Is there any style of cooking represented in Cardiff with such breadth and range as Keralan? Probably not: arguably more than Spanish or Italian, or Thai, Chinese, French or Pakistani. In the last year alone you could eat it on trestle tables from small vendors’ cardboard trays, or have your pick of lavish multi-course tasting Read More
At first, Dino’s feels like we are on familiar ground. Jacket potatoes with tuna mayo or cheese and beans, omelettes and all-day big breakfasts: it’s a typical menu from any one of the bright, busy little caffs which speckle Canton’s Cowbridge Road East. But look closer. Falafel. Hummus. Shawarma. Lamb kabseh: a smattering of Levantine Read More
The South Kitchen is hiding in plain sight on Broadway. It probably doesnt look like your idea of a restaurant. It is easy to miss- I have passed it on foot so many times, and sometimes the front looks shuttered when the side entrance is open. But it’s certainly time you knew about it. The Read More
With Môr’s new inclusion in the 2022 Good Food Guide, this is a good a time as any to remedy a longstanding oversight and pay a visit. ‘We are an independent restaurant serving the very best local produce from sea and soil’, they say. That menu changes frequently- they are still printing today’s when we Read More
Moving into the former Grazing Shed on St Mary St, Cardiff’s Eat The Bird is the first opening outside Devon for a small, award-winning group. Fresh from their two silver medals at WingFest, and against notable competition too, you’d hope they have come in earnest. Reading around online though, I was prepared to write what Read More
Open for just over a month as I write this, Clare Road’s Al-Madina is another unadorned, uncomplicated Grangetown find. It’s not just the plastic sheet-covered tables and it-would-be-an-upgrade-to-call-it-bare- bones decor: there’s no social media, no Google listing yet, no invitation evenings with prescribed hashtags and 13 identical captions. How utterly refreshing. The bilingual menu- Arabic Read More
This blog is a very simple thing.
I won’t try to sell you any hand lotion, exercise programmes, coffee syrups or Patagonian nose flutes. You won’t find tips on dating, ‘wellness’ or yoga mats.
I write because I love it (and food, as indicated by my increasing girth). Greed happens to be my Deadly Sin of choice, but at least it is never shy of providing me with subject matter.
A simple thing, then: all you get is me wittering on semi-coherently about places I’ve eaten at; hence a ‘restaurant blog’ rather than a ‘food blog’, although there are a few recipes scattered throughout.
From mezze to Michelin ‘fine dining’ and all points in between.