Food and Drink

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. . .

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

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

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

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

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

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. . .

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

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

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

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

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

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. . .

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

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

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

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

In her new column for Velvet, One Two Culinary Stew blogger Pina Broccoli Anaia takes us on a world food tour. . . of Cambridge and Suffolk

Interested in wine? Love Indian food? Planning a wedding? There’s an event with your name on it at Huntingdon’s Old Bridge this spring

Cambridge nutritionist and plant-based chef Melanie Hanspall shares a monthly recipe with Velvet. On the menu for February: vegan Valentine cupcakes