{"id":2114387,"date":"2023-09-29T11:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T10:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/yorkshire\/?p=2114387"},"modified":"2023-09-29T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T10:20:35","slug":"gone-dining-thom-hetherington-at-hawksmoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/yorkshire\/news\/2114387-gone-dining-thom-hetherington-at-hawksmoor","title":{"rendered":"Gone Dining: Thom Hetherington at Hawksmoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hawksmoor, India Buildings, 8 Brunswick St, Liverpool L2 0PL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehawksmoor.com\/locations\/liverpool\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/thehawksmoor.com\/locations\/liverpool<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s become a truism in Mancunian hospitality that whatever the question, the answer is usually Hawksmoor. \u201cWhere do I go for a blow-out dinner with a load of demanding foodies?\u201d Hawksmoor. \u201cWhere do I take fussy eaters who like traditional cooking?\u201d Hawksmoor. \u201cWhere do I go for a special night where I\u2019ll really feel looked after?\u201d Hawksmoor. \u201cGreat cocktails?\u201d Hawksmoor. \u201cA good value \u00e0 la carte lunch?\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hawksmoor<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when they opened their second Northern site in Liverpool last November, in the grandeur of the old Blue Funnel shipping offices, I was intrigued to see whether they could answer those same questions there too. It\u2019s only 34 miles down the East Lancs Road, but they\u2019re such proudly distinct cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2114389 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-1143x1536.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-200x269.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-300x403.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-500x672.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min-600x806.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_125222-min.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>I\u2019d popped in to Hawksmoor Liverpool a couple of times already, for both cocktails with friends and a burger pitstop with my teenagers, but that\u2019s like doing the school run in a McLaren MCL60. It needed a proper run-out, and a trip to see the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk\/whatson\/walker-art-gallery\/exhibition\/john-moores-painting-prize-2023\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">John Moores Painting Prize<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> provided the perfect opportunity for an impromptu solo lunch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And to those of you asking \u201cCan you really order and eat enough to do a proper review when there is only one of you?\u201d I say, \u201cI\u2019m Thom Hetherington, that\u2019s my job\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the subject of the John Moores Painting Prize, the exhibition at the fabulous Walker Gallery is well worth a visit. This year it was won by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grahamcrowley.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graham Crowley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, at his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tenth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> attempt. His work, \u2018Light Industry\u2019, is a stunner. A loose rendering of a higgledy-piggledy motorcycle workshop, luminously lit as if viewed through the bottom of a bottle of Chartreuse. I found it deeply emotive, the dustily detailed clutter transporting me back to my late brother\u2019s antiques workshop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, on to Hawksmoor, and gosh it\u2019s also a looker. Whereas their Manchester site was a near-empty shell, the Liverpool restaurant has a magnificent historical interior, balancing American Beaux-Arts and Italian Renaissance influences. The main dining room is recognisably Hawksmoor, all parquet and banquettes, softened by clever lighting, but the polygonal bar offers a wealth of ornate period detailing, with travertine marble sweeping your eyes up to a richly panelled ceiling.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Along with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sancarlo.co.uk\/restaurants\/san-carlo-liverpool\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Carlo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I\u2019d say this is a second restaurant where the Liverpool version leaves its Mancunian counterpart in the aesthetic shade. Civic pride will be pricked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2114390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-1143x1536.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-200x269.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-300x403.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-500x672.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min-600x806.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_132814-min.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>Although a steak restaurant, Hawksmoor\u2019s fish and seafood is also excellent, so in the name of balance and diligence I ordered a fillet tail and a half lobster which were both reliably excellent. This is Hawksmoor, after all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But you can\u2019t hang a column on cheerful predictability, so did you know they do great veggie (and vegan) dishes too? Like properly chargrilled heritage courgettes, striped with bar marks as if someone had taken a Sharpie to them, which had pleasing snap and crunch.\u00a0 They came sprinkled with toothsome spelt and dotted with generous blobs of sharp, smooth ricotta, brightening the dish just as the last weak rays of Summer peeked through the windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in this one plate of food lies the cleverness of Hawksmoor. It\u2019s why it\u2019s catnip to food geeks hankering after contemporary smarts, yet also appeals to \u201cfood is just fuel\u201d drones who want sensible cooking with no distractions. To the uninitiated or uninterested it is a solid veggie dish, but to a foodie? Ricotta is proudly Italian, yet here it is sourced from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/westcombedairy.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Westcombe Dairy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a fantastic Somerset cheesemaker, and the thoughtfulness inherent in this unexpected choice immediately lets you know you are in safe hands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Hawksmoor these subtle flourishes, audible only to those who care, are sometimes called \u201cfoodie dog whistles.\u201d Personally, they lure me in like a mellifluous choir of sirens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2114391 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-1143x1536.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-200x269.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-300x403.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-500x672.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min-600x806.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_135012-min.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>And then, any meal-planning was utterly derailed by mention of a steak and bone marrow pie with a madeira gravy and a CROISSANT PIE CRUST. Sometimes a line of writing is so deliciously perfect I immediately read it again, just for the thrills. PG Wodehouse\u2019s Bertie Wooster describing his Uncle Tom as looking \u201ca bit like a pterodactyl with a secret sorrow\u201d is a good example. I suggest you read that menu description back once more, entirely for your own pleasure, possibly in private.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d seen this pie on social, a laminated swirl of crust around a marrow bone chimney, jutting up like a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antonygormley.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gormley<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sculpture. It looked like the result of a collab between Desperate Dan and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cedric-grolet.com\/london\/edito\/about\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cedric Grolet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cIs the pie for one or for sharing?\u201d I asked the waiter, who displayed the default Hawksmoor setting of alert and capable conviviality. He performed an instructive shrug which made no judgement as to my size, my appetite, or the amount of give in the waistband of my Incotex. I ordered the pie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The filling of long-cooked chuck collapsed under the lightest pressure, like meaty <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2023\/aug\/31\/what-is-raac-reinforced-autoclaved-aerated-concrete-schools-buildings-england-close\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raac<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, whilst the thickened gravy had as much body as a prop forward, lifted with a judicious splash of madeira. If there was a hint of sweetness in the pastry crust, echoing the filling, I suspect it came only from the lashings of butter which had produced such extensive lamination it looked as if someone had varnished one of Proust\u2019s weightier tomes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The burnished, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphenea.com\/pages\/graphene#:~:text=Graphene%20is%20a%20single%20layer,bond%20length%20of%200.142%20nanometres.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">graphene<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-thin top layers shattered beneath an exploratory fork, whilst below that the inner folds had the softness and pull found in only the most oven-fresh patisserie. And deeper still, down where you\u2019d need to waggle your cutlery via a bathysphere, the gravy and the pastry had got intimately acquainted, creating the sort of meaty-carby magma you get on the underside of a suet dumpling in a bubbling stew. Heavenly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019d normally recoil at these sorts of TikTok-able food mash-ups \u2013 It starts with cronuts and before you know it you\u2019re eating Kinder Bueno ramen &#8211; but I\u2019m calling it, this was triumphantly the best non-pie-crust pie* I\u2019ve ever had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2114392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-1143x1536.jpg 1143w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-200x269.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-300x403.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-500x672.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min-600x806.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/sep_23\/20230921_145220-min.jpg 1488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/>To finish, from a selection defiantly headed \u2018puddings\u2019 rather than \u2018desserts\u2019, I had the chocolate Anglaise, a French classic featuring \u201ca lacquered dome of lightly set Femmes de Virunga chocolate custard, vanilla shortbread and milk ice cream.\u201d I choose this partly because it sounded like a serious piece of cabinetmaking, and partly because they donated 50p from every sale to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingliverpool.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feeding Liverpool<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> charity, which left me with a warm glow as well as a full stomach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so the scores on the doors are in, and I can confirm that if you\u2019re in Liverpool looking for great food or simply great drinks, at lunch or at dinner, on the weekend or a weekday, for a formal event or a laid back experience, with good friends or business colleagues, whether they\u2019re foodies or not, the answer is almost certainly Hawksmoor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*It\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">not<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a pie Hawksmoor, it\u2019s a casserole with a lid, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Any_fule_kno\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">any fule kno<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But it was the best such casserole with a lid I\u2019ve ever had.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2113851 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/apr_23\/processed-6e0a542e-df9c-4b5a-a8b0-f47e8818bb9f_OWihLQNO-e1682590157205-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thom Hetherington:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomHetheringto\">@thomhetheringto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thomhetherington\/?hl=en\">@thomhetherington<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/barriquefinewines.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2112981\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/BARRIQUE-15-OFF.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/BARRIQUE-15-OFF.png 468w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/BARRIQUE-15-OFF-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/_files\/images\/aug_23\/BARRIQUE-15-OFF-200x26.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n*Can\u2019t be used on Voyage products or sale items.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petit Fours<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve had a busy month attending hospitality events in the region. On September the 11<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 12<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theahc.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Annual Hotel Conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at Manchester Central attracted operators and investors from across the globe. The next week <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/greatbritishpubawards.co.uk\/live\/en\/page\/homepage\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great British Pub Awards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> took place up North for the second year in a row, with Victoria Warehouse as the venue. Fittingly <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cholmondeleyarms.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Cholmondeley Arms<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Malpas, Cheshire, run by Tim Bird and Mary McLaughlin\u2019s brilliant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cheshirecatpubsandbars.co.uk\/about-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheshire Cat Pubs and Inns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, won the overall Best Pub title. Most excitingly was the latest <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/petermartin-online.com\/Atlantic-Club\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atlantic Club<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which involves forty leading hospitality operators from both the US and UK enjoying study tours of different cities, alternating between one over here and one over there. This time it was Liverpool, and took in sites including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisismadre.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madre<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wreckfish.co\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wreckfish<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and, yes, Hawksmoor. Everyone fell in love with the city, which was visibly vibrant, and its evangelical operators, as is always the case. Next stop for The Atlantic Club is Nashville. I\u2019m tempted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More personally, Tuesday the 27th saw the launch of the inaugural <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\/news\/2119908-gone-dining-live-all-thats-hot-in-food-drink-and-fun\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gone Dining Live<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> event, where I sat on a panel with Camilla Topham of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.distrkt.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Distrkt<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Jonny Heyes of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Common<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nellspizza.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nell\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> et al whilst an audience of sixty enjoyed a great lunch at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblackfriarsalford.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Black Friar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Salford. One of the subjects addressed was the unquenched appetite of restaurants and bars to come to Manchester &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hellohouseoffu.com\/manchester\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House of Fu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northwestwardho.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Westward Ho<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/fenixrestaurants.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fenix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sexyfishmanchester.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sexy Fish<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are all imminent, and plenty of London operators are still circling in the wings. I do like to shine a light on the most interesting new openings, so if you\u2019re launching something soon, whether up North or even in London or beyond, do drop me a note at thom@landinglight.co.uk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I regularly return to the places I have mentioned in this column \u2013 I\u2019m no one hit wonder \u2013 and recently I revisited <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sancarlo.co.uk\/restaurants\/san-carlo-alderley-edge\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Carlo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Alderley Edge and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/highergroundmcr.co.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Higher Ground<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Manchester\u2019s Chinatown and had great experiences at both. Surely San Carlo is the only place your teenagers can trough on ribs and calamari and cider, whereas the grown-ups enjoy a Dover sole, perfectly filleted tableside, and a bottle of fine Burgundy? Higher Ground meanwhile blew away family friends visiting from Geneva, so much so that it convinced their son that he\u2019s going to supplement his university studies with a career in the Mancunian food and drinks scene. As a sector, hospitality lives or dies by consistency, and I remain in awe of those who can excel day in day out, week after week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those who follow me on social media may have noticed I am a big fan of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepackhorsehayfield.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Pack Horse<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, my local award-winning gastropub, which is nestled in Hayfield in the foothills of the Pennines. Following a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/marina-oloughlin-reviews-the-pack-horse-derbyshire-w89vgjdzl\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rave review in the Sunday Times<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and inclusion in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/guide.michelin.com\/gb\/en\/derbyshire\/hayfield\/restaurant\/the-pack-horse\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegoodfoodguide.co.uk\/restaurant\/the-pack-horse\/id\/43162\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good Food Guides<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, not to mention a high placing in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.top50gastropubs.com\/Pubs\/UK\/Derbyshire\/the-pack-horse.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Top 50 Gastropubs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> list, they\u2019re producing their first cookbook, which also gives pride of place to their favoured local walks and artisan suppliers. I\u2019m honoured to be writing the foreword, and you can preorder a copy <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepackhorsehayfield.uk\/store\/The-Pack-Horse-A-Journey-Through-The-Seasons-*FOR-DELIVERY*-p567461006\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Whatever the question, the answer is usually Hawksmoor&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2114388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,120901],"coauthors":[160],"class_list":["post-2114387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-wine-club","tag-featured-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Gone Dining: Thom Hetherington at 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