The Anderida Restaurant at Ashdown Park Hotel and County Club is locally renowned as one of the best restaurants in Forest Row. Recognised throughout the county and beyond as being an award-winning Sussex restaurant it simply must be sampled, so last week we travelled down to this beautifully set estate in the heart of Sussex, for an evening of fine dining.
The rise in raw chocolate continues to grow with many chocolate makers now opting to use more of the cacao seeds raw instead of roasted, heated or melted. MULU Raw Chocolate has been producing raw chocolate sine 2007, and 2015 will see the launch of their Raw Cacao Truffles.
The UK's ultimate grow your own event - The Edible Garden Show - is returning to its roots in 2016 along with its fantastic lifestyle event 'Good Life Live'. After two successful years at London's Alexandra Palace, organisers are taking the award-winning three-day annual show back to Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire where it was launched in 2011.
At last week's Natural and Organic Show we met up with IQ Chocolate Founder Jane Shandley, who not only let us sample some of the great flavours the IQ range has to offer but told us a little about what makes this chocolate so super!
Saltwood on the Green restaurant, near Hythe in Kent, is backing the NSPCC's annual fund raising Garden & Plant Fair at Saltwood Castle on Saturday 2nd May, by putting special Chocolate Brownie dish on its menu. The restaurant will donate proceeds of the £5 dish sold all week from 2nd May to the charity.
Is it too early to be talking October - especially since the summer has still to arrive. But when October includes Chocolate Week and The Chocolate Show at Olympia, we think we can be forgiven for getting a little ahead of ourselves and a little bit too excited! The world's greatest chocolate exhibition returns to London from 16th-18th October - with over 15,000 chocolate fans expected to enjoy indulgent treats, celebrity demonstrations, free tastings and a spectacular chocolate fashion show across three days at The Chocolate Show at Olympia's National Hall.
