love Stanley Tucci. My mum and I have been besotted ever since he played the irresistible baddie in Murder One many moons ago. 

REVIEW: The Clandestine Cake Club Cookbook, Quercus, released February 14

The cookbook's cover

3:02pm Monday 11th February 2013

LYNN Hill could have had no idea that her sudden cake-related inspiration would spread around the world and culminate in the release of her very own cookbook.

REVIEW: Red Lion Hotel, Basingstoke

12:00am Monday 4th February 2013

The Gazette's Helen Morton is more than satisfied by her hearty lunch in the Top of the Town venue.

REVIEW: Zizzi Ristorante, London Street, Basingstoke

1:00pm Wednesday 30th January 2013

CHIEF reporter Emily Roberts samples the fare in Zizzi on a busy Friday night.

Vaughan Collins earns An Honest Crust as an artisan baker

Vaughan Collins in action

10:35am Monday 21st January 2013

A FORMER engineer, sailing instructor and carpenter has launched a new business as an artisan baker.

Basingstoke trio's new FlavaS pop up restaurants are proving a big hit

The menu for their Caribbean night

2:05pm Wednesday 21st November 2012

A NEW Basingstoke “pop-up” restaurant is proving incredibly ‘pop’- ular. 

REVIEW: Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi, Ebury RRP £27

REVIEW: Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamini, Ebury RRP £27

1:47pm Wednesday 21st November 2012

YOU know a cookery writer is on to something when other high-profile people rhapsodise about their work, and Israeli chef Yotam Ottolenghi, whose new TV series started on More4 recently, is one such man.

REVIEW: The Conservatory Restaurant, The Hilton Hotel, Black Dam, Basingstoke

6:30am Monday 8th October 2012

The Conservatory Restaurant, The Hilton Hotel, Old Common Road, Black Dam, Basingstoke, 01256 460460.

REVIEW: Turrmeric's, The Bramley Inn, The Street, Bramley

12:00am Monday 1st October 2012

Turmeric’s, The Bramley Inn, The Street, Bramley, RG26 5BT, Tel: 01256 882506, Turmerics.co.uk

REVIEW: The Plough Inn, Longparish, Hampshire

12:00am Monday 3rd September 2012

The Plough Inn, Longparish, Andover, Hampshire SP11 6PB. Tel: 01264 720 358. www.theploughinn.info

REVIEW: Little Frankie's, Basingstoke Leisure Park

2:33pm Tuesday 28th August 2012

Little Frankie’s, Basingstoke Leisure Park, Churchill Way, RG22 6PG, 01256 300770, Frankieandbennys.com  






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