As we navigated our way through Strada’s extensive array of food stuffs, we were pleasantly surprised with the unique dishes on offer compared to other Italian chains such as Zizzi, Prezzo, and Cafe Uno, etc, whose menus tend to be fairly similar, covering all the Britalian faves of chicken caeser salad, lasagne, spag bol… Strada’s courses just seemed a little more devoted to cultural authenticity.
Their traditional starters ranged from ‘Caprese’; a fairly straightforward basil, mozzarella and tomato salad, to the more elaborate ‘Antipasto Misto’ – a platter of Parma …

Pub crawls for first year freshers is condemned in the local and national press
Carnage, the UK’s most well known student night out returned to Canterbury last month. Hundreds of students flocked from bar to bar around the town, just having time for a couple of drinks before being moved on to the next venue.
Carnage is notoriously known to be the night where students get drunk, dress inappropriately and disrupt the town. After the media have been disgusted by how students have acted on Carnage in recent weeks, the question is …

If you are like me and maybe eat a little too much meat then why not try out the recipe below and give the little animals a break.

Ingredients

* 1 tsp vegetable oil
* 125ml/4fl oz water
* 1 onion chopped
* 2 cloves garlic, crushed
* 110g/4oz mushrooms, sliced

Until yesterday my only experience of sushi was from the little chilled packs that are available from the chiller sections in supermarkets, but that changed with a visit to Yoshi in Canterbury. From the exterior it looks like a typical oriental restaurant, only situated on a ring road, and not welcoming at all, but I had heard they served sushi and I had to go to see if this was true.

Upon walking through the door all my preconceptions were gone and I was truly looking forward to lunch and having …

Here is a simple yet very effective way of making a beautiful British dish with minimum effort involved!

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 20 min

Ingredients
24 cocktail Sausages, cooked
110g plain flour
1 pinch Salt

Here is a quick and simple recipe for all you veggies out there. This recipe takes very little time and effort to prepare and make but taste delicious when ready and is a brilliant healthy option to other vegetarian curries you can buy.

Green Banana Curry
Serves 4
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes

Yesterday (22/4/09) Alistair Darling announced the new 2009 Budget and one of the first points that many students will look to, along with fuel duty and cigarettes, is to how much tax on alcohol is going up by.
From today, Thursday 23rd April, alcohol rates increase by 2% above the rate of inflation and will mean the following rises:

Beer (4.2% abv pint of beer) - 1p
Wine (75cl bottle) - 4p
Sparkling wine (75cl bottle) - 5p
Spirits (37.5% abv 70cl bottle) - 13p
Spirits-based ready to drink (275ml alcopop) - 1p
Cider and perry (1 …