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It’s Pancake Day

A pancake cooking in a frying pan.

Pancake Day is the best day of the year, after Christmas Day, obviously.

The only thing stopping it from being the best, is the fact no one ever really knows when it is.

It’s a well known fact that Easter can’t have a fixed date, because Good Friday and Easter Sunday must remain on these days of the week (Good Monday and Easter Wednesday just wouldn’t be right).

It’s also well known that you must use up all your eggs and that before Lent starts tomorrow. Lent is when Jesus didn’t eat for 40 days and 40 nights, apparently. I bet Jesus thoroughly enjoyed his pancakes though, I wonder if he likes Nutella too?

Either way, that bottle of golden syrup you bought last year will once again come in slightly useful.

Today is the one day of the year you’ll actually make and eat pancakes, although you probably have the ingredients in just about all year round. It only seems appropriate today.

Earlier today, by the train barrier on Lincoln High Street, free pancakes were being given out by the Luminous Christian community. I’d quite happily get stuck at the barriers if there were always free pancakes.

If you don’t want to buy one of those pre-mixed pancake mixes, here’s just one of many pancake recipes out there. It claims to make ‘perfect’ pancakes, we’d want nothing less.

But we hope you all have a flipping wonderful Pancake Day!

 

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What To Expect From Churchills Lincoln

The outside of Churchills restaurant and coffee bar Lincoln.

So, picture this, you’re in Lincoln and someone mentions a stop off for coffee/tea/cake.

Then you remember you’re never more than a metre from a tea or coffee shop.

Our latest find is Churchills Restaurant & Coffee Bar.

Located on the High Street, opposite Carluccio’s, this cosy coffee shop is modern with a relaxed atmosphere. Not the usual tatty looking leather sofas and patterned bucket chairs placed round a coffee table. It definitely feels more like a restaurant, with cushions on the seats to soften the mood (and the seats).

The menu contains a selection of hot and cold drinks, all at reasonable prices. They also serve meals, as it’s also a restaurant. How lovely if you’re struggling to choose between food or coffee.

The desserts and cake selection is definitely amazing, so many different puddings. So many we spent several minutes umm-ing and ahh-ing over what to get. Eventually I opted for a warm scone, you may pronounce this as ‘scon’ (we’ll save that debate for another time), with jam and cream.

Finally the staff are really friendly and welcoming, which makes everything so much better. It runs on waitress service too, so there’s none of the embarrassing slow walk across with a tray of hot beverages. If you’re in hurry, (you’re obviously busy), you might as well stop by to pick up something to take away.

 

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What To Expect From La Trattoria Da Vincenzo

Photo: Visit Lincoln via Google. La Trattoria Da Vincenzo from the outside. The restaurant name in on a board hanging outside in the Italian colours of red, green and white.

 

La Trattoria Da Vincenzo pointed on Google Maps. It says 4.7 stars reviewed by eight people.

Where is La Trattoria Da Vincenzo? Well here it is on Google Maps. 4.7 stars and it’s reviewed by 8 people! They can’t be wrong.

Yeah, we can’t pronounce it either, we just call it that Italian Place on West Parade. Or you can try it with a fake Italian accent like Luigi from The Simpsons (just don’t be a racist about it) or let Google Translate do the hard work. (Click on the speaker button). Continue reading →

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What To Expect From Bells’ Tea And Coffee House

A Steep Hill tea room, now named Bells'.

Now, I know in Lincoln you’ll probably be spoilt for choice when it comes to looking for a cafe or tea room. If you think Lincoln is running short on this type of place then seriously, you must love a hot beverage.

If you like tea rooms and pastel colours, this might just be up your street. Or hill.

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New Year, New Me. Whoops, I Just Ate A Cheeseburger

A cartoon of a little boy yelling at a tiger saying "resolutions? me? just what are you implying? that i need to change? well buddy, as far as i'm concerned i'm perfect the way i am!" whilst the tiger looks away puzzled.

So, the entire world is currently going mental about New Year Resolutions. “Yeah I’m going to be a completely different person”, “I’m going to be super healthy”, “I’m going to go to the gym everyday”, “I’m on a juice detox for January” etc etc. Yeah, yeah, we get it. New Year new you right?

We at Lincoln & That understand the whole wanting to change thing, but why do all the usual things? Why go jogging when you know you’ll spend most of your morning sat on a bench? Why diet when you know on day 8 you’ll be scoffing a McDonald’s cheeseburger? Here’s a picture just to tease you if you are dieting by the way.

How about trying something COMPLETELY different? You never know what might happen. Here are some of our suggestions for an extreme (we mean really extreme) change:

We hope your New Year resolutions (whether you’re still keeping them or have already broken them) have been made a little more exciting by watching these videos.