For most people August signals peace and quiet, a time when the streets are empty and the restaurants easy to book. Edinburgh, however, tells an entirely different story as a tornado of creativity and energy sweeps through its windy streets, and the world of drama, dance and music descend upon it. One scarcely has a chance to walk 5 paces before a flyer thrust under your nose or a half-naked man in high heels and fairy wings cracks a whip before launching into a monologue from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. With thousands of performances in hundreds of venues, it’s hard not to find yourself juggling shows and performances, slotting them into every minute of every hour. Of course, the other upside to being in Edinburgh, apart from whisky and haggis (skip the deep fried mars bar please!) is The Kitchin, where curly-haired Tom Kitchin of Great British Menu fame champions the wealth of Scottish produce.
The Kitchin, Edinburgh
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L’Enclume, Cartmel
Ah, the Lake District, once the home of Beatrix Potter and her family of rabbits, ducks and other beloved immortals. Anyone who’s seen her biopic with Rene Zellweger and Ewan McGregor would no doubt have been smitten by the landscape of Cumbria. After 5 days of camping at WOMAD music festival, it was time for a bit of luxury and pampering and where better than to have a pit stop at what used to be one of England’s best kept secrets, L’Enclume in the small heritage village of Grange-over-Sands. Amongst culinary circles, Simon Rogan’s innovative and earthy cuisine is well known, especially with his London venture, Roganic, and more recently, his success on Great British Menu.
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Hand and Flowers, Marlow
Great British Menu has always been one of my favourite TV shows, watching some of the country’s top chefs cook off against each other, al with a healthy dose of banter, irony and chef humour. Not to mention, it was through GBM that I came to know about a little pub in the picturesque village of Marlow called Hand and Flowers, and its chef Tom Kerridge, at that point being one of the only pub-chefs to hold a Michelin star, not to mention, one of the only chefs to have won GBM two years running, and going on, this year, to be the only chef to be given 2 Michelin stars for a pub. High flying indeed for chef Kerridge!
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