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Enjoy an authentic Phuket Italian restaurant

A Phuket Italian Restaurant in Karon Beach

Walking along the stunning shores of Karon Beach, you might be surprised to find an authentic Phuket Italian restaurant offering a winning combination of authentic flavors and warm atmosphere. Ciao Pizza & Grill makes its home in this quiet, beachside town and enriches the community with its tasty, traditional dishes.

This exceptional Phuket Italian restaurant combines the casual beauty and romance of beachfront dining with the sophisticated flavors of traditional Italian cuisine, creating an unforgettable experience that captivates diners.

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Enjoy Christmas - relax and let me do the cooking

Christmas is coming, and so are all the relatives and friends. Devon residents might be delighted to see their guests, but may be fretting that they just can’t cope with all the cooking this will mean. Our local Devon Chef, Tim Harris, may be able to help.

Tim says "I know what it's like when you want to relax and spend time with friends or the family, but you're also worrying about what to feed them".

Tim is generally known for running the successful cookery classes and demonstrating cooking at local events – Quickes’ Devon Apple Day and the community...

Here's a 'meaty' vegetable dish to tempt you

Try out this tasty recipe for Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Ginger and Garlic...

This Chinese influenced dish is inspired by Fuchsia Dunlop's new book Every Grain of Rice which I reviewed recently in The Exeter Daily. She cooks a version with mushrooms which is also great. Even without the mushrooms this has a lovely meaty flavour and is a great accompaniment to other Chinese meat dishes or even as a main course in its own right with some fried rice or noodles. I will be showing how easy it is to cook when I do the cookery demonstrations at Ashgrove Kitchens' 25th anniversary on Saturday...

New sleek black chilli powder pouches to spice up your kitchen

Are you always on the lookout for new, stylish foodie ranges to add spice to your kitchen store cupboard? If so, the country’s favourite chilli farm has the answer.

South Devon Chilli Farm has recently introduced a range of sleek black stand-up pouches of chilli powder to its range of high end, hot products. There are four chilli powders available: Chipotle, Ancho, Guajillo and the extremely hot Bhut Jolokia. These resealable black foil pouches (70g) all retail for £2.80 except for the mighty Bhut Jolokia chilli powder which retails at £7.35.

The Chipotle...

Recipes to tempt your taste buds: The juiciest steak

Skirt steaks with red currant, shallot and port sauce

Skirt has traditionally been only used for slow cooked dishes, but with a little care this relatively inexpensive piece of beef makes the juiciest steak. I recently cooked it for a couple on holiday in Devon and they raved about it. Serve it with roasted potato wedges, and whatever green vegetable is in season. The redcurrant sauce worked really well with the meat. Onglot, which is very similar to skirt, can be cooked in the same way. I got my meat from Pipers Farm shop in Magdalen Road, where they will know exactly what you are...

Yo Sushi due to open in Exeter on 22nd November

Work is coming on apace at the site of Yo! Sushi, due to open in Exeter's Princesshay shopping centre on 22nd November according to the restaurant chain's Head Office in London. The timing couldn't be better, as it coincides with the Christmas Lights switch on featuring Exeter's own celebrity chef Michael Caines from Abode at the Royal Clarence and the Military Wives Choir, which has gained worldwide acclaim and performed at the launch of this year's Poppy Appeal.

Founded in 1997, YO! Sushi brought the concept of a Japanese ‘kaiten’ sushi bar that delivered food to...

Extended opening hours for the Real Food Café

The Open Space evening held at the Real Food Café on the 15th October and attended by around 20 members of the team - staff, volunteers and directors - brought up some fantastic ideas for improving how the team work at Real Food, which they have set about implementing straight away. One idea that was picked up and considered intently, was the possibility of re-opening the Café on Mondays and earlier each morning.

Following three weeks of increased trade in both the Café and Store, it made absolute sense to at least trial this for a period, and so, from 5th November they...

Exeter sweeps up at Devon Life Food & Drink Awards

Devon Life announced the winners of the 2012 Devon Life Food & Drink Awards at a glittering black tie event held at Exeter's Sandy Park last night. The ceremony honours the finest food and drink producers in Devon.

The Exeter Daily would like to congratulate all winners and finalists, but especially Exeter's St Peter's School for winning Best School Food Award, Ben Bulger of the Magdalen Chapter Hotel for winning Best Chef of the Year and The Hunstman Inn at Ide for winning Best Dining Pub of the Year. Special mentions also go to the Rodean Restaurant (Best Restaurant...

Chinese cookery made simple - a book review

Book review: Every Grain of Rice: Simple Chinese home cooking , Fuchsia Dunlop, Bloomsbury Press, 2012. £25

Fuchsia Dunlop may be known to some of you as the first western woman to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in China, as told in her lovely memoir Shark's fin and Sichuan pepper (Ebury Press, 2008). Her first book Sichuan Cooking (Michael Joseph, 2001) is an insightful guide to the cooking of Sichuan province, known for the spicy nature of its food and perhaps unknown to many Westerners used to Cantonese cooking which tends to dominate Chinese take aways in the UK...

Local vegetable delivery business expands

Penny from Penny's Recipes is expanding her local, organic, vegetable order and delivery business. Penny provides a service for people at workplaces and community centres so they can order local organic vegetables online and have them delivered to their place of work.

The vegetables are grown by Shillingford Organics, which is located just outside Exeter. The scheme is designed to make local produce available to people who struggle to get to the shops or Farmers' Market. Local bread from Emma's bread will soon be available too. The scheme which already delivers to the Hub...

Quickes Traditional Cheeses' cheese-naming competition

Quickes Traditional Cheeses is delighted to announce our #namethatcheese competition. Win a visit to the dairy where you can help us make our award-winning cheese and take home a beautiful hamper of superb Westcountry foods. The Quicke family have been farming at Home Farm, near the village of Newton St Cyres in the South West of England for more than 450 years.

Thirty years ago Sir John Quicke and his wife Prue built the dairy, where Sir John’s daughter Mary continues to produce outstanding award-winning cheese today. All our flavours have our hallmark creamy complex...

Food & Drink

A Phuket Italian Restaurant in Karon Beach

Enjoy Christmas - relax and let me do the cooking

Here's a 'meaty' vegetable dish to tempt you

New sleek black chilli powder pouches to spice up your kitchen

Recipes to tempt your taste buds: The juiciest steak

Yo Sushi due to open in Exeter on 22nd November

Extended opening hours for the Real Food Café

Exeter sweeps up at Devon Life Food & Drink Awards

Chinese cookery made simple - a book review

Local vegetable delivery business expands

Quickes Traditional Cheeses' cheese-naming competition

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