Hey, Prezzo! – Restaurant review: Prezzo, Penarth
In recent years, Penarth has done well for new restaurant openings, with favourites such as Bar 44 and The Pilot, not to mention Restaurant James Sommerin and the reopened Holm […]
A 20-year-old Mexican surprise – Restaurant review: Las Iguanas, Cardiff
It’s fair to say there’s something of a turnover of restaurants and bars in Cardiff – indeed, I regularly find myself having conversations with people about places that go a […]
Encore! – Restaurant review: Côte Brasserie, Cardiff Central
As chain restaurants go, Côte has always been up there with the best for me, offering decent, relatively authentic French-style fayre without trying too hard to shout about its Frenchness […]
Eco-friendly, pocket friendly and stomach friendly! – Restaurant review: CF24 Project, Cardiff
There have been a lot of new openings in Cardiff City Centre recently, but a few weeks ago I was invited to try a new arrival in a less central […]
Re-Holming – Restaurant Review: Holm House Hotel, Penarth
Since Holm House in its previous guise as a rather expensive boutique hotel, with an understated, underpromoted (but overpriced!) restaurant closed a couple of years ago there have been numerous […]
Sunday in the City – Restaurant review: Sunday lunch at The Social, Parc Thistle, Cardiff
Think of traditional Sunday lunch, and you’ll probably think of a country pub, or even home-cooked roast dinners in the family home. But where in the centre of Cardiff can […]
Smokin’! – Restaurant review: Hangfire BBQ at the Pilot, Penarth
I really hate missing out on things, but something I’d missed out on until recently was Hangfire BBQ, a pop up restaurant that’s been taking the Cardiff area by storm […]
It’s Taco Time! – Restaurant Review: Wahaca, Mexican Market Eating, Cardiff
Another eagerly anticipated Cardiff restaurant launch has happened recently, in the shape of Wahaca, a predominantly London-based chain offering Mexican Market Eating. Mr W and I went along to their […]
A special birthday – Restaurant Review: The Social, Parc Thistle Hotel, Cardiff
I’ve reviewed the restaurant at the Parc Thistle a couple of times over the years, the first positively, the second, finding myself having to eat my words. I was invited […]
The secret’s in the ingredients – Recipe: Linguine pasta with tomato and basil sauce
More writing inspiration came recently on the back of a lovely weekend spent at the Abergavenny Food Festival, at which we sampled and bought all sorts of lovely edible goodies, […]
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