Welcome to French Living

French Living is pleased to announce that it is now featured in The Good Food Guide 2008 (The best restaurants in the UK reviewed by Which)

French Living also received an accolade in 2007 at the Nottingham Restaurant Awards held at Colwick Hall on 14th June 2007, awarded Best Small Restaurant.

Voting begins again for the 2008 Restaurant awards. Simply vote for your favourite restaurant(s) by logging on to the Nottingham Restaurant Awards website between 1^st April and 30^th April 2008. Click on the logo above to access the site. Your vote will be entered into a prize draw to win your own private jet to Paris for the day courtesy of Jet Black Air.

Also, French Living Diaries has recently been created allowing you a personal insight into the life of a restaurateur, author and mum of two, as well as the opportunity to share your french living opinions and comments.

French Living adapts its menus with the seasons; every three months the blend of flavours and ingredients of our two set menus change to meet the needs of each season. Spring Menus (April - May 2008)

Spring is in the air. There is also an air of Corsica in our new Spring menus. For me whenever I see basil and tomato, tiger prawns and pastis, lamb and rosemary, I'm transported back to the Ile de Beaute. Friends often ask, "so what would you choose?". Well I'd opt for a starter of poelee de gambas et calamars au pastis, followed by the selle d'agneau a l'ail doux and finish off with a poelee de fruits au Grenache. But then again, there is also a tarte Provencale packed with my favourite herbs, a turbot exotique with fresh basil and chervil, and a framboisier, a heavenly blend of raspberries and rhum. So I reply "I'd choose everything!" I think there are enough combinations in this menu for a few visits during April and May!

French Living is a unique place; a shop-cum-café-cum-restaurant in the heart of Nottingham, a capsule of Frenchness not only serving classic French cuisine in its dusty red-bricked cellar restaurant but also offering an eclectic blend of café, boulangerie and epicerie fine. Here the café and shop is the ideal venue for sipping a grand crème coffee while stocking up on French grocery essentials - un-pasteurised farmhouse cheese, charcuterie, confit, amora mustard…. Think of a typically French food and French Living will probably be able to supply it.

Next Discovery Evening Dates: May 2nd, 8th and 9th 2008 (Menu available now)