Reviews And Awards
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Review: The Three Fishes, Mitton - This Is Lanashire
IT’S not often a single dish inspires a whole review. But when that dish combines some of my favourite things - and breaks every rule of the diet book in each little mouthful, then I’ll break with convention.
Pubs prove family-friendly credentials in Harden's guide
Pubs have proved their family-friendly credentials in the new Harden's Eating Out With Babies And Toddlers guide.
The Three Fishes - The Guardian
There's nothing more guaranteed to make most hearts sink than the words "family pub", but you don't need to worry about that when you visit the Three Fishes at Mitton.
Chef scoops kids' food win
Leading northern chef Nigel Haworth's new pub has been voted as having the best childrens' menu in Britain.
Wirral Asparagus Reaches New Heights (235 ft!)
The freshest "asparagus nouveau" has been rushed from farm to forks around the North West region, to Michelin-starred restaurants and to the iconic Big One rollercoaster at Pleasure Beach Resort, Blackpool.
Thomas Pickering winner of the "Poultry Chef of the Year" for The Three Fishes - Devilled breast of cornfed Goosnargh chicken, devil sauce, chunky chips, onion rings, watercress and field mushrooms.
The PubChef Food Excellence Awards bring together the results of PubChef's chefs competition together with the pub company food awards.
There are 18 categories in this year's awards - 10 in the chefs' competition, four pub company and four people awards, with the winners all revealed at an awards ceremony of 300 people at Plaisterers Hall, London, today (Thursday, 12 March).
Chefs' competition winners...
The chefs' competition involves a five-month search for the UK's top pub chefs, from chefs entering recipes and background information on their food businesses to a paper judging and cook-off finals at the Agriculture & Horticulture Development Board Meat Service(formerly the MLC) offices in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.
There are 10 categories in this year's competition, with 28 chefs in the final.
Nigel Haworth
Nigel Haworth is the chef-proprietor of Northcote Manor, the multi-award winning country house hotel and restaurant in Langho, Lancashire, which he has co-owned with Craig Bancroft since 1989.
The great British weekend: Forest of Bowland
Culinary delights and easy living in the countryside of north-west England
The Three Fishes
There's nothing more guaranteed to make most hearts sink than the words "family pub", but you don't need to worry about that when you visit the Three Fishes at Mitton.
Service spy: the Three Fishes, Mitton, Lancashire
It’s a good sign when my husband starts chuckling with glee while reading a menu and it takes me about three seconds to scroll down the Three Fishes' specials and spot the object of his delight: hot pork pie with pork scratching mash and roast gravy. Was there ever a more man-pleasuring, come-on of a dish? We can chalk that one up as sold.
Nigel Haworth and Craig Bancroft - local heroes
They're the kings of regional cuisine, the restaurateurs who were cooking local food 20 years before it became fashionable.
Times Magazine - 14.03.09
A SINGING TREE, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, A GIAT EGG AND A HAUNTED HILL
Stuarts's Short Stories for Short Breaks
Another reason for my visit to Clitheroe was to delve into the famous connections of Stonyhurst College. Famed for being an overnight stop for Oliver Cromwell, having Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (writer of Sherlock Holmes) as one of its former pupils and housing the classroom where J R R Tolkien spent much of his time writing 'Lord of the Rings', Stonyhurst College can justifiably claim to be one of Lancashire's most inspirational places.
I highly recommend a tour of one of the Northwest's biggest buildings which is open to the public in August. Relaxing in the college cafe I browsed through a leaflet I'd picked up earlier in the day for the Ribble Valley Food Trail - an initiative that promotes Lancashire producers, farmers markets, up and coming chefs and fine foods. I picked out the Three Fishes in the tiny hamlet of Mitton as my destination for an early evening meal. Ordering a pint of Copper Dragon to start with, the sublime odours drifting form the kitchen prompted my choice of the eight ounce sirloin steak. A fabulous way to round off a thoroughly enjoyable day.
