The Beagle Resturant

Last week we had a celebratory family birthday dinner at The Beagle in Chorlton, 

 www.beaglesabout.com

The food was very tasty and the service was great and friendly, here are some pics of our meal.

Thanks 

Crown & Country xx

Cake & Bake Show

Last Saturday we along with a group of our WI ladies trekked on the metrolink to Manchester Central (or Gmex for oldies like me) for the Cake & Bake Show. So we though we would show you what we saw. (rather a lot of pictures in this post we could not resist)

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There was certainly a lot to take in, and a million people. There were big stands from Sainsbury’s, Squires Kitchens, Dr. Oetker, Lakeland (who also had a big shop but reaching it needed a braver woman than I), W.H.Smiths and Baking Mad.com. Many different theatres including the kids theatre where they were making bread and the larger baking and cake making stages.

The Sainsbury’s stand manned by season 2 Great British Bake Off contestant (and my personal favorite)  Holly Bell were promoting their new baking range which looked very fancy, apparently coming to stores soon.

Many of the stalls were beautifully styled and full of amazing looking things.

  

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Clockwise from left Martins  Bradleys Pryces

 

 More ?

 Clockwise from left Marriage's, Doves Farm, Flour Bin, Doves Farm, Four Bin.

Many artisan and specialists flour companies, where we picked up one of these proving dishes from Doves Farm

 Dough It Yourself

Our Prestwich Food Fest favorite Dough It yourself with their pizza (so that was dinner sorted) You can now order online too which is very dangerous because these pizza's and sauces are gorgeous.

A million cake and sweet treats stalls all beautifully styled here are some highlights.

Clockwise from left The Marshmallowists!, Ginger Bakers, More?

Probably our favorite stall was full of vintage Kitchenalia and lovely things, we picked up some plates and stickers, it was beautifully styled and a big hit. 

  Simply Vintage Designs

And the Lovely ladies (and their lovely dresses) manning the stall.

Very attractive stall from Bonne Maman where mum picked up some of these huge Jar’s 

Bonne Maman

Gingerbread Making Competition

We like hundreds stood and listened to Tom Herbert (from the Fabulous Baker Boys) make wheaten bread on the stage. 

Hobbs House Bakery

This is him taking a picture for twitter with the audience.

We saw some other baking celebs as well Eric lanlard, Edd kimber, John Whaite, Paul A Young and many more.

We are already planning a joint (Prestwich & Whitefield and Salford Angels they are our closest WI neighbours who we went to this show with as well) to this in June. Looks very interesting Cake, Mr Darcy and a Vintage Market yes please.
Also another amazing stall love the bunting and gingham makes me look forward to summer.

Bakewell Baking Festival

All in all a great day out and we would definitely go again next year just maybe on a Friday next time.

Crown & Country
 

2012 Highlights

So much has happen in the last year at Crown and Country HQ  that we though we would recap 2012, so we wouldn’t forget any of the highlights. Anyone residing in Great Britain last year will most likely be taking a big nap because it never stopped and that was definitely true for us.

We set up the new Prestwich and Whitefield Women’s Institute which took up the majority of our time and creativity, organised the Prestwich Food Fest, rolled out the bunting a lot, celebrated the Jubilee and the Olympics with trips down to London and so much more. So here a little of what we got up to.

Here's to a bigger and better 2013.
Thanks 
Crown & Country x

Old Northern Market

We are ready to tell you all about our new venture and its called Old Northern Market and will be based at Oasis Academy Media City Salford.

 
So lets tell you all about this new market.

We are launching our new venture with a big Summer Garden Party and then will continue with monthly markets. 

Old Northern Market will be showcasing some of the finest vintage, quality handmade, craft and innovative food traders in the North West. Come along and experience the atmosphere, start the day the right way with breakfast, the Sunday papers and a big cup of coffee in our pop up restaurant, then stay on and sample our lunch menu. 

Learn a new skill or just have a knit and natter with a cup of tea and a slice of cake in our crafty social and learning space, along with a range of different and exciting entertainment and other features each month all inside our brand spanking new venue next to media City Salford Quays.

The first event will be our Summer Garden Party on the 21st of July From 11 am till 4 pm
so here is a little more about that,
Old Northern Market will be getting the most out of the British Summer and are organising a summer garden party. With stalls and stalls of quality vintage, handmade, craft and food traders along with music and lots of other entertainment. Come along and get crafty in our pop up craft social space and learn a new skill with one of our various lessons, play a round of our traditional Summer games in our picnic area or set up shop in our food and drink tent, full of hot and cold summer food with drinks a plenty.

The 2013 dates will be
Summer Garden Party on the 21st of July
Old Northern Market 1st September
Old Northern Market 6th October
Old Northern Market 3rd November
Christmas special on December 8th.

We will be e-mailing stall-holders this week, if you would like a stall with us or any other information please e-mail us at Mail@crownandcountryvintage.co.uk

We will be posting lots more information soon so stay tuned.

2013 & The Future

So we have neglected our bog (just a little) but it has been all change here at Crown and Country HQ. We have spent January and February planning and working hard on our new venture.

Since we are no longer allowed to run regular Prestwich Food Fest’s as we had planned (read more of the reasons why here ) we have been planning lots of new and exciting things.
Whilst we loved holding the Pop Up Prestwich Cinema it was rather costly (after licences and equipment hire) the tickets for you would have been too expensive for you (we hope to work something else out in the future)

So we made the decision to start a venture that we have wanted to do for years, due to Bury Councils Licencing Policies It cant be in Prestwich which we are very disappointed about as everyone in Prestwich was so lovely, responsive and supported us greatly.

We are so excited about our new venture but due to red tape we have had to keep it top secret but we are nearly ready, so stay tuned and keep checking back as we will be telling you all about it really soon.

In the mean time we will be posting lots of new posts here regularly so keep checking back.

Crown & Country x

Food Fest

Don't forget our Food Fest is tomorrow 11am till 3pm at the Longfield Centre Prestwich and joined by the LIP Winter Festival light Switch on 3pm till 4pm

We will be there selling tickets for the December Pop Up Cinema

 'It's A Wonderful Life'

1950's Christmas & Pop Up Cinema

Unfortunately we have had to cancel our 1950's Christmas event but you can still get tickets to see 'It's A Wonderful Life' at the legion on the 13th of December 

 

  you can buy tickets here