The Sticky Beak Blog
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Hello people, let me introduce myself. I am a local Derbyshire bird, who along with her family and friends likes to spread her wings and get her beak sticky sampling food, wine and beer in local restaurants and venues. Hopefully having good times and discovering hidden treasures in our glorious neighbourhood along the way.
I'm not particularly snobby about fancy food or surroundings; I just like a place to be clean, friendly, have atmosphere and be able to do a decent job of cooking the food that is their trade. read more
Whats New On The Sticky Beak Blog
| Elevenses At The Copper Kettle In Bamburgh When The Man Bird and I visit Northumberland it's always a full on, non-stop tour; this time was no different, and our original plan to have a full day in Bamburgh soon became a just passing Read The Article | |
| A Flock Dinner At The Royak Oak In Westwood Fledge was coming back from University for the day so we decided to make the most of it and all go out for a Flock meal. The Man Bird had had his eye on The Royal Oak at Westwood for Read The Article | |
| Breakfast at Sherwood Pines Cafe, Sherwood Pines The Man Bird and I are at Centerparcs at Sherwood Forest by ourselves (lots of hanky-panky planned!) and decided to go and have a wander off park, into neighbouring Sherwood Pines Read The Article | |
| Lunch At The Manor House Hotel On Holy Island Theres no denying what a beautiful county Northumberland is and even though I moan like heck about the ball-ache of a journey up there, when we pull up at mum-in-laws Read The Article | |
| A Return Visit To Cosmo Nottingham For Their Re-Opening Night Some things in life just make you smile; Cosmo's hologram logo shining on Milton Street's pavement in Nottingham is one of mine! Imagine how happy I was, then, to receive Read The Article | |
| Fresh Fish & A Firepit On The Beach At Riley's Fish Shack At the end of a hectic day driving up to Northumberland, unpacking and fannying about buying bits-and-bobs that we'd forgotten to pack (oops, my bad!) it was lovely to settle Read The Article | |
| Afternoon Tea at Cafe 24 In The 1924 Building, Belper Everybody knows that I like, no, LOVE, cheese and that I am also rather partial to Afternoon Tea. Imagine my delight then, when Jean (who we originally met at Rose Cottage in Matlock Bath) Read The Article | |
| Sunday Lunch at the SaltHouse, Cullercoats, Tyne & Wear Its become a bit of a tradition on our annual pilgrimage to Geordie Birds (His Nibs mum) gaff to take her out for Sunday Lunch. The one demand she has is that the venue has to Read The Article | |
| Portuguese Cooking at Coghlans Cookery School, Stancliffe Hall There's nothing I love more than spending a few hours at Coghlans School of Wine, Food and Dining at the beautiful Stancliffe Hall. Jordan North has Turf Moor as his Read The Article | |
| Out For Breakfast At Caboose In Blyth, Northumberland Even early morning, the drive from the Nest up to Geordie Birds gaff is a drain, so once we'd unloaded the jalopy it was a desperate search for some sustenance - GB is a lovely Read The Article | |