Boboli Beer Festival Sunday 25th August

Our resident artist, Joe has been crafting this very fine blackboard doodle for the upcoming Boboli Beer Festival, and we think it just about sums up how excited we're all getting about it. It really is going to be a great day.

We'll be serving Adnams Spindrift, beautifully chilled, Spanish Estrella and Italian Peroni, we'll have some wonderfully local brews from Langton Brewery and the Bottle Kicking Cider Co from Hallaton, and we'll have plenty of prosecco too.

We'll even have a load of bespoke Boboli Beer tankards for you all to buy which will help raise money for charity, not only that, but we'll fill it with your first brew for free.

There are a few more details here.

The perfect Italian treat for hot weather - Affogato

We've waxed lyrical about this simplest of Italian treats before, but when it's hot outside, Affogato has to be the most sublime way to finish off an Italian meal.

Said to be Milanese in origin, Affogato literally means ‘drowned’; a generous scoop of luxurious Vanilla ice-cream with a shot of good strong Espresso poured over the top.

Here at Boboli we like to serve it with our homemade ice-cream and the Espresso on the side so that you can pour it yourselves, enjoy eating either with a spoon, or waiting until it melts into a smooth luxurious liquid to drink (preferably both). Affogato used to be the perserve of those in the know, but we've made it a little less secret and popped it on the menu. It's no less special, we promise you.