Where to eat in Frome: A local's guide (updated for 2026)

Featuring a Frome-dwelling food journalist's heavily-opinionated suggestions

Feb 12 • Hugh Thomas

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"When January hit, we saw a massive decline"

Chester Ellis on the realities of running a drinking establishment in January/February, moving into his own brewery, and the symbiosis between pubs and…

Feb 11 • Hugh Thomas

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January 2026

The author is dead, long live the author

A revelation alongside the usual assortment of local food intel for this month’s paying WFJ subscribers

Jan 28 • Hugh Thomas

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8 ways to eat out on a budget in Somerset

Dining – or rather mostly lunching – at independent restaurants and for £30 per head or under (updated for 2026)

Jan 14 • Hugh Thomas

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Food and farming in 2026: Change is afoot

The latest intel on food, farming & food culture in Somerset (and beyond)

Jan 3 • Hugh Thomas

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December 2025

A cheesemonger's guide to Somerset cheddar

The Cheese Lord on what separates a Westcombe from a Glastonbury Twanger and a Keen's from a Monty's. Also: when's a cheddar a cheddar, and how to…

Dec 17, 2025 • Hugh Thomas

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Panettone parties, feminist opposition to caged hens, and the long-awaited return of a Bruton pub

The latest intel on food, farming & food culture in Somerset (and beyond)

Dec 3, 2025 • Hugh Thomas

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November 2025

"The margins on a bag of flour are nothing like the margins on a handbag"

Amid one of the biggest nut harvests in recent memory, Glastonbury farmer Roger Saul reflects on the ticking "timebomb" of British farming

Nov 19, 2025 • Hugh Thomas

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Tax-dodging snail farms, the food bank moral dilemma, and how we might prepare for a more food resilient future

Here we are, then – after this month’s (quite thorough!) survey of supermarket prices versus independent food shop prices, it’s back to the monthly…

Nov 5, 2025 • Hugh Thomas

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October 2025

Can independent shops beat supermarkets on price?

While in Frome on a weekly food shop, I wonder: are independent retailers really as expensive as people think?

Oct 22, 2025 • Hugh Thomas

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Notes from a food festival in Bristol, does local food have a place in mainstream grocery shops, and huzzah for global warming

Roll up roll up for this month’s intel on food, farming & food culture in Somerset (and, on occasion, beyond)

Oct 8, 2025 • Hugh Thomas

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September 2025

One bean, an ecological crisis, and a 5,000-mile headache

Are we helplessly complicit in farming's destruction of the world’s most precious ecosystems the other side of the world?

Sep 24, 2025 • Hugh Thomas

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