If it’s your New Year’s resolution to eat healthier, we might have found the perfect place in Kent to start.

From Italian pasta to dry-aged steak and spicy chicken wings, these are some of the must-visit restaurants to keep on your radar this year.

A long-serving pub landlord is stepping down after 25 years so he can concentrate on running a coffee shop.

There’s not long left to get your nominations in for the first Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards and be entered into our prize draw.

A historic 17th century village pub which fell on hard times now has a new future as a vintage tea room.

Each week we bring you the county’s most honest food reviews in our Eat My Words column – here are some of our favourite venues we visited this year.

A young woman has taken over a historic village pub where she first started working aged just 13.

A former Michelin Guide restaurant that has sat empty for almost a decade is going to be given a “new lease of life”.

Secret Drinker reveals his votes for Pub of the Year in the Kent & Medway Food & Drink Awards

A father-and-son duo say expanding their popular restaurant into a new venue nine times as big is a huge risk – but one worth taking.

We take a pre-Christmas jaunt to a jaw-droppingly good café lurking in a former boat shed.

A former newsagents which closed this year looks set to be replaced by a new fry-up café.

A railway attraction is going full steam ahead with its popular cheese train in the New Year.

A young local lad has taken over his local and given it a makeover.

A newly-opened dive bar specialising in smash burgers and reasonably priced booze could well turn out to be one of Kent’s hidden gems.

Secret Drinker visits a pub bucking the trend by putting its drinkers before diners

The American coffee chain has opened another branch – here’s where you can get your caffeine fix.

We sent our reporter to try a traditional pie as she prepared to watch her first ever match at Kent’s only football league club.

Youtube group Sidemen are trying their hands at food as they open a new chicken shop Sides in the busy retail centre.

A pub has thanked its loyal customers for sticking by it through thick and thin after winning a top award for its food service.