Firstly, CHARLI STOCKDALE you have won day 6 of the competition!  Congratulations – please can you email me eatreviewer@gmail.com to discuss collection of your beer and cider from TOFS. Secondly, we’re into the last week of the competition.  I am having a lot of fun reading your answers I have to say so keep up the good work.  There are some superb prizes this week so carry on following and entering. Day 8 is Beyond the Grounds’ turn to offer us a prize and they have kindly donated afternoon tea for two!  This would make a great January treat- imagine those amazing cakes and their great coffee!     To enter the competition, I’d like to know what service they offer upstairs, above the café.  Please enter via my Facebook page, Twitter, @eat_tonbridge or in the comment box below. Thank you to the team at BTG!  Good luck- enter now!

It’s Festive Friday in 12 Days of Feastmas and no, I don’t have the inside scoop on a new bar called ‘Double Whammy’  – there are TWO prizes to giveaway!!  Exciting hey!  The prizes on offer are the amazing Greensand Ridge Gin (a lot of people are saying it’s amazing, not just me) and a voucher for £30 to spend at our local, popular Thai restaurant Gaab Kao! There will be two winners and one question – which eaterie was the subject of Eat Around Tonbridge’s most recent blog (before the competition started, before the competition rules)? Here are the Rules again, just in case… Remember two winners! 

Halfway through the competition already! The Fire Station is becoming a bit like Finch House – seemingly everyone in Tonbridge has been there.  And deservedly so:  Richard and Sam continue to bring quality chefs to Tonbridge, art exhibitions, tasting nights and the like,  and have now installed a coffee shop with 65mm Coffee /meeting place/working hub in their lovely old building during the day.      They have been very generous throughout the year with their time and competition prizes for Eat Around Tonbridge; they gave me my first interview, they have invited me for meals, they were enthusiastic about the Eat Around Tonbridge Jobs’ Board; they were the first people I consulted about ’12 Days of Feastmas’ and from the outset they have supported it. So it’ll come as no great shock to you that they have offered a prize, and that is a gift box of cider and beer for Day 6 of the competition! To win this prize which will certainly start your Christmas drinks collection off nicely, just let me know your favourite Christmas drink!  Easy – there isn’t a correct answer! Please enter via my Facebook page, Twitter, @eat_tonbridge or in the comment box below. Thank you Richard and Sam, and good luck EAT followers!

Personally, I find Boxing Day a bit odd: is it just another Christmas Day without the presents?  Don’t get me wrong, I love a bank holiday but often, I’m not sure what to do on Boxing Day.  One year I did get my act together and I went with my family and parents to Camber Sands.  We made some great memories, all wrapped up, trying to dodge the sea as the tide came in – lots of fun – followed by fish and chips.  It was great!      But we Tonbridge residents no longer need to go to the beach for good fish and chips as we have Saltwaters., the family run takeaway and restaurant which specialises in fish and chips but actually has lots more to offer.  Saltwaters has kindly provided a two course meal for two + a bottle of wine as a prize for Day 5!  So the question for this competition is a Christmassy one, well really a Boxing Day one – Boxing Day suggestions of things to do!  Come on, give me some ideas! Please enter via my Facebook page, Twitter, @eat_tonbridge or in the comment box below. Thank you Saltwaters, and good luck EAT followers!

Award winning Sulston’s Kitchen is the antidote to Christmas indulgence – with Ben’s tasty lunches, healthy sweet treats and delicious smoothies you feel very virtuous on leaving the shop. Ben has kindly offered one of Sulston’s Kitchen’s Hampers as a prize – this would certainly help keep you on track until the big day itself or could help you kick start your health drive in 2017.     The hamper contains a slab of flapjack, Pluckley tea, Perk & Pearl coffee & Sulston’s Kitchen muesli To enter the competition, just let me know in which sport Ben competes. Please enter via my Facebook page, Twitter, @eat_tonbridge or in the comment box below. Thank you Ben, and good luck EAT followers!