JHLewis published Food Sleuth plunders the Larder on a quiet night in Nottingham

The last time I was at The Larder on Goosegate it was to see the unveiling of a blue plaque belatedly acknowledging that the property once housed Jesse Boot's first department store. During one its several lives as a catering establishment, the first-floor restaurant was known as Jesse's. You can picture the ambitious young Boot stocking beauty and grocery departments while recommending one of his family's herbal concoctions to keep some ailing citizen of Victorian Hockley on the sunny side of a