Fresh flavours are on the menu this May, with bold bites, delicious sushi and plenty to share
Top image byNic Crilly-Hargrave
Fresh flavours from Kibou
Award-winning Japanese restaurant and bar Kibou has just launched its colourful new spring/summer menu, featuring vibrant sharing plates, premium sashimi and the freshest of sushi creations, drawing on culinary inspiration from across Japan.
Fresh flavours from Kibou. Image Nic Crilly-Hargrave
Alongside Kibou favourites such as chicken karaage, pork gyoza and katsu curry, the menu includes new premium Tokusen sharers such as beef sirloin with truffle teriyaki, black pork katsu and yuzu miso marinated salmon – a delicately grilled salmon fillet infused with fragrant Japanese citrus and umami miso.
There’s also an extended selection of Japanese street food-inspired dishes, such as chicken zangi (spicy karaage), a fiery take on Hokkaido-style fried chicken, as well as an innovative fried prawn bao.
Sushi lovers can tuck into the latest additions, including uramaki snow crab roll, premium bluefin tuna chutoro and a reimagined kaiseki-inspired open temaki selection. Meanwhile, the ramen range has been reinvented with the introduction of a dry mazeudon-style ramen, as well as a refresh of current ramen dishes to reflect regional variations found across Japan.
Welcoming the new season’s fayre
Welcoming the new season’s fayre
In the first veg boxes of the new season from Waterland CSA, which are now available to order, expect lots of leafy greens like rainbow chards and kales, butterhead lettuce and crisp little gems, purple mangetout peas, leeks, green garlic, tasty salad turnips, sweet baby beetroot and pots of delicious herbs. Lovingly tended to by head grower Heron Holmes, the produce is grown in dark mineral Fen soil, carefully stewarded as organic land for more than 30 years.
Choose between small (six items) or large (nine items) box sizes, with all local deliveries made by Cambridge Connect cargo bikes. Discount vouchers, funded by past and existing members of the CSA scheme, are available to download from the website, to pass on the vegetable joy!
Cambs restaurants in Deliveroo awards
The Deliveroo Restaurant Awards are back for 2025, celebrating the best and most-loved local restaurants up and down the country – and this year’s shortlists feature five of our local eateries! The Tiffin Truck’s Indian market food is up for best Indian & Nepalese; Hong Kong Fusion, known for handmade dim sum and Cantonese roasts, for best Chinese; Pizza 1889, which specialises in traditional stonebaked pizzas, for best pizza; and The House Authentic Thai Cuisine and Luk Thai at The Cricketers for best Thai.
Voting is open until 9 May, with winners announced on 28 May. Lend support to your local!
Amelie pops up at Wyken
Amelie pops up at Wyken
Father-and-son duo Regis and Alex Crepy of Amelie have opened the doors to a new pop-up eatery at Wyken Vineyards’ Pizza Barn in Bury St Edmunds, serving their signature flammekueche.
These ultra-thin Alsace flatbreads with crème fraiche are also on the menu at Amelie, Ben’s Yard, which opened last summer and has just been shortlisted for best restaurant Suffolk & Cambs in the Muddy Stilettos Awards 2025.
If these culinary updates have whet your appetite, find out more in April’s food news.
