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WanderSups: Make meatballs fit for a Yellowstone cowboy

WanderSups: Make meatballs fit for a Yellowstone cowboy

WanderSups: Make meatballs fit for a Yellowstone cowboy

24 May 2024

Hannah Gregory – Velvet’s resident recipe writer and founder of TACOR, coming soon to Bury St Edmunds – makes meatballs fit for a Yellowstone rancher


Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog's top farm shops

Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog's top farm shops

Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog's top farm shops

10 May 2024

Our area is home to so many great farm shops and delis, Cambridge Food Blog’s Grace Mills couldn’t choose just five. . . So here’s six


Recipe: Celebrate National Doughnut Week with Cambridge Cookery

Recipe: Celebrate National Doughnut Week with Cambridge Cookery

Recipe: Celebrate National Doughnut Week with Cambridge Cookery

10 May 2024

With National Doughnut Week in May and National Doughnut Day in June, it’s officially the season to eat deep-fried, sugar-dusted pastries. . .


Velvet Food & Drink Awards: The shortlist revealed!

Velvet Food & Drink Awards: The shortlist revealed!

Velvet Food & Drink Awards: The shortlist revealed!

09 May 2024

Here’s the news you’ve been waiting for: nominations for the 2024 Velvet Food & Drink Awards have now closed and we can reveal your shortlist. . .


Cocktail Day: Raise a glass at these great Cambridge bars

Cocktail Day: Raise a glass at these great Cambridge bars

Cocktail Day: Raise a glass at these great Cambridge bars

29 April 2024

It’s World Cocktail Day on May 13. How will you be celebrating? Velvet recommends three of Cambridge’s best cocktail bars


Food: Level up your grocery shop at The Gransdens Farmers’ Market

Food: Level up your grocery shop at The Gransdens Farmers’ Market

Food: Level up your grocery shop at The Gransdens Farmers’ Market

26 April 2024

Making grocery shopping greener, more delicious and more sociable too, head for The Gransdens Farmers’ Market this Sunday, April 28


Opening: The Cheesemonger brings the best of British to Cambridge

Opening: The Cheesemonger brings the best of British to Cambridge

Opening: The Cheesemonger brings the best of British to Cambridge

26 April 2024

An “immersive, climate-controlled room brimming with wheels of Britain's finest artisan cheeses” has opened at d’Arry’s on the city’s King Street


Book Now: Join Grub Club Cambridge for a night at Northstowe Tap

Book Now: Join Grub Club Cambridge for a night at Northstowe Tap

Book Now: Join Grub Club Cambridge for a night at Northstowe Tap

19 April 2024

Great food, great drink, great company: that’s what you’ll find at Grub Club Cambridge’s networking night this week. . .


WanderSups: Is this the ultimate mac & cheese?

WanderSups: Is this the ultimate mac & cheese?

WanderSups: Is this the ultimate mac & cheese?

19 April 2024

What could be better than mac & cheese? Suffolk mac & cheese, of course. . . Hannah Gregory gives her ultimate comfort food a local flavour


Nominate Now: Velvet’s Food & Drink Awards are back for 2024

Nominate Now: Velvet’s Food & Drink Awards are back for 2024

Nominate Now: Velvet’s Food & Drink Awards are back for 2024

07 April 2024

Know a local foodie who deserves a pat on the back? Nominate them in Velvet’s hit Food & Drink Awards, back for a second year. . .


Five Global Flavours: Cambridge’s best pizza (and flatbread) places

Five Global Flavours: Cambridge’s best pizza (and flatbread) places

Five Global Flavours: Cambridge’s best pizza (and flatbread) places

05 April 2024

In her regular column, One Two Culinary Stew’s Pina takes us on a world food tour – right on our doorstep. Up next? Pizzas and flatbreads


Recipes: Four unbeatable home-bakes to make this Easter

Recipes: Four unbeatable home-bakes to make this Easter

Recipes: Four unbeatable home-bakes to make this Easter

29 March 2024

Easter would be incomplete without sweet treats. Velvet shares four unbeatable home-bakes for the Easter weekend


Recipes: Bake your own George’s Bakery signatures

Recipes: Bake your own George’s Bakery signatures

Recipes: Bake your own George’s Bakery signatures

22 March 2024

Make two of George Hepher's best-loved recipes from his debut cookbook Rebel Bakes, out next month


George’s Bakery: From St Ives market stall to cult status

George’s Bakery: From St Ives market stall to cult status

George’s Bakery: From St Ives market stall to cult status

22 March 2024

He’s got more than 600,000 followers, a sell-out mail order service and a brand new cookbook, Rebel Bakes. Alice Ryan talks to George Hepher


WanderSups: What’s better than prawn toast? Spiced scallop toast. . .

WanderSups: What’s better than prawn toast? Spiced scallop toast. . .

WanderSups: What’s better than prawn toast? Spiced scallop toast. . .

22 March 2024

Velvet’s Hannah Gregory gives sesame prawn toast an upgrade - by switching in spiced scallops


Easter: This year’s must-buy eggs for all the family

Easter: This year’s must-buy eggs for all the family

Easter: This year’s must-buy eggs for all the family

15 March 2024

We teamed up with our friends at Brampton’s The Food Marketing Agency to put a clutch of this year’s eggs to the test. . .


Good Cooking: Bake the best-ever vegan shortbread

Good Cooking: Bake the best-ever vegan shortbread

Good Cooking: Bake the best-ever vegan shortbread

15 March 2024

Cambridge nutritionist and plant-based chef Melanie Hanspall shares a monthly recipe with Velvet. On the menu for March: vegan celebration shortbread


Food: Back this bid to open a top-notch taco joint in Bury St Edmunds

Food: Back this bid to open a top-notch taco joint in Bury St Edmunds

Food: Back this bid to open a top-notch taco joint in Bury St Edmunds

05 March 2024

Back Hannah Gregory’s bid to open TACOR, a new “neighbourhood taqueria” for Bury St Edmunds


Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog rounds up our area’s top new venues

Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog rounds up our area’s top new venues

Five of the Best: Cambridge Food Blog rounds up our area’s top new venues

01 March 2024

Want to try something new? Here are five fab new venues to add to your eating-out repertoire, writes Cambridge Food Blog’s Grace Mills


WanderSups: Clean out the fridge – and make the best-ever risotto

WanderSups: Clean out the fridge – and make the best-ever risotto

WanderSups: Clean out the fridge – and make the best-ever risotto

23 February 2024

Every fridge has its lurkers: nubs of dried-out cheese, sticks of floppy celery. Believe it or not, they’re the the makings of the best-ever risotto