News and Reviews - January 2010

2010 at the Wig & Pen is about celebrating Great British food. We are stripping back to the core of what our restaurant is all about – good, wholesome, tasty food.  We have a new menu which pays homage to great British classics and are dedicated to using fresh, seasonal, local produce in all of our dishes.

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Our new weekend brunch menu!   
 

For all of you who are up and about early at the weekend, why not pop down to The Milestone and sample our delicious Early Risers Brunch menu? We are offering a glass of Bucks Fizz, your choice of eggs Benedict or eggs Florentine, finished off with our Milestone blend coffee. All for only £10 (offer between 11am and 12 noon)
There is also a wide range of other fantastic dishes available on our new brunch menu which is available every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 3pm .

Location: The Milestone
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Movie magic for Copthorne’s first birthday!

Movie lovers and fine dining enthusiasts are in for a film-themed music and dining treat this month, as a leading Sheffield hotel celebrates its first anniversary in the city.

Top city boutique venue the Copthorne Hotel Sheffield is celebrating its first birthday by hosting a blockbuster night of cinema themed entertainment in its renowned 1855 restaurant, on Saturday 23 January.

Hollywood entertainment will be provided by a trio of top artists including vocalists Richard Beavis and Jack Woods, who will entertain diners with a mix of movie theme tunes from hit flicks across the decades.

A special anniversary four course menu features favourite dishes including corn fed chicken, champagne sorbet and a bitter chocolate fondue.

The movie event is the first of a number of entertaining evenings which the hotel will host throughout the year. A jazz evening will take place on March 6th and will include a four course dinner in the award winning restaurant.

Orla Watt, general manager of the Copthorne Hotel Sheffield, said: “I can’t believe a year has gone by since we launched. Sheffield has been such a welcoming and friendly city and all the hotel staff have thoroughly enjoyed their first year here.

“We wanted to put on a truly special evening of entertainment to allow our loyal guests, or perhaps debut diners, to help celebrate with us.”

The evening starts at 7.30pm and tickets cost £34.95. Booking is essential. For more information about this or future events, or to book, call 0114 252 5480 or visit www.milleniumhotels.co.uk/copthornesheffield

Location: Copthorne Hotel
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When the owner of Nonnas restaurant in Sheffield and Chesterfield, Gian Bohan first tasted it, he knew this was the perfect Extra Virgin Olive oil to represent Nonna’s love for authentic and high quality food sourcing. Now after eagerly and patiently waiting for nature to do its part, the second harvest of Nonnas Puglian Extra Virgin is finally here.

“Terre di Puglia” is a testament to the Rubini Family, owners of a four hectare olive grove donated to their ancestors by a feudatory (Countess Siciliano) in the middle ages. Since then, generations of Rubinis have been lovingly growing olives and handing down the grove and the knowledge to their successors. This olive oil they produce exclusively for Nonnas is a family matter rooted in tradition, history and pure passion for the land and its produce. This year Mimmo Rubini (the son of the producer and also a waiter at Nonnas) and his family were helped by Nonnas customers who went to Puglia to pick the olives and following all the steps of making Terre di Puglia.

Sveglia! at 7am for the traditional breakfast with the local pickers at the caffe’ before dedicating the day to the harvest using both traditional “Mazzaridd”- a wooden stick with a comb shaped top which shakes the branch without hurting the plant and a somewhat more technological instrument called “Squotitore” a motor run stick with a clap which shakes the tree and makes olives fall.

After a hard days work, the olives are transported to the local mill for the “molitura” in a cave like underground stone mill. “What strikes you the most,” observes Mimmo, “is the heady smell of all the different types of olives being milled, so mesmerising you can almost taste the flavours of the olive oil to come. It is a quite unique sensory experience. One I am glad we could share with our customers so they would see how much love and dedication goes into the making of our olive oil.” It is often said “I wish I could bottle that experience,” well we think the Rubini family managed to do just that and capture in this exceptional Extra Virgin the smells, the pride and the passion and the love for their land. The proof is in the taste.

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Ruth and Faruk Günay have opened a new Turkish restaurant, Lokanta at 478 Glossop Road, Broomhill, Sheffield S10 2QA. Ruth grew up in Sheffield, met Faruk on holiday in Turkey and lived with him there for almost ten years. Faruk is originally from Ankara and ran bars and restaurants in the resort of Kemer near Antalya on Turkey’s Mediterranean coast. The couple’s ambition is to bring high quality Turkish food to Ruth’s home in Sheffield.

Lokanta means restaurant in Turkish and describes the kind of place where absolutely everybody eats with friends, family or colleagues. Meze are Turkish tapas style dishes and Lokanta in Sheffield has a range of freshly prepared meze which can be enjoyed at any time of day with a drink or as starters to an a la carte meal. Lokanta offers Turkish wine and beer which are the perfect accompaniment.

The head chef at Lokanta is Hasan Yaman who has come from the Baia hotel group in Turkey and was recruited by Ruth and Faruk to run their kitchen. Hasan specialises in modern Turkish cooking and is very excited to be working on this new venture in England.

We look forward to welcoming you...

Lokanta

478-480 Glossop Road

Broomhill

Sheffield S10 2QA

Tel 0114 266 6444

www.lokanta.co.uk

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