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The Belgian Monk: The Best Value Pub Lunch in Norwich

The Belgian Monk: The Best Value Pub Lunch in Norwich

Before the Beer Orders of 1989, almost every British pub was tied to a brewery, and British pub food and beer made your average German beer garden seem a pinnacle of culinary variety, craft and innovation. Then the gastropub revolution happened. And, although behemoth chains 

Booze Cruises — Not Just for Brits

Booze Cruises — Not Just for Brits

Growing up British in an era before the Channel Tunnel had finally connected us with our not-so-dear neighbour and long-term rival France, and while plane travel remained substantially an expensive luxury rather than a mode of mass transport, ferries figured highly in my childhood. And, 

Hot Beer? It’s a Thing!

Hot Beer? It’s a Thing!

Unbowed by my experiences with yak butter tea, a flavour which, while not as bad as you’d think, definitely falls under the rubric of “acquired” (I’ll write it up for you at some point, I promise), I decided to brave another Tibetan winter warmer: hot