The award-winning Flavours Restaurant in the High Street reopens this week after an unexpected 6 week closure. The many customers who were unable to sample the menu after Trip Advisor awarded it a Certificate of Excellence can make bookings now that the owner, Herman Topuzoglu, is back in the kitchen once again. To celebrate the …
Odette’s Tearoom promises to bring a taste of Victorian gentility to the High Street when it opens on 5 September, appropriately the day of the town’s Food Festival. Named after the World War 2 heroine, Odette Hallows, who was French but worked as a British agent in wartime France and who lived close to the …
Cafe Licious in South Street is looking to expand, converting space above the present premises to cater for more customers. Owners Azhda Alieva and Mehmet Dogan have submitted an application for planning permission to make use of the current storage space on the first floor of their property to build on the success of their …
Rumwell Farm Shop has become a recognised feature along the A38 Wellington to Taunton road over the last 20 years. Regular travellers may have noted its development from what was originally a farm storage unit to its current form as a highly successful farm food, butchery and grocery outlet. The addition of a spacious – …
Flavours Restaurant on High Street has been awarded one of Trip Adviser’s top awards. The Certificate of Excellence as a ‘top performing British and Mediterranean Restaurant’ follows consistently positive reviews sent in by diners. To qualify, a business must maintain an overall rating of at least four out of five, have a minimum number of …
Ahmet Boga has re-opened his popular kebab and pizza business in North St, five months after the planned Old Town Hall pub development forced him to close down. The new takeaway shop is in the former Indian restaurant next door to Kings Cycles and just yards from Ahmet’s former premises. “it’s been an awful time …
Khaled Ahmed, chef and owner of Wellington’s ‘Tamarind Bay’ has won national recognition at the recent Bangladesh Caterers’ Association Awards in London. He was presented with the award of ‘South West Caterer of the Year’ at the prestigious event at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London’s Park Lane last month hosted by TV presenter Tasmin …
Two local pubs have won prestigious recognition at the recent Somerset Life Food and Drink Awards 2014 – both for the second year in succession. The Anchor Inn at Hillfarance was awarded the ‘Best Somerset Sunday Roast’ for the second year running at the awards’ ceremony at Junction 24, Stone Easton Park earlier this month. …
Plans have been lodged to turn the empty Stead and Simpson shoe shop at 3 High St into a kebab takeaway. Owner Ahmet Boga has to move out of his current premises at the rear of the Old Town Hall to make way for the new Wetherspoons pub. “The old shoe shop is perfect for …
Peter and Angela Gatling have sold the Merrier Harriers, Clayhidon to two of their most frequent customers. After eight years of running one of Britain’s most successful country pubs, the Gatlings are taking a rest and looking for a new venture. The new owners are Reg and Lesley Payne, who live in Willand. They are …
Congratulations to the staff at the Tamarind Bay restaurant on a fantastic opening night party. Manager Sham Miah and his team did a magnificent job serving nearly 200 guests with some superb Indian food and drink. Despite it being such early days for a new eatery, the front of house team and the five chefs …
