Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Not only does this restaurant offer affordable prices for students, it’s also a lovely spot to have a homemade Italian dinner. The aroma of freshly prepared pizza dough and margarita sauce drifted over as I opened the door of the newly built Franco Manca in Cheltenham. The buzz of the room struck me […]
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Review: Pizza in a Church – Zizzi’s
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 A gorgeous restaurant situated at the heart of Cheltenham. This little piece of Italy is unmissable for fine dining. Walking through the tree-branch archway, you’re hidden for a moment of what is to come, until it’s revealed to you on the final step when you’re greeted by a smiling, warm waitress. The grandeur […]
Review: Veganuary – A welcome change to the diet and conscience
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 Being a vegetarian, I flip between being becoming fully vegan constantly, there’s a lot of crossovers with the meal formats, substituting out one ingredient can make it vegan. So, like many, when Veganuary came around I decided it would be better time than any. With an abundance of products stacked up on the […]
Review: YO! is the place to go
Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 For a long time I had wanted to go to a sushi place where little coloured bowls snake around the tables on a conveyor belt. For a British person this is an insight into a type of Japanese eatery, ‘Kaitenzushi’, characterised by their use of sushi trains. These restaurants are known for being […]
Inflation Dropped by 0.2% but the Cost of Food Continues to Rise
The Office of National Statistics has released its latest data for December 2022 and inflation, the rate at which prices increase, has dipped 0.2% to 10.5% in December from 10.7% in November, after peaking in October to a staggering rate of 11.1%, the highest recorded in over 40 years. The main contributing factor of this […]
The countdown to Race Week is on!
Cheltenham’s biggest annual event is right around the corner. The iconic horse racing competition with a price stake just below the Grand National is set to commence on the 14th of March with spectators arriving from all over. But what can we expect? Here’s some stats: Last year we saw record numbers of visitors to […]
WARM UP TO WINTER – 5 PLACES TO HAVE FUN AND ESCAPE THE COLD IN CHELTENHAM
With going outside being fairly unpleasant in this recent drop in temperatures, we thought we’d list five entertaining, warm locations to prevent you from going stir-crazy. The Wilson Art Gallery – If you’re looking for some culture, the Wilson Art Gallery has a sizeable collection of intriguing pieces. Why not have a browse and pop […]
24 Hours in Cheltenham
Eve Perkins Visiting Cheltenham for the day? Or maybe even the weekend? Well, we’re here to tell you all about the best things to do in Cheltenham in 24 hours. Why not start your day with a lovely walk in the park? Pittville Park boasts 82 acres of greenery and boating lakes which makes for […]
Zero waste shop in Cheltenham relocating
‘FoodLoose’ is moving base to Grosvenor Terrace after securing £60,000 of investment from nearly 100 investors, part of an extremely successful community share offer scheme during December. Currently located in Portland Street, the shop will continue to trade until November 26th. Until its grand opening on December 3rd coinciding with its 4-year anniversary. The move […]
Pizza Express to move into Brewery Quarter in Cheltenham
The well-known pizza chain has decided to end their longstanding presence in Belgrave House, Imperial Square. The restaurant has sat among a selection of chains in the area for years, but it’s been decided that its time for a change. The restaurant has always had a place in the heart of Gloucestershire’s pizza lovers, with […]