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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
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
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. . .
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. . .
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
26 April 2024
Making grocery shopping greener, more delicious and more sociable too, head for The Gransdens Farmers’ Market this Sunday, April 28
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
19 April 2024
Great food, great drink, great company: that’s what you’ll find at Grub Club Cambridge’s networking night this week. . .
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
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. . .
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
29 March 2024
Easter would be incomplete without sweet treats. Velvet shares four unbeatable home-bakes for the Easter weekend
22 March 2024
Make two of George Hepher's best-loved recipes from his debut cookbook Rebel Bakes, out next month
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
22 March 2024
Velvet’s Hannah Gregory gives sesame prawn toast an upgrade - by switching in spiced scallops
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. . .
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
05 March 2024
Back Hannah Gregory’s bid to open TACOR, a new “neighbourhood taqueria” for Bury St Edmunds
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
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