Behind the scenes at a pay-what-you-can community restaurant

Could Canteen in Frome be part of a nation-wide 'public diner' revival?

A full house at Trinity Hall, Frome. All photos bar the obvious by Peter Halpin @theartfultographer

Canteen’s introduction – an introduction I as part of the Frome Food Network was organising last Friday – was almost finished before it'd begun: The head chef had woken that morning with Covid, leaving the kitchen team down an integral staff member; variou…