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Breakfast English breakfast, local, award winning Lincolnshire sausages, bacon, hashed potato, eggs of your choice, roast tomato, baked field mushroom, homemade baked beans and black pudding, served with sourdough toast, £12.95. Crepes Suzette au beurre d’orange, £9.95. Fruit plate, apple, banana, kiwi, strawberries, raspberries, watermelon, grapes, served with passion fruit yoghurt, honey and fresh mint, £10.95. Truffle eggs, scrambled with feta and topped with truffle oil, served with smoked bacon, avocado, lemon and sourdough toast, £11.95. Main Courses Roast salmon fillet, with crispy skin, goat’s cheese and truffle risotto, tenderstem broccoli and hazelnuts, topped with a herb oil, £16.95. Chilli and lemon tagliatelle with lemon and roasted red chillies infused olive oil, lemon zest, £11.95. Cold cuts plate, £11.95. Fish ‘n’ chips, £14.95. Beef burger, £13.95. Afternoon Tea Full afternoon tea with fine patisserie, £22.95/person. Four piece cake bite-size mezzé, £4.45.

NB: This is a sample menu, and featured dishes are subject to availability and change. “Before or after your meal, you are also at the heart of Springfields; Lincolnshire’s best outlet shopping village. Set within 45-acres, and comprising around 50 premium-brand stores...”

>> As brunch provision goes, The Parlour is the most impressive place I’ve seen for a long while. It’s a stylish vibrant environment, with an imaginative menu and plenty of provision whether you want Lincolnshire Sausages as part of a traditional cooked breakfast or something a little healthier – the continental option or fruit – if the weather’s too warm for something cooked. Brunch is served until 11.30am, after which point you’ve a choice of 17 main course options. Again, a pretty extensive menu, but with a soup option, three salads, and a couple of brunch options carried over to all day service. It’s a sufficiently sensible and well-judged menu to provide decent choice whilst still allowing any chef worth their wooden spoon to cook dishes freshly and serve them promptly. There’s a Great British fish ‘n’ chip dish, ‘gourmet’ beef burger, and a really nice cold cuts plate. Other options, though, include French-brasserie inspired dishes like roast salmon fillet with truffle risotto, and a baked lemon poussin dish with lemon and thyme butter with new potatoes. The menu is probably the closest both in composition and quality to a traditional French brasserie dining experience, but with modern English options too. A little later in the day? There’s a cake and afternoon tea menu which always comprises the three cake staples – chocolate, Victoria sponge, coffee & walnut – as well as a rose & lemon slice and Bakewell Tart options. Along with 200 scones – available individually or as part of a tiered cream tea – cakes are baked freshly in house every morning.

Grilled goat’s cheese and fig salad from the lunch menu £11.95.

Commendably, local ingredients are used with Hargreaves of Pinchbeck (est., 1880) providing butchery, Clements of Pinchbeck providing fruit and veg, and fish sourced from Grimsby-dock via The Parlour’s new Lincoln-based merchant.

A great setting, good menu and excellent quality dishes, prepared and presented with skill all add up to a really recommendable dining experience... but then... there’s the really persuasive argument for dining at The Parlour.

Before or after your meal, you are of course at the heart of Lincolnshire’s best outlet shopping village. Set over 45-acres, comprising around 50 premium-brand stores and with a 58,000sq ft garden centre at its heat, Springfields is an enjoyable place to spend the day. The centre cost £30m to develop and was established in 2004, officially opened by HRH The Princess Royal. Today, the place attracts about 2.5m visitors each year, with a combination of shops, show gardens and special events throughout the year. We reckon it’s unrivalled in the area as a destination for an ad hoc Saturday visit. Whilst the sunshine – and the fact we visited on an unhurried Friday afternoon – made our visit even more pleasant, much of the concourses provide at least some shelter from the odd spot of rain, so Springfields is also a place you can visit all-year round. The Parlour is a unique proposition, offering really good brunch and brasserie provision. It’s great in isolation, but as it’s also set within the outlet shopping village, we think it’s even more recommendable!” n

DINING OUT AT... The Parlour at Springfields

The Pitch: Brunch and lunchtime food with influences of French brasserie dining and British Edwardian aesthetic. Opening Times: Seven days a week, breakfast 9am - 11.30am. Lunch 12 noon until 3.30pm. Coffee and cake 9am - close (5pm Sun; 6pm Mon-Wed/Fri/Sat; 8pm Thurs).

The Parlour Restaurant, Springfields Outlet Shopping & Leisure, Spalding PE12 6EU. Call 01775 760909, or see www.bluediamond.gg/ restaurant/parlour-springfields.

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In the KITCHEN

Enjoy a taste of the orient this month with this delicious tangy duck recipe...

ORANGE & SOY DUCK WITH CELERIAC PURÉE

Preparation Time: 15 minutes. Cooking Time: 30 minutes. Serves: Two. 1 orange, juice • 1 tbsp reduced salt soy sauce • 1 tsp clear honey 2 Gressingham Duck Breasts • 1 tbsp olive oil • 300g celeriac, diced 1 clove garlic, roughly chopped • 100ml whole milk • 200g Savoy cabbage, shredded

Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Mix the orange juice, soy sauce and honey in a bowl to make a dressing. Score the skin on the duck breasts and season all over. Heat a frying pan over a medium-high heat and, without adding any oil, cook the duck, skin-side down, for 5 minutes until golden. Turn over and sear the flesh for 1 minute. Transfer, skin-side up, to a baking tray. Drain the fat from the pan, then add the orange dressing. Bubble for 1 minute, then spoon the dressing over the duck. Roast for 15 minutes, until the duck is fully cooked with no pink meat and its juices run clear. Set aside to rest for five minutes. Meanwhile, heat 1⁄2 tbsp oil in a medium saucepan. Add the celeriac and garlic along with a pinch of salt. Sweat for 5 minutes, then add the milk and simmer gently for 10 minutes or until the celeriac is soft. Season and use a blender to purée, loosening with 2-3 tbsp just-boiled water if needed; set aside until ready to serve. Wipe out the frying pan and return to the heat with the remaining 1⁄2 tbsp oil. Add the cabbage, 2 tbsp water and another pinch of salt. Cook over a medium heat, tossing regularly, for 5-6 minutes, until tender. Slice the duck then serve with the celeriac purée, cabbage, and the orange and soy juices from the duck spooned over. n

In the KITCHEN

The peaches in this recipe are poached in a spiced cider and maple syrup sauce. Top off this pudding with oat or coconut yogurt for a tasty vegan pudding...

CIDER & MAPLE POACHED PEACHES

Preparation Time: Five minutes. Cooking Time: 25 minutes. Serves: Four. 50cl good quality cider, e.g.: Lincolnshire’s Skidbrooke Cyder • 2 tbsp maple syrup 1 Cinnamon stick • 1 star anise • 4 peaches, halved and stones removed 8 tbsp non-dairy yogurt alternative (such as coconut or oat)

Put the cider, maple syrup, cinnamon and star anise in a large casserole dish or sauté pan for which you have a lid. Bring to the boil, then lower to a gentle simmer. Carefully lower in the peaches skin-side down. Cover with the lid and poach for five minutes, then turn and poach for another five minutes. Using a slotted spoon, lift out the peaches and set aside on a plate. Turn up the heat under the pan and bubble the juices until reduced and syrupy. Serve the peaches and yogurt alternative with the warm syrup spooned over. This recipe would also work well with any other stone fruit you have to hand, such as plums, apricots and nectarines. n

The taste of autumn from Warner’s...

Born in an orchard, distilled on a farm. Real apple & pear juice with hand-picked elderflower, makes this fruity gin a proper taste of the British countryside! As the last few weeks of summer give way to autumn, you’ll want to indulge in the sights, scent and flavour of orchards heaving with apples and pears, sunsets which creep closer and closer to bedtime and cooler evenings enjoying a drink outdoors. We can definitely recommend Warner’s apple and pear gin, with juniper and coriander, cardamom, apple and pear juice, orange and lemon peel,

£38 / 70cl / 40% ABV, available from www.warnersdistillery.com.

The Wine Cellar

A TRIO OF FABULOUS BORDEAUX WINES THIS MONTH, ALONGSIDE A WINE FROM A RATHER ROMANTIC LOCATION AND THE TASTE OF THE GREAT BRITISH COUNTRYSIDE...

BORDEAUX WINE MONTH: A trio born between the Garonne and Dordogne...

Wine of the Month

Caprice Sparkling Brut Rosè, Capri, Italy £13.99 / 75cl / 12% ABV

We’ve good cause to believe that the island of Capri is one of the most romantic places in the world this month... why? Just ask Pride’s Sales Manager Cydney, who married her fiancé Charlie on the island only a couple of weeks ago. As well as providing a great setting for romance, the island’s climate is ideal for viticulture, as evidenced by Capri Moonlight’s brut rosé offering. Aglianico grapes and sandy, clay terroir plus a super climate yield a light, fresh wine with red fruit and a fine mousse. n Available via www.capri moonlight.com.

A rose by any other flavour...

1. The most accessible of our trio of Bordeaux wines is this Puisseguin example, Merlot biased wine from the same home as many Grand Cru clarets. Lush, with ripe fruit, £14.99 / 75cl / 14% ABV.

2. Our mid-market recommendation is a fine Merlot/Cabernet blend from Château l’Évangile, and aged for 15 months in two-year-old barrels, used by Lafite Rothschild, which gives great fruit intensity, £65 / 75cl / 14% ABV.

3. And finally, a super-luxury option. This Cabernet/Merlot blend is produced by JeanHubert Delon and has rich cassis and blackberries on the palate with fine tannins, £270 / 75cl / 13.5% ABV. It’s impossible not to recommend all of Belvoir Farm’s cordials and sparkling pressé drinks, from the farm’s newest range of non-alcoholic J&T, Peach Bellini and Passionfruit ‘Martini’ drinks, to its venerable elderflower cordial. On this occasion, we’re suggesting you try the producer’s cordial with a hint of rose, not just because of its fresh, light, summery flavour but because of its sheer versatility. Drink it with water, lemonade or Prosecco, or use it to flavour desserts from panna cotta to cheesecakes.

£3.75 / 70cl / 0% ABV, from Waitrose, or via www.belvoirfarm.co.uk.

n Our featured wines are available from the best local independent wine merchants, supermarkets and online, prices are RRP and may vary from those stated.

THE DETAILS Glentham Cliff Farmhouse...

Location: 9.5 miles from Market Rasen, 17 miles from Lincoln. Provenance: Five bedroom former farmhouse offering over 4,750sq ft living space. Rooms: Five receptions, currently living kitchen/sitting room, dining room, conservatory, garden room and music room. Five beds, self-contained two-bed annexe.

Guide Price: £2,000,000.

Find Out More: Savills, Olympic House, Doddington Road, Lincoln LN6 3SE. Call 01522 508900, see www.savills.co.uk. n THIS MONTH’S featured property will satisfy your every interest. Whether you’re a classic car enthusiast, a keen musician, a dedicated gardener or you just love entertaining, Glentham Cliff Farmhouse is nothing short of spectacularly well presented, spacious and massively practical, offering space for families and multi-generational living into the mix, too. Owners Sarah & David Wilson purchased the place 12 years ago, and have spent the time curating a fantastic country home just shy of 10 miles from Market Rasen. Sarah is from Tunbridge Wells, whilst David was raised in Sheffield. The two emigrated to Australia and set up their company, RTO Materials, which writes then licenses training and educational materials across over 2,500 subjects. Expecting their first son, Angus, they returned to the UK and reasoned that the location of the farmhouse was both sufficiently close to David’s family and ideal for working from home – which they did long before it was a pandemic-led occurrence. Parts of the property date back over 500 years, with Victorian and Edwardian additions to the house creating the current layout, which yields more than 4,750sq ft of living space. The house incorporates five bedrooms plus a number of reception rooms both within and adjacent to the house itself. After completing all of the nasty jobs –reconfiguring the rooms and ensuring the roof, wiring and plumbing were all sound –they couple set to installing a new bespoke timber kitchen with Hill Farm Furniture, based at Newark, finished in Old English White and Little Green’s Toad Green shade. The living kitchen is an L-shaped space incorporating dining and sitting room areas, and there’s a butler’s kitchen and utility room too; plenty of practical storage space. A separate dining room and a snug also provide additional reception rooms, whilst a beautiful 30ft garden room with southfacing aspect affords a great view of the property’s gardens. Adjacent to the house, there’s also a selfcontained two-bedroom annexe for multigenerational living or for use as an Airbnb or for use as guest or staff accommodation. The triple garage has a first floor music room in which self-taught musician David can enjoy thrashing away at the drums, playing the guitar, keyboard or saxophone. When he’s not on the first floor of his man cave David can otherwise be found in his workshop restoring classic cars. Among the most recent of his revivals is a 1953 Jaguar XK120 drop-head, easily the prettiest car ever made, with a silver-frost paint finish, wire wheels, oxblood hide and glossy walnut dash. And Sarah’s keen interest? One look at the five acres amongst which the property is set and it soon becomes apparent where her talent has been invested. >>

>> Sarah has created rooms within the gardens, with no fewer than three secret gardens, plus a large productive kitchen garden. Manicured lawns, thoughtfully planted and beautifully curated borders, water features, terraces plus an orchard and paddock all create spaces in which to relax, entertain or just to admire. The grounds of the property also feature a garden room with three sets of bi-fold doors, plus a jacuzzi, bar and stone pizza oven. “There are no neighbours, so parties can be as noisy as we want, which is handy as most of our friends have older teenagers who absolutely love coming to visit. We enjoy entertaining and at every time of the year there’s something to enjoy in and around the house, from summer in the garden to Christmas with family.” “It really has been a fantastic home and a great place to spend time together, to work together and to enjoy our interests. We’re going to miss the place enormously but as our son is soon to be boarding in North Yorkshire and as we’re keen to move a little closer to David’s family, we feel it’s the right time to relocate. It’s a large property and we feel as though it’s a little too large to us, so we’re hoping that its next owners will be a family who can enjoy it and make some really happy memories, just as we’ve done here!” n Simply spectacular property, formerly the Bishop’s House, right next to the Cathedral in the centre of Uphill Lincoln. Interiors by Treehouse Interiors of Doddington, Grade I listed, six bedrooms, five reception rooms.

Guide Pride: £2,600,000

www.savills.com

n Raithby Hall Estate

Guide Price: £4,000,000

Magnificent Grade II Listed, former country house in elevated position, dating back to c.1760, 18 bedrooms, eight reception rooms, eight acres including mature woodland.

www.fineandcountry.com

n Woodland Rise, Langtoft

Guide Price: £700,000

The Barrowby is one of Ashwood Homes’ exclusive five bedroom homes on the developer’s Woodland Rise development at Langtoft. Five bedrooms, open plan kitchen/dining area, spacious lounge and plenty of storage.