insideKENT Magazine Issue 48 - March 2016 | Page 41

FOOD+DRINK GOOD COMPANY, GOOD FOOD AND GOOD TIMES AT the duke william ICKHAM It was as the winter weather truly kicked in and the slightly (massively) unrealistic new year’s resolution to eat miniscule amounts of seeds and leaves faded into a blissful distant past, that my guests and I descended on the Duke William, and thankfully so as we set about devouring every last morsel offered. BY SAMANTHA G I had done surprisingly little research prior to my visit, apart from knowing that this was another offering from Mark Sargent’s Kentish dining empire, and felt instantly at ease and at home as we entered into the main bar area of th