The team looks back at the food and drink triumphs of 2015 in Cambridge. It was a great year for streetfood, cafes, independent producers, pubs, cookbooks, and therefore for eaters and drinkers. We also take a look forward to the launch, next Wednesday, of the Cambridge Food Assembly, a new way of buying direct from local producers whilst sipping a … [Read more...]

What do people in Cambridge like to eat at Christmas? We find out, and we have some recommendations about what to drink too, including a new specially designed cocktail by Aoife Maxwell. We visit one of Cambridge's new independents, Novi, which opened this year and hear about a new street food provider who will be on the streets of Cambridge next … [Read more...]

Matt Bentman, Alan Alder and Ruth Reyes have features on the new Gin Lab that's opened in Cambridge's city centre, Christmas food and wine, and the Churro Bar. Also, Flavour investigates what the effect will be of the government's national living wage on small independents. … [Read more...]

This week's show offers advice on buying fish, and why supermarket fish isn't good enough; best advice and biggest mistake: the owners of Cambridge Independents tell us theirs; blending tea: we visit Cambridge's newest tea company, Strangeways Road tea for a brew and a chat about the art of tea blending; Christmas food: Mill Road butchers tells us … [Read more...]

Rosie Sykes talks about the new menu she's developed for the Pint Shop, there are some very interesting dishes. … [Read more...]

The award-winning Cambridge Cookery School has moved to new buildings and has opened a cafe. Founder Tine Roche talks about their plans for the future. A pumpkin festival fortnight in Cambridge is beginning, with pop ups, supper clubs, picnics and workshops; Bev Sedley tells us more. Stir, a new neighbourhood cafe in Chesterton Road, has just … [Read more...]

Hot on the heels of the street food scene, Flavour catches up with one of its latest entrants; Rosti Strasse, whose wares are made with coarse grated potato, as per the original Swiss breakfast dish. … [Read more...]