This has been a bit of a whirlwind year for me, what with eating out in Copenhagen and Birmingham and now as a roving judge for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards 2014 which were announced in November at Food Matters Live at London Excel. I am a little late with my review due to massive amounts of work and I have also been writing up the main panel sessions from Food Matters Live … [Read more...]
Premier Inn Hotel restaurant – 7/10
Now this year has been a bit of a roller coaster when it comes to eating out. I have been forced, by circumstance rather than me actually being brave, to venture out into the real world of eating out. First in Copenhagen at EAACI (I really must share the menu and pictures of those meals) and now in Birmingham whilst working at an exhibition. We do eat out occasionally at … [Read more...]
Stoke Park restaurant – 9.5/10 for allergy service
If you have allergies and food intolerances the chances are you don't eat out often, and if you do you have your processes and systems in place to ensure you remain safe. Always phoning ahead, sticking to simple dishes like salads, steak and ham, egg and chips; it means you can eat out with friends and family relatively safely but it's not completely satisfactory. It's not … [Read more...]
The Three Oaks – 8/10 for Allergy Awareness
If you're looking for a gastro pub in the Buckinghamshire area which caters for allergies The Three Oaks in Chalfont St Peter is a great restaurant to try. I went there this month for a friend's 40th surprise birthday meal; it is a gastro-pub apparently owned by Terry Wogan's daughter and we had a lovely meal, they totally 'got' what allergies mean and made me feel at … [Read more...]
Sheila’s Cottage restaurant in Ambleside – great with allergies!
Having just returned from a week's exhausting but fun holiday in the Lakes I thought I'd share with you a lovely little restaurant that we discovered which was absolutely fabulous. After the usual scanning of the website, phonecall to guage whether they can cater for someone with serious life threatening food allergies, and then family checks that the EpiPen is in fact in my … [Read more...]