Dirty kitchens and poor food hygiene has cost the Bengal Lounge, the town’s only Indian restaurant, over £8,000 in fines and costs after council health officials prosecuted it. Taunton magistrates heard that the curry house, at the top of North St, had six offences on the charge sheet; failing to keep the premises clean; failing …
May and Jason Tseng, owners of the New Canton Chinese Restaurant in South Street, celebrated ten years in the town this month, not by letting off fireworks and holding a lavish party but by simply serving customers authentic Peking and Cantonese food in the restrained comfort of their restaurant – so, it was business as …
Brewer Richard Masters is taking the idea of traditional beer, both brewed and drunk as it once was, in a novel direction at his brewery on Greenham Business Park, just off the A38 west of Wellington. Not only does he brew all of his 21 different ales on the premises but he’s also built, decorated …
Anna Gorman has just taken on a run-down Wellington pub with a mouldy reputation and is breathing new life into it. The Dolphin has been re-born with a new style, new look and new team. This landlady knows what’s she’s doing. Anna has spent the past 10 years building up the Prince of Wales, Gloucester …
Wellington’s annual food festival was the highlight of the summer for our town. Thousands of people turned out from mid-morning onwards to wander through the traffic-free streets and enjoy the food and drink being sold from 44 different stalls, the highest number ever according to organisers. For once the weather helped with a warm, sunny …
Wellington may have missed out – for a second time – on a portion of the £1.5m “Portas Pilot” cash aimed at rejuvenating town centres around the country but, despite the disappointment, traders in the town and in its close vicinity are doing a great deal to promote fine local food. Food grown or produced …
Wellington Farmers’ Market is now open on two Saturdays each month (the first and the third) in the Scouts’ Hall behind Fore Street – good news for local people who value quality food, produced locally and to a high standard without the use of preservatives and additives of any kind.. It’s not only high quality …
Wellington’s newest and largest coffee shop has just opened. Coffee#1 is the latest branch of a chain with its headquarters in Cardiff. If you like your café on an industrial-scale, this is the one for you.
Gill Paltridge eats out On the evidence of the number of diners at ‘The Skylark’ on a wet Thursday evening and again on a Friday lunchtime, this is a place lots of local people choose to eat. Its location just off the motorway, across the road from the busy Chelston Business Park, adjacent to Westpark …
