Food and Drink

Beach House Blackpool launched a hot new winter menu last week, inspired by the sun-kissed flavours of the Mediterranean. Executive Chef Diego Martinez was proud to welcome guests to the Beach House to present a new menu that celebrates Spanish cuisine, featuring bold flavours and wholesome ingredients. Hearty plates include Chicken Bara Bara in a smooth stroganoff-style sauce while the summer is kept alive with grilled octopus or catch of the day whole fish smothered in lemon and fresh herbs. The warming Winter Nourish Bowl is packed with goodness, while succulent fillet steaks are expertly grilled on the authentic Josper…

As the Earth approaches its end Tim Christian craves its salt and is not disappointed. He went to the far flung lands of Carlton for his latest food review and urges you to do the same. The date was Friday the 18th of August 2023 and the world was ending. I had been assured by that paragon of reliable information, the artist formerly known as Twitter – now passing itself off as X (fill in your own joke about Elon Musk being obsessed with his exes) – that this was the date that Nibiru – a supposed disastrous encounter between…

Ice cream for dinner? Why not? Food reviewer Tim Christian breaks all the rules because he is a grown up and he can! Boredom is a terrible and wonderful thing. It can draw out long days into unbearably dull marathons or it can spur you into impromptu adventures, and the latter was how I dealt with a Saturday night that threatened to drag into tedium. Hanging up some laundry, I text a friend to see what they were up to. Their offer of ice cream for tea was definitely one way to manage it. Messaging each other at 6pm, we…

For this week's Supper Club it's a side of pizza and fries with a main course of serious competition for Tim Christian, who heads to Paradise Coast to join Nerdvana's tabletop gaming night. On a cool evening I ventured forth into the ill-omened coastal settlement of Blackpole to keep an appointment made at a local tavern. I found the disreputable looking alleyway where I knew the tavern could be found. Pausing for a moment to turn my collar to the night air, I made my way hence to the brightly-lit and welcoming establishment, bustling and popular despite its seemingly questionable…

In his latest instalment of Supper Club, Tim Christian takes his tourist friends to a gem in Blackpool's culinary offer but regrets having over indulged the night before. It's not every food post that starts with a content warning for sexually explicit imagery, but this one does... so... there we are. Last week I wrote about bringing my online friends into my real world realm and taking them out to Common Bar & Kitchen on the Friday night of their arrival. Tacos and burritos followed by a refreshing trip round a number of the fine Blackpool drinking establishments and a…