Brownes is probably my favourite of Hockley's bars. Combining a modern, stylish interior, with plush leather seating and soft lighting, and a good range of drinks, including a fairly extensive cocktail menu. Food is also served and it is of a good standard and reasonably priced.
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Advantages: Stylish, comfortable interior Disadvantages: Fairly small
Brownes is probably my favourite of Hockley's bars. Combining a modern, stylish interior, with plush leather seating and soft lighting, and a good range of drinks, including a fairly extensive cocktail menu. Food is also served and it is of a good standard and reasonably priced.
I like Brownes as it has a relaxed atmosphere, and serves food. For me it offers a good destination for a relaxed lunch as well as a good night-time hangout. ... ...is especially good. The food is also good, a mix of baguettes, burgers and more substantial meals. All in all Brownes, though not the cheapest of Hockley's bars, provides good value for money, as the food and drinks are of good quality and served in plush, stylish surroundings. ... more
Brownes is probably my favourite of Hockley's bars. Combining a modern, stylish interior, with plush leather seating and soft lighting, and a good range of drinks, including a fairly extensive cocktail menu. Food is also served and it is of a good standard and reasonably priced.
I like Brownes as it has a relaxed atmosphere, and serves food. For me it offers a good destination for a relaxed lunch as well as a good night-time hangout. Drinks are competitively priced and the vodka and schnapps selection is especially good. The food is also good, a mix of baguettes, burgers and more substantial meals. All in all Brownes, though not the cheapest of Hockley's bars, provides good value for money, as the food and drinks are of good quality and served in plush, stylish surroundings.
Advantages: Award Winning, Local Food, Great Ambience, Great Service, Wonderful Courtyard Disadvantages: Lighting made the restaurant a little hot
Newark is a bustling little market town, and has quite a selection of individual restaurants along its Castlegate. We decided to book Café Bleu as a treat for our 20th (!) anniversary since we met. (I know, I know, I don't look that old)
Café Bleu had first come to my attention earlier this year, when I was looking for a restaurant for a birthday celebration. Café Bleu won the Best Out of Town restaurant in the 2006 Nottingham Restaurant awards, even beating the formidable Langar Hall, and also Tom Brown's (whose chef now runs our local, serving superb food). Café Bleu's own website sold me with its emphasis on Contemporary European cooking and a quick call on the day soon secured a table for Friday night at 830pm.
On arrival we were offered a choice of indoor or an outdoor table. I chose indoor as I felt that more preferable ...
Advantages: Magnificent Elizabethan House and Gardens, attractive water-driven flour mill Disadvantages: sometimes quite crowded
If you like historic houses and gardens, then this is something for you. You will find there two historic houses (The Old Hall, The New Hall), pretty gardens, a large park with ponds, and Stainsby Mill, a water-powered flour mill.
HOW TO GET THERE
Hardwick is located in Derbyshire, close to the M1 between Nottingham and Sheffield. Leave the M1 at junction 29 and follow the brown signs.
By bus, you can take Cosy Coaches C1 from Chesterfield train and bus stations (Sunday, June to August only), or Stagecoach East Midland 737, 747 Sheffield / Chesterfield - Nottingham.
A BRIEF HISTORY
Bess of Hardwick, the indomitable Elizabethan who was married four times and multipled her wealth with each marriage, was born here. After she had built Chatsworth (a great Renaissance palace) she decided to abandon her third husband ...
Advantages: Loads to see and do and experience. Disadvantages: Might not keep your toddlers happy for long.
.....vist one, comeback and visit the other at some point in the year with the same ticket.
Prices
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£6.95 Adults
£5.25 Kids...(4 - 14 )
£5.95....Concessions
£19.95.....for that all important Family ticket.
Opening times
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Tuesday - Sunday and also Bank Holidays = 10.00....til....5.00
( They are closed 24th/28th December and 31st/1st inclusive.
How to get there
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Just follow the brown and white signs when you hit Nottingham, this place is very well signposted.
The are many multi storey car parks nearby and the Galleries are just a 10 minute walk from the Train station.
All in all I found this a great experience.Great value for money.
The Galleries of Justice offers a realistic insight into the justice and injustice - the guilty and the innocent ...
