Chef scoops kids' food win

Leading northern chef Nigel Haworth's new pub has been voted as having the best childrens' menu in Britain.

The Three Fishes in Mitton, Lancashire, which was opened by the Northcote Manor chef in September, has won a Camra competition to find the best childrens' menus offering healthy, fresh, seasonal and regional produce.

Pubs were nominated for the competition by licensees or their customers.

The pub, which has been given a £500,000 investment by Ribble Valley Inns an associate company of Northcote Manor, won the category for the best use of seasonal or regional produce.

Dishes on the childrens' menu include Free Range Gloucester Old Spot sausages, mashed potatoes and onion gravy and deep fried haddock, marrowfat peas, real chips and tartare sauce and buttered crumpet with Lancashire curd. All childrens' main courses are £5 and desserts £3.50.

The Three Horseshoes in Scottow won the most imaginative menu category.

Its menu has a spooky theme with sections including monstrous mains and dreadful desserts.

Dishes include frisky fish frighteners, bonkers bangers and mash and scream for ice cream. All main courses cost £2.50 and desserts £1.95.

Georgina Howarth, marketing officer for Camra, said: "We hope that licensees can look at the ways in which these winning pubs have scaled down their adult menus, or simply renamed their food, which encourages children to think differently about what they are eating and enjoy visiting the pub with the rest of the family."

Judges in the competition included Sue Nowak, editor of the Campaign for Real Food's What's Cooking, Paula Waters, chairman of Camra, Adrian Tierney-Jones, author of Pubs for Families and Jo Bruce, the Morning Advertiser's food editor and editor of PubChef.