Food and travel blog focusing on food travel and sight-seeing, from Cardiff to the Caribbean
Having lived in Cardiff for the majority of my life, I’ve never booked a hotel room in the city before. But when I was invited along to the Mercure Holland House Hotel and Spa on Newport Road, Cardiff to sample Urban Bar and Kitchen restaurant’s new Spring menu, I was more than happy to take up […] Read more…
I first visited Californian burrito and taco bar, Tortilla on Cardiff’s Caroline Street (a.k.a. ‘Chippy Alley’) back in November of last year, around two months after it first opened (to read more about the restaurant background, please see my earlier blog post on Tortilla) and I’ve been back once since then already. The menu offers a choice of […] Read more…
Sadly, Base & Barley has now permanently closed. Lately, it seems like wherever you go in Cardiff, the sourdough pizza trend has taken over. From Locke and Remedy (now closed) and The Stable (both in the city centre) to pizza pop-up recently turned permanent restaurant, Dusty Knuckle Pizza Co (sadly now closed), sourdough pizza has […] Read more…
I was recently invited along to Tex-Mex restaurant, Chiquito in Cardiff’s Old Brewery Quarter for ‘Chiquila’ – an evening of street food and tequila pairing. This was the fourth Chiquila event that Chiquito has organised but significantly, the evening I attended in Cardiff was the first to take place outside London. When I caught a glimpse of the Chiquila pairing menu, […] Read more…
Cardiff has a growing number of quality Japanese restaurants, my favourite being Mt. Fuji in St David’s Shopping Centre, closely followed by Yakitori#1 in Cardiff Bay and Tenkaichi on City Road, Cathays (I am yet to get to Ichiban, but from what I’ve heard it’s pretty decent there too!) When I went along to YO! […] Read more…