Posts Tagged ‘Kitchens’

Eating Out Or At Home In Chesterfield

Sunday, January 24th, 2010


With the new scores on the doors information released by the council and environmental health how do you choose where to go for a meal? According to the list the only safe places are school and hospital based kitchens.

So basically it’s easier not to get too carried away with the findings of the report especially as cleanliness was only part of the overall score the, other parts were based on attitudes of staff and management.

Here are a few places I have tried and either liked or not.

Blue Stoops is on Matlock road in Chesterfield and offer a lunchtime and evening service. They have a good choice of food for all tastes on their general menu and offer regular guest dishes on their specials board.

The majority of their food is very good and always well cooked. Their chilli is highly recommended but the chicken wings on the starter and platter meals are not fantastic.

The lady chef is extremely friendly and cheerful and is willing to listen to customers and tries to comply with any individual tastes.

If you don’t mind travelling for about 10 minutes then Batemans Mill in Tupton is an excellent place if you like your food well prepared and presented. The food is a little more expensive than the Stoops and there is less choice on the menu but the difference is very noticeable.

All meals are cooked from fresh on the premises and so you will wait a little longer for your meal but the quality of the food is worth waiting for. Unlike some places their mash is cooked using real potato and not reconstituted flakes and the chef knows the difference between rare, medium rare and well done, which many places get wrong quite regularly. The homemade soup on the starter menu is the best soup in the area and definitely worth trying.

If you want to eat out on the cheap there’s always McDonalds or Kentucky Fried Chicken. These are both the same in the quality of food in the essence of, they are fast food places. Therefore it is mainly a matter of whether you want chicken or beef.

McDonalds do offer a restaurant for you to sit in and eat and offer a wider variety of choice including vegetarian, fish and salad options whereas Kentucky is mainly chicken based and no restaurant is available.

If you want to stay home and get food delivered then give Dominoes Pizza a try.

They offer free delivery and their new Meateor Pizza is heavenly. As well as offering a full range of starters and desserts they are for a limited period now offering any sized Pizza for ?9.99. This means that you could easily feed a family of four with a starter, pizza, pudding and drinks for under ?20.

Their food is freshly prepared at their store on Lordsmill St and cooked and delivered generally within 45 minutes.

So there you have it, a couple of places worth trying out in the Chesterfield area if you fancy a night off cooking for yourself.

Arts Culinary School in Connecticut:

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The Connecticut arts Culinary School drives people to a world of excitement and fun. In the year 1987, the Connecticut school of culinary arts was established. It is situated in a suburb of the Hartford which is the capital of the States. It is the first institution having two branches. Connecticut arts culinary institute provides students with the famous schedules of their classes that are most flexible. Everyone gets the opportunity to learn the culinary arts, as these classes are held at the day time as well as in the evenings.

Features:

The branch of Connecticut arts culinary arts school is established in Suffield. It spreads wide on 64-acres of land. It takes hardly few minutes to reach the culinary arts institute from Bradley International Airport. This branch has housing facilities for a student. It also includes seven kitchens specially meant for teaching, along with a computer laboratory. The main campus of culinary school is located at downtown Hartford. There is a hotel which occupies a space of 3, 67,000 square-foot of the total area. There is much great stuff available for the students in Connecticut arts culinary school. The students who have enrolled in this school have already been benefited.

Near the campus of this school, several hotels, restaurants and entertainment means are established. More new six kitchens for teaching are added to the current production. Connecticut culinary arts school has other amenities such as a computer laboratory, a Learning Resource Centre and two amphitheatres.

The Connecticut cuisine arts institute possesses trained professors and small classes. They have significant class size. This provides the faculty ample of time, so as to focus on the needs of each candidate. This culinary school of art focuses more on providing hands-on training. They also try to provide many opportunities to the students to gain practical knowledge from what they learn at the time of the lectures.

Services Provided:

The services provided by the Connecticut cuisine school are not limited. The educating students are offered services for the training and skills that are necessary. They also provide many outstanding opportunities of visit to places outside the school. When people are exposed to the culinary industry, their skills are not only sharpened but also, it enhances their knowledge. At the same time, it also increases their chance in getting hold of an immense career in culinary art.

Benefits of Connecticut Culinary School:

Connecticut Culinary Institute (CCI) is an exceptional school for many reasons. First and foremost is there team of people. The instructors and staff at CCI are among the most dedicated, professional, and caring individuals anywhere. They are committed to the successful education of each student. CCI is a small, high-quality school. You will be taught in small classes, always by a highly qualified instructor, and you will spend the vast majority of your time actually cooking.

In today’s world of new restaurants, and dining hot spots, CCI finds itself in the middle of an ever-expanding market to prepare students for a career in culinary arts. So if you have a passion for food, and you love to cook, CCI can be the place to turn your dream into a career.